iri.org - 10/29/2008
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U.S. Senator John McCain, Chairman Ranking Member, Senate Committee on Armed Services Peter T. Madigan, Vice Chairman Principal, Johnson, Madigan and Peck Former Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Legislative Affairs, U.S. Department of State J. William Middendorf, II, Secretary - ...
taxfoundation.org - 10/30/2008
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taxfoundation.org —
October 29, 2008 News To Obama: The OECD
Says The United States Has The Most Progressive Tax
System by Scott A. Hodge Barack Obama's admission that his policies would "spread the wealth around" has ignited a nationwide discussion of how progressive ...
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News To Obama: The OECD Says The United States Has The ...
abcnews.go.com - 10/30/2008
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abcnews.go.com —
Multiple senior government officials tell ABC News the
intelligence community is anticipating a message from Osama bin
Laden before or just after the presidential election. As we race toward Election Day , sources say a number of intelligence ...
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Exclusive: U.S. Expects Bin Laden Message Near Election
longwarjournal.org - 10/31/2008
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longwarjournal.org —
The US has struck again inside Pakistan's lawless
tribal areas. The latest airstrike targeted a key al
Qaeda facilitator who served as a bridge between the Taliban and al Qaeda. The US is also stating that al Qaeda operative Khalid Habib was killed ...
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US strikes kills al Qaeda operatives in North & South ...
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The Khalidi Gambit: McCain Attacks Obama for Connection to Palestinian Activist Whose Work McCain Helped Fund
Political Punch —
... condition that we not release it," Russ Stanton, editor of the LA Times, has said. "The Times keeps its promises to sources." McCain today said, “The Los Angeles Times refuses to make that videotape public...I’m not in the business of talking about media bias…but what if there was a tape of John McCain with a neo-Nazi outfit...I think the treatment of the issue would be slightly different.” But McCain has his own connection to Khalidi. In 1993, McCain became chairman of the International Republican Institute . He still chairs that respected organization. That same ...
John McCain’s Ties to Rashid Khalidi
PoliGazette —
... away party before Khalidi left to become a professor at Colombia University, has been reported here at Poligazette.
However, Republican presidential candidate has his own connection to the pro-Palestinian Khalidi. Namely: McCain is the chair of an institution that gave money to an organization set up by Khalidi.
ABC’s Jake Tapper reported the story on October 29th:
In 1993, McCain became chairman of the International Republican Institute. He still chairs that respected organization.
That ...
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US hits Taliban safe house In North Waziristan
longwarjournal.org 11/21/2008 —
Map of the tribal areas and the Northwest Frontier Province. The government signed peace agreements in the red agencies/ districts (the military said Shangla was under Taliban control in October); purple districts are under de facto ...
US targets Taliban "facility" in South Waziristan
longwarjournal.org 10/26/2008 —
A sketch map of North and South Waziristan. Map from The Khyber Gateway . Click to view.
US unmanned Predator aircraft have struck again inside Pakistan's tribal areas. The latest attack occurred in the Shakai region north of ...
US targets compound in North Waziristan
longwarjournal.org 11/14/2008 — The US has struck again in Pakistan's Taliban-controlled tribal agencies. Three unmanned Predator aircraft are reported to have fired three missiles at a compound in Garyom in North Waziristan. The home was owned by a "tribal man" named Mir Gul, ...
The Fourth Amendment Abroad:
volokh.com 11/25/2008 — The Second Circuit has just handed down a very important new Fourth Amendment case on how the Fourth Amendment applies overseas: In re Terrorist Bombings of U.S. Embassies (Fourth Amendment...
The mystery of the undecided voter: who and why? —
Reuters: Politics 10/29/2008
CINCINNATI (Reuters) - It's not a lack of data that has made Ohio photographer Chad Moon one of those rare and coveted people on the U.S. political landscape -- an undecided voter late in the campaign. He knows plenty about presidential candidates ...
New president unlikely to attend financial summit —
Reuters: Politics 10/29/2008
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Bush administration said on Wednesday it does not expect the winner of the November 4 U.S. presidential election, whether Democrat Barack Obama or Republican John McCain, to attend the summit on the financial crisis on ...
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