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By Bill Clinton From The Washington Post In 1996, I signed the Defense of Marriage Act. Although that was only 17 years ago, it was a very different time. In no state in the…
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By David Brooks From the Mexican newspaper La Jornada A young man faces life in prison for the crime of informing his people of what their government does in their name; another…
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By Bill Press It suddenly hit me this week: I don't live in the real world. I live in Washington, D.C. In the real world, nobody would argue about renewing the Violence Against…
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By Max J. Castro majcastro@gmail.com MIAMI - Even President Obama didn’t believe they would go through with it. The administration was convinced that sequestration –…
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By Michael D. Barnes From The Baltimore Sun Unfortunately, our nation faces enormous challenges in virtually every region of the globe. In countries ranging from Iran to North…
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By Anya Landau French From The Christian Science Monitor This past week was uncommonly full of Cuba news. At the top of the list has to be this weekend's selection of a new First…
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Keeping Cuba on the terror list may be limiting US credibility in designating others as terrorism supporters, writes a guest blogger By James Bosworth, Guest blogger From The…
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By Ali Gharib From The Daily Beast In the eight weeks since being nominated to be Defense Secretary, Chuck Hagel endured as Republicans in the Senate and their allies in the…
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By Bill Press If aliens came to earth from outer space in search of intelligent life, Congress is the last place they would look for it. The Republican-led 112th Congress – in a…
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From Cuba Central WASHINGTON, DC - A curious angle to the story about Senator Bob Menendez and his relationship to Dr. Salomon Melgen, his donor-benefactor-travel pal, has gotten…
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