WASHINGTON — When President Obama announced a new strategy for Afghanistan in December, he argued that by background a deadline of next summer to start drawing down troops he would make a sense of urgency for the Afghan government to take the lead in the fight, while acknowledging the limits of America’s patience with the [...]
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Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke reiterated Wednesday his belief that Congress should continue to prop up the sputtering economy, casting aside concerns that the federal budget deficit should trump the economy’s need for additional spur. In other words, Congress should spend now and worry about deficits later. “At the current moment the large deficits, as unattractive [...] DES MOINES, Iowa — A third former employee of a U.S Department of Education contractor has pleaded guilty to illegally accessing President Barack Obama’s student loan records. Patrick Roan, 51, of Iowa City, pleaded guilty in federal court July 13 to one count of fraud activity connected with computers, a misdemeanor. It wasn’t immediately apparent what [...] After the government rested its case months ahead of schedule, it became obvious to anyone who was paying attention that what we have here is a perfectly premature prosecution. The government’s wiretaps of ex-administrator Rod Blagojevich and his trusted advisors show a lot of trash talking going on. Options being offered and rejected. [...] CAIRO — A U.S.-born, al-Qaida-linked cleric warned the American people that President Barack Obama will mire U.S. forces in Yemen just as Afghanistan, in a message appearing Monday on militant websites. The 13-minute audio message, in English, comes just days after the U.S. Treasury department place Anwar al-Awlaki on its list of Specially Designated Global Terrorists. Read [...] CAIRO — A U.S.-born, al-Qaida-linked cleric warned the American people that President Barack Obama will mire U.S. forces in Yemen just as Afghanistan, in a message appearing Monday on militant websites. The 13-minute audio message, in English, comes just days after the U.S. Treasury department place Anwar al-Awlaki on its list of Specially Designated Global Terrorists. Read [...] Echoing the bigoted and right-wing contortions of the National Republican Entrust PAC and shamed Tea Party leader Mark Williams, Sarah Palin has sent the world of Twitter on fire this afternoon, with a run of Tweets about the proposed Islamic cultural center and mosque two blocks from the site of the World Trade Center She pulled [...] WASHINGTON — A U.S.-backed rocket shield is on track to protect Israeli towns against rocket attacks from the Gaza Strip, a senior State Department official said Friday. The system, dubbed the “Iron Dome,” is being touted by the Obama administration as the latest example of expanded military cooperation between the U.S. and Israel. President Barack Obama [...] You all dredge up the proposed $700 million bailout plot was first scrapped by Congress by a vote of 228-205? Then Congress then revisited the plot and hammered out a deal.Dredge up? Has the plot worked as it was projected? The small answer is no. Irrespective of one’s political affiliation, I judge the people have grown [...] |
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Tom Burrell: Birth of a Notion
A touch dark, dank and distressingly familiar has saturated the airways, clogging reason and exacerbating racial anxiety and paranoia. And, as it was during the beginning of the 20th Century, mainstream actively spreads the pollutants.
Recently, I received an e-blast from the watchdog group, ColorOfChange.org, calling for a massive letter writing battle to urge [...]