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11.4 million people in the world are refugees with an additional 26 million internally displaced within their own country, according to a new United Nations statistic released today in preparation for June 20, World Refugee Day.
Add those numbers together and that’s more than the entire population of California lacking a home or access to basic [...]

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“It’s Barack Obama’s party now.”
So led the AP yesterday.  It’s been a challenge to sort through this mess.  Everyone tip-toeing around the slim prospect of Hillary somehow, someway stealing what Obama wrapped up mathematically at least a month ago.  Even though he has been reluctant to say anything definitive, his actions have spoken louder than [...]

Read The weekend roundup: the end is near »

Oooh, this week has been a fun one, hasn’t it?
Hillary stuck her foot in her mouth with a comment that seemed to imply she would stay in the race just in case someone offed Obama the same way they did RFK.  Contextually, she spoke about her husband securing the nomination in June, and then [...]

Read The weekend roundup: foot in mouth disease »

Meantime, the McCain campaign is not campaigning. The senator from Arizona wants to be clear that, on the fifth anniversary of the invasion of Iraq, he’s merely visiting the Middle East to take a lay of the land. It’s a good thing, too, because McCain has repeatedly confused Shia and Sunni Iraqis and Iranian militants [...]

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