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Toxic talk: Poison in the air
By Bill Press
It's getting ugly out there. And I'm not the only one to say so.
"The political atmosphere obviously has been toxic," said Utah Senator Bob Bennett after being rejected…
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Obama to send more National Guard troops to U.S.-Mexico border
By Michael D. Shear
President Obama will deploy an additional 1,200 National Guard troops to the southern border and request $500 million in extra money for border security, according…
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Can she fill John Paul Stevens’ shoes?
By Bill Press
He was the liberal lion on the Supreme Court. And when John Paul Stevens resigned, liberals like me demanded that President Obama name another proud, unabashed,…
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Is the GOP an anti-immigrant Party?
By Max J. Castromajcastro@gmail.com
That’s the question posed in a May 14, 2010, Washington Post column by Michael Gerson, a former speechwriter for President George W. Bush. Gerson…
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The Pakistan mess
By Saul Landau
Washington’s national security elite seethe and fume with resentment and frustration. Pakistan receives billions of U.S. aid dollars and remains a training ground for…
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Goldman Sachs publicly back financial reform — while dispatching army of lobbyists
(Editor’s Note: This is an excerpted version of an article that appeared in The Huffington Post produced by the Huffington Post Investigative Fund.)
For all of Goldman Sachs’ professed…
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Should the left oppose Kagan for Supreme Court?
By Mark Engler
From Dissent Magazine
Answer me this: Do progressives have anything to lose by opposing Elena Kagan as too conservative to be a satisfactory pick for the Supreme…
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AP-Univision Poll: Immigration splits Americans
By Alan Fram
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Illegal immigrants are a boon, not a burden to the country, a resounding majority of Hispanics say, according to an Associated Press-Univision Poll that…
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The death of the Tea Party movement
By Bill Press
Farewell to the Tea Party. It was fun while it lasted. It certainly got a lot of undue media attention. But it died a premature, yet welcome, death.
Ironically, what…
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