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The Moderate Voice: Afghanistan: The Impact of a Stranger’s Letter
I periodically write about our heroes who continue to make the ultimate sacrifice in Afghanistan.
Just this past Friday I quoted the latest AP statistics that told us that as of Thursday, August 26, at least 1,145 of our military had died in Afghanistan s...
Dateline: 2010-09-01 10:15pm -07:00T (378 words)
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Peoria Pundit: Owners of Journal Star now only 73 percent likely to go belly-up
The overpaid corporate fat asses who run GateHouse Media must be just gushing with joy over the sweet press they are getting over news that they are no longer considered a virtually certainty to go bankrupt, but just extremely likely to go bankrupt.
Moody...
Dateline: 2010-09-01 10:16pm -07:00T (212 words)
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Patterico: S.F. Chronicle visits Imperial County – what could go wrong? [Guest Post by aunursa]
[The following post was written by Patterico reader aunursa and published at The Jury Talks Back. It has been promoted to the main page due to its exceptional original content. -- P]
Tiny Imperial County could play a decisive role in the battle over same...
Dateline: 2010-09-01 10:16pm -07:00T (987 words)
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The Debate Link: Of Interests and Lobbies
As someone who found The Israel Lobby thesis to be profoundly misguided, it really shouldn't be any surprise that I find its new counterpart, The Arab Lobby, to be pretty silly as well. Hussein Ibish reviews the latter here, though I wish he had provided ...
Dateline: 2010-09-01 10:16pm -07:00T (538 words)
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American Power: Tea Party Tidal Wave
Awesome commentary, at IBD:The defeat of Alaska's Lisa Murkowski by a little-known conservative lawyer is the latest evidence of a tidal wave building that may sweep aside an out-of-touch establishment. "We the people" won't be ignored.Shays' Rebellion, a...
Dateline: 2010-09-02 3:04am -07:00T (207 words)
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Power Line: Obama the two-faced
PaulSome folks are defending President Obama's decision not to say anything positive about the substance of the Iraq war in his Tuesday speech on the grounds that Obama simply doesn't believe any good came out of the project. And, although I certainly ha...
Dateline: 2010-09-02 6:45am -07:00T (567 words)
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Atomic Insights Blog: Public Negotiations Over Plans to Tax Germany's Nuclear Plants to the Tune of 2.3 Billion Euros per Year
Germany's utilities and major energy consuming businesses are taking the battle over special taxes into the public domain. They are refusing to be patsies for the politicians who are trying to frame the debate and tell the public that extending nuclear ...
Dateline: 2010-09-02 12:30am -07:00T (206 words)
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The Reaction: Will gays and lesbians turn Republican out of frustration with Obama?
By Michael J.W. StickingsOh, please. I get that Obama hasn't done nearly enough for gay rights, and I've been deeply critical of him for not doing enough and for not being progressive enough (specifically on DADT and same-sex marriage), but there isn't ab...
Dateline: 2010-09-01 10:16pm -07:00T (577 words)
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2 Political Junkies: Funny Press Release from Team Onorato
I'm printing this in its entirety because its pretty amusing for a press release and it makes a good point. I've also been meaning to blog on those ubiquitous TV ads sponsored by the American Petroleum Institute that feature "just plain folks" saying that...
Dateline: 2010-09-02 6:45am -07:00T (289 words)
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Taegan Goddard's Political Wire: Blair on Clinton
In his new memoir, A Journey: My Political Life, former British Prime Minister Tony Blair tries to explain Bill Clinton's scandalous relationship with Monica Lewinsky as behavior that "arose in part from his inordinate interest in and curiosity about peo...
Dateline: 2010-09-01 10:16pm -07:00T (95 words)
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Balloon Juice: Ain’t that America
I would like to blog about things to do with urbanism and transportation and development, but I seem to be afflicted with a learning disorder that prevents me from understanding anything about basic geography or construction. I am still able to talk abou...
Dateline: 2010-09-02 10:30am -07:00T (349 words)
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PrairiePundit: How the Democrats blew it
Image by Getty Images via @daylifeByron York looks at how the Democrats got themselves into a 10 point deficit in the latest Gallup generic ballot. Several things jump out, but the two biggest to me are healthcare and the economy. They had a commanding ...
Dateline: 2010-09-02 6:48am -07:00T (169 words)
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Balloon Juice: Early Morning Open Thread: Squid-Cloud of Butt-Hurt
Dave Weigel at Slate suggested that the Koch brothers should embrace their new notoriety and strut their anti-populist, anti-progressive, anti-environmental credentials proudly. What’s the point, Weigel seemed to think, of spending hundreds of mill...
Dateline: 2010-09-02 3:00am -07:00T (332 words)
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Good As You: Because like it or not, all modern Americans have an investment in Iraq
An important four part series from journalist Michael Luongo:
I was in Baghdad in mid-2009 for my second time. The post-surge trip introduced me to places I had only heard of in stories — what then seemed like fables — told to me by Ali Hili, the di...
Dateline: 2010-09-02 6:47am -07:00T (230 words)
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PrairiePundit: Energy workers protest threats to their jobs by Washington
Image via WikipediaHouston Chronicle:More than 5,000 energy sector workers flocked to three Texas rallies Wednesday to protest what they view as an onslaught of punitive measures from Washington that threaten oil and gas jobs and domestic energy supplies....
Dateline: 2010-09-02 6:48am -07:00T (462 words)
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