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In a speech in Berlin today, President Obama called for another nuclear-arms reduction. This follows the 2010 New START treaty in which the U.S. and Russia agreed to cut strategic nuclear arms to 1,550 warheads by February 5, 2018. Obama’s...
Obama’s approval rating dropped 8 points to 45% with 51% disapproving of the job he is doing as president. Much of the losses come from Independents and people 18-34 being turned off by the recent scandals. Despite these events, the...
There has been significant debate in the American Medical Association on whether to classify obesity as a disease. At the core of the debate is a question of what is the definition of disease. Perhaps surprisingly, there is no consensus...
The Obama Administration has decided to arm the Syrian rebels amidst concern of Assad’s siege of Aleppo and U.S. confirmation that Assad used chemical weapons. Iranian backed Hezbollah fighters are flooding into Syria in support of Assad, who increasingly looks...
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) is filing lawsuits against both BMW and Dollar General over discriminatory hiring practices. In the BMW case, people were asked to reapply for jobs and were subjected to criminal background checks. After failing...
The most striking similarity between the U.S. and historical totalitarianism at present is the apparent willingness to blindly follow the leader. This is not to specify this current bout of following Obama. That is a manifestation of the greater tendency...
When Edward Snowden made the decision to leak classified information about the NSA’s global surveillance system, he took a step that few others would. He gave up a comfortable lifestyle making good money in order to do what he saw...
The Guardian published a leaked FISA court order that made Verizon give up phone information about all of their customers’ calls. The order said that Verizon must on an “ongoing, daily basis” give the NSA information on all telephone calls...
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