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Secret Recording Puts Afghan Election Fraud Back in Spotlight

(Nov. 11) -- It's fitting to note on Veterans Day that democracy is hard to come by. One needs only to look at Afghanistan for an example of just how difficult it can be to nurture a fledgling democratic government. In September, Afghans went to the polls and voted for their parliamentary representatives as death threats...

Afghan Election Ballots Disqualified Due to Fraud

(Oct. 18) -- Afghanistan's fragile democracy suffered another setback today, when a government official announced that votes cast in some 10 percent of polling centers during last month's parliamentary election have been disqualified due to suspicions of fraud. Voters, candidates and election observers have alleged...

Afghanistan's 2010 Parliamentary Elections: Baby Steps or Backward Steps?

(Sept. 20) -- Afghanistan's parliamentary elections are over and the verdicts are in: The voting was both a tremendous success (just ask the government) and something of an abject failure (just ask the media). As we all know by now, the elections didn't run at Swiss efficiency levels, but how bad is bad, really, when...

'Serious Concern' Over Fraud at Afghan Elections

KABUL, Afghanistan (Sept. 19) -- The main Afghan election observer group said it had serious concerns about the legitimacy of this weekend's parliamentary vote because of reported fraud, even as President Hamid Karzai commended the balloting as a solid success. The conflicting statements underscored the difficulty of...

Afghans Vote Amid Threats, Rocket Attacks

(Sept. 18) – Turbaned Afghan men and women in sky-blue burqas thronged to polling places across Afghanistan today to cast ballots for parliament, in elections delayed by bureaucracy and marred by Taliban rockets and bombings. The polls have now closed but turnout figures and results won't be available for weeks....

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Obama signs Ex-Im Bank bill into law

WASHINGTON -President Barack Obama honored the nation's military heroes in a pair of Memorial Day ceremonies, vowing to protect the benefits earned by veterans and their families in an election year marked by the nation's transition from war.

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Female Afghan Mayor Fights Crime With A Fake Moustache

Zarifa Qazizadah was married at 10, had her first child at 15, and lived for many years in a remote village of Afghanistan, as little more than a servant to her husband's family.

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Obama Leading Mitt Romney Among Veterans, 32 Percent Think Iraq War Ended Successfully: Poll

Mack McDowell likes to spend time at the local knife and gun show "drooling over firearms," as he puts it.

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MJ Rosenberg: Iran Plot: Here We Go Again

A few weeks after the 9/11 attacks, I attended a big holiday dinner with family and friends.

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Hassan Arif: Tea Party Ideology Trumps Facts

It also appeared that the hegemony of conservative Republicans was over, their ideology discredited by the disasters of the Bush-Cheney presidency; a presidency that ran up America's deficit, after inheriting a surplus, through reckless tax cuts and foreign entanglements in Iraq and Afghanistan.