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• Casey, McHugh to Brief Senate Armed Services Committee on Fort Hood in Secret

  
  The Washington Independent — Authority: 781
  The briefing, according to a release from the committee, will be entirely closed to the public. Presumably Nidal Malik Hasan’s intercepted communications with al-Qaeda affiliates will be discussed. It all goes down, with testimony from Army Chief of Staff Gen. George Casey and Army Secretary John McHugh, on ...
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• Casino syndicator with history of illegal activity contributes $30k to Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee

  
  The Verifiable Truth — Authority: 108
  According to OpenSecrets.org, Detroit casino syndicator Michael J. Malik, Sr. contributed $30,400 to the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee on 6.19.09. Previously such contributions by Malik and his casino gaming partners Mike and Marian Ilitch flowed to committees to re-elect Michigan Senators Debbie ...
  1 day ago

• Is Al Gore lying to Charlie Rose about Energy Storage?

  
  EEStor Ultracapacitors: Battery Revolution begins with Electric Cars? — Authority: 116
  Charlie Rose is a sort of journalist well known for his interviews of interesting people. He recently interviewed Al Gore on November 4, 2009 . This is interesting to eestorians because Charlie Rose is a limited partner at Kleiner Perkins . That means he gives his money to Kleiner partners who then invest it in ...
  4 days ago

• Levin Statement On Shootings: Committee Has Asked For Briefing

  
  TPM LiveWire — Authority: 801
  Sen. Carl Levin (D-MI) chairman of the Armed Services Committee, issued the following statement on the shootings today at Fort Hood, Texas: Our hearts go out to the families of the brave Americans who lost their lives in todays senseless violence at Ft. Hood, Texas, and to those who were injured. For all Americans, ...
  5 days ago

• Levin Requests a Full Briefing on Ft. Hood Horror

  
  The Washington Independent Blog — Authority: 155
  Just released from Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.), chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee: Our hearts go out to the families of the brave Americans who lost their lives in today’s senseless violence at Ft. Hood, Texas, and to those who were injured. For all Americans, and especially for those of us who know ...
  5 days ago

• The Generals’ Revolt: As Obama rethinks America’s failed strategy in Afghanistan, he faces two insurgencies: one in Afghanistan and one cooked up by his own generals.

  
  Count Us Out — Authority: 149
             “Petraeus and McChrystal have put Obama in a trick bag,” says Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, a former top aide to Secretary of State Colin Powell. “We had this happen one time before, with Douglas MacArthur” — the right-wing general who was fired after he defied President Truman over the ...
  1 week ago

• Carl Levin in the Crossfire

  
  The New Republic - The Plank Feed — Authority: 140
  The middle can be an awkward place. NRO s Cliff May attended a RAND conference on Afghanistan and didnt like what he heard from the Senate Armed Services Committee chairman: I stayed on to hear Sen. Carl Levin. He argued that in Afghanistan a “change in strategy is essential and more important than force ...
  1 week ago

• Is Afghan war one of necessity for U.S.?

  
  Front Row Washington — Authority: 674
  Disengaging from Afghanistan is the option President Barack Obama is the least likely to adopt as he closes in on a new strategy in the eight-year war he calls one of “necessity.” But on Thursday, at one of the countless policy conferences in Washington to discuss the president’s choices, some experts ...
  1 week ago

• Paying the Taliban to quit

  
  PRI's The World — Authority: 625
  Download audio file (1029092.mp3) Download MP3 The US military in Afghanistan is to be allowed to pay Taliban fighters who renounce violence against the government in Kabul. The move is included in a defense bill which President Obama has signed. The Senate Armed Services Committee chairman, Senator Carl Levin ...
  1 week ago

• President Obama Signs Defense Bill That Further Rolls Back Key Bush-Era Policies

  
  On The Hill — Authority: 428
  While its hate crimes provision is grabbing most of the headlines, progressives also are cheering other measures contained within a massive defense bill signed into law by President Obama. The White House itself devoted significant attention to the fact that language within the larger 2010 National Defense ...
  1 week ago

• If You Cant Beat Them, Pay Them?

  
  A Blog For All — Authority: 525
  A new defense appropriations bill includes a most curious clause that would provide payments to Taliban thugs who renounce their fight against the Afghan government. Its basically a bribe. The defense bill President Barack Obama will sign into law on Wednesday contains a new provision that would pay Taliban fighters ...
  1 week ago

• Prometheus Out of Bounds

  
  Tom Collins' World Wide Web Log — Authority: 108
  It was a long day at the office, and even though I run it, and only have one employee, working there can still be pretty rough.  So it was with a certain degree of relief that I came home to find nobody but my cat, Twinkle, around.  After a few minutes with Jean-Pierre Rampal, Mozart and some Glenfiddich on the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Sunday Breakfast Menu: Oct. 25, 2009

  
  The Caucus — Authority: 781
  Lots of health care and Afghanistan on the menu Sunday morning.
  2 weeks ago

• Dont Ask, Dont Tell hearing in November

  
  CNN Political Ticker — Authority: 846
  Carl Levins spokeswoman confirmed the Senate Armed Services Committee will hold a hearing next month on the controversial dont ask, dont tell policy. WASHINGTON (CNN) – The Senate Armed Services Committee will hold a hearing next month on the controversial "dont ask, dont tell" policy banning gays and ...
  2 weeks ago

• Sen. Carl Levin Urges Tax Increase for Millionaires

  
  Politics Daily — Authority: 814
  Filed under: Democrats , Economy , Taxes Its not often that an elected official is applauded when he promises to raise taxes. But thats exactly what happened in Washington on Wednesday night when Democratic Sen. Carl Levin of Michigan said, "We ought to have a 3 percent surcharge on those who make more than a ...
  2 weeks ago

• Senator Levin: partisanship has no place during war

  
  Front Row Washington — Authority: 674
  A war of words over U.S. policy on Afghanistan is heating up between Democrats and Republicans on Capitol Hill as they await President Barack Obamas new strategy. "This kind of partisanship in the middle of a war I find to be really out of place," Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Carl Levin, a Democrat, ...
  3 weeks ago

• Senator Levin: partisanship has no place during war

  
  Summit Notebook — Authority: 498
  A war of words over U.S. policy on Afghanistan is heating up between Democrats and Republicans on Capitol Hill as they await President Barack Obama’s new strategy. “This kind of partisanship in the middle of a war I find to be really out of place,” Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Carl Levin, a ...
  3 weeks ago

• Surging Through the Khyber Pass and into a quagmire - Get Out Now: The case for an immediate withdrawal from Afghanistan.

  
  Sir! No Sir! Exposing and Debunking Military Lies from Vietnam to Iraq — Authority: 137
  This article, by Pascal Zachary, was posted to In These Times, October 9. 2009. For all the talk of polarization and partisanship in U.S. politics, what’s remarkable is the extent to which President Obama has continued policies and practices of his predecessor, George Bush, in domestic economics and military ...
  3 weeks ago

• Are These Senators Asking Obama to Move Quicker on DADT? Or Demanding?

  
  Queerty — Authority: 724
  While the White House looks to Connecticuts Sen. Joe Lieberman as its pointman on repealing Dont Ask Dont Tell, Colorados Sen. Mark Udall is also among those expected to take a leading role in killing the policy. How come? Because hes a Democrat sitting on the Senate Armed Services Committee, and in previous ...
  3 weeks ago

• EEStor Dream Dinner Guests to Assemble for Electric Car Panel

  
  EEStor Ultracapacitors: Battery Revolution begins with Electric Cars? — Authority: 116
  Imagine you could have dinner with anyone related to EEStor (but outside of EEStor & Zenn) and engage in a riveting discussion about EEStor. Who would you pick and why? How about William Ford Jr., who has held discussions with Ian Clifford of Zenn Motor Company? Or, what about Jennifer Granholm, the governor of ...
  3 weeks ago

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