. The choice for regime change in Syria is the cause for immense suffering, especially for women and children. IRC Report – Rape is a significant and disturbing feature of the Syrian civil war. The Obama administration is...
Read MoreI don’t know if you’ve seen the film Lincoln or not, but one of the key elements of the plot is an elaborate bribery/patronage scheme that President Lincoln launched to entice members of Congress to vote for the 13th...
Read MoreThe question may be moot now that both the Treasury Department and the Federal Reserve have publicly stated they think the law does not allow for the minting of a $1 trillion platinum coin to avoid a debt ceiling crisis, but...
Read Moreby WALTER BRASCH Wednesday, I called the newsrooms of Pennsylvania’s two largest newspapers. All I got were disembodied voices telling me no one was available and to leave a message. It was 11 a.m., and I thought...
Read MoreEveryone in our household got the flu in December and half of us are sick with not-necessarily-flulike symptoms as we speak. We are getting hammered by pre-school germs that we aren’t used to, but I wonder what people...
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