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How Arizona defeated the hatemongers
December 8, 2006Arizona made history Nov. 7 when its voters became the first in the nation to reject a constitutional ban on same-sex marriage. Why Arizona? How come voters in more liberal states have voted for similar hateful...
Read moreBush might flunk the new citizenship test
December 8, 2006With a flourish, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services revealed its new test for naturalization last week. If it is implemented nationally in 2008 as planned, it will raise the bar a little higher for immigrants...
Read moreLETTERS
December 8, 2006Smile Here is a photo I found on a blog. It is part of the “I’ve been fired and this is my last day on the job” strategies. Mary Lyons Naperville IL Getting out of disaster...
Read moreEDITORIAL: Good riddance, John Bolton
December 8, 2006John Bolton delivered the Bush administration’s bellicose, arrogant war-first policy to the UN, and U.S. voters took him out. For a year Democrats and even some Republicans on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee blocked confirmation of...
Read moreEDITORIAL: Human Rights Day
December 8, 2006Many urgent opportunities for action vie for attention on the eve of International Human Rights Day, Dec. 10. Besides speedily ending the Iraq war, two areas where the new Congress can make major progress are passage...
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