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Bankrupt: Republicans Risk Destroying Economy To Spite Obama

Boehner and Cantor: What’s good for America is bad for Republicans [Commentary] Once again, we stand poised on the precipice of economic calamity because ...

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NSA: Congress Needs More Oversight Over Domestic Monitoring

Edward Snowden [Commentary: National] Washington is beginning to debate the proper extent of government eavesdropping powers in the wake of Edward Snowden’s revelations about ...

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Main Street v Wall Street: Why Obama Should Pick Yellen Over Summers For Fed Reserve Chair

  Welcome to the season of big decisions in Washington. In the coming days, President Obama will have to decide whether to order a ...

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Why Congress Must Vote “No” To War, As France Backs Off Syrian Attack

France’s Francois Hollande now has second thoughts and retreating [Black Star News Editorial] France has now retreated from its initial declaration that it would ...

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Obama’s “Redline” Statement Applies To Both Assad Regime And Syria Rebels

[Black Star Editorial] Whether the United States should launch an attack on Syria or not has boiled down to this: by not striking the ...

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In The End Even This Gridlocked Congress Must Function

President Obama shown with Speaker Boehner. Columnist believes Congress may still accomplish something As I speak to people about the Congress, one question arises ...

How Can We Run The Country With Such A Divided ‘No-Compromise-Allowed’ Congress?

Lee Hamilton, former member of Congress [Op-Ed: National] Deeply unpopular and flagrantly unproductive, Congress is on its August recess right now. It won’t return ...

What? The White House’s Too Good For Our Folk?

Obama — Maybe some detractors are more comfortable when we’re in the outhouse not White House? [Beneath The Spin] In a comment on Electronic ...

RNC Chairman Threatens NBC and CNN Because He Knows Most Corporate Media Have Surrendered Journalistic Integrity

Sheriff Reince Priebus [Speaking Truth To Power] Why did Republican National Chairman Reince Priebus tell NBC and CNN he will seek to boycott their ...

Listen ExxonMobil: Climate Change Is Serious Global Issue

Roy Tillerson, the CEO of ExxonMobil — Climate change? Get over it.. [Witness for Justice] Every two years the membership of the United Church ...