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At White House, liberal hawks ascend
With his decision to elevate Susan Rice to become his national security advisor and the nomination of Samantha Power as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, President Obama is not simply rewarding the loyalty of two women who have backed him from the...Tags: Carl Levin, Balkan Peninsula, George H.W. Bush, Susan Rice, Syrian Civil War (2011 - present )
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Brave new world of government surveillance
There's a lot we don't know about the secret court order giving the federal government access on an "ongoing daily basis" to millions of telephone records, and that's a large part of the problem. But we know enough from a report in Britain's Guardian...Tags: Sports, Verizon Communications, U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, Barack Obama, National Security Agency
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Reactions to NSA surveillance: from outrage to cheerleading
This week's riveting scoops in the Guardian and the Washington Post about the data-grabbing driftnet the National Security Agency has cast over the phone networks and the Internet drew hostile fire from four of the country's five largest newspapers, and a...Tags: Government, Politics, Christi Parsons, Barack Obama, National Security Agency
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It's A Gray Area: It's time to take back America's moral high ground
President Obama has recently renewed his plans to try to close our military prison at Guantanamo, Cuba, and has also promulgated new guidelines for our government's use of drones to assassinate people in places like Pakistan, Afghanistan and Yemen....Tags: Justice System, Pakistan, U.S. Congress, Politics, Prisons
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Is Big Data turning government into 'Big Brother'?
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — With every phone call they make and every Web excursion they take, people are leaving a digital trail of revealing data that can be tracked by profit-seeking companies and terrorist-hunting government officials. The...
Tags: AOL LLC, Verizon Communications, Facebook, Computing and Information Technology Industry, Science and Technology
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House vote opens immigration divide
WASHINGTON — The partisan divide over immigration was exposed Thursday as House Republicans voted to stop funding the Obama administration program that has halted deportation of young immigrants who are in high school or college or have served in...
Tags: Extradition, Jay Carney, Mitt Romney, White House, Polls
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Obama tells America the Jersey Shore is open for business
TRENTON, N.J. — President Barack Obama and New Jersey's Republican governor, Chris Christie, strolled along the Jersey Shore boardwalk like old friends on Tuesday, a political odd couple just hanging out together. The two men had a common purpose:...
Tags: Chris Christie, Hurricane Katrina (2005), Politics, Government, Barack Obama
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Is Obama willing to fight for right terror policy?
In his recent speech on terrorism and national security, President Barack Obama performed superbly as explainer in chief, a role in which he often hasn't succeeded. It may not matter much. However belatedly, Obama offered a cogent policy rationale for...Tags: Tea Party Movement, Pakistan, Al-Qaeda, U.S. Congress, Politics
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The real IRS scandal
Should you need a license from the government to exercise free speech? The real scandal at the Internal Revenue Service should be seen not as a left-versus-right issue but instead as infringement on the 1st Amendment. The people targeted were political...
Tags: IBM, Politics, Computing and Information Technology Industry, Political Fundraising, Internal Revenue Service
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To break D.C. logjam, Sen. Reid should revive the 'nuclear option'
As President Obama prepares to nominate three new judges for what is probably the nation's most important federal appeals court, Republicans in the Senate are escalating their attempts to stand in his way. Last month the Senate unanimously confirmed...
Tags: Justice System, Sonia Sotomayor, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, U.S. Congress, Politics
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How the death penalty will end: first Maryland, then the nation
The death penalty debate in Maryland is finally over. This spring's decision by the General Assembly to replace the death penalty with life without parole was cemented last week, when right-wing activists failed to muster enough signatures to force the...
Tags: FBI, Crime, Law and Justice, U.S. Supreme Court, John Hickenlooper, Environmental Issues
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The Sun Remembers: June 2-8
June 7, 2001: At the White House, President George W. Bush greets the NFL champion Ravens, who present him with an autographed football and a personalized jersey. "It was cool, man," defensive tackle Tony Siragusa says. "[But] I was depressed that they...
Tags: Lacrosse, Sports, Baltimore Ravens, Syracuse Orange, Baltimore Orioles
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