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• 34,000 Troops and the Wuss Factor

  
  Newshoggers.com — Authority: 641
  By Steve Hynd McClatchy has the scoop - President Obama will announce on Dec 1 that he will order 34,000 additional troops sent to Afghanistan. As it now stands, the plan calls for the deployment over a nine-month period beginning in March of three Army brigades from the 101st Airborne Division at Fort Campbell, ...
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• Counterinsurgency is a bloody, costly business

  
  The AfPak Channel — Authority: 636
  By Paul Staniland The current conventional wisdom on counterinsurgency (COIN)focuses on simultaneously building a strong state and creating mass legitimacyfor the government. Gen. Stanley McChrystal has explicitlyargued that the U.S. canonly win in Afghanistanby winning "hearts and minds" while improving the reach ...
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• Menzie Chinn: Debt and Interest Rates: Some Empirical Evidence and Implications

  
  Brad DeLong's Egregious Moderation — Authority: 129
  Econbrowser: Debt and Interest Rates: Some Empirical Evidence and Implications : We can use these estimates to do a back of the envelope calculation of what happens in a year, going from end FY2009 to end FY2010.... According to the August CBO Economic and Budget Outlook, public debt held by the public two years ahead ...
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• The Peculiar Puzzle of Blanche Lincoln and Carl Hulse

  
  J. Bradford DeLong's Grasping Reality with All Eight Tentacles — Authority: 719
  Matthew Yglesias writes: Matthew Yglesias: Blanche Lincoln, Racing Horse : Blanche Lincoln has emerged as one of the pivotal votes in the US Senate debate about health care reform. So an article about her and her role in the debate seems like a smart thing for a newspaper to run. Which makes Spencer Ackerman’s ...
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• Good News for Health Care Reform...

  
  J. Bradford DeLong's Grasping Reality with All Eight Tentacles — Authority: 719
  But bad news for the American press. Ezra Klein and Stan Collender pile on to David Broder. Each day the Washington Post publishes David Broder is another day of humiliation for serious journalists working for the Post, for Newsweek, etc.--and also a day of humiliation for all those working for Stanley Kaplan ...
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• Obama Executive Order Eliminating Waste, Fraud and Abuse Full Text

  
  Obama-Mamas.com — Authority: 431
  EXECUTIVE ORDERBy the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, and in the interest of reducing payment errors and eliminating waste, fraud, and abuse in Federal programs, it is hereby ordered as follows: Section 1. Purpose. When the Federal Government makes ...
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• Blackwater’s Secret War in Pakistan

  
  NWOTruth — Authority: 484
  At a covert forward operating base run by the US Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) in the Pakistani port city of Karachi, members of an elite division of Blackwater are at the center of a secret program in which they plan targeted assassinations of suspected Taliban and Al Qaeda operatives, “snatch and ...
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• Obama plans to send 34,000 more troops to Afghanistan

  
  NWOTruth — Authority: 484
  WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama met Monday evening with his national security team to finalize a plan to dispatch some 34,000 additional U.S. troops over the next year to what he’s called “a war of necessity” in Afghanistan, U.S. officials told McClatchy.Obama is expected to announce his long-awaited ...
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• “Porn Industry” Lawyer Now AG Holder’s Deputy

  
  The Republican Temple — Authority: 516
  Jim sent this in: The announcement that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other terrorists would be tried in a civilian courtroom in New York City was made on Friday by Attorney General Eric Holder. Holder said he is confident that the court will provide a fair trial for the 9/11 conspirators and that justice ...
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• Obamas war

  
  Lawyers, Guns and Money — Authority: 709
  An unfortunate aspect of the nature of politics is that principled opposition to disastrous and/or immoral policies tends to either disappear or at least lose much of its intensity when such policies are adopted by politicians one supports. Certainly over the last year weve seen this among what passes for the ...
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• The People Who Sell Their Forecasts to Paying Clients Believe the Stimulus Is Working

  
  J. Bradford DeLong's Grasping Reality with All Eight Tentacles — Authority: 719
  Only those who make their nut one way or the other by pleasing Republicans claim that it isnt. Jackie Calmes and Michael Cooper are on the case: Jackie Calmes and Michael Cooper : Now that unemployment has topped 10 percent, some liberal-leaning economists see confirmation of their warnings that the $787 billion ...
  13 hours ago

• Brian Groom, Ralph Atkins, and Tom Braithwaite: Divisions emerge on stimulus strategy

  
  Brad DeLong's Egregious Moderation — Authority: 129
  FT.com / Global Economy - Divisions emerge on stimulus strategy : Stark divisions are emerging among economic policymakers about how quickly governments and central banks should withdraw emergency support measures, with Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the managing director of the International Monetary Fund, warning on Monday ...
  15 hours ago

• Chris Hayes: The China Debt Dance

  
  Brad DeLong's Egregious Moderation — Authority: 129
  The China Debt Dance : As Barack Obama touched down in China, the American press seemed to settle on a single story line. The president, wrote the New York Times, will be "assuming the role of profligate spender coming to pay his respects to his banker." And the Wall Street Journal highlighted "Chinas Blunt Talk for ...
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• Obamas Big Tent: First State Dinner to Exclude Congressional Republicans

  
  American Power — Authority: 704
  Its really hard to miss the bitter hypocrisy. Londons Telegraph reports that for the first time in recent administrations an American president will hold a formal state dinner on the White House lawn, " Barack Obama to Host First State Dinner in Huge Tent ": A huge tent has been pitched on the White House ...
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• Amid Growing Pressure, Obama to Back McChrystals Troops Surge in Afghanistan

  
  American Power — Authority: 704
  From Londons Telegraph , " Barack Obama ‘to Announce 30,000 Afghan Troop Increase Next Week’ ": President Barack Obama has convened his “war council” for the ninth and possibly final time before his expected announcement next week to send more than 30,000 troops to Afghanistan after more than 80 ...
  16 hours ago

• President Obamas Bow Was Perfectly Correct

  
  The Smirking Chimp - News And Commentary from the Vast Left-Wing Conspiracy — Authority: 641
  Before the US economic crisis levels out we might all have to learn to bow to some new masters who will own and rule over us in the future, and those people will probably not be Japanese. But, back to the bow. I once took two graduate courses in Japanese history and culture...taught by an American Professor who had ...
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• Cheney Blasts Obama Administration for “Very Costly” “Dithering” on Afghanistan, “Big Mistake” in Putting on a New York “Show Trial” for 9/11 Plotters

  
  Gospel of Jesus Christ, The Gift of Eternal Life — Authority: 124
  Former Vice President Dick Cheney came out swinging again against an Administration that seems bent upon doing exactly what the American people do NOT want them to do. This time he aimed both barrels at the Obama Administration for it’s “ dithering ” on Afghanistan , and it’s reckless pursuit of trying ...
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• Our Insane Economic Policy

  
  The Whig — Authority: 519
  NRO: The Specter of Default Until the risks of being awash in newly created money were finally recognized as the 800-pound self-inflating tiger in the room, the administration and congressional leadership were hinting at a new stimulus package. As was widely seen at the time, the $787 billion stimulus bill was a ...
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• Obamas nuclear spring | Benny Morris

  
  Comment is free | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 162
  An Israeli attack on Irans atomic weapons plants rests on one thing – the US presidents approval The talk in Israel, explicit and open – including in the countrys leading daily, Haaretz , last week – is about a war in the coming spring or summer. The skies will have cleared for air operations, Israels missile ...
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• Economic Policy FAIL

  
  The New Ledger Chequer-Board — Authority: 146
  I recognize that some contentions in the world are controversial, but some contentions should be accepted without much resistance, if any. For example, one hopes that it isn’t too much to argue that an American-imposed international tax on financial transactions –courtesy of the Democratic party–will simply ...
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