Before he left for a five-day tour of South America, President Obama approved the deployment of U.S. air and Navy forces to create a no-fly zone over Libya.
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3/31/11
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Will the ongoing battles in Libya be the defining moment of President Obama’s foreign policy?
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3/23/11
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Political uprisings have turned the Middle East and northern Africa into a war zone. The worst violence is taking place in Libya, where, since 1969, Moammar Gadhafi and his family have terrorized the nation.
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3/10/11
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I believe it was the great Mark Twain who said, “No man’s life, liberty or property are safe while the legislature is in session.”
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3/3/11
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I know many of you are lost without your Sunday NFL fix. Well, for nostalgia, here’s a little football analogy. President Obama has managed to punt yet another serious issue to Congress.
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2/24/11
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After weeks of turmoil in his country, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak reluctantly resigned, thus ending his 30-year dictatorship.
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2/17/11
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On Feb. 1, Governor Cuomo delivered his first budget address. It was a no-holds-barred speech in which he admitted that years of dysfunction and mismanagement has driven our state into “functional bankruptcy.”
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2/11/11
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It’s not even February yet, but so far it looks like 2011 will finally be the year New York gets moving in the right direction.
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1/27/11
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Like many of you, I was shocked and heartbroken over the tragic shooting in Tucson that left six people dead, including U.S. District Judge John Roll and the inspirational 9-year-old, Christina Taylor Greene.
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1/21/11
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Long Islanders should be proud that as a result of the Republican victories in November, U.S. Rep. Peter King returned as chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee.
We should also sleep …
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1/17/11
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