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05/06 12:18 AM – With just more than six months until Election Day, an analysis of the emerging electoral map by The New York Times found that the outcome will most likely be determined by how well President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney perform in nine tossup states, including Colorado. Full Story
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With Tuesday's passing of the deadline under a UN peace plan for the withdrawal of Syrian army troops from major population centers, Washington and its allies have escalated their threats of intervention in the Middle Eastern country. Though the French presidency's most noted power is its control of foreign policy, international politics has been noticeably absent from the presidential campaign. Under the guise of “increasing efficiency,” California Governor Jerry Brown has proposed a reorganization of state agencies that will result in the elimination of 3,000 jobs. By Paul Bond, 11 April 2012 Britain’s Conservative-Liberal Democrat government has announced plans to extend state surveillance across e-mail, telephone and social media communications.
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I’d like to ask Chuck Todd: if Bush had John Yoo write a memo opining that it was perfectly legal for Bush to deploy hit squads within the U.S. to assassinate American citizens without any due process, would it be wrong to investigate and prosecute that, too, on the ground that everyone had permission slips from a DOJ lawyer and that’s just what lawyers do? The current President has, of course, obtained his own DOJ permission slip to assassinate American citizens without due process. Since that permission slip is too secret for us to see, we do not know whether the authorized assassination power is confined to foreign soil or extends to the U.S., although once one embraces the Bush-Cheney-Yoo theory that the entire world is a “battlefield,” there is no coherent way to limit those asserted powers to foreign soil.
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In today's pictures, a U.S. service member is buried at Arlington National Cemetery, a boy plays in the mud in Myanmar, Peyton Manning joins the Denver Broncos, and more. Britain's Queen Elizabeth II reaffirmed her dedication to serve in an address to Parliament Tuesday marking her six decades on the throne. A fresh wave of sanctions that is feeding panic in Iran's economy is also hitting businesses in NATO-ally Turkey, upending a boom in bilateral trade that was underpinned by improving diplomatic ties. This five-bedroom property, believed to date back to 1860, has been restored to a family home after being subdivided into apartments for many years.
I’ve been getting the predictable hysterical reactions to today’s column. And it’s true — I’m a Sharia Jewish atheist Marxist who hates America! Bwahahaha!
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