Oct 30, 2009 -
Long, but worth the effort (I think)
By Scott Ritter
There is a curious phenomenon taking place in the American media at the moment: the lionization of Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the American military commander in Afghanistan. Although he has taken a few lumps for playing politics with the White House, McChrystal has generally been sold to the American public as a “Zen warrior,” a counterinsurgency genius who, if simply left to his own devices, will be able to radically transform the ongoing debacle that is Afghanistan into a noble victory that will rank as one of the greatest political and military triumphs of modern history.
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Oct 29, 2009 -
Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) officially unveiled the House health care reform bill that is headed to the House floor. The ceremony, held on the West steps of the Capitol, marks the greatest progress toward the Democratic Party's top domestic priority goal in more than half a century.
The bill, the Affordable Health Care for America Act -- H.R.
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Sep 18, 2008 -
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Sep 25, 2009 -
http://gawker.com/5367203/harvard-students-stop-whatever-youre-doing-and-register-for-peggy-noonans-class-now
You do not want to miss the weekly festival of swooning self-regard and misty incoherence that will be Peggy Noonan's "Study Group" for undergrads this year, during her fellowship at the Kennedy School's Institute of Politics. Let's read the syllabus.
For some ungodly reason, Harvard's Kennedy School of Government saw fit to make Noonan a fellow this year.
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Jun 16, 2009 -
In which the author imagines what America would be like if the GOP's man had won. Critics of Obama, take note.
By Michael Lind
http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/06/16/president_mccain/index.html
Picture, if you will, an America apparently like our own.
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Jun 11, 2009 -
PUBLIC POST
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Missing in Action: American mainstream media
By Larry Elder
Back when our military failed to find stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, The New York Times apologized to its readers.
Why?
Before the war, the paper wrote article after article — relying on both government and non-government sources — that assumed the presence of stockpiles.
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Oct 22, 2008 -
I know most (if not all) of the Conservative Sugar gals have their minds made up about this election.
So the following post is aimed at the Liberal Sugar gals and any undecided readers who may frequent Conservative Sugar.
The following article is written by Neal Boortz.
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Apr 09, 2009 -
Obama vs. Kim Jong Il: Who Is the Greater Leader?
Let's compare what our press says about our dear leader with what the North Korean press says about theirs.
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Jan 10, 2009 -
Robert Rubin's Free Ride How does Clinton's treasury secretary escape blame for the market meltdown?
By Timothy NoahPosted Friday, Jan. 9, 2009, at 5:48 PM ET (Slate Magazine)
Robert Rubin, the former treasury secretary in the Clinton administration, left his high-ranking position at Citigroup today dogged by criticism for his role in the bank's ongoing financial trouble.
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Sep 04, 2008 -
The Sun
Palin Strikes Back At Critics
From FERGUS SHANAHAN
in Minnesota
Published: Today
A WEEK ago nobody had ever heard of her.
Today she is the most talked-about woman in the world. And with good reason.
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