Even General David Petraeus thinks its time to close Gitmo.
The Sultan of Brunei was defrauded out of $2 billion dollars by Indonesian conmen. I mean how are you hoodwinked out of $2 billion, especially when you are the head of a government and one of the richest people in the world?
3,000 gay activists marched through [...]

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Remember when Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said this at Columbia University in 2007:
“In Iran we don’t have homosexuals like in your country.”
That is not true. There are homosexuals in Iran, as one might expect. However, the government knows about it and has a plan to fix it. Contrary to what one might think, execution or [...]

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Iran executed three men involved in the bombing of a mosque on Saturday. The bombing took place on Thursday. That is what you call swift justice, assuming the guilty men were the ones executed. Obviously, there is not much room for appeals in that situation. For that matter, there is not much room for a [...]

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Congressman Charlie Rangel has some words of warning for Barack Obama when he visits New York.  If he goes to Harlem, don’t forget his Secret Service attachment because the cops might shoot him.
“The President of the United States knows while he is in this town this weekend [that] if he did not have Secret Service [...]

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Just in case you had any doubts that politics wasn’t going to the dogs, here comes a Bo Obama comic book. From what I understand, it will give children an insider’s look at what goes on in the White House. If it helps some kids understand our government better, then it will have served its [...]

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California is about to earn a dubious distinction. It is about to become the first state to eliminate student financial aid and raise education fees.
Virginia’s Republicans are meeting for their state convention and the dirty tricks from a campaign for attorney general is one of the hot topics. Automated phone calls were made to the [...]

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This should be a softball question, but when Tancredo whiffs at it with these words, it gives a good idea why the Republican Party is where it is at. I don’t care what your political persuasion is, there hasn’t been a President or his administration in decades that can be tarred with the label “hate” [...]

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Only 711 free-staters have moved to New Hampshire so far, but they are an active minority. The Libertarian-inspired idea is to bring thousands of people to New Hampshire and change the political climate to minimal government and maximum political freedom.
In the spirit of Mohandas Gandhi and Martin Luther King, or more like Henry David Thoreau, the [...]

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The Hungarian government has allocated almost $250,000 for the education of sex workers. The education is to inform the sex workers of legal regulations and help them avoid falling victim to human trafficking.
Since 1999, prostitution has been legal in Hungary. Local jurisdictions are supposed to mark out zones where the profession may operate. However, many [...]

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South Carolina’s top NAACP leader blasted President Obama for honoring confederate soldiers during the Memorial Day celebrations.
Former President George Bush has weighed in on the torture debate, saying that he did what was needed to protect the country and that it was legal. However, he went to great lengths to express that nothing he said [...]

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