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The absurd media frenzy over the perils of Paris Hilton shouldn't obscure the serious issue this made-for-TV pseudo-event raises. That issue is the astonishing number of Americans who are in…
June 13, 2007Comments OffRead More
Sixteen years ago, Chicago businessman Antoin "Tony" Rezko tried to hire bright young Harvard law student Barack Obama to work in his real estate development company. Obama said no, but it…
June 13, 2007Comments OffRead More
Experts meeting in Miami warn a terrorist nuclear attack somewhere in the world is no longer a question of "if" but "when." …
June 12, 200710 CommentsRead More
Former Secretary of State Colin Powell says the torture chambers at Guantanamo Bay should be closed immediately because they aren't worth the grief they cause the United States and the…
June 11, 20074 CommentsRead More
Potential GOP presidential candidate Newt Gingrich has promoted public policy positions that closely track the financial interests of companies that underwrite a think tank he founded.
The Center for…
June 11, 20076 CommentsRead More
It is a backhanded compliment to the power of words that some of them are considered scandalous and bad. Unfortunately, when words go bad, moralists sometimes go crazy.
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June 8, 20073 CommentsRead More
A Republican state senator who punched a Democratic lawmaker in the head expressed regret, saying "that's not the way grown men solve their problems," but he said he won't immediately…
June 8, 20075 CommentsRead More
The CIA ran secret prisons in Poland and Romania from 2003 to 2005 to interrogate detainees in its war on terror, European investigator Dick Marty said in a report released…
June 8, 20072 CommentsRead More
A proliferation of pornography on the Internet has set up a debate about the impact on young women: is in-your-face sexuality empowering, allowing girls to act like boys, or does…
June 7, 20076 CommentsRead More
Usually, it's the small children who accidentally shoot themselves or someone else with a parent's gun that make the big headlines. The teens who commit suicide with a…
June 7, 200714 CommentsRead More
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