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A short while back I reported on how the Tunisian regime of Ben Ali was ecstatic that the Obama administration may transfer Gitmo detainees to the country.
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The Ben Ali government has informed the Obama administration that it will do its part for the international community and take in all Tunisian nationals at the...
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Now, here is some of that all-America, Apple Pie, Christian “values”:
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FILE - In this Feb. 23, 2009 file photo, MSNBC talk show host Keith Olbermann attends the “Defying Inequality” Broadway concert, a celebrity benefit for equal rights, in New York.
