directorblue.blogspot.com - 16 days ago
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Vic sent in his observations from a recent visit to "The Beautiful Island".I recently returned from a long anticipated sojourn to the land of my ancestors: Puerto Rico. Puerto Rico is a beautiful tropical getaway for travelers in the know and was a melting pot for Spanish, French, Irish Geese ...
Bad news for Israel...
commonsensewonder.blogspot.com 16 days ago — The New Iran Man at the State Department's Iran Desk By Ed Lasky John Limbert will be the senior Iran official at the State Department, replacing Dennis Ross who has moved to the National Security Council (and who has not been heard of publicly since). Should America be concerned? Yes. Limbert ...
Republican Spin on the Individual Mandate
liberalvaluesblog.com 16 days ago — I’ve been an opponent of mandates, hoping that the structure of health care reform had gone is a somewhat different direction. Even when the Republican Party technically agrees with me on a point I find their spin to be far too dishonest to tolerate. An example of this is the Republican ...
Obama leaning toward 34,000 more troops for Afghanistan
mcclatchydc.com 16 days ago — By Jonathan S. Landay, John Walcott and Nancy A. Youssef | McClatchy Newspapers WASHINGTON President Barack Obama is nearing a decision to send more than 30,000 additional U.S. troops to Afghanistan next year, but he may not announce it until after ...