To Comfort The Afflicted
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    Afghanistan Forever. And Ever. And Ever.

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    BY JIM HIGHTOWER Oh, to be in Afghanistan again, when the poppies are in bloom! If you need a symbol of how America’s decade-long war is going in this faraway land, look no farther than the beautiful fields of red poppies flowering so bountifully there. Unfortunately, that bounty symbolizes a failure of an ambitious Western […]

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    Echoes Of World War II In Normandy

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    BY SUSAN ESTRICH No one told me that January is the wrong time to visit Normandy [until afterwards, that is]. Most of the places we went to visit were closed. It was cold and wet and rainy. It took more than three hours each way. But I haven’t been to France in 15 years, and […]

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    Consumer Bureau Protects The Prudent, As Well

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    BY FROMA HARROP Let’s set aside the back-and-forth over the recess appointment of Richard Cordray as chief watchdog at the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. President Obama named the former Ohio attorney general to lead the agency when the Senate was supposedly out of session, which he’s allowed to do. Republicans refuse to confirm him […]

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    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 […]

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    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 […]

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