Last week, Joe Biden, with the irrepressibility and impulsivity that mark the behavior of both adolescents and older people, announced his support for same-gender marriage. Barack Obama, who would have preferred to keep his views to himself for a wh …
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Mack McDowell likes to spend time at the local knife and gun show "drooling over firearms," as he puts it. Retired after 30 years in the U.S. Army, he has lined his study with books on war, framed battalion patches from his tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, a John Wayne poster, an …
Nicolas Sarkozy was infamous for his culturally poisoned comments about Africans, African French men and other French ethnic groups. However, his biggest mistake was austerity, siding with international criminal corporations against his own middle class. The 99% …
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Five individuals suspected of being involved in plotting the September 11th attacks are due for arraignment on May 5. They are to be formally charged with “terrorism-related crimes that could bring the death penalty if the defendants are convicted.” And, as the Americ …
In one respect, the president's visit to Afghanistan was a surprise: few people knew about it, and even those who did know kept their mouths shut. But from every other angle of analysis, it was a set-piece exercise, planned long in advance and rehearsed with care. …
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FBI whistleblower Sibel Edmonds, former CIA officer Kevin M. Shipp, former CIA agent “Ishmael Jones,” Lt. Col Anthony Shaffer, former CIA agent John Kiriakou (who is now facing prosecution for talking about his role in waterboarding) and soon-to-be-former State Depart …
Watch highlights from President Obama and Jimmy Kimmel’s 2012 White House Correspondents dinner speeches in under 2 minutes. (The Washington Post/The Washington Post)
Last week, General James Amos, Commandant of the Marine Corps, issued an order that makes available to women a number of occupational specialties previously open only to men. Although this is supposed to be an experiment and designed merely to inform the Comma …
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A company has come up with an alternative to carrying your iPhone in your purse for the times when you don’t want to carry your purse.
On Tuesday, President Obama stopped by Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, where he had a message for Congress: This is not the time to make school more expensive for our young people. Or, as rapper Black Thought of house band The Roots put it, "If Congress doesn't act, it' …
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