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Funding for out national defense has, historically, always been contentious.

Not a day goes by that I don’t thank my lucky stars that I can think, read, write and converse in two different languages.

The next time you’re in line at the grocery store, listen to what people say when the cashier asks them how they’re doing.

For all their bluster about making Barack Obama a one-term president, Republicans are assembling what looks like a remarkably weak field of candidates for the 2012 election — an odd assortment of the uninspiring and the unelectable.

The magnificent turmoil now gripping statehouses in Wisconsin, Ohio, Indiana and soon others marks an epic political moment.

President Barack Obama pledged that “the entire world is watching” the horror in Libya, but watching isn’t nearly enough. There is much more that world leaders — beginning with Obama — urgently must say and do.