From the Chicago Sun-Times:
Declaring “I don’t quit,”‘ an embattled President Barack Obama vowed in his first State of the Union address Wednesday night to make job growth his topmost priority and urged a divided Congress to boost the still-ailing economy with fresh stimulus spending. Defiant despite stinging setbacks, he said he would not abandon ambitious [...]
January 27th, 2010
Categories: Barack Obama, Civil Liberties, Civil Rights, Congress, Constitution, Democratic News, Economy, Education, Elections, Environment, Ethics, GLBT, Global Warming, Health Care, International, Iraq, Jobs, John McCain, Legal, Military, Republicans, Supreme Court, White House, gun control . Author: G . Comments: No Comments
This is incredibly sad.
Should the President write letters of condolence to family members?
I would. The letters are for the living, not the deceased.
December 17th, 2009
Categories: Afghanistan, Barack Obama, International, Iraq, Military . Author: G . Comments: No Comments
The C.I.A. has finally terminated ties with Blackwater.
Finally.
From the New York Times:
The Central Intelligence Agency has terminated a contract with the security company formerly called Blackwater Worldwide that allowed the company to load bombs on C.I.A. drones in Pakistan and Afghanistan, intelligence officials said Friday.
The contract gave employees with the company an operational role in [...]
December 11th, 2009
Categories: Afghanistan, International, Iraq, Legal, Violence . Author: G . Comments: No Comments
From the New York Times:
Private security guards from Blackwater Worldwide participated in some of the C.I.A.’s most sensitive activities — clandestine raids with agency officers against people suspected of being insurgents in Iraq and Afghanistan and the transporting of detainees, according to former company employees and intelligence officials.
The raids against suspects occurred on [...]
December 10th, 2009
Categories: International, Iraq, Legal, Military, Republicans . Author: G . Comments: No Comments
It’s time to take stock of the numbers again, as the war in Afghanistan enters its ninth year Tuesday.
Our National Debt stands at $11,930,445,364,162.68 as of this writing. That’s a tad under $12 trillion.
The Total Cost of War since the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan began is currently $917,149,614,395. That’s just under $1 trillion. [...]
October 5th, 2009
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Ridge on what happened during Katrina.
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Ridge and Maddow debate the decision behind the Iraq War.
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Commentary
This interview was nothing short of amazing. [...]
September 1st, 2009
Categories: America, Elections, Environment, Homelessness, Housing, International, Iraq, Legal, Philosophical, Republicans . Author: G . Comments: No Comments
We may finally begin to see justice restored in the United States of America.
Breaking news from The New York Times:
The Justice Department’s ethics office has recommended reversing the Bush administration and reopening nearly a dozen prisoner-abuse cases, potentially exposing Central Intelligence Agency employees and contractors to prosecution for brutal treatment of terrorism suspects, according to a [...]
August 23rd, 2009
Categories: America, Barack Obama, Civil Liberties, Congress, Constitution, International, Iraq, Legal, Supreme Court, Violence, White House . Author: G . Comments: No Comments
The title of this entry is from the Declaration of Independence.
But it resonates today in light of the United State’s occupation of Iraq: “He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.”
And this, from the same document:
He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies [...]
July 3rd, 2009
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Showing the bottom of your shoe or shoes is a terrible insult in the Middle East. Want to top that? Throw your shoes at your nemesis.
President Bush ducked twice as an Iraqi reporter threw his shoes at him during Bush’s farewell trip to Iraq.
From the BBC:
The man, later identified as Muntadar al-Zeidi, a correspondent for [...]
December 14th, 2008
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Enjoy Meet the Press, Sunday, November 9, 2008.
Nov. 9: A look ahead at the Obama presidency with Valerie Jarrett, the newly appointed co-chair of the president-elect’s transition team. Plus, former RNC Chair Sen. Mel Martinez (R-FL) & House Majority Whip Rep. James Clyburn (D-SC) and a political roundtable with Doris Kearns Goodwin, Jon Meacham & [...]
November 9th, 2008
Categories: America, Barack Obama, Chicago, Congress, Constitution, Democratic News, Economy, Elections, Global Warming, Iraq, John McCain, Legal, Republicans, White House . Author: G . Comments: 1 Comment