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Republican Sen. Rand Paul's filibuster on Attorney General Eric Holder's refusal to rule out drone strikes against U.S. citizens, which ended early Thursday morning, was absent from the front page of Thursday's New York Times. The Times buried its coverage of Paul's striking "talking" filibuster, in which he held the floor for nearly 13 hours, ostensibly in opposition to Obama's choice of John Brennan for CIA director. Brennan was serving as a proxy for Paul's demand that Holder rule out drone strikes on American citizens or on U.S. soil. Paul's per...
Even among staunchly antiwar politicians and pundits, few bother to mention the cost of the war to civilians.
A small but determined and passionate band of local environmental enthusiasts has added a provincial organization and an internationally recognized society to their roster of supporters, signalling renewed hope they will be successful in protecting t
BENNINGTON — Tim Rieser will participate this Thursday, Sept. 28, at 7 p.m., in the Senator Patrick J. Leahy Public Policy Forum at Bennington College’s Elizabeth Coleman Center for the