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If Immigration Reform Stalls, Federal Courts Could Have A Say
Democrats might tweak immigration reform to make Republican opposition inevitable, and hit them in 2014 for being obstructionist. This could hurt Dreamers by giving courts enough time to void Obama’s executive order.
Mississippi Finally Ratifies the Amendment to Ban Slavery — 148 Years Later
And believe it or not, it’s all thanks to the movie ‘Lincoln.’
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Japan Looks to Protect Its Own Overseas
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Thin Ice on Blood and Treasure
A couple of members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said at one of last week’s hearings into the impact of sequestration’s looming budget cuts that more U.S. troops – and even civilians – will die if those cuts occur.
It’s a …
“I would.”
— Former defense secretary and vice president Dick Cheney on whether he would vote against Chuck Hagel's nomination to serve as defense secretary, in a conversation with Charlie Rose.
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Medal of Dishonor?
So there has been a fair amount of blowback from U.S. troops and veterans on the Pentagon‘s announcement last week of the Distinguished Warfare Medal, created to recognize the battlefield contributions of troops who don’t risk …
Flashback
Vietnam, 1969? Nope. Thailand, last week, during the Cobra Gold exercise.
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Going Rate for Pentagon Physicists: $200 an Hour
Friday’s Pentagon contract announcement of “a five-year, sole source, cost-plus-fixed-fee, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity, task order contract” to the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Md., …
Jesse Jackson Jr. Faces Federal Fraud and Conspiracy Charges
The Justice Department Friday charged former Illinois Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr. with using $750,000 in campaign money to buy personal items, including furs, furniture and a Rolex watch. The son of a civil rights leader with a …
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Steuart Pittman, Fallen Father of the Fallout Shelter
Steuart L. Pittman, the man who tried to woo Americans into fallout shelters a half-century ago to protect them from nuclear fallout, has died.
Pittman served as the chief of President John Kennedy’s civil defense program. …
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Ash Carter: Deputy Defense Secretary…and Troublemaker
Things were going swimmingly at a Senate Appropriations Committee hearing Thursday looking into the impact sequestration’s budget cuts would have on the government. Then Deputy Defense Secretary Ashton Carter said the …
Maureen O’Connor: Former San Diego Mayor Bet More Than $1 Billion as a Result of Gambling Addiction
The former politician promised a federal judge she would pay back the $2 million she’d taken from her husband’s charity in order to stay out of jail.