Darci Tucker: Responsibilities of Citizenship

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As the illegal immigration issues swirls in the media, I have recently heard debate over whether or not American schools should provide education for the children of illegal immigrants. I find this astonishing. Education is the key to their futures and ours.

Joe Stork: Art of the State

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“Liberty is the price we have to pay for freedom,” quipped T-Bone Burnett as he started his Tuesday night [May 29] in-your-neocon-face show at DC’s 9:30 Club.

Thomas Kleine-Brockhoff: Downplaying Iran’s Oil Leverage

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So, we shouldn’t worry too much when Iran threatens to suspends oil exports in case of economic sanctions, suggests Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. She says: “I think something like 80 percent of Iran’s budget comes from oil revenue, and so obviously it would be a very serious problem for Iran if oil were disrupted.

Mohammad Mohamedou: “Ethical Training” — What about Moral Leadership?

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New revelations about massacres of civilians in Iraq are certainly not needed to confirm the abysmal failure of the “adventure in Iraq”, which is a euphemistic way of putting it since this whole thing is no less than a full-fledged colonial enterprise — indeed replaying the 1920s British one — that has set back the…

Steven Clemons: Applause for the Inconvenient Gore

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Al Gore in 2000 was inconvenient, but it turns out he would have been the right man at the right time in November 2000. I seriously underestimated him at that time; or perhaps he is a dramatically new and different Al Gore today — finally punching above his weight.

Brent Budowsky: Election 2006: For Whom The Bell Tolls

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Think about it: George W. Bush has created such enormous and intense antagonism among 48% of the Nation that they are unanimously opposed to him and counting the days until they come out in gigantic numbers to end one party government in America.

Thomas Kleine-Brockhoff: Diplomatic Spin

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Bizarre reading of the Vienna agreement about Iran’s atomic program in the Washington Post this morning. In a news analysis Glenn Kessler writes: For years, the Bush administration has warned of the Iranian threat, but its concerns were belittled or ignored as yet another example of American hyperbole.

Gary Hart: Out of Iraq…by 2055

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For many months, at least since President George W. Bush announced that we would “stand down” in Iraq as quickly as the Iraqis “stand up”, it has been a puzzle as to why we were building permanent military bases in Iraq if “standing down” meant, as most Americans assumed, getting out–withdrawing our troops.