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When she learned from Der Spiegel that the NSA had been tapping her cellphone, Merkel was so outraged she immediately called President Obama and told him to knock it off.
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It's too early to write the history of the Obama administration. But, at this point, it looks like, for the most part, that history may be summed up in three words: coulda, woulda,…
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A storm that was only a Category 2 when it hit the northeast virtually paralyzed the Big Apple last year. What would have happened if a Category 5 had hit? Picture Manhattan as a lake.…
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Revelations made by The Washington Post give additional credibility to Cuba's complaint that Havana, in good faith, gave Washington information about right-wing terrorist groups in…
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Angelo Falcon, president of the National Institute for Latino Policy, discusses one of the most pressing issues being faced in the U.S. today - immigration reform. And he is not…
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This time it didn't work. In fact, it failed miserably and the Republicans fell on their collective faces in front of the whole nation. It did "succeed" in a number of unintended ways,…
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The budget confrontation that led to a partial government shutdown dealt a major blow to the GOP’s image and has exposed significant divisions between tea party supporters and other…
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If a "have" laughs at a "have-not" and despises him, we say that the person is arrogant and not high-minded, even if he or she wears elevated shoes. If we see more and more people…
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Chris Matthews stated something very plainly on the Rachel Maddow Show recently. Matthews didn’t hold back when he said it was “hatred,” not politics, that’s fueling such intense…
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Not even Republicans would be dumb enough to risk the economic consequences if the U.S., for the first time in history, did not pay its bills. Warnings of the mess that would result…
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