Belen Fernandez doesn’t exactly come right out and say it, but she comes as close as one can while hedging her bets. In this Aljazeera post (”The Fort Hood shooting should be analysed within the larger context of US militarism”), she supposedly takes the “larger view,” but in effect blames U.S. militarism for the shooting:

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Let’s face it: The goal of the 2014 Winter Olympics was to stomp Vladimir Putin’s Russian Federation, but good.

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Remember Tonya Reaves, the woman who died in 2012 from a botched abortion in a downtown Chicago Planned Parenthood Clinic?

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American political thought and practice have become so muddled that we need to think of new ways to insult each other.

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The Centers for Disease Control has just issued some good news and bad news: Lung cancer rates are down but  gonorrhea and syphilis are on the rise, mostly in gay men.

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President Barack Obama is right; we need to get rid of tax loopholes. But which loopholes?

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A judge has ordered a Colorado baker to make wedding cakes for gay couples, despite the baker’s religious objection.

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JFK is America’s first neoconservative president because he embodied so much of what today’s neoconservatives espouse.

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EVERY CHILD HAS A RIGHT TO A MOTHER AND A FATHER

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Google “50th anniversary of John F. Kennedy assassination” and more than a half million hits show up.

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Haven’t we had enough whining from motorists who think they should be able to tear through city streets without getting nailed by speed cameras?

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Whatever President Barack Obama’s threat of U.S. military retaliation for the chemical weapons attack on Syrian citizens has accomplished, it reasserted America’s moral leadership.

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This defies all rational thinking. Never in our nation’s history has one administration demonstrated such animus to a preceding one. Yes, Thomas Jefferson, for example, took the national on an entirely different path than his predecessor, John Adams, but as far as I am aware, there was never an effort to prosecute anyone in the Adams administration or Adams himself (which is the logical extension of what Obama is suggesting).

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LONDON—President Barack Obama, attending the G-20 summit, today presented Queen Elizabeth with a $250 gift certificate to Target stores as an “expression of American solidarity” with Great Britain.

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KABUL, April 1 (Reuters) - Taliban insurgents reject a U.S. offer of “honourable reconciliation”, a top spokesman said on Wednesday, calling it a “lunatic idea” and saying the only way to end the war was to withdraw foreign troops.

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All too little attention has been paid to President Barack Obama’s shocking plan to force private insurance companies to pay for the treatment of military veterans who have suffered service-connected disabilities and injuries.

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If AIG had been left to fail–as it, GM and a raft of other “troubled” institutions should have been–there would have been no bonuses paid to its executives. Those receiving the bonuses would have had to line up for their money just like everyone else that was owed money–bondholders, suppliers, consultants and the rest. That’s why we have bankruptcy, but no, the politicians had to fiddle with it all, arrogant in their thinking that they could foresee all and run the business.

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Here is an informative article on a promising and at-hand alternative to using embryonic stem cells to advance the science. The use of stem cells from umbilical cords holds the promise of more than 70 diseases, yet lacks sufficient funding.

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The Government Accountability Office will closely watch how Illinois spends its stimulus money, according to reports.

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Asked if President Obama would accept Rush Limbaugh’s invitation for a head-to-head debate, press secretary Robert Gibbs said something about shutting off his television and not having a radio. Clever.

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Will President Barack Obama’s mistaken assertion in his address to Congress that America invented the automobile get the same kind and amount of ridicule as did the misspelling of potato(e)?

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The Obama administration has been deluging America with the propaganda that there’s not one second to lose. Even the slightest delay in passing the wasteful stimulus package will be, as they say, catastrophic.

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Well, doggone, did we elect a neoconservative president?

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Bill Ayers, the unrepentant terrorist, today was denied entry into Canada by that nation’s border officers in Toronto.

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One would hope that the Bush haters would take this opportunity to take a break, what with the impending inauguration of President-elect Barack Obama. But no, their anal obsession with getting the outgoing president to confess to his “mistakes,” again was ignited on Monday by his final press conference.

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Can you?

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Joe Biden said it himself that “Hillary Clinton is as qualified or more qualified than I am to be vice president of the United States of America.”

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Well, maybe Ebert can explain why wisdom automatically comes from being a world traveler. Which would make jet setters–the company that Ebert prefers–the wisest, smartest people in the world. There’s a logical falacy, a missing middle term as it might be called, in Ebert’s reasoning:

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Anna Quindlen is aghast in a Newsweek magazine opinion piece that the “right wing that trashed the women’s movement suddenly finds its inner feminist.”

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Or from the mainstream media

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Unhappy that Chicago’s WGN radio would ask writer Stanley Kurtz what he has found in documents linking Obama with one-time fugitive radical Bill Ayers, Obama’s henchmen organized a campaign to flood the station with angry calls.

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The Democratic National Convention’s sudden infatuation with all things military Wednesday night was beyond smarmy. As a veteran, I found it manipulative, insulting and cynical. For years, the Democrats held in contempt anything to do with the armed forces; now they pose as its greatest defenders.

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An item from they’ve-got-to-be-kidding department:

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Bob Meyer, a friend who is a loyal and long-time reader of the New York Times, left an angry message on my voice mail:

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