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College sports are a big business in which everyone is making money — everyone except the eighteen to twenty-one-year-old kids who every game risk permanent career-ending injuries.
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Young in years but older than Methuselah in mindset when it comes to the land of his parents, the new Congressman is one more denizen in the shameful fauna of those who want Washington…
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The administration announced last Friday that it would double the number of U.S. troops in Iraq, to 3,100; request an additional $5.6 billion for the war; and put U.S. trainers closer…
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Let’s turn Election Day into a holiday. It’s one giant leap for a political system that the world can look upon as an example, not a failure.
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United States political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal has filed a lawsuit on the grounds that a new Pennsylvania law is aimed at silencing prisoners.
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Washington should recognize that the most it can hope to accomplish is to positively influence Cuba’s evolution toward a more open society. That is more likely to come about through…
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The tax revenues from marijuana in states where it has been legalised are relatively sizeable - is this one of the reasons why many places are consenting to pro-marijuana legislation?
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HAVANA -- In the days prior to the midterm elections, a media campaign was launched, urging President Obama to change U.S. policy toward Cuba. It is obvious that the promoters of…
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Normalizing relations between the two nations will require a series of presidential actions. Here is a roadmap for how that could happen...whenever.
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WASHINGTON, D.C. - It took Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo just three words to dismiss the New York Times editorial on Alan Gross. It urged President Obama to swap three convicted Cuban spies…
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