Photo Credit: BKL This was Obama’s “I did it my way” State of the Union. He had no choice but to go it alone. Not only was Barack Obama the first African-American president, he was the first modern president to face near universal and near unanimous partisan opposition to all his major legislative initiatives. He was […]

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  Photo Credit: U.S. Army photo by Spc. Tyler Kingsbury/Released When I went to work for Colin Powell in 1989 he was re-entering his Army career as a newly minted full general. He had just left Ronald Reagan’s White House after two years there, including time as national security advisor. He had plenty of stories and […]

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  Illustration by Edel Rodriguez “You say man evolved from an ape . . . but if we evolved from an ape, why is an ape still an ape and a person still a person?” It’s a question often asked by religious critics of the theory of evolution. To answer it Brown University Professor Kenneth […]

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  Photo Credit: MediaPhoto.org Every January, Social Security recipients are used to opening up their checks and finding at least a small cost-of-living increase in their benefits. But this month, for only the third time in 40 years, they won’t be seeing an extra penny. Meanwhile, CEOs of top U.S. corporations are amassing nest eggs […]

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Photo Credit: Gage Skidmore On Saturday, January 2, a group of armed anti-government protesters seized a building at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in Burns, Oregon, aggrieved by the federal government’s treatment of ranchers Dwight and Steven Hammond. The father-and-son duo were convicted of arson in 2012 after admitting that two fires they lit in […]

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