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New York’s Tough Enough for Terrorist Trials
If you want to royally tick off New Yorkers, try telling us what to do. That's probably why the police stopped trying to enforce the jaywalking laws here years …
The Palin Effect: How Sarah Palin Destroyed the Republican Party
Sarah Palin's heavily publicized book tour begins in earnest this Monday, but weeks before, her ghostwritten memoir, Going Rogue: An American Life, had already vaulted into the number one …
Is a Redo of Post-9/11 Paranoia the Best We Can Do?
The USA Patriot Act, rushed into law by a panicky US Congress in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, gave law enforcement sweeping …
Good News for the GOP? Not So Much
Ever watch “SportsCenter” on ESPN? Pound for pound, it's pretty much the most consistently entertaining program on television, but if you watch enough of it, you really …
A Triumph for Democracy in Honduras?
On Friday, October 30, a US-brokered, Agreement for National Reconciliation and the Strengthening of Democracy in Honduras was signed between President Manual Zelaya Rosales and coup …
Karzai Declared Elected President of Afghanistan
Kabul, Afghanistan - Afghan electoral officials declared incumbent President Hamid Karzai the winner of the 2009 presidential election Monday, after canceling this weekend's second round of voting. Observers …
On the Shoulders of Giants
Efforts to place Obama outside of history are only possible in a society that treats history like yesterday's garbage.