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• News Watch NewsBusters Shout-Out On Obama Refusal To Defend Japan Nuking

  
  NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias — Authority: 825
  On Friday, this NewsBuster noted how Pres. Obama, questioned at a news conference in Japan, twice refused to say whether he thought the United States dropping of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki was "the right decision." Yesterday on Fox News Watch, Jim Pinkerton noted the NewsBusters nugget.  The Fox News ...
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• Would Obama Have Nuked Japan? (Uhm..is this a trick question?) (Howler Alert)

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 165
  At a press conference in Tokyo today, a Japanese reporter asked Obama whether Harry Truman made "the right decision" to drop nuclear weapons on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Obama dodged the question....I wonder what he really thinks. It seems likely that, like the overwhelming majority of Americans, Obama thinks the bombs ...
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• Interview with Mark Bradley and Marilyn Young

  
  New Books In History — Authority: 106
  What to think about the Vietnam War? A righteous struggle against global Communist tyranny? An episode in American imperialism? A civil war into which the United States blindly stumbled? And what of the Vietnamese perspective? How did they–both North and South–understand the war?  Mark Bradley and Marilyn ...
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• On My Nightstand: A Safe Haven: Harry S. Truman and the Founding of Israel

  
  A Blog For All — Authority: 528
  A Safe Haven: Harry S. Truman and the Founding of Israel, by Ronald and Allis Radosh, recounts the events leading up to the founding of the state of Israel, specifically examining the conduct of President Truman and those advising him on the matter.It examines the conduct of the US and British following the end of ...
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• House Approves Sweeping Health Care Bill, Now All Eyes on Senate

  
  Joejolly's Weblog — Authority: 131
  Obama Tells Democrats This Is a ‘Big Moment in History’ abc NEWS By JONATHAN KARL, RACHEL MARTIN and TEDDY DAVIS WASHINGTON, Nov. 8, 2009 Democrats in the House of Representatives narrowly passed sweeping health care reform legislation Saturday night, with only one Republican joining in the vote ...
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• WHATS A SELF-STYLED ZIONIST?

  
  REAL LIBERAL CHRISTIAN CHURCH — Authority: 128
  ... As for "self-styled [Zionist]," I put it that way because they are not Zionists. This is spiritually deep. David was admittedly confused. Zion was more than he knew. He knew it was supposed to be peaceful. He blamed those outside for starting the fighting. The real Zion is the peaceful Heaven in your mind and ...
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• Drunk Forklift Driver Video, Naked Voters and Black Bart

  
  Symon Sez — Authority: 429
  Where YOUR Forklift Driver? This has been shown before, but the video of the drunk forklift driver in Russia is worth another look.  The guy is working in a vodka warehouse.  So, when he backs into the shelves in the warehouse that subsequently fall over and then causes the shelving on the other side of the ...
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• Dewey Defeats Truman: Wake-Up Video

  
  MTV Newsroom — Authority: 692
  All across the United States, people are headed to the polls today, as the first Tuesday of every November is always Election Day. Its an odd year, so there are no national races in play, but that doesnt mean your local and state government should get short shrift, as your mayor, governor or local representatives ...
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• Unsung Heroes That Won The Cold War

  
  Clark County Conservative — Authority: 126
  Once again we prepare to honor those who have served in all of our wars, paying special homage to those who did not return from our wars. Nearly all of us who served in combat zones over our history view those whose names are etched in stone on the many Veterans Memorials as the true [...]
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• Unsung Heroes That Won The Cold War

  
  Right in a Left World — Authority: 121
  By Lew Waters Once again we prepare to honor those who have served in all of our wars, paying special homage to those who did not return from our wars. Nearly all of us who served in combat zones over our history view those whose names are etched in stone on the many Veterans Memorials as the true heroes of our ...
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• Health Care Reform: What Would LBJ Do?

  
  Unsilent Generation — Authority: 421
  In  my last post , I compared the current Democratic leadership to Lyndon Johnson, and speculated that if LBJ were alive today, he might have been able to get a decent health care reform bill through Congress. I suspect he could have done it without at least some of the compromises and concessions to corporate ...
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• How Obamas Health Reform Push Compares to his Predecessors

  
  Politics Daily — Authority: 814
  As President Obama leans into the Sisyphean boulder of health care reform, he inches forward in the footsteps of several predecessors. No fewer than four U.S. presidents in the past century have tried and failed to enact universal health care legislation. To be sure, Obama has had help along the way. And as the ...
  2 weeks ago

• "The Biggest Loser"

  
  City Lakes Real Estate Blog — Authority: 137
  Re-Assessing Todays LeadersAs historians know full well, Presidential reputations sometimes take decades to settle out, experiencing ups and downs in the meantime.For example, Harry Truman left office in 1953 quite unpopular.Over time, though, his stock gradually rose as society came to appreciate -- after the fact -- ...
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• Truman quote on the CIAs cloaks, daggers + JFK

  
  Stars Over Washington — Authority: 129
  Like a puppy with a bone I always return to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. What am I reading tonight? Heres a tidbit from 1963, still of a haunting spirit which is, I suppose, quite appropriate for Saturday nights Halloween: "For some time I have been disturbed by the way the CIA has been diverted ...
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• Leadership

  
  Regaining the Center — Authority: 127
  Former President Harry Truman used to like to say, “the buck stops here”. Former President George W Bush said, “I’m the decider”. One of these men will be remembered as a great President and the other will not. Taking responsibility for ones decisions and their consequences is a large part of leadership ...
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• VA Voters Ready to Send Obama a Message

  
  The Liberal Democrat — Authority: 425
  This is one Mr. Deeds who apparently isn’t going to town. The collapse of the Democratic campaign for governor of Virginia speaks volumes - chapters, anyway - about what the body politic is trying to tell Barack Obama’s Democrats.They’re learning, painfully, that campaigning without George W. Bush is baffling, ...
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• Afghanistan: Issues Of Must vs. Can

  
  Newsroom Magazine — Authority: 127
  I’m tired. I’m tired of feeling rejected by the American people. I’m tired of waking up in the middle of the night worrying about the war.Lyndon B. Johnson36th President OfThe United States Of AmericaWashingtonWho Speaks For Lyndon Johnson?Our nation, and our president, find themselves at yet another crossroad ...
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• Then and Now in the Democratic Party

  
  Sarah Palin in 2012 — Authority: 116
  Great orators of yesterdays Democratic Party: One man with courage makes a majority. - Andrew Jackson The only thing we have to fear is fear itself. - Franklin D. Roosevelt The buck stops here. - Harry S. Truman Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what ...
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• LA Progressive: October 18 to 24, 2009 — Articles

  
  The LA Progressive — Authority: 439
  Drinking Motivational KoolAid: How It All Works Financially. Even the soberest fiscal conservatives cannot avoid the power of this pitch and will jump out of his or her seat with wallet wide open!... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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• White House Fires Back on Afghanistan – Misses

  
  BitsBlog — Authority: 140
  It seems that Bobby Gibbs has become very hard to ignore.    Former Vice President Dick Cheney, father of Liz, leveled from very specific charges at the Obama administration.    Included was the charge the the Obama much proclaimed new plan announced in March was basically developed by the Bush ...
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