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Richard (RJ) Eskow: One More SEC/Citigroup Sweetheart Deal – Five Reasons to Be Outraged

The President says he understands the frustration behind the Occupy Wall Street movement. That’s nice. But the anger will keep growing as long as the … Continue reading

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Errol P. Mendes: The Harper Government and the Republican Tea Party: Partners in the Revolution of the Night Watchman

The connection between the Tea Party ideologues and the Harper government is their stealth agenda to starve governments of tax monies to spend on social programs and downsize to a minimal state the very organizations they were elected to lead. In the U.S., the Tea Party wing of the Republican Party, the ideological twin of the Harper Conservatives, were determined to hold the full faith and credit and economy of the U.S. hostage if they did not get severe spending cuts. Continue reading

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President Obama Targets International Organized Crime Gangs

WASHINGTON — The Obama administration announced a broadside of harsh new sanctions against four far-flung criminal cartels on Monday, part of wh… Read more: Mexican Cartels , Brothers' Circle , Camorra , Barack Obama , Organized Crime , Yakuza , International Criminal , Japan Organized Crime , Zetas , Italy Organized Crime , Gangs , Crime News Continue reading

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Kristian Ramos: What to Expect Ahead of the President’s Speech on Immigration

Upon hearing that President Barack Obama will be giving a keynote address on immigration at the border, one may wonder why any sane politician would combine two such highly charged political hot potatoes in a single speech. Yet if anyone can speak to the facts surrounding both the border and immigration in a measured and tempered way, it would be the president Continue reading

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Kristian Ramos: What to Expect Ahead of the President’s Speech on Immigration

Upon hearing that President Barack Obama will be giving a keynote address on immigration at the border, one may wonder why any sane politician would combine two such highly charged political hot potatoes in a single speech. Yet if anyone can speak to the facts surrounding both the border and immigration in a measured and tempered way, it would be the president. The president is giving his speech on the border so it is highly likely that he will touch on some of the steps his administration has taken to make the region safer Continue reading

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Brian Ross: New Orleans: Ground Zero in the Cultural War

The Founding Fathers defined the boundaries of liberty and freedom. Continue reading

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Michael Smerconish: Donald Trump, Birthers, and O.J. Simpson

Every time I hear Donald Trump talk about President Obama’s birth certificate, I think of O.J. Simpson Continue reading

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Eric Ehrmann: Brazil Olympic Funding Taps Sports Marketing Gold

Ramping up for the 2016 Rio Games, Brazil is promoting tax incentives that will generate more than $150 million for sports and special Olympics programs designed to take kids off the streets and help them go for the gold. The vehicle to make this happen is Brazil’s unique sports incentive law that allows companies and individuals to invest a portion of what they would normally pay in income taxes in programs connected to Olympic and paralympics sports. Continue reading

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Ken Blackwell: Obama Is AWOL on Religious Liberty

Last May 31st in Afghanistan, a world away from American backyard barbeques and military parades, Sayeed Mussa vanished into thin air. Mr Continue reading

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Lisa Haugaard: Presidents Calderon and Obama: Frank Words and Actions Needed to Stem Violence in Mexico

Today, Mexico’s President Calderón will sit down with President Obama in the Oval Office. At the top of the agenda is action to address the devastating organized crime-related violence plaguing Mexico Continue reading

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