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Bin Laden spokesman due in NY court on plot charge
NEW YORK (AP) — A senior al-Qaida leader and member of Osama bin Laden's inner circle was due in court to face a charge he plotted against Americans in his role as the terror network's top propagandist who lauded the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, and...
Tags: Religion and Belief, Islam, U.S. Congress, Politics, Al-Qaeda
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Don't shoot, drone guys. I'm a friendly American!
Not to be all paranoid and everything, but is someone out to get me -- er, us? You have to admit, given the week’s news, that Buffalo Springfield may have been on to something in the summer of ’67: Paranoia strikes deep Into your life it...
Tags: Buffalo Springfield (music group), Politics, John Brennan, Hugo Chavez, John O. Brennan
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Obama must codify the drone war
— In choice of both topic and foil, Rand Paul's now legendary Senate filibuster was a stroke of political genius. The topic was, ostensibly, very narrow: Does the president have the constitutional authority to put a drone-launched Hellfire missile...
Tags: George W. Bush, U.S. Congress, Politics, Al-Qaeda, Anwar al-Awlaki
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Rand Paul gets filibuster relief from Pat Toomey
Call Washington BureauJust after 11:30 p.m., a few hours after dining on steak as President Obama's dinner guest, Pat Toomey walked onto the Senate floor to give his Republican colleague a 15-minute respite from a filibuster that was approaching the 12-hour mark. The...Tags: U.S. Senate, Politics, John McCain, Barack Obama, Republican Party
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Aaron Swartz is gone, but his story refuses to go away. Why?
This post has been updated. See below for details.By now, Web users should know about Aaron Swartz, because it's getting hard not to hear about him. The 26-year-old computer prodigy helped develop RSS and Reddit; he was also a folk hero to the open Web movement, which argues for greater information...Tags: FBI, U.S. Senate, Health and Safety at School, Police Investigations, U.S. Secret Service
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Obama administration urges Supreme Court to strike down Prop. 8
This post has been updated, as indicated below.WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration has endorsed a constitutional right to marry for gays and lesbians, urging the Supreme Court to strike down California’s voter-passed law barring same-sex marriage as well as laws in at least the seven other...Tags: Politics, Kamala D. Harris, Jay Carney, Barack Obama, Gays and Lesbians
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Will the court duck marriage equality altogether?
Regardless of whether the Supreme Court is ready to declare a constitutional right to gay marriage, it has the responsibility to fully recognize the decisions Maryland and eight other states, plus the District of Columbia, have made to allow same-sex...Tags: U.S. Congress, Politics, Barack Obama, Gays and Lesbians, Family
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Obama urges justices to overturn gay marriage ban
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration wants the Supreme Court to overturn California's gay marriage ban, outlining a broad legal argument that could ultimately be applied to other state prohibitions across the country. The administration's...
Tags: Jon Huntsman, Jr., Chris Kluwe, Politics, Barack Obama, Gays and Lesbians
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Rand Paul's stunt misses the point
If you took Sen. Rand Paul duck hunting, he'd probably shoot the decoy. That's the impression the first-term Kentucky Republican gave when he took the floor of the U.S. Senate on Wednesday for a 13-hour rambling real-life imitation of Jimmy Stewart's...Tags: Ted Cruz, U.S. Congress, U.S. Senate, Ron Wyden, U.S. Department of Defense
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Targeting drones
A famous book on negotiation is called "Getting to Yes." Sometimes, though, the better achievement is arriving at "no." That's what Eric Holder and Rand Paul did the other day. It came in a letter from the attorney general to the Republican senator from...Tags: Ted Cruz, U.S. Congress, Anwar al-Awlaki, Al-Qaeda, Barack Obama
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The morality brigade
We're still legislating and regulating private morality, while at the same time ignoring the much larger crisis of public morality in America. In recent weeks, Republican state legislators have decided to thwart the Supreme Court's 1973 decision in...
Tags: Democracy, Religion and Belief, Politics, Abortion Issue, Republican Party
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On pot laws, respect the states
It may be surprising, but no state is required to have a law making possession of marijuana, or any drug, a crime. Therefore, any state can legalize some or all marijuana possession if it chooses. The federal government, if it chooses, can enforce the...Tags: U.S. Department of Justice, Local Government, Washington, DC, Richard Nixon, American Civil Liberties Union
Mar 8, 2013
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Mar 7, 2013
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Mar 18, 2013
|Column| Chicago Tribune
Mar 7, 2013
|Story| Allentown Morning Call
Mar 6, 2013
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Feb 28, 2013
|Story| Los Angeles Times
Mar 27, 2013
|Story| Baltimore Sun
Mar 1, 2013
|Story| Petoskey News
Mar 10, 2013
|Column| Chicago Tribune
Mar 10, 2013
|Column| Chicago Tribune
Mar 27, 2013
|Story| Baltimore Sun
Mar 27, 2013
|Story| Los Angeles Times
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