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Who Is Joseph Cao?

Sun, 8 Nov 2009 18:22:11 +0000

So who is Rep. Joseph Cao (R-LA), the one Republican who voted yes on the House Democrats' health care bill? Cao was first elected to Congress in 2008 from the solidly-Democratic New Orleans district, winning a shocking victory against Democratic Rep. William Jefferson, who was then under ...

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Tom Tancredo storms off the set of MSNBC during debate with DailyKos’ Markos Moulitsas.

Sat, 7 Nov 2009 17:38:56 +0000

Today on the Ed Show, former Republican congressman Tom Tancredo tried to argue that all veterans are unhappy with their health care under the Veterans Administration — as proof of why government-run care doesn’t work: Every veterans group I ever went and talked to complained ...

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Thank You, Markos Moulitsas

Sun, 8 Nov 2009 00:51:00 +0000

On MSNBC’s “Ed Show” just now, substitute host David Shuster’s guests were Markos “Kos” Moulitsas, the founder of Daily Kos, and Tom Tancredo, the former Colorado congressman and 2008 Republican Presidential hopeful. After Tancredo expressed his ...

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Tom Tancredo Walks Off MSNBC Set Because Of Markos Moulitas (VIDEO)

Sat, 7 Nov 2009 00:49:00 +0000

On MSNBC Friday night, David Shuster (filling in for Ed Shultz) addressed hateful signs at Thursday's Capitol Hill "House call" against health care reform. But the discussion escalated into a fight that led a Republican guest to walk off the set. Former Colorado congressman Tom Tancredo ...

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Chickenhawk Tancredo storms off set after Markos confronts him on veterans health care

Sat, 7 Nov 2009 03:22:23 +0000

A few minutes ago on The Ed Show, Tom Tancredo tried to make the case against government health care by claiming that the Veterans Administration is unpopular with U.S. military veterans. The only problem for him was that he was up against Markos...who is one of those veterans, unlike Tancredo, ...

Think Progress found this 45 hours ago on dailykos.com

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Twitter of the Day

Thu, 5 Nov 2009 21:44:16 +0000

From David Corn, in response to John Boehner tweeting a story from the AP titled "Thousands rally to protest Pelosi healthcare": And hundreds of millions don't. Good point, Corn. Just like the hundreds of millions who didn't march on Washington for civil rights or to end the war in ...

Matthew Yglesias found this 3 days ago on weeklystandard.com

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Sen. George McGovern on the Presidency From Lincoln to Obama

Fri, 6 Nov 2009 13:09:24 +0000

George McGovern has been a witness to history, as both a scholar and the first senator to oppose the Vietnam War. At a recent Truthdig event, he shared his insight into past and current events, from Lincoln’s greatest accomplishment to the war in Afghanistan. READ THE ...

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AP Screws The Pooch On Kennedy, Vietnam & Afghanistan

Thu, 5 Nov 2009 11:24:00 +0000

The Associated Press screwed the pooch*, in multiple ways, in its reporting of the release by the JFK Presidential Library of previously classified recordings of President Kennedy's meetings in 1963 with advisors about Vietnam. The discussions involve the unauthorized cable from the ...

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Rolling Stone: Afghanistan Surge is Really About Gen Petraeus' Presidential Aspirations

Mon, 2 Nov 2009 21:41:00 +0000

Is there a growing revolt of senior military leadership over Afghanistan? Experts say no but Rolling Stone says yes . In early October, as President Obama huddled with top administration officials in the White House situation room to rethink America's failing strategy in Afghanistan, the ...

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Winning the Peace

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 11:41:12 +0000

With all the Bloviators pulling out their "Afghanistan=Vietnam" analogies, Joshua Kurlantzick writes in the Washington Post , that we should only be so lucky. 76 percent of Vietnamese say U.S. influence in Asia is positive, according to a 2008 study by the Chicago Council on Global Affairs -- ...

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Let’s Give Afghans ‘One More Chance’: Liberation, France

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 19:16:32 +0000

Moving on to another French view of the Afghan conflict, Laurent Joffrin of the newspaper Liberation suggests that however bad the situation may be, the West in the person of President Barack Obama should not pull out of Afghanistan – yet. For Liberation , Laurent Joffrin writes in ...

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One Of Those Things I Love About Houston

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 01:28:50 +0000

Today's Houston Texan's game was something special. It was Salute to the Military day, and lot's of active duty, reserve and vets were in attendance. The Golden Eagles parachuted in with the flag and the game ball. The marine Silent...

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Ship of State

Sun, 1 Nov 2009 23:42:00 +0000

Criminal. Irresponsible. Outrageous.Even before the government takes over the entire health care industry, its spending was completely out of control:Jim Bianco of Bianco Research crunched the inflation adjusted numbers. The bailout has cost more than all of these big budget government ...

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Triumph Forsaken: The Vietnam War, 1954-1965 (9780521757638): Mark Moyar: Books

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 11:19:35 +0000

A full-blooded member of what he calls the "revisionist school" of Vietnam War historians, Moyar firmly believes that America's longest and most controversial overseas war was "a worthy but improperly executed enterprise." His fiercely argued book, which covers the early years of American ...

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America's Next Unwinnable War

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 22:30:09 +0000

BS Top - Sorensen Afghanistan David Guttenfelder / AP Photo Ted Sorensen, John F. Kennedy's closest adviser, says Afghanistan isn't threatening to become another Vietnam. It already is. America s unwise, unwarranted, and sadly unwinnable war in Afghanistan hastily initiated and then abandoned ...

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America's Next Unwinnable War

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 15:16:32 +0000

Ted Sorensen, John F. Kennedy's closest adviser, says Afghanistan isn't threatening to become another Vietnam. It already is. America's unwise, unwarranted, and sadly unwinnable war in Afghanistan-hastily initiated and then abandoned for Iraq by...

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