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Smear a bagel, not Chuck Hagel
By Bill Press
OK, I want to admit right up front: I stole that headline. No, it's not original with me. I stole it from the pro-Israel, pro-peace organization J Street. I stole it…
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The GOP and Latinos
By Max J. Castro
Caught between a rock and a hard place is a lousy position to be in whether we are talking about life in general or any of the games people play: love, chess, war,…
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The politics of guns
By Max J. Castro
majcastro@gmail.com
Last month’s horrendous tragedy, where 20-year-old Adam Lanza burst into Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newton, Connecticut, and murdered 20…
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The NRA’s real mission
By Lee Fang
From The Nation
Over the last four years, the only gun laws that Congress and the Obama administration have enacted have been laws further deregulating gun use. It’s no…
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New appeal: U.S. influenced Cuban Five decision
By Danny Glover and Saul Landau
We wait with a Latina woman and two of her kids until the prison guard at the entrance desk calls our number. We pass through the X-ray machine and get…
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Obama to nominate Hagel for Defense, Brennan for CIA
By Scott Wilson
From The Washington Post
President Obama on Monday will nominate former Nebraska senator Chuck Hagel as secretary of defense and counterterrorism adviser John O.…
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Those who say “I Support the Troops” should just stop
By Michael Moore
I don't support the troops, America, and neither do you. I am tired of the ruse we are playing on these brave citizens in our armed forces. And guess what - a…
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John Boehner takes Republicans over the cliff
By Bill Press
Well, what do you know? We didn't go over the fiscal cliff, after all. In the end, the country was spared. Only the Republican Party was destroyed. Or, at least,…
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Can Kerry make friends with Cuba?
By Nick Miroff
From GlobalPost.com
HAVANA - At the last Summit of the Americas, held in Colombia in April, Washington’s rivals in Latin America and its political allies had the…
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Lousy deal on the edge of the cliff
By Robert Reich
From the Robert Reich blog
The deal emerging from the Senate is a lousy one. Let me count the ways:
1. Republicans haven’t conceded anything on the debt ceiling,…
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