Born to Politics: Our American Road Trip to Tomorrow
If someone tells you that politics is the problem and they are some magic "non-political" solution, hold onto your wallet, hold onto your vote, hold onto your children. Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Co...
Libya and Iraq: Two Ways of Opposing a Tyrant — but One Stole the Nation’s Pride, History
Filed under: Hillary Clinton, George W. Bush, Terror, Foreign Policy, Obama Administration, Afghanistan, France, Military, Middle East, Iraq, Egypt CrisisThe U.S. invasion of Iraq toppled Saddam Hussein, but it may have robbed Iraqis of eventually purs...
Mitch Daniels, Michael Dukakis, George Will and the ‘Charisma of Competence’
Filed under: Bush Administration, Democrats, Republicans, Taxes, 2012 President, Governors, Deficit, Analysis, EconomyCompetence did not turn Mike Dukakis into a charismatic presidential candidate. Will it work in 2012 for Indiana's Mitch Daniels? ...
5 Hair-Raising Crises in Foreign Affairs/National Security We Somehow Avoided in 2010
Filed under: Foreign Policy, National Security, Afghanistan, Nuclear Proliferation, Military, Iraq2010 may have seemed nerve-wracking, but we somehow sailed unscathed past some potentially hair-raising crises in Iraq, Pakistan, North Korea, the Mideast...
Open thread for night owls: A NYC answer to national tax deal
Brad Lander represents District 39 on the New York City Council. He writes:
[C]ities and states across the country are reeling. Federal stimulus spending is about to expire, and no new help is on the horizon. In Arizona, 1 million low-income residents lost access to Medicaid services, and the state...
Iraq War Documents Sheds Light on Civilian Deaths, Prisoner AbuseFiled under: Military, WikiLeaks, Iraq, AfghanistanWikiLeaks, a private whistleblower organization, has not said where or how it obtained the nearly 400,000 documents. The Pentagon condemns the release. Permalink | Email this | ...
Don’t Ask. Don’t Tell. Don’t Spin.Filed under: Humor, Chaos Theory, Iraq, AfghanistanWanna play politics? Go get your G.I. Joe. Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comments
Surprise! Cheney-Bush-Rumsfeld lied us into IraqThe National Security Archive published the first of a three-part series Tuesday on the Cheney-Bush administration's early plans to invade Iraq. Much of what you'll read there has already been discussed in considerable depth. But without direct proof. The series is based on documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act. Joyce Battle sets... Is Iran the Winner of the War in Iraq?Filed under: Bush Administration, Obama Administration, International, Middle East, Field NotesIran started filling the political void America left in Iraq years ago, and now it becomes even easier with fewer U.S. troops there, a Mideast scholar argues...
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