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• Sunday, November 16, 2009

  
  Rising in Phoenix — Authority: 424
  From RealityChex, http://www.realitychex.com .. .if Catholic Bishops demand a voice in legislation, then they must do what all other special interests in Washington do: register as lobbyists and surrender their tax-exempt status. Bill Press, writing in the Washington Post, is appalled that the House has given ...
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• Surging Through the Khyber Pass and into a quagmire - Cmon Obama, Lets have a real buildup in Afghanistan!

  
  Sir! No Sir! Exposing and Debunking Military Lies from Vietnam to Iraq — Authority: 138
  This article, by Richard Lee, was posted to The Rag Blog, November 11, 2009 To Barack Obama: Let’s have a military buildup! You can show those crazy-ass generals at the Pentagon that you aren’t just a chicken-shit weenie from Harvard. You gotta do it right, however. Stop waffling about a measly 40,000 or 44,000 ...
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• FM newswire, 12 November – links to old-fashioned journalism

  
  Fabius Maximus — Authority: 547
  Today’s broadsheet from the FM website pressroom.  There are 4 sections, all with hot news.Links to 4 interesting articles of news and analysisQuote of the DayNews about themes from 2 posts past on the FM websiteThought for the day (-1)Plus an Afterword(I)  Links to interesting news and analysis(a)  “State ...
  3 days ago

• Morning Bell: Keeping Up Our End of the Bargain With Those Who Serve

  
  The Foundry — Authority: 768
  Today, we at The Heritage Foundation will honor Veterans Day by pausing to remember those who sacrifice in defense of freedom for our country. Heritage honors all who serve past and present in the United States Armed Forces, their families, and all military retirees and veterans. We solemnly remember those fallen ...
  4 days ago

• Massive Defense Spending Leads to Job Loss by Dean Baker

  
  BuzzFlash.net: published — Authority: 550
  There is a major national ad campaign, funded by the oil industry and other usual suspects, to convince the public that measures to reduce greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) and slow global warming will result in massive job loss. This ad campaign warns of slower growth and the loss of hundreds of thousands of jobs, ...
  4 days ago

• Because, as we all know, Military Spending Doesn’t Count

  
  The United States of Jamerica — Authority: 128
  New York Times : The nation’s top military officer said Wednesday that he expected the Pentagon to ask Congress in the next few months for emergency financing to support the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, even though President Obama has pledged to end the Bush administration practice of paying for the conflicts ...
  5 days ago

• >>Rising Debt, Sinking Security

  
  And So I Go: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow — Authority: 440
  Rising Debt, Sinking Security » The Foundry As the Obama administration and the liberals in Congress push our nation deeper and deeper in debt they are cutting back on our national security and defense spending.  We are fighting wars on two fronts and they are cutting back on weapons and supplies our troops ...
  5 days ago

• Rising Debt, Sinking Security

  
  The Foundry — Authority: 768
  It turns out that neither nuclear weapons nor terrorism may be the greatest threat to American prosperity and security. Instead, it may be something we hear very little about in the mainstream media: our burgeoning national debt. Runaway spending on entitlements, bailouts, and stimulus bills are driving the budget ...
  5 days ago

• The Week in Government Failure

  
  Cato @ Liberty — Authority: 738
  Over at Downsizing Government , we focused on failures in the following departments this week: Commerce: corporate welfare in Ohio Defense: cost overruns in the Pentagon’s space programs Energy: central planners gamble with taxpayer money HUD: subsidizing private firms to operate public housing isn’t ...
  1 week ago

• Because, as we all know, Military Spending Doesn’t Count

  
  The League of Ordinary Gentlemen — Authority: 683
  New York Times : The nation’s top military officer said Wednesday that he expected the Pentagon to ask Congress in the next few months for emergency financing to support the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, even though President Obama has pledged to end the Bush administration practice of paying for the conflicts with ...
  1 week ago

• Attorney Calls for Formal Investigation of DoD Contract for Study of Portable Lie Detectors

  
  Bob McCarty Writes — Authority: 544
  In a post almost seven months ago, I reported on a claim that the Preliminary Credibility Assessment Screening System, a hand-held portable lie detector system made by Lafayette Instrument Company , was never tested for countermeasures before it was deployed to troops in combat zones and that it was the success ...
  1 week ago

• Flashback: 10 Reasons Not to Elect Barack Obama

  
  Bob McCarty Writes — Authority: 544
  Today, I offer a flashback to a post I published one year ago today which offered 10 Reasons Not to Elect Barack Obama president of the United States.  Was I right? 1. Obama said he wants to establish a civilian national security force and, in doing so, further enlarge the federal government. 2.  Obama ...
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• Nothing’s ever certain except race and taxes.

  
  The League of Ordinary Gentlemen — Authority: 683
  A ndrew Sullivan has this map posted at the Dish today , which he found via  Open Left .  What I take from Open Left’s analysis is that by and large white men are not all that progressive.  Why this should be “discouraging” to Sullivan is beyond me, unless we’re conflating a lack of progressiveness with ...
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• Senate OKs $680 Billion-Dollar Spending Bill

  
  ::Broadcatching:: — Authority: 131
  Senate OKs defense bill, 68-29T H E  H I L L By Roxana Tiron  10/22/09 04:20 PM ETThe Senate on Thursday sent the massive 2010 Pentagon policy bill to the president’s desk for signing. The Senate approved the bill authorizing $680 billion in defense spending by a vote of 68-29.For the first ...
  1 week ago

• Here Is The OldYeller Plan

  
  InvestmentWatch — Authority: 450
  Phase out the Federal Reserve and cancel all interest we owe this private blood sucker. A debt based currency has murdered us. Our debts are illegal if they are to the Federal Reserve. Ban Lobbying. All elections funded by a Government money pool equally divided among those running for Congress Pres etc. On the state ...
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• U.S. war spending jumps 21 percent since the beginning of the crisis…

  
  Re: The People — Authority: 127
  (Click to enlarge)This is a helpful graph, which crystallizes what is actually taking place amidst all the numbers being thrown around today. We have yet to see anything like it elsewhere.One under-reported aspect of the GDP numbers released last week is the impact US war preparations spending is having on inflating ...
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• Didn’t Dwight Eisenhower Warn About This Kind of Thing?

  
  Understanding Government — Authority: 139
  Boeings C-17 Globemaster Via ProPublica , Ben Elgin and Keith Epstein have a really terrific piece in Business Week about the struggle to rid the defense spending bill of expensive, largely unnecessary Cold War-weapons projects. A few things caught my eye here, first a breakdown of how spending on weapons ...
  2 weeks ago

• After Ten Years, Hate Crimes Legislation Finally Signed Into Law

  
  OutGayLife.com — Authority: 156
  Its been a long decade, spanning Matthew Shepard (the University of Wyoming student killed in 1998 for being gay) to Jack Price (the 49-year-old Queens resident who was beaten into a coma two weeks ago by thugs who targeted him for being gay). But finally, LGBT rights advocates got to watch yesterday as President ...
  2 weeks ago

• Obama Trims (Some) Fat with Weapons Bill

  
  Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines — Authority: 730
  In a move that some are praising as a major victory against the powerful weapons lobby, President Obama was able to cut out several expensive programs, thus cutting down on defense spending, in the new $680 billion dollar military bill he signed Wednesday. However, before we get too excited, let’s be clear here: ...
  2 weeks ago

• Obama Signs Hate Crimes Bill

  
  The Caucus — Authority: 786
  The expansion protects people who are victims of crime because of their sexual orientation.
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