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The Invisibility Factor
The girl was snatched before their eyes—why didn’t the police respond to the women’s calls? It all happened so fast. One minute the young girl in the pale pink track suit, eyes cast down as […]
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President Obama: “I have come here to bury the last remnant of the Cold War in the Americas.”
President Obama today, addressing the Cuban people at Gran Teatro de la Habana, Havana, Cuba: President Barack Obama: Like so many people in both of our countries, my lifetime has spanned a time of isolation […]
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Springing into Spring … No Kidding!
Today at 04:30 UTC, the Spring Equinox occurred. An equinox occurs twice a year (around 20 March and 22 September), when the tilt of the Earth’s axis is inclined neither away from nor towards the […]
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Flint Hearings: Rep. Elijah Cummings rips into Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder
There were fireworks today at the Flint Hearings. Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder finally showed up. There were calls from Democrats on the committee for him to resign, as Republicans attempted to shield him, and deflect […]
Election 2016
Voter registration – there’s an app for that
I’m in Austin, where South By Southwest is happening. I normally have the Austinite reaction to our version of March Madness — stay far away & ignore everything. But this morning, there was an interview […]
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International Women’s Day: “Women’s Rights are Human Rights”
In 1995, then First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton spoke at the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing China. Today, as we celebrate International Women’s Day, it is a good time to reflect […]
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Weekly Address: President Obama – The American Spirit of Innovation
The President’s Weekly Address post is also an Open News Thread. Feel free to share other news stories in the comments. From the White House – Weekly Address In this week’s address, the President discussed […]
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When the support staff quits, you have to hire…
The law office of Reed, Wright, Pray & Singh was in a quandary: not from lack of business, which was in fact burgeoning, but from lack of help. The simple fact was that the […]
Election 2016
Hillary Clinton: “Hold every candidate accountable”
On Wednesday, former Secretary of State and current Democratic Party presidential candidate, Hillary Clinton, spoke at the Schomburg Center in Harlem. It was not an ordinary stump speech – because this was no ordinary venue […]
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President Obama: “There’s this yawning gap between the magnitude of our challenges and the smallness of our politics.”
From Springfield Illinois, live at 1:00pm 2/10/2016: President Obama: The point I’m trying to make is I care about fixing our politics not only because I’m the President today, or because some of my initiatives […]