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The United States and Cuba have been locked in the coldest of relationships for more than half a century. But a new poll suggests that the American people think it's time to warm things…
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When someone told me at the end of last month that the Republicans were going to unveil an immigration reform bill that would include a path to citizenship, my instant reaction was:…
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Illinois' most influential attorneys emailed a letter to President Obama this past Thursday urging him to make good on his pledge, made to many of them personally and to the public as…
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Sen. Marco Rubio’s political stock is rated a buy by major Republican fundraisers in Washington. Political strategists think his chances are looking better because of the bridge scandal…
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Texas has done it again. The Lone Star state has executed another Mexican national in defiance of of a ruling by the World Court, thumbing its nose at binding U.S. international treaty…
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Obama is losing popularity now into his sixth year in office with the average job approval rate down in the 40s. But what abominable atrocities has he committed against his…
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President Obama can deliver a speech. He did not disappoint during his sixth State of the Union address. Pundits called it a center-left speech using center-right language.
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When Pete Seeger died Monday at the age of 94, remembrances of him, unsurprisingly, focused less on his music than on his social activism. And It's not that Seeger did a lot of good…
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Cuba's government has unilaterally taken action against global terrorism. This step deserves a positive response by the United States.
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The U.S. has the worst level of economic inequality since the Great Depression, whereby 400 families earn the same as 1/2 of persons with the lowest income.
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