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If the referendum tomorrow in Costa Rica passes narrowly, it will be entirely plausible that illegal and anti-democratic threats and intimidation from Washington determined the result.
It is politically inconceivable that the Democratic majority in Congress -- which voted against CAFTA when it was approved here -- would move to punish Costa Rica for its voters having rejected the same agreement.
Criticizing the policies of the Israeli government: it is no more anti-Semitic to do so than it is anti-American to criticize the Bush administration.
This new effort for some accountability by Blackwater is a good start, but it does not address a much larger, albeit less sexy, problem with contractors in Iraq.
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Is the Israel lobby just one among a whole slew of lobbies, each pulling Washington its own way? Or can it trump all the others? What the data show is surprisingly little.
If I wanted to live in a place where your race, ethnicity or religion mattered, there were plenty of other countries to choose from.
Now that the president has chosen to ignore the 10 million reasons to support SCHIP, the battle returns to Congress where I will be leading the fight to override his veto.
The military was supposed to be the sacred cow, even for conservatives. But now, it too has been slaughtered in the free market.
Read his full statement below: The Democratic chairman of the powerful House Appropriations Committee said today that he
If Hillary's and Obama's recent performances are a preview of the general election, brace yourself for the Democrats' third straight loss due to excessive caution and Washington style centrism.