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PAC Man - A Story For Our Times
Author: BobR    Date: 09/09/2011 13:09:22

It all started with a tweet. Yesterday Glen Greenwald retweeted a comment made about a reporter dying while covering the war in Afghanistan. The original twitterer was tied to a PAC that supports President Obama. Glen Greenwald (and later David Sirota) - never missing a chance to take a cheap shot at the president - included "pro-Obama PAC" in their tweets, to somehow insinuate that this was related to him. At the very least, this is what you get from Obama's financial supporters, right? What they DIDN'T do was scratch beneath the surface to find out anything at all about this person and the PAC he represents.

So - we did.
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61 comments (Latest Comment: 03/08/2012 01:33:20 by MelvinTX)

Well that was Interesting.
Author: Raine    Date: 09/08/2011 13:08:01

I'm still trying to wrap my head around that debacle last night.
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91 comments (Latest Comment: 09/09/2011 01:19:50 by Will in Chicago)

Addressing the Nation
Author: BobR    Date: 09/07/2011 12:54:05

Congress returns to Washington today to continue doing nothing to help America. It was also supposed to be the day President Obama addressed them (and dressed them down, I suspect), but after privately agreeing to the date, Speaker Boehner changed his mind, and publicly rebuked the request, creating a firestorm of controversy. So tomorrow night is the night...
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79 comments (Latest Comment: 09/08/2011 02:28:39 by trojanrabbit)

Ask a Vet
Author: TriSec    Date: 09/06/2011 10:24:51

Good Morning.

Today is our 3,093rd day in Iraq, and our 3,621st day in Afghanistan.

We'll start this morning as we always do; with the latest casualty figures from our ongoing wars, courtesy of Antiwar.com:

American Deaths
Since war began (3/19/03): 4474
Since "Mission Accomplished" (5/1/03): 4335
Since Handover (6/29/04): 3615
Since Obama Inauguration (1/20/09): 246
Since Operation New Dawn: 46

Other Coalition Troops - Iraq: 318
US Military Deaths - Afghanistan: 1,752
Other Military Deaths - Afghanistan: 947
Contractor Employee Deaths - Iraq: 1,487
Journalists - Iraq : 348
Academics Killed - Iraq: 448

We find this morning's cost of war passing through:

$ 1, 245, 612, 200, 000 .00



This morning, we'll borrow a phrase from our old "Libertarian Saturday" feature, as we have good news, bad news, and unbelievable news to look at this morning.
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34 comments (Latest Comment: 09/06/2011 23:01:49 by Raine)

On Labor and Workers Rights
Author: Raine    Date: 09/05/2011 14:30:37

On Friday, the President signed the following proclamation:
The right to organize and collectively bargain is a fundamental American value. Since its beginnings in our country, organized labor has raised our living standards and built our middle class. It is the reason we have a minimum wage, weekends away from work to rest and spend time with family, and basic protections in our workplaces. Many Americans today are given opportunities because their parents and grandparents fought for these basic rights and values. The principles upheld by the honorable laborers of generations past and their unions continue to fuel the growth of our economy and a strong middle class.

This year has seen a vigorous fight to protect these rights and values, and on this Labor Day, we reaffirm that collective bargaining is a cornerstone of the American dream. From public employees -- including teachers, firefighters, police, and others who perform public services -- to workers in private industries, these men and women hold the power of our Nation in their hands.

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8 comments (Latest Comment: 09/05/2011 21:53:18 by Mondobubba)

Sunday Open Blog
Author: velveeta jones    Date: 09/04/2011 15:21:58

Sorry, no time to write a blog today. Off to a Labor Day bbq celebration and have to have my outfit pressed and my ascot selected (it's a gay bbq). :)

Have at it today. Don't forget to tune in here later so we don't miss the big speech! Are you holding your breath? I am.
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4 comments (Latest Comment: 09/05/2011 02:29:43 by Raine)

The Balkanization of America
Author: TriSec    Date: 09/03/2011 13:02:27

Good Morning!

Even though the equinox isn't for a couple of weeks yet, everyone knows damn well that summer is over this weekend. The kids are back in school, and in New England at least, the temperature is rapidly plummeting. Soon enough, we'll be dealing with snow and ice again, but I digress.

Let's get geo-political today. Everyone is hopefully familiar with the concept of balkanization? In a nutshell, it's when a large, powerful country is divided into smaller, less-powerful regions. It comes from the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire in the Balkan penninsula, but we've seen it again within living memory in the collapse of Yugoslavia in the same location.
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3 comments (Latest Comment: 09/03/2011 16:10:43 by livingonli)

In Defense of Big Government
Author: BobR    Date: 09/02/2011 12:37:56

What is the role of our government in our lives? You can ask 100 different people and get 100 different answers. The U.S. Constitution says it's "to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity". Among people and parties, however, there are definitely two camps of thought. Among Democrats/Liberals the belief is that government is there to protect the citizens (from criminals, from fraud, from the abuse of power that comes with big money and big corporations). Among the Republicans/Conservatives/Libertarians, the belief is that government should barely exist at all. To them, government should be about maintaining a strong military, and preventing abortions, and that's about it.
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81 comments (Latest Comment: 09/03/2011 02:39:12 by trojanrabbit)

No more proof needed.
Author: Raine    Date: 09/01/2011 12:46:55

Do they realize how foolish they look? Never before has a Speaker of the House refused to accommodate the President of the United States' request for a joint session of Congress.

NEVER.
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60 comments (Latest Comment: 09/02/2011 01:26:56 by TriSec)

Darth Cheney - the Final Chapter
Author: BobR    Date: 08/31/2011 12:54:54

During the 8 long years of the Bush presidency, it was assumed that Bush was mostly a puppet, and Cheney was the power behind the throne. With the release of his new book, Cheney has revealed that to be the case. It has also confirmed what an evil venal creature he really is. The details aren't so much shocking in revelation as they are in the proud unapologetic tone.
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52 comments (Latest Comment: 09/01/2011 01:35:13 by livingonli)

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