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By Ben Tanosborn Online Journal Contributing Writer

In our historical readings of eastern and western civilizations, we have been exposed to the many sacks by invading armies against both lives and possessions of those living in great cities and enclaves that may have offered resistance, but most often did not, to the invading hordes. Rome was [...]

Yahoo! News: Obama Meets Jay-Z in YouTube Mashup Slamming Clinton & Debate 2008-04-18

On Thursday night, YouTuber Bill3948 uploaded a one-minute mash-up of Jay-Z songs, Clinton attacks and Obama’s inspired response. The sequence opens with clips of Clinton’s cheap shots, accompanied by the Jay-Z ballad “Moment of Clarity,” pivots to lowlights from the ABC debate, and [...]

Huffington Post

Byron Williams

The pervasive aroma of liberalism that permeates throughout the Bay Area obviously taints me, but I don’t understand the hoopla over Sen. Barack Obama’s now infamous “bitter” statements.

As it is with most sound bite driven controversies more attention has been given to the exact words void of their context or the requisite critical [...]

Salon

In honor of Charlton Heston, here are 10 lessons we should engrave on our foreign policy tablets as we prepare to leave Iraq.

By Gary Kamiya

April 15, 2008 | The Iraq war is over. The failure of Bush’s surge to produce political reconciliation in Iraq, combined with the unsustainable stress on our military and Congress’ unwillingness [...]

Truthdig

By Amy Goodman

Imagine, a candidate for president who, a year or so ago, no one would have considered electable. Now the person is the front-runner, with a groundswell of grass-roots support, threatening the sense of inevitability of the Establishment candidates. No, I’m not talking about the U.S. presidential race, but the race for president of [...]

Vanity Fair

by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. May 2008

Last November, Lord (David) Puttnam debated before Parliament an important bill to tackle global warming. Addressing industry and government warnings that we must proceed slowly to avoid economic ruin, Lord Puttnam recalled that precisely 200 years ago Parliament heard identical caveats during the debate over abolition of the slave [...]