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• Knowing History: Afghanistan

  
  Alexandria — Authority: 488
  Ever read something about a period of history that made you wonder how you could have forgotten it? This Tapper piece, via Sullivan, reminds us about an important time in the history of Afghanistan. Key quotes…… This meme, in the hands of others in the Obama administration, has been in some ways a pushback ...
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• Al Jazeera notes US Media more interested in Mickey Mouse than the Taliban

  
  C.O.P.S. — Authority: 137
  I am not surprised by the US media but found this Al Jazeera story interesting. Youd have been hard pressed to find much coverage of the Obama troop announcement on Wednesdays American breakfast TV. I know this because our North America editors had asked me to watch the US breakfast shows, in case there was a story ...
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• Troop withdrawal in Afghanistan could take 2-3 years, Gates says

  
  The Washington Post — Authority: 961
  The withdrawal of U.S. forces from Afghanistan, scheduled to begin in July 2011, will "probably" take two or three years, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates said Thursday, although he added that "there are no deadlines in terms of when our troops will all be out."
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• Obama finds new excuse to escape the Oval Office and fly on AF1

  
  C.O.P.S. — Authority: 137
  His "White House to Main Street" photo-op tour will not fix his inept handling of the economy. Under pressure from Republicans and an impatient public to fix the sputtering economic recovery, President Barack Obama is refocusing on this politically potent issue by talking job creation with business and labor ...
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• USDA says PETA is a terrorist threat

  
  C.O.P.S. — Authority: 137
  ”Plants have feelings. Be a Carnivore.” Says People for the Ethical Treatment of Plants (PETP). People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals has been classified as a “terrorist threat” in a document created by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The USDA created a new “APHIS Facility Security Profile” ...
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• Oh Canada, say it ain’t so!

  
  Checklist Toward Zero Carbon — Authority: 93
  Until now I believed that the nation that has done most to sabotage a new climate change agreement was the United States. I was wrong. The real villain is Canada. Unless we can stop it, the harm done by Canada in December 2009 will outweigh a century of good works. That’s one of many scathing passages in George ...
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• Gates Re-emphasizes Need For Afghan, Pakistani Engagement

  
  The Republican Temple — Authority: 488
  The United States will not turn its back on Afghanistan and Pakistan as it did when the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan ended in 1989, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates said in Washington, D.C. yesterday, according to AFPS’ Jim Garamone. “We’re not just going to throw these guys into the swimming pool and ...
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• IMU: T-Shirts Spreading Happiness

  
  POSHGLAM.com — Authority: 146
  By Samantha Lefkowitz Sometimes the smallest things in life can change our ideas of how we want the rest of our lives to turn. Such is the case with David Merritt, a young man that realized his dream of wanting to play basketball, and worked timelessly to make this dream come true. Merritt never let anything stand in ...
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• Gates Foundation Awards $12.9M in Community College Grants

  
  Gearlog — Authority: 667
  On the heels of awarding $3.4 billion in broadband grants earlier this week, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation on Wednesday awarded an additional $12.9 million intended to improve education and graduation rates at community colleges. This latest round of grants is part of the Gates Foundations Postsecondary ...
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• Reid Announces Classified Afghanistan Briefing

  
  The Washington Independent Blog — Authority: 155
  Word from my ever-alert colleague Mike Lillis: Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.) just announced a classified briefing on Afghanistan to be held in the Capitol Visitors’ Center at 4:30. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton indicated this morning in testimony to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that she thought ...
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• Batchelor: Landlocked

  
  RBO — Authority: 510
  John Batchelor writes on his blog:No Roads Frank Oliveri and Bill Roggio both elaborated on the particular challenges of moving 30 thousand combat troops into Afghanistan in the next six months. The critical fact is that this is a landlocked country — and this increases the costs, the demands [...]
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• What if you get to Heaven and the gates are just padlocked?

  
  http://diddy.name — Authority: 171
  What if nobody gets into Heaven anymore, it’s full now? Think of how many souls have already passed away in this world, and perhaps in other worlds as well. What if everyone is just milling around outside and there isn’t even a waiting list anymore because nobody leaves Heaven once they get there? Is that an ...
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• White House: July 2011 is locked in for Afghanistan withdrawal

  
  osmoothie — Authority: 147
  CBS News , “ White House: July 2011 Is Locked In for Afghanistan Withdrawal ” by Chip Reid During the Senate Armed Services hearing today, Defense Secretary Robert Gates was pressed by Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C. on whether the July 2011 date for beginning to withdrawal troops is “locked in.” Gates ...
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• Charlie Wilsons War -- The Sequel

  
  Mouth of the Potomac - NY Daily News Blogs — Authority: 648
  They didn’t make a movie about former Rep. Charlie Wilson (D-Tex.) for nothing. For two days running now, Defense Secretary Robert Gates, a former career CIA operative, has used Capitol Hill hearings to heap praise on his old pal Charlie for wrangling money out of Congress for secret CIA funding that helped the ...
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• Nightlife: Testing Nightclub Door Policies So You Dont Have To

  
  Eater NY — Authority: 157
  The Onions AV Club decided to test out some door policies at New York clubs, sending NY Barflys James Mulcahy to discover what should have been obvious; some doors are impossible and some are too easy. But Mulcahy reports that the Gates "turns rejection into a different art form: extortion. Instead of shooing ...
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• How Long Will the War Continue After July 2011? Two, Three, Five Years?

  
  The Washington Independent Blog — Authority: 155
  During today’s Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on Afghanistan, Sens. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) and Jim Webb (D-Va.) tried to drill down on the pace of withdrawal from Afghanistan after the transition phase to Afghan control begins in July 2011 . Menendez suggested that the Obama administration is deceiving ...
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• Clinton Ties Afghanistan-Pakistan War to Domestic U.S. Threat

  
  The Washington Independent — Authority: 733
  “Syndicate of terror” was how Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton described the relationship between al-Qaeda and the various insurgent and terrorist networks across the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan, a position eagerly endorsed by her colleagues Secretary Robert Gates and Adm. Michael Mullen. ...
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• Eulogies: On Monday, the city voted to...

  
  Racked NY — Authority: 680
  On Monday, the city voted to ban roll-down security gates in storefronts, prompting the New York Times to run a long, searching piece about the gates history. It starts off romantic: The gates "have provided the clattering soundtrack of dawn and dusk, the steel canvas of struggling artists, the most compelling ...
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• The Dithering Bloom Of Bush/Cheney

  
  43-Ideas-Per-Minute — Authority: 477
  In a recent conversation on Twitter with @AnUnlikelySaint, I pointed out that as recently as last year, Bush/Cheney did not answer a call for more troops in Afghanistan. My assertion, back up by a report in McClatchy which I blogged about yesterday, is solidified with new information coming from Admiral Micheal ...
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• Gates Defends ‘Gradual’ Afghan War Exit as Republicans Balk (Bloomberg)

  
  enUws — Authority: 172
  Bloomberg – Dec. 3 (Bloomberg) — U.S. forces will leave Afghanistan gradually based on security in local areas, Defense Secretary Robert Gates told lawmakers as … See original here: (Bloomberg)"> (Bloomberg)">Gates Defends Gradual Afghan War Exit as Republicans Balk (Bloomberg)
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