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My personal perspective on the conflict in Syria is at least in part also a reflection of the views of my fiancée Kinda, who is a native of that country. Having said that, my opinions on the turmoil in the Levant, as well as the choices President Obama

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Throughout the first foreign trip of his second term in office, President Obama once again showed that he has learned from some of the mistakes he made during his first four years.

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Just because the sequestration dance I discussed last time is now in full swing, it doesn’t mean Congressional Republicans are through developing new dance steps.

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On 12 February President Obama delivered his State of the Union Address to a joint session of the US Congress.

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Last time I discussed the changes I’d noticed in President Obama’s leadership style and how pleasantly surprised I was that he used his 2013 inauguration speech to put climate change at the top of his second-term agenda.

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OVER THE LAST month, many US states have continued to tally absentee and provisional ballots to determine the final vote count for all candidates in last month’s general election.

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With the US general election only two months away, it’s time for me to turn my attention to the Presidential race, as well as Mitt Romney’s selection of Paul Ryan as his running mate. But before I do, I want to offer some opinions about Egyptian

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In my previous discussion of presumptive Republican Presidential nominee Mitt Romney, I noted that what disturbed me about him wasn’t that he once persecuted and belittled male peers he suspected were gay, but rather his seeming inability to admit that

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Even though Ron Paul and Newt Gingrich are still officially in the race for the Republican Presidential nomination, Rick Santorum’s 10 April decision to ‘suspend’ his campaign has now cleared the way for Mitt Romney to become the Republican

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If someone had told me this time last year that Rick Santorum would be in a two-man race with Mitt Romney for the Republican Presidential nomination, I would have figured it to be an April Fool’s joke. Well the joke is on me, because the Republican contest

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The political campaign drums continue to beat loudly here in the States despite Mitt Romney winning the majority of the 10 ‘Super Tuesday’ primaries on 6 March, as he failed to deliver a knockout blow to any of his three remaining opponents.

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Since there will be a lull in voting until 6 March’s Super Tuesday primaries, I’m going to suspend my analysis of the Republican presidential campaign a little bit, and instead will discuss the increasingly violent situation in Syria – and

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Now that the results of the Florida primary and the Nevada caucuses have been tallied, it’s time to discuss why I think the pre-election favourite Mitt Romney is still in trouble, and the reasons why both Rick Santorum and Ron Paul are likely to remain

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