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They always could. The majority leader just didn't want to deal with floor votes. Getting 100 Senators to meet up for a vote requires availability for the date and time. Golf, lobbyist meetings, corporate largess dinners, trips outside of DC for "fact finding", news appearances, tailor fittings, br...

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Along-standing arrangement between the Department of Veterans Affairs and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to process claims for migrant medical care is drawing scrutiny from veterans' advocates — who are concerned that it could affect the agency’s mission of caring for veterans — amid an o...

There is freedom without order is possible but it only belongs to those with the power to assert it. But that is the same mechanism by which order is established. I've read and re-read those two sentences a dozen times. Is the second sentence a modifier of the first? The reason I ask is because the...

Irony: Gallup found he was the most admired man in America in 1972 and in 1973, the year he won the Nobel Prize with Le Duc Tho, North Vietnam’s chief negotiator, for the accord under which America pulled out of South Vietnam. (Tho declined the award.) https://apnews.com/article/kissinger-obit-a-lif...

A little history of the birth of neo-con-ism, post Nixon where the Viet Nam war had been in full swing. https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fd.newsweek.com%2Fen%2Ffull%2F1994632%2Fnixon-kissinger.jpg%3Fw%3D1200%26f%3Db4016ef63fc65da46b88bb8e3d2bc9cd&f=1&nofb=1&ipt=32fe64539d9d...

If You Liked the Peace and Stability of Henry Kissinger's Foreign Policy, Vote Hillary Clinton in 2016! Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan, and Libya are only the latest examples of problems America solved during Madam Secretary's tenure, building on the glorious successes of George W. Bush's team. Henry the...

The approximately 40-page document, which the Israeli authorities code-named “Jericho Wall,” outlined, point by point, exactly the kind of devastating invasion that led to the deaths of about 1,200 people. Israeli security officials have already acknowledged that they failed to protect the country, ...