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Matt Taibbi |
Tea Partiers Are Right: Jeb Is a RINO
Matt Taibbi, Rolling Stone
Taibbi writes: "If Bush-Clinton turns out to be the general election menu, it's going to make kleptocratic paradises like the Soviet Union or the PRC look like vibrant democracies in comparison."
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Matt Taibbi, Rolling Stone
Taibbi writes: "If Bush-Clinton turns out to be the general election menu, it's going to make kleptocratic paradises like the Soviet Union or the PRC look like vibrant democracies in comparison."
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John Cassidy |
The President's Latest Political Masterstroke
John Cassidy, The New Yorker
Cassidy writes: "If you doubted that President Obama's decision to normalize relations with Cuba was a political and strategic masterstroke, you only have to look at the reaction it has engendered to see otherwise."
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John Cassidy, The New Yorker
Cassidy writes: "If you doubted that President Obama's decision to normalize relations with Cuba was a political and strategic masterstroke, you only have to look at the reaction it has engendered to see otherwise."
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Torture
Whistleblower John Kiriakou: "I'm the Only One in Prison"
Natalia Megas, The Hill
Excerpt: "Whether the torture worked or not is irrelevant. (It didn't anyway.) Rape works. We don't do that. Murder works. We don't do that. Beating children in front of their parents works. We don't do that. The question isn't, Does it work? The question is, Is it right? Is it moral?"
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Natalia Megas, The Hill
Excerpt: "Whether the torture worked or not is irrelevant. (It didn't anyway.) Rape works. We don't do that. Murder works. We don't do that. Beating children in front of their parents works. We don't do that. The question isn't, Does it work? The question is, Is it right? Is it moral?"
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Two NYPD
Officers Killed in Ambush
Colleen Long and Jennifer Peltz, Associated Press
Excerpt: "A gunman who announced online that he was planning to shoot two 'pigs' in retaliation for the chokehold death of Eric Garner ambushed two police officers in a patrol car and shot them to death in broad daylight Saturday before running to a subway station and killing himself, authorities said."
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Colleen Long and Jennifer Peltz, Associated Press
Excerpt: "A gunman who announced online that he was planning to shoot two 'pigs' in retaliation for the chokehold death of Eric Garner ambushed two police officers in a patrol car and shot them to death in broad daylight Saturday before running to a subway station and killing himself, authorities said."
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U.S. Sends
Four Guantanamo Prisoners Home to Afghanistan
Matt Spetalnick, Reuters
Spetalnick writes: "Four Afghans held for over a decade at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, have been sent home, the Pentagon said on Saturday, the latest step in a gradual push by the Obama administration to close the jail."
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Matt Spetalnick, Reuters
Spetalnick writes: "Four Afghans held for over a decade at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, have been sent home, the Pentagon said on Saturday, the latest step in a gradual push by the Obama administration to close the jail."
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Obama:
Keystone 'Not Even Nominal Benefit' to U.S. Consumers
Laura Barron-Lopez, The Hill
Barron-Lopez writes: "President Obama on Friday said building the Keystone oil pipeline would 'not even have a nominal benefit' to consumers, pushing back at claims it would lower gas prices further. Obama stressed that the issue at hand for Keystone is 'not American oil, it is Canadian oil.'"
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Laura Barron-Lopez, The Hill
Barron-Lopez writes: "President Obama on Friday said building the Keystone oil pipeline would 'not even have a nominal benefit' to consumers, pushing back at claims it would lower gas prices further. Obama stressed that the issue at hand for Keystone is 'not American oil, it is Canadian oil.'"
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The Alarming
Research Behind New York's Fracking Ban
Nicholas St. Fleur, The Atlantic
St. Fleur writes: "The battle over untapped natural gas in New York State appears to have reached its end. Following an extensive public health review of hydraulic fracturing, Governor Andrew Cuomo announced a complete ban on the oil and natural gas harvesting practice in the state on Wednesday."
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Nicholas St. Fleur, The Atlantic
St. Fleur writes: "The battle over untapped natural gas in New York State appears to have reached its end. Following an extensive public health review of hydraulic fracturing, Governor Andrew Cuomo announced a complete ban on the oil and natural gas harvesting practice in the state on Wednesday."
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