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Finding Opportunity in a World of Seven Billion
United Nations - Next month, the world's population will reach seven billion people, a landmark that the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) is hailing in its drive to raise …
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Light at End of Afghan Tunnel Recedes With Brazen Taliban Attacks, Army Desertion and Flourishing Opium Trade
Dear Lord, what is about generals that seem to make them so particularly immune to history’s lessons? Gen. Navarre had a sure-fire plan to draw the Vietnamese …
Republicans Battling Windmills Instead of Budgeting
The question that everyone should be asking is: Why is the House GOP only proposing a short-term continuing resolution? This should be the moment when either individual …
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Political Shift in California Trips Brown
Sacramento - Jerry Brown ran for governor on the argument that his age and experience — the son of a governor, he has spent a lifetime in politics, including …
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Fox News Largely Ignores Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell Repeal
Yesterday marked the end of Don’t Ask, Don’t — an 18-year-old policy that prohibited gays and lesbians from openly serving in the military and forced more than 14,000 qualified …
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Graphic Foreign Policy
Living in Japan in the late 1990s, I was struck by the sheer number and variety ofmanga or comic books. You could go to a manga store and find an entire aisle …
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Perry Used Taxpayer Money to Subsidize Family Vacations, Presidential Campaign Events
During the last slash-and-burn legislative session, presidential contender and Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R) approved draconian budget cuts for everything from education to Medicare. But one area where he …
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A Surprise Morning March on Wall Street
In the newly-renamed Liberty Plaza, the place that hundreds of protesters have come to call home for the last three days, nothing is quite predictable. At around 6:15 in the morning, …
Four Trillion-Dollar Tax Cuts = Four Trillion-Dollar Budget Cuts
This past Monday, September 19, President Obama revealed his proposals for how to pay for his $447 billion tax cut/jobs bill announced last week. In the same speech, he …
Can Solyndra’s Breakthrough Solar Technology Outlive the Company’s Demise?
The politically charged investigation into Solyndra's collapse has overshadowed the fact that the fate of a groundbreaking technology hangs in the balance. The politically charged investigation into …