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It’s a dubious milestone at best.
Today supposedly marks the official end of the presence of US troops in major Iraqi cities and towns and a handing over of major security responsibilities to the Iraqi government and troops. But like so much that has happened in Iraq, it’s just a cheap card trick. There is no [...]
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There is nothing as delicious to the GOP as selling dog dung wrapped in gold-leaf, especially if they can steal the gold-leaf from the Democrats. Politics 101: Make your enemy responsible for your own moral failures. Nowhere is this more evident than the effort to take down Nancy Pelosi while deflecting attention from the fundamental [...]
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Speaker Pelosi’s net approval dropped seven points this week. This is what it looks like:
The drop was undoubtedly the result of the withering attack by The Bipartisan Report (and if you believe that then I have some credit default swaps to sell you). Note that Minority Leader Boehner is also losing net favorability and has [...]
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I’m an evangelical Christian. One complaint we often have of the mainstream media is they don’t understand or empathize with religion. They are just a bunch of hard-drinking, elitist, secularists and the worst of the worst are the so-called elite media such as the New York Times. As I have gotten to know more people [...]
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Starkwood is the name of the fictitious company that’s the villain in this season’s 24. What they were trying to do was supplant the U.S. military with an outsourced army. As I stated earlier it seemed that our policy was being driven by fiction. As we learn more it just gets even more uncanny.
Take Brigadier [...]
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Truth is always stranger than fiction. As we get to know more and more we learn how truly this was a Faustian bargain. We know that we didn’t get hardly any good intel from torture but torture experts tell us that the victim will saying anything and everything to get it to stop. John McCain [...]
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“inter arma silent leges” – In times of war, the laws are silent. Cicero
Five years ago this month, on the day the Abu Gharab photos were released, a friend stopped by my desk at the Christian Science Monitor. He saw that I was writing on the photos for that day’s version of The Daily Update [...]
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In what is sure to upset those who posted videos of the troops in Iraq wildly welcoming President Bush but showing no enthusiasm when candidate Obama visited Baghdad these photos should provide some fodder for debate. Press from around the world (including most media in the USA) reported that in his first visit to Iraq [...]
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There are few issues the Left and Right can agree on. But there are issues that media and politicians have created on order to drive us further apart. In this column I’d like to address some of them and hopefully find common ground.
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Dan on Conservatives, please don’t fill out your census forms!
Dan on Conservatives, please don’t fill out your census forms!
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Rosann Rommelfaenger on Cigna executive proves case for public healthcare option
Rosann Rommelfaenger on Cigna executive proves case for public healthcare option
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