Controversial Arizona Sheriff Not Relenting After Court Ruling
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All week, I've been discussing how remarkable it is that these WikiLeaks disclosures resulted in a stunning and hitherto unvoiced consensus from the media that the "conventional wisdom" is that the War in Afghanistan is not going well -- and that hearing about it all over again in the form of a document dump from Julian Assange was "nothing new." Now, we've come to the end of the week, and Time magazine has a graphic cover depicting a woman named Aisha who was maimed by the Taliban, along with the tagline, "What Happens If We Leave Afghanistan." Just when everyone was beginning to ask, "What is going to happen if we stay much longer?"
While we won't be able to keep all labor-intensive manufacturing jobs in America, we're now seeing the first real evidence of what it takes for advanced manufacturing to stay and grow in America.
if I tell you that Moody's has downgraded Ireland's debt, it sounds pretty irrelevant. In fact, if you decode this story, you'll discover the reason why you are going to be more likely to lose your job or your home soon.
In perhaps the most extreme step yet, Republicans in Colorado are demanding the Environmental Protection Agency never regulate fracking, "no matter what a two-year EPA study of the process reveals."
One day after President Obama revealed that he had no idea who Snooki was, the cast member of Jersey Shore said that the lack of awareness was mutual.
As we approach the final confirmation vote for Elena Kagan, we must not forget that Americans throughout the country desperately need district and circuit level judges to dispense justice.
Today's cult of the warrior, as represented by these new "creeds," may seem cosmetic, but it cuts to the core of our military's self-image.
We now know that the NRA will be joining Beck and Palin for Beck's "Restoring Honor" rally at the Lincoln Memorial on the 47th Anniversary of Dr. King's "I Have a Dream" speech. Is it possible to imagine a greater offense to the legacy of Dr. King?
I am proposing recreation, or re-creation, as an essential, if undervalued, spiritual practice that can happen during vacation, but that can also take place within what we might describe as our "normal lives."
Why can't volunteer groups and NGOs in Haiti source t-shirts in the country and help stimulate the local economy?
For Americans living with a disability, the future of the services they depend on to live is tied to a host of tough budget choices and Byzantine requirements faced by policymakers in the state house as well as the White House.
The house that Wall Street built has fallen -- and great was its fall! The house that Big Oil built has fallen -- and great was its fall! We need to rediscover some of our old values on which we can build a solid foundation for the future.
Everyone who wants to be anti-gay and lesbian, you go ahead and do that, but we're taking away everything from your life that is gay or gay-friendly or gay-like or gay-inspired or bisexual.
I was on rotation, and a couple came in after a botched attempt at a home delivery. One by one, the baby's systems shut down. As instructed, I just kept adding stuff to keep him alive. Nothing was working. I was 26, depressed, and started to cry.
Human rights abuses in the name of immigration law enforcement were being inflicted upon mothers, children, and others in Arizona long before Arizona's SB 1070 was introduced. We need to uphold our founding values.
While Rice says her faith in God remains intact, her repudiation of Christianity is a clarion call, one that should not be written off as a publicity stunt by a bestselling author, or dismissed by the Evangelical establishment.
This thing's a dead loss. You got any pictures of Jennifer Aniston, but sort of busy and uninteresting, so people will know this is one of those in-between Anistons with like Woody Harrelson, that goes straight to video?
WikiLeaks is a declared combatant in information warfare: high-tech, good-government vigilantes. The group acts as the consummate outsider, a crucial role in the shadow elite era.
We all cherish our homes as the spaces in which we can relax and be ourselves. But what if your self is suddenly and irrevocably altered? Do you adjust to the house or the other way around?
The commentary is that the decision the Court handed Obama's Justice Department on the Arizona immigration law, will be bad for swing Democrats. But there are two reasons why that that kind of knee-jerk response is just wrong.
Dating at 40-something. I never thought I would be here, but after the demise of two long-term relationships over the past 20 years I now found myself struggling to make my way through the dating world, once again.
The banking industry mentality is deeply conservative -- not the kind that makes sure that loans are collateralized and deposits protected. Rather, it is a mentality produced by an out-of-date understanding of the world.
Forget about the alarmism over what Facebook is doing to old ideas of privacy, or to our free time, or to how we get bombarded by ads. What does it mean for the social connections that help us live long lives?
The steady erosion of American productivity may not just be unfortunate happenstance, but a premeditated effort to reap reward from failure. The culprit is, of course, the corporate mentality.
Although Western liberalism may retain considerable appeal, the Western way of war has run its course.
Unless Democrats take the discourse by the horns and fight, Republicans will balloon the deficit and undermine the economic recovery in order to give more handouts to the super rich. And the middle class will be an accomplice in its own homicide.
