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- The Maryland man who fought alongside the Libyan resistance criticizes President Barack Obama's policy in Syria as weak and emboldening to our enemies.
- Before rushing into military action in Syria, President Barack Obama needs to ask whether he's repeating the mistakes of our wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
- Seventy years ago, Pasadena resident William Tiernan was an 18-year-old sailor in the British Merchant Navy, participating in one of World War II's most dangerous assignments, the Russian Arctic Convoy.
- A New Jersey judge heard arguments Thursday over whether the state should be required to legalize same-sex marriage in the wake of the Supreme Court's decision on the Defense of Marriage Act.
- Russian pole vault champion Yelena Isinbayeva came out in favor of Russia's anti-gay laws and criticized athletes for supporting LGBT rights in Russia.
- Putin's anti-gay, pro-Snowden bullying deserve Olympic-size response
- President Barack Obama's decision to cancel his summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin was an embarrassment.
- Military members in same-sex relationships could get special leave to travel to states where they can be legally wed, the AP reports.
- A high-level U.S.-Russian meeting just for the sake of meeting would serve no purpose
- In a broad-ranging interview on "The Tonight Show With Jay Leno" on Tuesday night, President Barack Obama addressed Russia's recently passed anti-gay laws by saying he has "no patience for countries that try to treat gays or lesbians or transgender persons in ways that intimidate them or are harmful to them."
- There are good reasons to boycott the Winter Olympics in Russia
- NSA leaker Edward Snowden's flight to Russia belies the government's bland assurances that the agency knows everything its employees are doing
- Contrary to what The Sun says, Kiev is not in Russia
- By fleeing to Russia, NSA leaker Edward Snowden has forfeited any claim to the moral high ground of principled civil disobedience
- Tuesday of this week was the 63rd anniversary of a key event in U.S. history, though it happened half a world away on a peninsula that's attached to the northern Chinese region of Manchuria.
- The Putin regime surely can't believe its luck in the arrival of the unwitting American whistleblower/defector Edward Snowden.
- Friends School senior (now graduate) Alex Brooks' command of Russian language and culture earns him a free trip to St. Petersburg, Russia in 2014.
- Former WJZ reporter/anchor Adam May will have a prime-time role on Al Jazeera America, the channel announced Monday.
- From Syria to China, U.S. foreign policy is currently a disaster
- Joseph S. Eubanks, a noted bass-baritone and Morgan State University music professor who was a member of the first American company of "Porgy and Bess" to tour the world, died May 16.
- Democrats and the media love to claim Republicans have changed too much and not enough.
- Absent peace talks, the EU's arming of Syrian rebels is apt to make a bad situation even worse