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Obama Signs Sweeping Student Loan Reform Bill Into Law
President Obama signed legislation on Tuesday that will revamp the existing federal student loan system, allowing the government to directly provide loans to college students in the US.
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Whose Freedom?
The first Passover was a bloody one, the Bible says. God spent the whole night killing off first-born males all over Egypt. But He told every Israelite family to …
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Can Anyone Pacify the World’s Number One Narco-State?
The Obama administration is now trapped in an endless cycle of drugs and death in Afghanistan.
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Destroying Educational Institutions or Using Them for Military Purposes Is a War Crime
"The Education system in Iraq, prior to 1991, was one of the best in the region; with over 100% Gross Enrollment Rate for primary schooling and high levels of …
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Connie Schultz | We the People in a Land of “I’s“
By now, millions of people around the world have viewed the video showing a middle-aged guy taunting an older man with Parkinson's disease at a protest in Columbus, Ohio, …
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Deb Price | Dear IRS
The Internal Revenue Service often finds my family confusing, and this year is no exception.] Our federal pen pal recently wrote to my spouse Joyce, fuming that she had …
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Walmart: The Inhuman Essence of a Corporate “Person“
I'm curious about those five Supreme Court justices who recently decreed that a corporation is a “person” with human rights: Do you think they ever met Mr. Walmart? If …
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British Columbia’s Coast in the Balance
In this part of the world the month of March is, to borrow a phrase from Franklin Delano Roosevelt, one that will live in infamy; it is the anniversary …
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Free Press Haven: Iceland May Soon Become Utopia for Journalists and Publishers
Icelandic members of parliament have plans to transform their crisis-ridden North-Atlantic nation into a sanctuary for publishers, production companies and information technology firms from around the world.
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Government Recants Major Terror Claims Against High-Value Detainee Abu Zubaydah
The Justice Department has quietly recanted nearly every major claim the Bush administration made about Abu Zubaydah, the alleged al-Qaeda leader who was the first suspected terrorist subjected to …