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Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-Hawaii) on Thursday defended her decision to vote “present” during the House’s impeachment vote, saying she does not believe “in good consciences” she could vote “either yes or no.” “First of all, throughout my life – whether it was through serving in the military and in the different decisions I’ve made in Congress, I always think about what’s in the best interest of the country. People will agree sometimes with those decisions, may disagree with those decisions, but my motivation is always coming from a deep love of country,” she said in an interview with The Hill...

American news media have suffered in recent years. Thanks to the Internet and talk radio, millions of Americans have ceased relying on The New York Times and CNN for their written and televised news. But it is difficult to recall a greater blow to the credibility of American news media than their near-universal refusal to publish the Mohammed cartoons originally published in a Danish newspaper that have brought about worldwide Muslim protests. This loss of credibility owes to two factors: dishonesty and cowardice. Everyone and his mother knows why the networks and the print journals haven't shown the cartoons --...

How do you start an article on the subject that is so surreal that it has to be unbelievable? Government-sanctioned murder of an innocent woman has just completed its course. What are we going to do? Tyranny by our judicial system has just executed what I never thought could happen in the United States of America. A woman, who was brain-damaged, not dying, was murdered. It’s true our country has completed its journey into the “Orwellian” state. Help me understand this; we have a president who can enact war upon another country without congressional blessing, but President Bush couldn’t intervene...