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For the second straight year, The O’Reilly Factor has devoted more than three times as much airtime to the manufactured “War on Christmas”  than to actual military conflicts. O’Reilly Factor Spent Much More Time On The Phony “War On Christmas” Than Actual Wars O’Reilly Again Covered The “War On Christmas” More Than Three Times As Much As Actual Conflicts In Iraq, Afghanistan , Syria, Libya, And Gaza.  From December 1 through 18,  The O’Reilly Factor  spent more than 55 minutes on the “War on Christmas” but only about 17 minutes covering military conflicts in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Libya, and Gaza.

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A coalition of states led by the Russian Federation has backed away from a proposal for the United Nations to have more direct regulation over the Internet.

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(Photo: AP) Progressive foreign policy group the Truman National Security Project today released a new ad that features several 9/11-era veterans questioning whether Mitt Romney is qualified to be commander-in-chief. The one minute video first highlights Romney’s various foreign policy fumbles throughout the campaign, including his confusing Afghanistan policy, his failure to mention the war there and commemorate U.S.

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The U.N. reported this month that more than 100,000 Syrians fled their country in August due to the increasing violence in the civil war there

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Ali Akbar Salehi (photo: Getty images) Iran’s Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi has an op-ed in today’s Washington Post in which he declares the Iranian regime on the side of freedom and reform in the Middle East, and ready to help .

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Writing at Politico, Maggie Haberman and Emily Schultheis pick up on the relative silence of Mitt Romney and much of the Republican Party’s national leadership over Democrats’ embrace of gay marriage. This doesn’t mean, they are quick to point out, that the language of the GOP’s platform will be any different than usual – just that Romney has little interest in playing up his gay marriage opposition on the campaign trail.

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Riad Hijab defected to Jordan on Monday, only two months after taking over as Prime Minister , an aide said (Photo: Reuters – Khaled al-Hariri). Published Monday, August 6, 2012. Syrian Prime Minister Riad Hijab defected to Jordan on …

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I’ve spent very little time in London during the last fifteen years or so. Yes, we’ve grown apart. I’ve passed through a couple of times or more, on my way to or from the airport, but I’ve been out-and-about elsewhere in the world, and I’ve become accustomed to warmer climes

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by Taki Theodoracopulos Thucydides carefully structured his Peloponnesian War history as a cautionary tale about the moral decay that accompanies abuses of imperial power.

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