It didn’t take much. Just the power of the presidency, the State of the Union, and the whole country watching. Plus the president’s will. And AIPAC’s entire campaign to destroy America’s chance to reach an agreement with Iran crumbled. Within hours, three senators announced they were no longer co-sponsoring AIPAC’s bill to kill the […]

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There can be little doubt that Hillary Clinton lost the 2008 nomination for president because she voted to authorize the Iraq War. If she had opposed it, there would have been no rationale for the Obama candidacy. It is likely that she, not President Obama, would now be in the White House. It seems crazy. […]

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  Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel was full of tough talk when he visited the island kingdom of Bahrain in early December. The United States, he vowed, will continue to guard “the free flow of energy and commerce” from the Persian Gulf and keep Iran nuclear-free, through the presence of 35,000 U.S. military personnel or […]

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I had a good laugh when I saw The New York Times story last week with the headline: “Members of Jewish Student Group Test Permissible Discussion On Israel.” The piece told of the decision by the Hillel Jewish student society at Swarthmore College to break with the national organization over its ban on discussions of […]

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(Source: NPR) The Artibonite River is the most important river in the island of La Hispaniola. Its sources are in the Dominican Republic, but the majority of its course is to be found in Haiti until its waters meet the Caribbean Sea at the Gulf of Gonâve. The river constitutes a lifeline for hundreds of […]

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