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A Prayer For America And Its People

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BY NORM ROURKE Lord, our people are hurting. Our great country has been pushed to the brink by irresponsible leaders who show no compassion for...

‘Smacks Of Fascism’

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BY BOB BEARDEN The presidential contenders want to shrink the federal government. But does that also pertain to the executive branch? In their zeal...

Goodbye, Habeas Corpus

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BY ALEXANDER COCKBURN America changed as the new year stumbled across the threshold, but the big shift didn’t get much press, which is easy to understand. Can there be a deader news day than a New Year’s Eve that falls on a weekend? Besides, alive or dead, habeas corpus has never been a topic to […]

Iowa, New Hampshire Hype

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BY DANNY M. ADKISON This just in: The results of the Iowa caucuses are official and the winner is Barack Obama! I got that line...

Did Reagan Raise Taxes? Let GOP Candidate Answer The Question

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BY JOE CONASON Politicians and their flacks lie every day, but it is unusual for someone prominent to utter a totally indefensible falsehood like the whopper that just sprang from the mouth of Eric Cantor’s press secretary on national television. While interviewing the House majority leader, 60 Minutes correspondent Leslie Stahl suggested that he might […]