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No rational administration (NRA)…
... would propose arming schoolteachers to prevent horrific massacres like the recent carnage that claimed the lives of 17 students at the Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School in…
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NRA-backed politicians turn their backs on Florida children
One hundred students from Marjory Stoneham Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, traveled in buses to Tallahassee. Inside the Florida Capitol they were met with reality. There to…
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The three choices when it comes to Trump
The third choice is one that can make it harder for Trump to damage this country. All one has to do is get active. This coming November 6, 34 Senate seats, all 435 seats in the House of…
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Republicans target social programs to pay for tax cuts for the rich
Having passed a tax law that richly rewards the very rich, the Republicans now want the rest of us to pay the freight. The GOP tax “reform” creates a huge fiscal hole that Republicans…
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And what are we gonna do about it?
Seventeen dead high school students and teachers in Parkland, a small community just north of Miami that has been called one of the safest in the country. And the cause? A teenage…
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GOP Senator Rand Paul accuses party of hypocrisy on the deficit
For decades, Republicans have postured as deficit hawks. Senator Rand Paul, in a marathon speech against his own party’s budget bill, asked how Republicans could decry deficits when…
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U.S. diplomat expelled from Bolivia gets Cuba post
An American diplomat who was expelled from Bolivia for reportedly meddling in the host country's domestic politics will leave Washington for Havana and become the United States' new…
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19 more phantoms impede travel to Cuba
If you are the U.S. State Department in the age of Trump, and Secretary of State Rex Tillerson wants to ramp up the scare meter on Cuba travelers, you continue to hype the secretive…
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State of disunion
The president who has done more than any other to polarize this already divided nation delivered his first State of the Union speech last week. The partisan chasm, one of many rifts in…
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Gross rejects Trump plan to launch ‘task force’ into Cuban cyberspace
Alan Gross, the elderly American who tried to smuggle electronic equipment into Cuba to start an unauthorized Internet system, reacted to the U.S. plan to convene a Cuba Internet Task…
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