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• Why No War on Lightning?

  
  The BRAD BLOG — Authority: 134
  Odds of being on an airplane attacked by a terrorist over the past decade, according to Nate Silver at FiveThirtyEight.com: 1 in 10,408,947 . Odds of being hit by lightning in any single year: appx. 1 in 500,000 . Odds the U.S. will wage a War on Lightning: 0 in a Gazillion . Odds well talk about all of the ...
  8 hours ago

• The Best Proven Defense Against Terrorism

  
  2parse — Authority: 129
  The attempted terrorist attack of Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab on Christmas Day reiterates the lesson America should have learned , but did not learn, on that day: The federal government cannot be everywhere. The best defense of our way of life, of our institutions, of our government, of our people, is the American ...
  8 hours ago

• Calling Out Republicans For Hypocrisy

  
  1115.org — Authority: 131
  In the time of Bush , Republicans were recklessly profligate with new spending, and blithely unconcerned with financing that spending. That’s why one of the most enduring footprints Bush left for posterity as he trampled the economy is the slew of records he set with the national debt . Records like “Largest ...
  17 hours ago

• Losing Cairo?

  
  Foreign Policy — Authority: 717
  Since Barack Obamas speech six months ago, the Muslim world has begun to lose hope in the United States. But its not too late ... yet.
  4 days ago

• Will WE Win?: A Reply to Frank Schaeffers Obama Will Win

  
  The BRAD BLOG — Authority: 134
  [ Ed Note: On Monday, The BRAD BLOG published Frank Schaeffers guest editorial, "Obama Will Win: Why and How His Critics from the Left and Right Will be Proven Wrong" . Today, were pleased to offer a counterpoint in reply by author David Swanson. ] Guest editorial by David Swanson Ive appreciated much of Frank ...
  5 days ago

• VIDEO: Teabaggers are real scumbags!

  
  Nevada Thunder — Authority: 115
  side note: I used to watch Washington Journal on CSPAN every morning…they used to have some real good moderators…..then something happened and they got this new woman who is a nutjob righty who hides behind her nice clothes and pretty face…but from time to time that righty side of hers comes screaming out. ...
  5 days ago

• Bush’s presidential library will produce a public television show titled ‘Ideas In Action.’

  
  Think Progress — Authority: 826
  President Bush’s presidential library at the Southern Methodist University in Dallas (the “George W. Bush Presidential Center”) will house a think tank called the George W. Bush Institute , which will promote ideas centered around “the principles of freedom, opportunity, responsibility and compassion .” ...
  6 days ago

• The Greatest Gifts: A Christmas Post

  
  Stephen M. Walt — Authority: 693
  Its the holiday season, and with it comes the tradition ofgift-giving. These acts ofgenerosity warm the cold months of winter and provide us with tangible signs ofaffection from our loved ones. Although a spirit of kindness and altruism is part of the process, anelement of self-interest is often present too. Parents ...
  6 days ago

• Americans Judge The Bush Decade: ‘Awful’ And ‘Not So Good’

  
  Think Progress — Authority: 826
  A new NBC/Wall Street Journal poll finds that Americans are entering 2011 with a negative view of the events of the past decade, which was largely marked by President Bush’s tenure from 2001-2009: According to the poll, a combined 58% said the decade was either “awful” or “not so good,” 29% said it was ...
  1 week ago

• Obama Will Win: Why and How His Critics from the Left and Right Will be Proven Wrong

  
  The BRAD BLOG — Authority: 134
  Guest editorial by Frank Schaeffer Before hed served even one year President Obama lost the support of the easily distracted Left and engendered the white hot rage of the hate-filled Right. But some of us, from all walks of life and ideological backgrounds --- including this white, straight, 57-year-old, former ...
  1 week ago

• Compare and Contrast: The Prosecutions of Don Siegelman (D) and Ted Stevens (R)

  
  The BRAD BLOG — Authority: 134
  Guest Blogged by Rebecca M. Abrahams Two weeks ago Washington Post reported that U.S. District Judge Emmet G. Sullivan named federal prosecutor Henry Schuelke to investigate whether gross prosecutorial misconduct tainted the governments case against now-former Republican Senator Ted Stevens of Alaska. At issue, ...
  1 week ago

• The Other Nobel Controversy

  
  Foreign Policy — Authority: 717
  What the recent uproar over the Nobel Committee chairmans lucrative new post says about Norways peace prize complex.
  1 week ago

• The $2 Trillion Man

  
  Foreign Policy — Authority: 717
  How Obama saved Brand America.
  1 week ago

• Real ID Implementation Deadline for States: December 31 2009

  
  The SideTrack — Authority: 115
  Taking a second (third, fourth, one-hundre-and-ninety-eleventh) seat to the health care reform debate is this nasty little bit of Orwellian Bush legacy... The official deadline for states to comply with the Department of Homeland Securitys (DHS) final Real ID rule is December 31, 2009, and an estimated 36 ...
  1 week ago

• Real Fiscal Responsibility & Deficit Politics: Democrats

  
  2parse — Authority: 129
  This is part 3 of a 4-part series of posts. Part 1 provided an  introduction and description of the groups that benefit from the government spending  status quo : the elderly, the military, the poor, and big corporations in that order. The overall societal status quo clearly favors all these groups except the ...
  1 week ago

• Bush and his AIDS project in Africa

  
  Rants From The Rookery — Authority: 132
  That everyone touts as a wonderful thing, just remember this: Under President George W. Bush , the United States withdrew from its decades-long role as a global leader in supporting family planning, driven by a conservative ideology that favored abstinence and shied away from providing contraceptive devices ...
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• Obama’s Afghan policy speech, designed to confound domestic opponents, is confusing Pakistan

  
  Shadow Government — Authority: 598
  By Peter Feaver A story out of Pakistan today shows that the rhetorical/policy trimming that marredPresident Obamas Afghan escalation speech has done some damage to theprospects for the policy. The bottom line: the Pakistanis are not doingwhat we need them to do because they interpreted the ...
  1 week ago

• Missing Bush White House Emails Found

  
  Taegan Goddard's Political Wire — Authority: 732
  The AP reports computer technicians "have found 22 million missing White House e-mails from the administration of President George W. Bush, according to two groups that are settling lawsuits they filed over the failure by the Bush White House to install an electronic record keeping system."
  2 weeks ago

• Friends like these (II): Neocons embracing Obama

  
  The Best Defense — Authority: 626
  William Kristol -- yes, that Bush Doctrine-supporting,America-excepting, neocon warmonger -- is just smoochingall over President Obamas Nobel speech: There was a fair amount for Bush Doctrine-supporters, American-exceptionalist patriots, and neocon warmongers to like in Obamas Oslo speech. He sounded hardheaded ...
  2 weeks ago

• Obama’s Big Sellout

  
  Nevada Thunder — Authority: 115
  side note: Another great article from Matt Taibbi…read this over lunch, and even though I knew some this stuff, it was filled with tidbits that blew my mind. This has been my biggest issue with President Obama. He either doesn’t understand economics, which I don’t think is correct…..or, after a few years in ...
  2 weeks ago

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