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Liz Cheney Warns Against “Walking Away” from Afghanistan, Apparently Forgetting that Dick Cheney Walked Away from Afghanistan

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 19:42:00 +0000

Listening to a Cheney give advice about how to “win” in Afghanistan is rather like asking an arsonist what to do about your house as it burns to the ground. I mean, there was something completely surreal about listening to Liz Cheney criticize Obama on “This ...

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A guide to the shifting political factions in the health care debate.

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 01:33:26 +0000

President Obama on Sunday celebrated the House's passage of health care reform with a vivid metaphorical message to the other side of the Capitol. "Now it falls on the United States Senate," he said, "to take the baton and bring this effort to the finish line on behalf of the American people." He wishes this were as simple as a relay race. The legislative process does work in stages, it's true, but in other ways, the president's metaphor falls apart. First, the competitors aren't running in the next ...

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Berlin wants no part in potential 9/11 execution

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 19:07:00 +0000

A legal team is going to New York to prevent the use of evidence provided by Germany in seeking a death penalty. Berlin wants to ensure that promises made by the US are kept if the suspects are found guilty.

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On the Military Draft and True Patriotism

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 04:41:45 +0000

timely. appropriate, right

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The Associated Press: Gates blocks release of detainee abuse photos

Sun, 15 Nov 2009 22:02:18 +0000

Nov 14, 2009 WASHINGTON Defense Secretary Robert Gates has blocked the public release of any more pictures of foreign detainees abused by their U.S. captors, saying their release would endanger American soldiers. The Obama administration filed a brief with the Supreme Court late Friday saying ...

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Jeremy Ben-Ami responds to Abe Foxman’s Palin comments

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:46:51 +0000

Jeremy Ben-Ami, Executive Director of J Street, sent the following letter to Abe Foxman, Director of the Anti-Defamation League, in response to Foxman's recent comments to the JTA News Service.

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Get Sick in Another Country

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:51:00 +0000

In case you didn’t see Frontline’s Sick Around the World last week, here’s an opportunity to review this informative one-hour presentation. Washington Post foreign correspondent T.R. Reid visited five capitalist democracies—the United Kingdom, Japan, Germany, Japan, Taiwan, and Switzerland—to ...

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Changing the climate on Capitol Hill

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 11:38:44 +0000

As a result, Obama sounded defensive in remarks he made in Japan. Although he said that the United States “has taken more steps to combat climate change in 10 months than we have in our recent history by embracing the latest science, by investing in new energy, by raising efficiency standards, ...

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Americans Overwhelmingly Say Obama Bowing To Japanese Emperor Was Appropriate -- Even In A Fox Poll

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 20:21:24 +0000

Despite a lot of complaining by conservatives, the American people don't actually have any problem with President Obama bowing to the Emperor of Japan -- and that's according to the new Fox News poll . Respondents were asked: "When the president of the United States is traveling overseas, do ...

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Finally A President Not Governed By Fear - The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 02:03:06 +0000

James Joyner argues against a civilian trial for KSM: [T]hese men are not citizens of the United States. Second, they’re accused war criminals. They simply should not be tried in U.S. civilian courts. Rather, they should either be held accountable in a Nuremberg-style international forum or ...

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EDITORIAL: Get ready to bomb Iran

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:33:58 +0000

THE WASHINGTON TIMES Representatives from the United States, Britain, France, Germany, China and Russia are scheduled to meet today in Brussels to discuss future steps to dissuade Iran from developing the capacity to build nuclear weapons. Our message to the world leaders: If you want peace, ...

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NewsOK - R.I.P.: Warming bill runs out of gas

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 14:55:40 +0000

Dead policy walking? That’s how one blogger described global warming legislation in the U.S. Senate — which Majority Leader Harry Reid put on ice this week, astutely recognizing the public and the politics are against this turkey.

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The Federalist Society

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:16:46 +0000

The Federalist Society Online Debate Series The Pay Czar & the Appointments Clause – a Forum November 19, 2009 Last updated at 2 PM on Friday, November 20, 2009 Under the statute authorizing the Troubled Assets Relief Program, Congress authorized the Secretary of the Treasury to "require each ...

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Rush Limbaugh: President Obama Views of the United States is No Different Than a Third World Dictator’s

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 11:00:31 +0000

What Rush is really saying is that President Obama and Attorney General Holder (The Black Men who are leaders) are not one of us.

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Bending the Productivity Curve: Why America Leads the World in Medical Innovation | Glen Whitman and Raymond Raad | Cato Institute: Policy Analysis

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 15:36:00 +0000

November 18, 2009 Policy Analysis no. 654 Bending the Productivity Curve: Why America Leads the World in Medical Innovation by Glen Whitman and Raymond Raad Glen Whitman is an associate professor of economics at California State University, Northridge. Raymond Raad, M.D., M.P.H., is a ...

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Ohio Sues Credit Rating Agencies

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:02:00 +0000

Ohio’s attorney general sued Standard & Poor’s , Moody’s and Fitch Ratings on Friday, asserting that they provided misleading credit ratings that led to hundreds of millions of losses for state funds. The official, Richard Cordray, filed the lawsuit in United States District Court for the ...

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Obama in Seoul: My Problem with Foreign News

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:30:49 +0000

I used to be the foreign editor of In These Times in Chicago. I didn’t particularly enjoy the job, because I have never been fascinated with the world outside of the United States. I am not sure whether I could find Honduras or Liberia on a map, and I have never mastered the ...

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Pirates Attack Maersk Alabama Again

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 17:19:55 +0000

LONDON Seaborne raiders in a high-speed skiff tried again on Wednesday to commandeer the Maersk Alabama, the American-flagged ship seized by pirates in April , the United States Navy said. In a separate episode, the captain of a hijacked chemical tanker was reported to have died of gunshot ...

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U.S. Senate Confirms Hamilton for 7th Circuit Slot

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 22:34:52 +0000

Voting 59 to 39, the U.S. Senate today confirmed David Hamilton's nomination to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit. The Hamilton nomination stalled for five months amid criticism from Republican lawmakers about Hamilton's pro bono work for...

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Exclusive: Obama and KSM vs. Bush’s 195 U.S. Torture Trials

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:35:40 +0000

In the wake of today’s Justice Department decision to bring accused 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed to New York to stand trial in a criminal court, I interviewed former congressman Tom Andrews, director of the National Campaign to Close Guantanamo. Andrews argued that the KSM ...

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