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• Third Quarter Growth Revised Downwards

  
  Outside The Beltway | OTB — Authority: 675
  The BEA has revised its estimates for the third quarter’s growth down to 2.8% from 3.5% . This is also a bit below the expected growth of 2.9% for the quarter. The main factors behind the downgrade: consumers didn’t spend as much, commercial construction was weaker and the nation’s trade deficit was more of ...
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• Obama Rejects of Land Mine Ban Treaty

  
  OntheWilderSide — Authority: 484
  from DemocracyNow.orgThe Obama administration has announced it won’t sign an international convention banning land mines. This is the first time the Obama administration has publicly disclosed its position on the Mine Ban Treaty, which bans the use, stockpiling, production or transfer of antipersonnel mines. We ...
  6 hours ago

• Reason #100,000,000,002 not to get your political analysis from Jezebel:

  
  What Would Phoebe Do — Authority: 468
  The debate on Jewish particularism in these comments .
  8 hours ago

• Obama offers cuts at Copenhagen

  
  Clive Crook's blog — Authority: 464
  I can’t see that Obama’s decision to go to Copenhagen and proclaim a goal for reducing greenhouse-gas emissions amounts to much. The 17 per cent cut by 2020 he is talking about is in line with the reductions foreseen in the bills now in Congress, but those bills are stuck. Perhaps it would be unseemly [...]
  8 hours ago

• I know it is stupidly early, but…

  
  Right Pulse — Authority: 127
  With all the Sarah Palin hopenchangin’ going on right now, selling nearly 500,000 copies of her book in the first week, one might be surprised to learn that in a recent poll  Romney tied with Obama, while Palin was behind. I think people are looking for a little less hopenchangin’ going rougin’, and a little ...
  10 hours ago

• Should America annex Canada?

  
  CKA Canadian Forums — Authority: 161
  by Choban Zipperfish wrote: The fact is that Canadians secretly placed in the hhighest echelons of American power have replaced all the "Big Red Buttons" wiht Staples "That was Easy" buttons. Also, we have our main propagnada wing (e.g. Michael Moore, Saturday Night Live) ensuring that feelings towards Canada ...
  10 hours ago

• Lou Dobbs for president

  
  Clive Crook's blog — Authority: 464
  So now Lou Dobbs weighs a run for the Senate–as a stepping stone, mind you, to the presidency. Asked whether he had been urged to ponder a White House run, “Yes, is the answer,” he said. Sarah Palin, far more likeable than Dobbs in my view, probably belongs in a similar category, though she is [...]
  11 hours ago

• Grover Cleveland Is My Hero

  
  NoelBagwell.com — Authority: 130
  By Noel Bagwell November 25, 2009 So, I’m reading Arguing With Idiots (very, very slowly; in fact, the reading has come to a stand-still, as I prep for finals). The book is, in part, about why returning to more libertarian principles – particularly principles of limited (federal) government – is necessary ...
  11 hours ago

• Cloture Reform

  
  Red Tory v.3.0 — Authority: 507
  Long overdue and much needed. Along with his co-sponsorship of Ron Paul’s bill to audit the Federal Reserve (HR 1207 and S 604), this seems like another winning issue for Grayson. Could we get a few more Dems like him with verifiable backbones to replace those cowardly, interminably waffling “blue dog” ...
  11 hours ago

• US-POLITICS Summary

  
  The Washington Post — Authority: 966
  Obama to give primetime speech on Afghanistan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama will unveil his new strategy for the war in Afghanistan in an address to Americans on December 1, White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said on Wednesday. Gibbs said Obama would deliver the address from West...
  12 hours ago

• Afghanistan: Troop Increase of 34,000?

  
  Project on Middle East Democracy (POMED) — Authority: 488
  There is an increasing consensus that President Obama has decided to announce an increase of 34,000 troops next Tuesday . In a recent press conference, Obama insisted “it is my intention to finish the job.” Matthew Cooper at Atlantic’s Politics blog offers suggestions  for what the President should ...
  13 hours ago

• “Hide the Decline”, the music video

  
  And Still I Persist — Authority: 126
  I haven’t written much about ‘Climategate’ because so many others are doing such a great job (for example, see here , here , and here ). But this video (hat tip to Ace of Spades ) pretty much sums things up (and with a catchy tune, too!).  ..bruce w..
  14 hours ago

• 2012 Obama v Palin

  
  Not a sheep — Authority: 151
  The LA Times reports something that the left just wont understand: "Not that it matters politically because obviously shes a female Republican dunce and hes obviously a male Democratic genius. But Sarah Palins poll numbers are strengthening. And President Obamas are sliding. Guess what? Theyre about to meet in ...
  14 hours ago

• Inside the Michelle Obama image fight: why Google wont tweak results

  
  Technology: Technology blog | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 141
  Google is determined not to be seen to make choices, even over results such as the Michelle Obama monkey image Google made its name in search through a simple principle: if lots of other sites point to a particular site that matches a search term, thats probably the most highly thought-of site for that topic. Its ...
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• Always billions for war…

  
  Why We Worry — Authority: 129
  … but not for helping the American people: President Obama said Tuesday that he was determined to “finish the job” in Afghanistan, and his aides signaled to allies that he would send as many as 25,000 to 30,000 additional American troops there even as they cautioned that the final number remained in flux. (NY ...
  15 hours ago

• The Democratic Party is a bad, “Yo Mama” joke

  
  OntheWilderSide — Authority: 484
  Thanks to Green Party Watch for the tip.Dan Kairis is running for Congress, 14th District, in Illinois. Kairis filed signatures to run on the Green Party line. Those challenges are being brought by someone who is receiving help from lawyers connected to the Democratic Party of Illinois. Among the accusations is that ...
  16 hours ago

• EPA CO2 comment deadline for cars and light trucks fast approaching – get your comments in now

  
  The right-wing liberal — Authority: 510
  While you are enjoying your Thanksgiving, do take the time to act upon this. Daniel Simmons writes: Great work with Watts Up With That ( RWL Note: WUWT is where I first found this – here ) on the CRU email scandal. Hopefully this scandal will lead to increased openness in climate science. With all of the ...
  16 hours ago

• Will Republicans Take Responsibility for Lies About “Socialism”?

  
  CafeSentido.com — Authority: 503
  The Republican party has developed an increasingly obstructionist, radical ideology, based on fundamental distortions of the process of government and the aims of opponents. Party strategists openly admit there is a calculation that such distortions will “reframe” the Democratic agenda in a light average Americans ...
  17 hours ago

• Obama Official Slams “Poison Politics” of Oil Industry

  
  Oil Change — Authority: 467
  We have always known that the oil industry and the Republican Party make close bedfellows, but now Obama’s Interior Secretary, Ken Salazar, has launched a stinging attack on the oil industry saying it was acting “like an arm” of the Republicans. He lambasted the industry for issuing “untruths” about the ...
  19 hours ago

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