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KENT SNYDER AND RON PAUL There was a special moment during the CNN/Tea Party presidential debate on Monday evening when moderator Wolf Blitz...

Perhaps I am going soft in my dotage, but I felt a twinge of sorrow for George Bush as he stood next to Barack Obama during the 9/11 anniv...

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It should be made clear from the jump that the winnowing-out process to determine which Republican faces Barack Obama next year is working...

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I have long thought that I would never have anything nice to say about Sarah Palin until she announced that she was sparing the nation the...

September 11 is perhaps the third date in American history requiring no year, July 4 and December 7 being the others. It also is the only...

Of the many lies told by Bush administration officials in the wake of the 9/11 attacks, few were larger than the assertion of Vice Preside...

Some 3,017 people died in New York, at the Pentagon and in a farm field in western Pennsylvania on September 11, 2001, and save for the hija...

Betty Ann Ong, who was born to Chinese-American parents in San Francisco's Chinatown in 1956, began her career as an American Airlines...

SIMON LEGREE BEATS UNCLE TOM It is said that when Harriet Beecher Stowe was greeted by Abraham Lincoln at a White House reception in ...

The complete title of Uncle Tom's Cabin is Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly . The book opens with Arthur Shelby faci...

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Indian youths make a human pyramid to reach and break the Dahi Handi, an earthen pot filled with yoghurt, as they celebrate Janmashtami,...

Our democracy is under siege from an enemy so small it could be hiding anywhere. ~ STEPHEN COLBERT Having stolen the 2000 presidential ele...

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Frank Rich, writing in New York magazine: "T he hallowed burial grounds of 9/11 were supposed to bequeath us a stronger nation, not a...

Among the many first responders rushing to Ground Zero after the 9/11 attacks were mental health workers. While they meant well in trying...

Moxie, now age 13, arrived at the World Trade Center site on September 11 and began working the next morning. Although she is trained to...

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Christine O'Donnell's 15 minutes of fame is officially over. Politico reports that the Tea Party darling, who deftly blew a guar...

The American woodchuck is more properly known as the groundhog (or even more properly as Marmota monax ), but by any name is a big bellied...

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And so Irene passes into history having been an unusual hurricane that fortunately did not live up to its potential. Meteorologists we...