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Right-wing media figures are trying to change the focus from Mitt Romney’s deceptive debate comments on the size of the U.S. Navy by distorting President Obama’s statements on the changing nature of the military.  During the October 22 presidential debate , Mitt Romney once again invoked the misguided talking point that under Obama, “our Navy is smaller now than any time since 1917.” In response, Obama quipped that “we also have fewer horses and bayonets because the nature of our military’s changed.” Right-wing media figures are responding to this self-evidently true statement by pretending that Obama said that the military no longer uses any bayonets or horses at all. Immediately following the debate, Fox News anchor Chris Wallace highlighted that a Marine “tweeted Fox News and said the Marines still use bayonets. So it may not be clear who doesn’t understand what the military currently uses.”  Conservative blogger Michelle Malkin  complained  that “Mr.

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Our guest blogger is Alice Thomas, Climate Displacement Program Manager at Refugees International . A resident of drought-stricken Mauritania (Photo: Pablo Tosco/AFP/Getty Images) Poverty and malnutrition are chronic in the countries of the Sahel , a region in northern Africa stretching from the Atlantic Ocean to the Red Sea, and the surrounding area is hardly a paragon of political stability. This year, however, a confluence of man-made and natural disasters has sent the region into a tailspin

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Though many Americans have become worried about the trajectory of Libyan politics after the killing of U.S.

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– The Pentagon announced that the last of the 33,000 “surge” troops President Obama ordered to Afghanistan in December 2009 are now out of the country . There are now 68,000 U.S

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ABC News Reporter Brian Ross On ABC’s This Week, ABC News reporter Brian Ross responded to a question from host Jake Tapper about when Iran might be capable of producing a nuclear weapon by claiming that if Iran decides to pursue them, they could acquire a nuclear weapon in as little as four weeks. Ross was met with incredulity by the rest of the This Week panel, including foreign correspondent Christiane Amanpour: TAPPER: Brian, very quickly, what are your sources telling you about how far the Iranians are when it comes to building a nuclear device

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The University of Colorado banned all firearms from its campus in 1994. Last March, however, the state Supreme Court overturned that policy , saying it violated the Colorado law that allows gun-owners with the proper permits to carry concealed weapons in all areas of the state. The university’s compromise creates separate off-campus housing for students with concealed carry permits (CCPs) who insist upon living with their guns, and does not allow them to carry their weapons on any other university property: The university said Thursday that both campuses will establish a residential area for students over the age of 21 with a permit

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Touching political erogenous zones since, well, never. Eww. Friday, August 3, 2012

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by Darryl Lorenzo Wellington, August 3, 2012 This Aug. 6th, let us remember the victims of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and let us finally get out from under the nuclear shadow. read more

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In his most extensive comments on gun control since the tragic Aurora theater shooting, President Obama called for tighter gun control measures in a speech at the Urban League in New Orleans on Wednesday night.

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Advocates for gun rights have spent nearly 25 times more in Washington than gun control supporters since 2009, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. Led by the National Rifle Association, one of the most well known and powerful lobbying forces in politics , gun rights organizations spent $17.4 million on lobbying Congress and the Department of the Interior — about $5 million per year.

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