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• BREAKING: ACORN’s New Orleans Office Raided by Louisiana Attorney General

  
  BeltwayBlips - Top Political News, Videos, and Blogs — Authority: 558
  In a fast-breaking development comes word that agents of the Attorney’s General office in Louisiana have raided ACORN’s offices in New Orleans. ACORN’s New Orleans was, for decades, the headquarters of the national community organizing association. News of the raid comes from ... Pat Dollard | Young Americans ...
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• The Three Wartime Instincts Obama Lacks

  
  Pajamas Media — Authority: 781
  The presidents shortcomings have placed the Afghan war effort in serious jeopardy.
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• Coming Soon: ‘The Surge — The Untold Story’

  
  Big Hollywood — Authority: 815
  Earlier this year, I met with Washington’s Institute for the Study of War (ISW), a non-partisan, non-profit public policy research organization, with some of the most accomplished academics in the field of military affairs. ISW wanted to produce a military history in the form of a documentary film. The purpose was ...
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• Scozzafava robocalls for Owens

  
  BeltwayBlips - Top Political News, Videos, and Blogs — Authority: 558
  In for a penny, in for a pound — or in for a robocall, as evidenced by Dede Scozzafava’s newest gambit to support Democrat Bill Owens. Listen up, or read the script, which was released by Owens’ campaign. “Hi, this is Dede Scozzafava calling on behalf of Bill Owens. And I ... TPM Election Central found ...
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• Karzai declared elected president

  
  BeltwayBlips - Top Political News, Videos, and Blogs — Authority: 558
  Afghan President Hamid Karzai meets UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon in Kabul on 2 November 2009 Firedoglake found this 54 minutes ago on news.bbc.co.uk Find more top political news, videos, and blogs on BeltwayBlips: World , Hamid Karzai , General David Petraeus
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• Republicans headed for a Virginia sweep

  
  BeltwayBlips - Top Political News, Videos, and Blogs — Authority: 558
  Bob McDonnell leads Creigh Deeds 56-42 in PPPs final poll of the race. In a finding that may sum up what happened here 63% of voters in the state think McDonnell made a strong case for why he should be Governor while only 34% said the same of Deeds. Even 36% of Deeds supporters said he hadnt ... Blue Virginia found ...
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• 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 ...
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• Huge Texas Wind Farms Turbines Will Be Made in China

  
  BeltwayBlips - Top Political News, Videos, and Blogs — Authority: 558
  Clean tech has seen a boost as the U.S. pours government funding into renewable energy, and China looks set to reap much of the benefits. Latest example: a Chinese wind-turbine company has just become the exclusive supplier for one of the largest wind-farm developments in the U.S. The Shenyang ... Instapundit found ...
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• Karl Rove: Tuesdays Elections and the Obama Agenda

  
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  Associated Press Former Attorney General and Republican gubernatorial candidate, Bob McDonnell, left, and Democratic gubernatorial candidate and Virginia State Sen. Creigh Deeds, right. Daily Kos found this 5 hours ago on online.wsj.com Find more top political news, videos, and blogs on BeltwayBlips: White House , ...
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• Batchelor: Taliban Reads Headlines

  
  RBO — Authority: 557
  John Batchelor writes on his blog:Targeting the UN Colleague Simon Constable, WSJ, reports with Matthew Rosenberg, WSJ from Pakistan, on the Taliban VBIED shahid operation in the market streets of Peshawar — likely a murder raid meant to create a body count and slap at the Pakistan army operations in South [...]
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• Review: “The Fourth Star”

  
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• The Most Important Article on Afghanistan Youll Read This Week

  
  BeltwayBlips - Top Political News, Videos, and Blogs — Authority: 558
  Why, you ask? Because if this is true, and if the CIA is empowering Ahmed Wali Karzai at the same time in which NATO/ISAF is saying abusive local power-brokers are a threat to mission success, then this is yet another example of NATO/ISAF carrying out one campaign in Afghanistan while the CIA ... Newshoggers.com ...
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• US drone program in Pak, Afghanistan should continue, but with serious “hearts and minds” effort

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 725
  Washington, Oct.27 (ANI): As the Obama administration considers relying more heavily on remote-controlled drones to attack militants along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border, there are concerns thatWashingtonwill risk losing the hearts and minds of civilians along the way. According to a Fox News report, civilian ...
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• KFC colonel dupes UN security

  
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  UNITED NATIONS -- Red-faced United Nations officials on Monday admitted to a major security lapse after a UN guard helped Kentucky Fried Chickens "Colonel Sanders" gain access to restricted areas. The guard escorted the white-suited intruder past security barriers, where he got a handshake from ... Some Guy With a ...
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• Military Bureaucracy

  
  Outside The Beltway | OTB — Authority: 659
  Two separate reviews of The Fourth Star , a new book by David Cloud and Greg Jaffee, touch on a theme that has fascinated me since I wrote a dissertation on the subject. NYT foreign correspondent Dexter Filkins (via SWJ ): “The Fourth Star” paints wonderfully dramatic portraits of the four senior ...
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• Batchelor: Great Game Nukes

  
  RBO — Authority: 557
  John Batchelor writes on his blog:Deals Within Deals Peter Spiegel, WSJ, preps the Obama administration’s options on Afghanistan. Again, the scale of the problem is that last June POTUS constructed a quid pro quo deal with Abdullah of the overly clever and calcluating House of Al-Saud. POTUS [...]
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• The Man MoveOn.org’s Eli Pariser Insulted

  
  Israpundit — Authority: 626
  General David Petraeus wakes badly wounded soldier from coma by Bill Levinson A couple of years ago, MoveOn.org published a defamatory insult that called General David Petraeus “General Betray Us” and said he was at war with the truth. We remind our readers that Barack Obama solicited and accepted the ...
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• NATO Defense Ministers Endorse Wider Afghan Effort

  
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  BRATISLAVA, Slovakia — NATO defense ministers gave their broad endorsement Friday to the counterinsurgency strategy for Afghanistan laid out by Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal , increasing pressure on the Obama administration and on their own governments to commit more military and civilian resources ... Politics Daily ...
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• US reluctant to openly support Waziristan offensive

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 725
  Washington, Oct. 21 (ANI): Despite playing a proactive role in Pakistan’s Waziristan offensive against the Taliban, the United States has almost been reluctant to acknowledge its support for the military operation.“Washington fears that a public position, even in favour of Pakistan, will hurt the Pakistanis. The ...
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• Florida (FL) Poll * October 21, 2009 * Rubio Cuts Into Crist Lead In - Quinnipiac University – Hamden, Connecticut

  
  BeltwayBlips - Top Political News, Videos, and Blogs — Authority: 558
  Republican State Attorney General Bill McCollum edges Democrat State CFO Alex Sink 36 - 32 percent in the 2010 race for Governor, the independent Quinnipiac (KWIN-uh-pe-ack) University survey finds. McCollum has a commanding 43 - 7 percent lead over State Sen. Paula Dockery in a primary for the ... Naked Politics ...
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