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• 34,000 Troops and the Wuss Factor

  
  Newshoggers.com — Authority: 644
  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, ...
  3 days ago

• Could denying bedroom privileges save the planet?

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  There will be a record number of side events at the United Nations-sponsored climate talks in Copenhagen next month, but one woman’s one-woman show could give the delegates, most of whom will be men, the incentive they really need to agree a new global warming treaty. In “ The Boycott “, Kathryn Blume plays ...
  4 days ago

• Deals in the Minimal and Maximal Goal Set Worlds

  
  Newshoggers.com — Authority: 644
  By Dave Anderson: Bernard Finel offers the basic outline of a plausible, credible and mutually enforcable deal that could be cut with significnt elements of the Pashtun insurgencies in Afghanistan: The deal we would cut with them is, OK, we will allow you to rule in your area, but you won’t allow foreign ...
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• Self-preservation is not a Democratic instinct

  
  Newshoggers.com — Authority: 644
  By Dave Anderson: Democrats dont want to be in the majority.  They dont want Republicans in the majority either, but they Democratic elected elite has minimal interest in being part of an effective governing majority.  The healthcare bill is the best example.  They have managed to shed their left flank, Ron is a ...
  4 days ago

• The Health Care Fiasco

  
  Newshoggers.com — Authority: 644
  Commentary By Ron Beasley The headline reads: Reid pulls together Senate Dems to take huge step on health reform Although the Senate’s action was a mere procedural vote, it representedthe end of weeks of anxiety for Reid while foreshadowing difficultlegislative and political battles ahead. Applause from ...
  5 days ago

• Dredging for Responsibility: GE’s Clean-Up Project on the Hudson River

  
  Art Institute — Authority: 164
  EPA) Hudson River Field Office, as well as with local and national activists from Scenic Hudson, Clearwater, Beacon Institute and Sierra Club to gain first-hand assessments of how GE is now handling what has been a hugely divisive issue for over three
  5 days ago

• Make Them Pay For It!

  
  Newshoggers.com — Authority: 644
  Commentary By Ron Beasley I have said for years that the best way to end foreign misadventures like Iraq and Afghanistan was to make the millionaire pundits and neocons pay for them.  Lets see how enthusiastic Bill Kristol and Fred Barnes are when their wars are being paid for by them.  So they want to wage war in ...
  6 days ago

• Schradenfreude in Texas

  
  Newshoggers.com — Authority: 644
  By Dave Anderson: Schradenfreude may strike Texas, as a plain reading of their anti-gay marriage laws and amendments that passed in 2005 implies the possibility of all marriages not being legal in Texas. [h/t James Joyner ] From McClatchey: The amendment, approved by the Legislature and overwhelmingly ...
  1 week ago

• Hump Day Hoglets of FAIL

  
  Newshoggers.com — Authority: 644
  By Dave Anderson: Just a few quick hits on institutional and governmental capture and failure. I would write more, but I have to change diapers and get to a play-date in a few minutes (I have my priorities.) Brad Delong on institutional failure and a Depression: In my estimation the chances of another big ...
  1 week ago

• Quote Of The Day

  
  Newshoggers.com — Authority: 644
  By Ron Beasley Juan Cole on the Republican Party: This decision by the Obama administration demonstrates faith in theAmerican way of life, and a conviction that even the worst massmurderers can be dealt justice by democratic institutions. Predictably,Republican critics vowed to fight the decision, since they ...
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• Eight Years To Find Our Faith In The Justice System

  
  Newshoggers.com — Authority: 644
  By Steve Hynd The news that Khalid Sheik Mohammed and other detainees accused of helping orchestrate the 9/11 attacks are headed to New York for federal trial   has all the wingnut pantswetters beside themselves in horror . Youd think KSM was Magneto from the way they carry on. The perfect antidote to their ...
  2 weeks ago

• Garbage, gaffes and decision loops

  
  Newshoggers.com — Authority: 644
  By Dave Anderson: Everyone involved in the US debate over Afghanistan fundamentally agrees that the Karzai government has serious problems. It is corrupt. It is weak. It is propped up by 100,000 heavily armed foreigners. It is a black-hole of competency. It includes various warlords and their militias that have ...
  2 weeks ago

• Glass-Steagal VS Gramm-Leach-Bliley

  
  Newshoggers.com — Authority: 644
  Commentary By Ron Beasley It looks like Obama may be getting closer to doing the right think in Afghanistan will we see the same thing on the economy.  If he does he needs to look at what happened and how we got here.  Robert Weissman reminds us that this is the 10th anniversary of the Gramm-Leach-Billey Act ...
  2 weeks ago

• Obama Promise To Transcend Political Divide His Signature Failure And Lie

  
  Start Thinking Right — Authority: 477
  Back in March of 2008, the New York Times correctly identified what they described as the CORE of Barack Obama’s promise to the American people, and they correctly identified why reasonable people should be skeptical: WASHINGTON — At the core of Senator Barack Obama ’s presidential campaign is a ...
  2 weeks ago

• The Rhode Island Jackass

  
  Newshoggers.com — Authority: 644
  By Dave Anderson: A decent basketball player and the sister of a C-list celebrity met in August and then married six weeks later. Not the smartest thing in the world, but not amazingly unusual. The normal suspects are running pools for the divorce date, but no one questions their legal rights and obligations to ...
  2 weeks ago

• Assessments and the tax revolt of 2010

  
  Newshoggers.com — Authority: 644
  By Dave Anderson: Allegheny Countys politics have been thrown into a tizzy this afternoon.  Judge Wettick has ordered a four year rolling reassessment for the entire county as the base year system produces highly inequitable results.  Re-assessments are the local political career killer and everyone in the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Another Divisive Wall

  
  Truth Seeker — Authority: 127
  Pictures courtesy of: PalestineHistory.com For more information on the wall, please click on the site’s link.By: Queen Rania of Jordan Huffington PostPosted: November 9, 2009 07:40 AMThe fall of the Berlin Wall: what a testament to the power of peaceful revolution. Even as a high school student in Kuwait, it was ...
  2 weeks ago

• The Constant of the Tea Party Tantrums

  
  Newshoggers.com — Authority: 644
  By Dave Anderson: A few years ago when I was laying out my decision criteria for whom I would support in the 2008 Democratic primary cycle, I talked a little bit about calculus and constants when taking derivatives: When I analyze problems and scenarios, I am interested in looking at the things which have the ...
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• Predictable Healthcare Problems

  
  Newshoggers.com — Authority: 644
  By Dave Anderson: Something that I wrote in December 2007 that I saw while looking for another post, but is very relevant today: (I did not get all of this right, I forgot about the agenda setting power of not scheduling floor votes on horrendous bills, but Stupak-Pitts is the prime example of my last two ...
  2 weeks ago

• Karzais corruption pipe dream

  
  Newshoggers.com — Authority: 644
  By Dave Anderson: The San Fransisco Gate is carrying a great whopper of a tall tale: With his reputation sullied by the messy election, Karzai gave assurances Sunday that he would rid his government of corrupt officials. "Individuals who are involved in corruption will have no place in the government," Karzai ...
  2 weeks ago

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