Dick Cheney, Mohammad Jawad and Torture
While the U.S. mainstream media is awash in news that the Bush-era policy of torturing detainees “worked” in the case of Khalid Sheik...
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USA Today Misses Mark on Gun Rights
In an August 31 editorial, the editors of the USA Today have entered the debate over the presence of firearms at political protests...
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What Ted Kennedy Taught His Followers
The recently reposed Senator Edward M. “Ted” Kennedy (D-Mass.) left a legacy of federal legislation that has brought moral and financial ruin to...
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Citizen Protests Congressman Hiding From Town Hall
When two-term congressman Zack Space decided he didn't want to hold any public town hall-style meeting in his Ohio district this summer, local...
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Court Sets New Rules for Computer Searches
In a ruling with broad implications for computer privacy, the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco ruled that federal investigators...
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Evaluating Sen. Ted Kennedy’s Real Legacy
The moment Sen. Edward M. Kennedy died, the gushing tributes started pouring in from both sides of the political aisle, many of them...
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Mich. Supreme Court Allows Judges to Ban Veil From Court
To cries of outrage from the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the Michigan branch of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, the Michigan...
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Ted Kennedy Dies at 77
Succumbing to an inoperable brain tumor discovered 15 months ago, Senator Edward Moore Kennedy passed away at his home in Hyannisport, Massachusetts, on...
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SAF Charges MSNBC with Playing “Racial Politics”
As media outlets were filled with hysteria in the wake of several demonstrators carrying firearms to an anti-Obama rally in Phoenix last week,...
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Obama’s Wars Trigger New Activists
The election of Barack Obama to the Presidency has highlighted the foreign policy double standard that the activists on the left end of...
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Ted Kennedy’s Rank Partisanship
Massachusetts' senior Senator Ted Kennedy has reversed an earlier stance with his recent appeal to change Massachusetts' rules of Senate succession once again....
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U.S. Court Throws Out Warrantless Wiretapping Case
U.S. District Court Judge John G. Koeltl of the Southern District of New York dismissed an ACLU challenge to the U.S. government's warrantless...
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New, Lower Deficit Estimate: $1.58 trillion
President Obama is expected to revise his fiscal 2009 deficit estimate to $1.58 trillion, which is down from the $1.84 trillion estimate earlier in...
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CIA Hired Blackwater for Assassinations
The CIA outsourced its assassination program to controversial security company Blackwater Worldwide, according to the New York Times for August 20. The assassination...
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Rand Paul “Money Bomb” Exploding Today
U.S. Senate candidate Rand Paul of Kentucky is reaping an online fundraising bonanza today, as a “money bomb” for his campaign efforts exploded...
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