It is noteworthy that the U.S. military's war in Iraq is officially over and that American troops are returning home after 7 ½ bloody years. Mission Accomplished. Major combat operations over. Sounds eerily familiar. The question remains: are we really leaving? And was it worth the bloodshed?

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Heart wrenching pictures of oil-coated crabs and poisoned pelicans, black tar balls washing up on white sugar sands and endless live shots of the underwater geyser spewing millions of gallons of toxic plumes into the ocean have fixated our collective attention on the current misery in the Gulf but not...

In a private briefing on Capitol Hill Bill Heniff from the Congresssional Research Service and Adam Green, co-founder of the Progressive Change Campaign Committee, offered some insight into Reconciliation, the process which will most likely be used to pass health care reform.

Reconciliation is relatively new. It was first used...