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Burlington resident to present anti-drone resolution to city council
The Hawk Eye, Burlington, IowaPlainly put, Frank Statler doesn't want the roving mechanical eyes of airborne killer-robots watching his every move from the sky. Worried about the potential abuse of drones as a means to spy and lethally act against American citizens, the Burlington...Tags: Charlottesville (Charlottesville, Virginia), Civil Rights, Human Rights, Federal Aviation Administration, Labor Legislation
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Dems, GOP press Obama administration on drone use
WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Democrats and Republicans on Tuesday challenged the Obama administration to spell out its justification for using drones for targeted killings amid growing concerns about unchecked powers of the presidency and Americans'...
Tags: Al-Qaeda, Pakistan, Yemen, Ted Cruz, John O. Brennan
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McManus: Boston -- clash of the talking points
A terrorist attack is like a national Rorschach test. Everybody sees in it what they want — usually something that proves a point they've been making all along. Even before the Tsarnaev brothers were identified as the perpetrators of the Boston...Tags: Migration, Islam, Boston Marathon Bombing (2013), George W. Bush, Illegal Immigrants
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Will Obama launch a drone attack on U.S. soil?
Who would have thought that within President Barack Obama beats the heart of a civil rights antediluvian? Could Obama, beloved of the American Civil Liberties Union, be guilty of harboring thoughts of calling down a fatal drone attack on an American...
Tags: Civil Rights, Human Rights, Interior Policy, Anwar al-Awlaki, White House
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Can GOP reverse the damage done by Iraq?
Jonah GoldbergIs the Iraq war to blame for the mess we are in? Now, I should qualify that question by explaining "mess" and "we." By "mess," I mean the dawn of Barack Obama's second term, the predictably catastrophic rollout of Obamacare, the exploding debt and...Tags: John Kerry, Elections, Armed Conflicts, Joe Biden, Iraq
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Supremes waffle on marriage equality
Over the last 40 years, I've been involved in a lot of political battles for a lot of different causes: workers' rights, women's rights, gay rights, environmental protection, anti-war, anti-nuclear power, anti-urban sprawl, animal rights, gun control,...
Tags: Interior Policy, Gays and Lesbians, Anglicanism, Gun Control, Jon Tester
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Obama must codify the drone war
— In choice of both topic and foil, Rand Paul's now legendary Senate filibuster was a stroke of political genius. The topic was, ostensibly, very narrow: Does the president have the constitutional authority to put a drone-launched Hellfire missile...
Tags: Al-Qaeda, Lawyers, Anwar al-Awlaki, The Washington Post, Justice System
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Rand Paul's stunt misses the point
If you took Sen. Rand Paul duck hunting, he'd probably shoot the decoy. That's the impression the first-term Kentucky Republican gave when he took the floor of the U.S. Senate on Wednesday for a 13-hour rambling real-life imitation of Jimmy Stewart's...
Tags: Armed Forces, U.S. Department of Defense, Ted Cruz, James Stewart, U.S. Congress
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Targeting drones
A famous book on negotiation is called "Getting to Yes." Sometimes, though, the better achievement is arriving at "no." That's what Eric Holder and Rand Paul did the other day. It came in a letter from the attorney general to the Republican senator from...
Tags: Al-Qaeda, Anwar al-Awlaki, Pakistan, Justice System, Yemen
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Stand with Rand?
On March 7, after nearly 13 hours, Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) ended his historic filibuster against the nomination of John Brennan as CIA director. The filibuster didn't stop there though, Paul also went on to criticize President Obama's and Attorney...Tags: Ted Cruz, Republican Party, Rick Santorum, John McCain, Barack Obama
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For GOP substance, deregulate
WASHINGTON -- Because of the grotesquely swollen place the presidency now occupies in the nation's governance and consciousness, we are never not preoccupied with presidential campaigning. The Constitution's Framers would be appalled. The nation reveres...
Tags: Elections, Parties and Movements, U.S. Electoral College, Lyndon B. Johnson, Republican Party
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Republicans Should Change The Way They Pick Candidates
The Hartford CourantBecause of the grotesquely swollen place the presidency now occupies in the nation's governance and consciousness, we are never not preoccupied with presidential campaigning. The Constitution's Framers would be appalled. The nation reveres the Framers,...Tags: Elections, Parties and Movements, U.S. Electoral College, Republican Party, Political Fundraising
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