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The gang that can’t shoot straight
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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Intentional blindness that kills
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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Can Havana trust Washington again?
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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The fork on the path to immigration reform
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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GOP tastes the agony of defeat
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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Poll: Major damage to GOP after shutdown, and broad dissatisfaction with government
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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Success and failure
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: ‘It’s hatred’ not politics behind strong GOP opposition to Obama
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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GOP in denial over debt ceiling
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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Oscar Hijuelos, Cuban-American writer who won Pulitzer, is dead at 62
Oscar Hijuelos, a Cuban-American novelist who wrote about the lives of immigrants adapting to a new culture and became the first Latino to win the Pulitzer Prize for fiction for his…
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