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Living Proof that Socialist Liberals are Classless Assholes

Mon, 30 Nov 2009 01:51:35 +0000

Cindy Sheehan and her band of code pink thugs attacked a Elderly Decorated Military Vietnam War Veteran! The Video: (H/T to Gateway Pundit ) Gateway Pundit has more on this, including the parts NOT reported by the media. CBS 13 in California has more: An unidentified military ...

Patrick Adkins posted 2 hours ago from politicalbyline.com

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Quote of the Day: Jacob Weisberg on "Obama's brilliant first year"

Mon, 30 Nov 2009 01:18:18 +0000

By Michael J.W. Stickings I don't always agree with the top man at Slate , but I'm inclined to here : This conventional wisdom about Obama's first year isn't just premature -- it's sure to be flipped on its head by the anniversary of his inauguration on Jan. 20. If, as seems increasingly ...

The Moderate Voice found this 3 hours ago on the-reaction.blogspot.com

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U.S. landmines policy still under review

Sat, 28 Nov 2009 16:24:29 +0000

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The Volokh Conspiracy found this 36 hours ago on washingtonpost.com

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Distorting Honduran History at the New York Times

Sun, 29 Nov 2009 19:00:00 +0000

I’m having a hard time deciding whether this article in the New York Times is dishonest or just biased toward the Obama Administration’s point of view. The author purports to be critical of the administrations vacillations toward the situation in Honduras, but clearly she’s in ...

Hot Air » Top Picks found this 9 hours ago on sundriesshack.com

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Obama Will ‘Regret’ Failure to ‘Back Up’ Colombia: El Tiempo, Colombia

Sun, 29 Nov 2009 03:31:36 +0000

On behalf of all of the people of WORLDMEETS.US , I want to wish everyone who works on or visits the Moderate Voice a very Happy Thanksgiving. It’s a venue that would have to be invented if it didn’t already exist. But despite the Thanksgiving holiday, world news rolls ...

tsteels2 posted 24 hours ago from themoderatevoice.com

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Chart of the Month: The Insanity of Marijuana Prohibition

Sun, 29 Nov 2009 04:47:00 +0000

We really aren't a very serious country if statistics like this don't prod more people to demand that we stop the insanity already:

librarygrape posted 23 hours ago from librarygrape.com

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China’s House of Cards

Sat, 28 Nov 2009 21:40:52 +0000

In multiple posts over the past year, I’ve taken a fairly contrarian view of China’s current position in the world. While certain media dim bulbs write purple prose about China’s supposed invincibility and its inevitable rise in the world, I’m less convinced. In my ...

David Crocker posted 30 hours ago from feedproxy.google.com

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Video: Your Weekend War Porn Video

Sat, 28 Nov 2009 20:44:04 +0000

I must say, that this, is SWEET to watch. The footage is from 2004 and was shot in Iraq. This comes via Apache Clips : I love posting stuff like this, because makes the Paleo-Conservative cowards and the liberal sissies heads explode!

Patrick Adkins posted 31 hours ago from politicalbyline.com

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Hillary's Bombshell: Obama Administration Subtly Launches Dramatic Policy Change on Peace Process

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 19:38:41 +0000

[Please subscribe for more exclusive stories like this one] By Barry Rubin In a one-paragraph statement welcoming Israel’s ten-month-long freeze on building apartments in existing West Bank settlements, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton made a major statement. The dramatic new U.S. stance on ...

Solomonia found this 2 days ago on rubinreports.blogspot.com

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Inflation Detour II: Crisis and Recovery across Great "Fluctuations"

Sat, 28 Nov 2009 03:08:00 +0000

We are now almost 24 months into the Great Recession. While many expect NBER will eventually say that The Great Recession ended several months ago, they have not yet. By contrast, the recession that began The Great Depression, per NBER, lasted 43 months . It seems only fair to compare the two, ...

rdan posted 2 days ago from angrybear.blogspot.com

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Noting that Obama will give speech on Afghanistan policy at West Point, Limbaugh "hope[s]" they will detain him

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 04:00:41 +0000

From the November 25 edition of Premiere Radio Networks' The Rush Limbaugh Show :

Firedoglake found this 2 days ago on mediamatters.org

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Obama's Nice Guy Act Gets Him Nowhere on the World Stage

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:40:54 +0000

Obama's Nice Guy Act Gets Him Nowhere on the World Stage By Gabor Steingart When he entered office, US President Barack Obama promised to inject US foreign policy with a new tone of respect and diplomacy. His recent trip to Asia, however, showed that it's not working. A shift to Bush-style ...

Power Line found this 6 days ago on spiegel.de

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Dem Rep Controls DOJ Budget While Under DOJ Investigation

Sat, 28 Nov 2009 13:03:07 +0000

Rep. Alan Mollohan (D-WV) has his hands on the reins of the Justice Department budget at the same time the Feds are investigating his personal finances and allegations he steered taxpayer dollars to non-profits Mollohan himself created. The Washington Post today reports on the conflict, ...

The Hollywood Liberal found this 39 hours ago on tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com

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Obama in China - An Example of Village Group-Think, In Stark Relief

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 16:17:00 +0000

I really do seriously wonder if our news media will be the death of us. Remember all the pantswetting in the respectable establishment media about how Obama's trip to China was embarrassing and how Obama didn't seem to be getting much from the Chinese? All of this which is borne of their ...

librarygrape posted 2 days ago from librarygrape.com

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Research-based policy analysis and commentary from leading economists

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 08:03:45 +0000

World trade experienced a sudden, severe and synchronised collapse in late 2008 – the sharpest in recorded history and deepest since WWII. VoxEU today posts a new Ebook – written for the world's trade ministers gathering for the WTO's Trade Ministerial in Geneva – that presents the economics ...

J. Bradford DeLong's Grasping Reality with All Eight ... found this 2 days ago on voxeu.org

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An Israeli Strike on Iran - Council on Foreign Relations

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 16:20:54 +0000

Israel would regard any expansion of nuclear weapons capability within its region as an intolerable threat to its survival. As such, Iran's developing nuclear program has triggered serious concern in Israel and speculation that the Israeli government may choose to attack Iran's nuclear ...

The New Republic blogs found this 5 days ago on cfr.org

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To Kos, Taliban's Real Crime Is Being Un-PC

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 23:01:54 +0000

Want to understand the liberal mind? Check out Daily Kos creator Markos Moulitsas on this evening's Schultz show . . Why does Kos say he hates the Taliban? Because they aided and abetted Osama Bin Laden in the murder of thousands of Americans? Nope. That they are actively involved in ...

Rhymes With Right found this 2 days ago on newsbusters.org

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Dems find hope in new policy paper

Thu, 26 Nov 2009 09:04:11 +0000

It casts the issue of health care reform as more about containing health costs than extending benefits to uninsured.

The Note found this 3 days ago on politico.com

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"I Don't Do Policy," Says RNC Chairman Michael Steele

Thu, 26 Nov 2009 02:09:00 +0000

It also appears that Steele is not capable of even putting a properly designed survey together. Today I reviewed the latest survey put our by Steele and found it to be not only improperly designed, but shrill. All answers would be no by a far right audience where leading questions support the ...

The Political Carnival found this 4 days ago on voices.washingtonpost.com

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Detainee policy appointee quits Pentagon post

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 00:52:41 +0000

The Pentagon's top detainee affairs policy appointee has quit the Defense Department just seven months into the job, a Pentagon spokesman said Tuesday. Phillip Carter, a former Army captain and Iraq War veteran, had been an outspoken critic of Bush-era war on terror detention policy as an ...

The Huffington Post | Full News Feed found this 5 days ago on miamiherald.com

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