Rep. Gutierrez shifts to Judiciary panel to help tackle immigration reform
With Obama prioritizing the issue, many immigration reformers are hopeful that 2013 will be the year it finally happens. Read more...
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Afghan War Effort a Key Obama Foreign Policy Issue
One of the major foreign policy issues facing President Barack Obama during his second term in office will be winding down the conflict in Afghanistan, America’s longest war. American military forces have been in that country for more than 11 years, longer than the Soviet presence in the 1980s [more than nine years]. There are roughly 68,000 U.S. troops in the country. The plan is to withdraw ...
Supreme Court verdict on Kudankulam this month
The Supreme Court reserved orders in 2012 on five important cases — the Kudankulam nuclear plant issue; gay sex, mercy petitions; the Mumbai blasts cases and freebies as poll promises. The judgmen...
A look forward: Immigration reform In 2013
This year we saw a great divide in the nation on the issue of immigration reform. Much of the concern surrounds the 11 million undocumented immigrants in this country — the majority of whom are from Mexico and Latin American countries, and about 10 percent from Asia.
The Fiscal Cliff's Greatest Threat Is to American Unity
The real issue in the frantic final flailing over the fiscal cliff isn’t whether Washington can balance its books. It’s whether blue America and red America are capable of, or even interested in, mediating their differences. The evidence is growing more discouraging.
Analysis: Career criminals new issue for lawmakers
The Mississippi Supreme Court has sent the Legislature a message: If you want burglary considered a violent crime to catch more career criminals, you'd better write it into the law.
Congress told to clear its stand on ‘T’ first
YSRC leaders accuse the Congress party of skirting the issue all these years, and said that all-party meeting should be convened only after the ruling party announced its stand
Issue Guide: The World in 2012
Transitions of power around the world ensured that 2012 was a seminal year for U.S. foreign policy.
Philly420: Obama continues to evade marijuana issue
President Obama last week said the federal government has “bigger fish to fry” than individual recreational marijuana consumers in Washington and Colorado. But his response, offered to Barbara Walters, was an artful dodge and underhanded spin.
Obama slow-walking the gun issue
WASHINGTON -- President Obama says we will change our approach to gun violence -- some other day.