Exit Strategy

11 Ways America's Richest Taxpayers Avoid Taxes

Businessweek | Jesse Drucker | Posted 06.08.2011

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For the well-off, this could be the best tax day since the early 1930s: Top tax rates on ordinary income, dividends, estates, and gifts will remain at...

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Why Oversight Matters: The Consequences of Hiring Criminals and Insurgents to Guard US Bases

Erica Gaston | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Corruption, Detention, Afghanistan, Exit Strategy, Senate Armed Services Committee, Civilian Casualties, Afghanistan War, Detainees, Anti-Corruption, Senate, Detainee Abuse Afghanistan, Counter-Insurgency, Counter-Terrorism, Detainee Abuse, Accountability, Counterinsurgency, Afghanistan Civilian Deaths, World News
Erica Gaston

When U.S.-employed base guards commit extrajudicial killings, kidnappings, or other harassment of the local population with no consequences, the local community holds the U.S. responsible.

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Individual acts and the collapse of Pakistan

Josh Mull | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Pressure, Al Qaeda, General Kayani, Strategic Depth, Civil War, Anti-War, Longest War, Exit Strategy, Pakistan, Terrorism, Politics, State Sponsored, Liberal, Democracy, Dissent, Progressive, Change, Rethink Afghanistan, Afghanistan, Censorship, Extremism, Politics News
Josh Mull

I am the Afghanistan Blogging Fellow for The Seminal and Brave New Foundation. You can read my work on The Seminal or at Rethink Afghanistan. The view...

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Pakistan's "Strategic Depth" and Endless War in Afghanistan

Josh Mull | Posted 05.25.2011

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Josh Mull

Congress must be forced to not only institute a binding timetable for the president, but to accelerate that timetable in every conceivable way possible

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What's worse: Steele's Afghanistan comments or the reaction?

Josh Mull | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Michael Steele, Al Qaeda, Democrat, Petraeus, Anti-War, Timetable, Exit Strategy, Pakistan, DFH, 9/11, Conservative, Liberal, McGovern Amendment, Land War, Osama Bin Laden, Spencer Ackerman, Rnc, Rethink Afghanistan, Republican, Taliban, Afghanistan, Dnc, Safe Haven, Politics News
Josh Mull

I am the Afghanistan Blogging Fellow for The Seminal and Brave New Foundation. You can read my work on The Seminal or at Rethink Afghanistan. The view...

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Does an Afghanistan Exit Strategy Hurt Our Allies?

Josh Mull | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Timetable, Exit Strategy, Allies, Pakistan, Nouri Al-Maliki, Iraq, Myths, Withdrawal, Kayani, Nato, Rethink Afghanistan, Taliban, Freedom Fighter, Afghanistan, Insurgents, Legitimacy, Republicans, July 2011, Senate, Militants, Politics News
Josh Mull

A timetable for withdrawal is a good thing. Ignore the partisan myth-making and keep pressuring your representatives to hold Obama accountable and bring this war to an end.

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A Growing Share of Americans' Income Comes From the Government

Michael J. Panzner | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Financial Crisis, Federal Reserve, National Debt, Federal Budget Deficit, Exit Strategy, Economy, Business News
Michael J. Panzner

While most eyes were focused on the better-than-expected gross domestic product data for last year's fourth quarter, this week's report from the Commerce Department also included details on U.S. personal income.

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Mr. President, Lead Us Out of the Afghanistan War

Derrick Crowe | Posted 05.25.2011

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Derrick Crowe

President Obama: In your State of the Union address on January 27, 2010, I want you to provide a concrete exit strategy for our troops in Afghanistan.

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Dan Froomkin

Obama's Afghan Dilemma: The Only Real Exit Strategy Is Political Suicide

HuffingtonPost.com | Dan Froomkin | Posted 05.25.2011

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President Obama said yesterday he is still several weeks away from adopting a new strategy for the war in Afghanistan. What's taking so long? Obama ...

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Jason Linkins

How Will Jon Kyl And Exit Strategy Opponents Reconcile McChrystal's Own Deadlines?

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Stanley McChrystal, Afghanistan Withdrawal Timetable, Jon Kyl, War in Afghanistan, Exit Strategy, Eat the Press, Politics News

Not long ago, Arizona Senator Jon Kyl was concern-trolling about "people on the left" who might not be willing to listen to the Generals On The Ground...

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Official: Obama Does Not Accept Afghan War Options, Wants Handover Details

AP | BEN FELLER and ANNE GEARAN | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama does not plan to accept any of the Afghanistan war options presented by his national security team, pushing ...

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Clinton, Gates Walk Back On Obama's "Locked In" Afghan Withdrawal

Posted 05.25.2011

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Despite the president's commitment on Tuesday that a surge of US and international troops in Afghanistan would "allow us to begin the transfer of our ...

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To Die for an Exit Strategy

Tony Blankley | Posted 05.25.2011

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Tony Blankley

Hearing the president's request for exit strategies at the beginning of what would be "his" Afghan war, how on God's good Earth can we ask those wonderful kids to risk dying for an exit strategy?

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A Commitment Strategy for Afghanistan

Lorelei Kelly | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Iraq War, Iraq Surge, Conservatives, National Security, Afghanistan Surge, Afghanistan, Exit Strategy, Progressives, President Obama, Taliban, World News
Lorelei Kelly

The president will put forward his decision on Afghanistan soon. It will involve a troop increase. If progressives stay in full opposition mode, they will exist on the margin of the debate.

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Echoes of Bush in Obama's Speech

Lincoln Mitchell | Posted 05.25.2011

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Lincoln Mitchell

There were moments during the speech last night when if you closed your eyes, imagined the grammar a little mangled and a few words mispronounced, you could have easily been listening to President Bush.

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Colin Powell To Obama On Afghanistan Troop Decision: "Take Your Time"

ABC News | Jake Tapper | Posted 05.25.2011

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In an interview with Roland Martin on the Tom Joyner Morning Show this morning, former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Colin Powell reveale...

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The United States and Afghanistan

John Flerlage | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Congress, Congressional-Campaigns, Afghanistan, Richard Holbrooke, Exit Strategy, India Pakistan Relations, Flerlage, Colorado 6th District, War in Afghanistan, Denver News
John Flerlage

Rep. Coffman refuses to support our commander in chief or our troops with anything other than conflicting rhetoric. Our nation should plan to begin, by Sept. 2010, withdrawal of combat units across Afghanistan.

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"Exit Strategy" Might Not Be What You Mean

Lorelei Kelly | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Civil-Military Relations, Afghanistan, Exit Strategy, Counter-Terrorism, President Obama, Stanley McChrystal, Counterinsurgency, Afghan Taliban, World News
Lorelei Kelly

If we want to see this president succeed, a vocabulary shift is vital. The more we use leftover framing and messaging rhetoric from the Iraq War, the easier we make it for the right wing to do the same.

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Bernanke to Housing Market: Please Don't Drop Dead

Eric Schurenberg | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: New Home Sales, First-Time Homebuyers Credit, Existing Home Sales, Macro-Economics, Exit Strategy, Kevin Warsh, Federal Reserve, Ben Bernanke, Mark Thoma, Jill Schlesinger, Business News
Eric Schurenberg

Uncle Sam has to ease out of banking, autos and all the programs authorized under the Obama stimulus bill without either starving the recovery or feeding inflation.

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Uncle Sam's Not-So-Graceful Exit from Real Estate

Eric Schurenberg | Posted 05.25.2011

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Eric Schurenberg

The Fed and the Treasury have to take the training wheels off the wobbly financial system without tipping it back into chaos.

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I Agree With George Will

John Burton | Posted 05.25.2011

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John Burton

California Democratic Party Chairman John Burton announces his organization's desire for a speedy American withdrawal from Afghanistan.

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A National Dialogue on Afghanistan (Video)

Sen. Bernie Sanders | Posted 05.25.2011

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Sen. Bernie Sanders

Without the kind of national debate this country needs, we are sending more and more troops into Afghanistan -- about 60 percent of all the foreign troops in the country are now Americans.

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How to Put the Kibosh on a Friendship That Seems Doomed

Dr. Irene S. Levine | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Friend, Friendship, Women, Living News, Aggressor, Exit Strategy, Aggressive, Reader Q&A, Kibosh, Relationship Advice, Female, Personal, Business, Professional, Networking, Irene S. Levine, Breaking Living News, Healthy Living News
Dr. Irene S. Levine

How can I avoid hurting someone's feelings and maintain a relationship as a colleague when I don't want to be her friend?

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We Need More Wellstone/Tasini Democrats in the Senate

Robert Naiman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Honduras Coup, Raul Grijalva, Employee Free Choice Act, Exit Strategy, Honduras, Medicare for All, Afghanistan, Jim McGovern, Jonathan Tasini, Foreign Policy, Politics News
Robert Naiman

If it were up to the House, we wouldn't be talking about dropping the public option for health insurance. Maybe we'd be talking about Medicare for All. That's why we need more progressive fighters in the Senate.

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Exit Strategy NYC Helps Navigate Subways

Roseanne Colletti | Posted 05.25.2011

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Roseanne Colletti

This information can help you make the decision when forced to choose from among four different exits at one subway stop or choose which subway transfers to take.

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