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George Mitchell's job as Middle East Special Envoy has got to be terribly frustrating for a man whose life story has been one success after another.
But the Israel-Palestine conflict tends to be a career destroyer. Former Secretary of State Colin Powell was the most popular political figure ...
World
Barack Obama
Israel
George Mitchell's job as Middle East Special Envoy has got to be terribly frustrating for a man whose life story has been one success after another.
But the Israel-Palestine conflict tends to be a career destroyer. Former Secretary of State Colin Powell was the most popular political figure ...
World
Barack Obama
Israel
Last week I related a fable about War, Taxes and the City State of Florence , the point of which is that when you start taxing the rich for the wars, the wars happen less often. Carl Levin gets behind the idea today .
Carl Levin, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, said ...
Congress
Carl Levin
Rush Limbaugh
Glenn Beck
Afghanistan
Until recently, I have maintained an attitude of resolute optimism about the myriad challenges of today's world. "In trying times, politicians around the globe will surely summon their inner statesmen and women and commit themselves to the arduous search for solutions," I told myself. A more ...
World
Abe Foxman of the Anti Defamation League is a Sarah Palin fan. And why not. She is for more and more Israeli settlements although I am pretty sure she couldn't find Israel on a map.
But the Anti-Defamation League, American Jewish Committee, AIPAC and all the rest of the old guard have only ...
White House
Sarah Palin
Israel
A friend of mine who is the publisher of a very successful news site has a joke: In the future the Internet will consist entirely of Sarah Palin slide shows. Anyone who's ever had occasion to look at traffic statistics for a news website understands what he's saying. Few things draw in readers ...
White House
Sarah Palin
Chris Matthews
It's getting fun over at the Atlantic.
Andrew Sullivan has been getting better and better on the Israeli-Palestinian issue. After a decade or so of keeping quiet on the 42-year occupation (probably to avoid offending his Likud mentor, Martin Peretz), Sullivan is saying what he really thinks. ...
World
Andrew Sullivan
Gaza
Israel
First there was Medicare for all 300 million of us. But that was a non-starter because private insurers and Big Pharma wouldn't hear of it, and Republicans and "centrists" thought it was too much like what they have up in Canada -- which, by the way, cost Canadians only 10 percent of their GDP ...
Congress
Harry Reid
- Hundreds of Bilions of Dollars for State Public Plans in Bill
Here's the good news from the Senate bill: of the 31 million uninsured projected to gain coverage under the Senate plan by 2018, the Congressional Budget Office projects that two-thirds of them will gain coverage via some ...
Other
Medicaid
Sarah Palin did not write Going Rogue . And neither did her ghost writer, evangelical author Lynn Vincent. They may have put the words on the page, but they did not control the message of the book.
It's obvious to anyone who has been following Palin since before her VP pick that what she has ...
White House
Sarah Palin
How can the stock market hit new highs at the same time unemployment is hitting new highs? Simple. The market is up because corporate earnings are up. Corporate earnings are up because companies are cutting costs. And the biggest single cost they’re cutting is their payrolls. So they let ...
World
Representative Mel Watt (D-NC) is out to protect the independence of the Fed from the risk of an intrusive audit from the Government Accountability Office (GAO). The risk comes in the form of a bill initiated by Ron Paul and Alan Grayson that calls for an audit of the Fed. The bill, which now ...
White House
Iceland
Federal Reserve
Representative Mel Watt (D-NC) is out to protect the independence of the Fed from the risk of an intrusive audit from the Government Accountability Office (GAO). The risk comes in the form of a bill initiated by Ron Paul and Alan Grayson that calls for an audit of the Fed. The bill, which now ...
White House
Federal Reserve
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The neocons (Bill Kristol. Jeff Goldberg, Martin Peretz,
Daniel Pipes, Charles Krauthammer, etc) are arguing among themselves
about how much blame Islam deserves for the Fort Hood slaughter. In response, Americans for Peace Now produced a little ...
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Is Islam Uniquely Violent?
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Goldman Sachs is making yet another great contribution to society. It announced that it would contribute almost 4 percent of the money that it got from taxpayers in the AIG bailout ($500 million) to a new program to help small businesses recover from the recession. This is a nice gesture -- I ...
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TARP
Just yesterday US mediator, George Mitchell, told the Israelis that the United States opposed expanding the Gilo settlement in East Jerusalem. According to Israeli press reports, Mitchell said that moving ahead with settlement expansion now could kill the peace process.
So what did the ...
World
Israel
Barack Obama
Benjamin Netanyahu
On November 25, Dr. Orly Taitz, a persistent figure from the small universe of people who believe that President Barack Obama is not a native-born American, will be the featured speaker at a meeting of Barbara Coe's California Coalition for Immigration Reform. This event, planned for the ...
White House
On November 25, Dr. Orly Taitz, a persistent figure from the small universe of people who believe that President Barack Obama is not a native-born American, will be the featured speaker at a meeting of Barbara Coe's California Coalition for Immigration Reform. This event, planned for the ...
