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Editorial: Diversity should not be the focal point in Obama’s cabinet
President Obama’s second-term Cabinet selections have come under criticism for being exclusively white males, at least thus far. Many contend that such choices reflect a lack of diversity and balance among those closest advisors shaping federal policy.
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Column: Is Gov. Chris Christie too fat to be president?
The American people have just finally exhaled after enduring a long and tiring presidential campaign, and already the talk has turned to 2016. (“Talk” here meaning the blathering of TV’s “talking heads.
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White House petition website “We the People” now requires 100,000 signatures
The White House’s online petition page, "We the People," now requires that a petition have more than 100,000 signatures to receive a response from President Barack Obama’s administration after several silly petitions managed to gain enough support to force an official response.
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Zero Dark Thirty and the torture controversy
Delivering on its promise as “the greatest manhunt in history,” director Kathryn Bigelow’s Zero Dark Thirty avoids being the type of sloppy action flick made by blockbuster sentimentalists like Spielberg, Cameron or Bay.
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Column: “There is a future” – Israel after the upset
Like most seasoned American disaffecteds, I was anything but excited about sitting through last year’s low-intensity Obama-Romney slugfest.
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Column: Waste no time banning automatic-style weapons
In the past year, close to 100 people died as the result of mass shootings. The sites of these killings included universities, high schools, movie theaters, malls, a Sikh temple, a soccer tournament and even a funeral home.
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Column: Take our guns — and our safety, too
Let me first begin by stating what a tragedy and devastation the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting was. The fact that innocent and young lives were taken from this country will always be horrific and weigh heavily on Americans’ hearts.
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Column: Why focus on debt instead of economy?
Eventually, the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq did much to increase the national debt. Diminished tax revenues caused by an economy in recession also did their part, as did bailouts for the banking and auto industries to prevent them from collapsing at the beginning of that same recession.
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600,000 flock to National Mall to hear Obama
WASHINGTON — Although young voters’ support for President Barack Obama’s re-election was predicted to waver in November’s election, thousands of college-aged students descended on the Capitol Monday to celebrate the inauguration ceremony.