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God, the Army, & PTSD: For Veteran's Day, Tara McKelvey on how the Bush-era VA pushed religion on soldiers as a substitute for medical treatment.

Sun, 15 Nov 2009 14:43:00 +0000

The massacre at Fort Hood highlights mental health issues in the military. McKelvey investigates the mistreatment of returning Iraq veterans and finds the key role religious ideology has played in the betrayal of an overwhelmingly Christian Army.

The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan found this 6 days ago on bostonreview.net

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Dear Mr. Holder

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 02:13:22 +0000

Holder speciously recast the arguments against a civilian trial for KSM in his testimony to Congress. This lawyer mom discusses the arguments against holding a civilian trial, none of which Holder could answer, and Holder's suggestion that Bush is to blame for the terrorists' trial delays.

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Why is Bush selling F-16s to Pakistan?

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:10:59 +0000

With his decision last week to sell F-16 fighter planes to Pakistan , President Bush returns to a dangerous game of self-deception that hasn't been seen at this level of risk since Richard Nixon was in the White House. The deal involves a mere couple of dozen F-16s, but it opens up three avenues ...

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AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truth: The political assassination of WH counsel Greg Craig

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 12:38:54 +0000

Steve Clemons weighs in about the White House whisper campaign that eventually did in White House counsel Greg Craig. Steve notes, as I have before, that it's odd that a White House which prided itself on running a political campaign with no leaks and no drama, now has so many leaks and such ...

The Atlantic Politics Channel found this 4 days ago on americablog.com

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Bowing to Mao

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 22:09:00 +0000

A reader sends over this video clip of President Richard M. Nixon's historic visit to China, which includes, at 1:24, a rather deep bow to Mao Zedong. David Sanger also recalls the flap over a George H. W. Bush bow in what really does seem, by historical standards, like a non-story, if a ...

alicublog found this 4 days ago on politico.com

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Bipartisan Logic

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 14:07:09 +0000

IN THE DEBATE over Iraq policy, too many Democrats, including members of Congress, have hidden behind easy statements of support for U.S. troops and loathing for Saddam Hussein without clarifying how they would have put their loathing into action. Too many Republicans, including some in the Bush ...

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Bush Emerging for Speech to Kick Off Public Policy Institute

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 09:19:36 +0000

DALLAS Nearly 10 months after leaving office, former President George W. Bush plans to emerge from self-imposed political hibernation on Thursday as he starts a new public policy institute to promote some of the domestic and international priorities of his presidency. In a speech at Southern ...

The Note found this 9 days ago on nytimes.com

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George W. Bush Chooses UVa. For Oral History Project

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 19:30:18 +0000

Former President George W. Bush has chosen he Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia to conduct a "comprehensive oral history of his presidency." The Miller Center and Bush's foundation announced the George W. Bush Oral History Project this morning, saying the ...

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Bush Pushes Volunteerism, but a Senate Seat Shares the Agenda

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 17:01:05 +0000

President Bush tiptoed into a Republican Senate primary here today, after conservatives warned that overt White House meddling could backfire. White House officials have made clear in private that their preferred candidate is the former Gov. Lamar Alexander, a two-time presidential contender, ...

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Bloodless President Barack Obama makes Americans wistful for George W Bush

Sun, 8 Nov 2009 04:59:00 +0000

Barack Obama standing in front of the American flag: Nobel Prize: Ten famous peace prize winners

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An Evangelical Trojan Horse in the Democratic Party?

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 18:52:03 +0000

A recent Daily Kos post asks this question : Does the Evangelical movement belong in the Democratic Party? Of course, many Evangelicals — probably most — can answer that question without a moment’s thought: absolutely not. The Republican Party is still the…

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Keene, Norquist and Barr Back Obama on Gitmo « The Washington Independent

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 17:34:28 +0000

David Keene of the American Conservative Union, Grover Norquist of Americans for Tax Reform, and former congressman/Libertarian presidential candidate Bob Barr are backing a proposal to send Guantanamo Bay detainees to a prison in Illinois, as well as President Obama’s plan to try terrorism ...

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The Dems' Smart Abortion Move

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 16:59:34 +0000

But had big-tentism been merely a strategy by Democratic leaders, it would have failed. Just as important was the emergence, in the Bush years, of a new liberal grassroots the netroots which is generally hostile to single issue litmus tests, especially on culture war issues. While prior ...

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CIA Led Way With Cash Handouts (washingtonpost.com)

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:32:15 +0000

"Bush at War" is based on notes taken during more than 50 National Security Council and other meetings. Many direct quotations of President Bush and the war cabinet members come from these notes. Other personal notes, memos, calendars, written internal chronologies, transcripts and other ...

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