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Gates and Trucks

Reese Schonfeld | Posted 08.28.2009 | Politics

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Reese Schonfeld

For once, American manufacturers are producing the best weapons ahead of schedule, and will save lives of men who would die without them.

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So What Do the Gates Calls Show?

Claudia Ricci | Posted 08.27.2009 | Politics

Read More: Gates, Obama and Gates, Racial Profiling, Politics News
Claudia Ricci

If some cop comes to your door and tells you to leave your home would you be upset? Would you perhaps get a little unruly?

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UPDATE: Gates, Crowley To Join Obama For Beers On Thursday

Huffington Post | Posted 08.27.2009 | Politics

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UPDATE: There are several reports that the beer diplomacy between President Obama, Cambridge police sergeant James Crowley and Henry Louis Gates Jr. ...

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Sotomayor Was Right the First Time: A Wise Latina Does Know More

Charles H. Green | Posted 08.27.2009 | Politics

Read More: Racism, Minority, Gates, Trust, Ideology, Sotomayor, Politics News
Charles H. Green

People observe and believe very different things based on whether they are members of a minority, or of a majority. One group, I suggest, notices more, and knows more, than the other.

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Gatesgate: A lesson plan

Peter Y. Sussman | Posted 08.25.2009 | Politics

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Peter Y. Sussman

These lessons are not a comprehensive list and they are not rules, but the kind of awareness they exemplify might have defused the tense Gates encounter.

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I Wish the GOP Noise Machine Would Make Up its Mind About Identity Politics

Eric Boehlert | Posted 08.24.2009 | Media

Read More: Confederate Yankee, Fox News, Obama, Gates, Cambridge, Michelle Malkin, Harry Alford, Media News
Eric Boehlert

Depending on the week, and the actors involved, the GOP Noise Machine is either opposed to identity politics or loves identity politics and wishes more people would call politicians as racists.

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The Gates/Crowley Rorschach Test

Michael J. O'Neil | Posted 08.24.2009 | Politics

Read More: Gates, Police, Race Relations, Cambridge Police, James Crowley, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Race, Barack Obama, Racial Profiling, Politics News
Michael J. O'Neil

Was this an instance of racial profiling? Did Gates overreact to a reasonable police request? The truth is that we simply do not have enough information to know what really happened in this case.

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White Cop, Black Professor, Bi-Racial President: An Explosive Media Combination

Peter Daou | Posted 08.24.2009 | Media

Read More: Obama, Race, Matt Lauer, Gates, Racial Profiling, Health Care Reform, Media, Henry Louis Gates, Health Care, Media News
Peter Daou

When Obama weighed in, the Gates story went from newsworthy to explosive. Is this another instance of the media's lopsided priorities, where a debate over health care is overshadowed by a minor police incident?

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Gates Forgot to Pay His Skin Tax

Lowell Thompson | Posted 08.23.2009 | Politics

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Lowell Thompson

Even my most progressive white friends play down the differences in our American experience because of skin color.

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Gates Arrest: Harvard Professor Considering Lawsuit

The Boston Globe | Posted 08.22.2009 | Politics

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Harvard University professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. said this morning that he has not ruled out the possibility of filing a lawsuit over his arrest las...

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Gates Explains "More Humane" Don't Ask Don't Tell

Think Progress | Posted 08.17.2009 | Politics

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Earlier this month, Defense Secretary Robert Gates announced that he was considering a temporary solution that would allow gays to serve in the milita...

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Robert Gates To GOP Leaders: You're Putting Our Security At Risk

The Plum Line | Posted 07.12.2009 | Politics

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Wow. Robert Gates and Hillary Clinton are now thrusting themselves into the raging fight over the White House's request for Congressional cash for the...

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War Funding Bill To Include Money For Relocating Gitmo Inmates

AP | ANDREW TAYLOR | Posted 06.11.2009 | Politics

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WASHINGTON — A war funding bill headed to the floor next week would provide the $50 million sought by the Pentagon to relocate prisoners from th...

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President Obama Fulfills Two Critical Campaign Promises to Vets

Paul Rieckhoff | Posted 05.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: Veteran, Gates, Iava, War, Iraq, Afghanistan, Obama, Paul Rieckoff, Healthcare, Shinseki, Obama Veterans, Politics News
Paul Rieckhoff

Our nation's heroes deserve much more than lost paperwork and endless delays. Today, we are finally turning the page on this horrific chapter in our nation's history.

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Yes, America Has AIDS Orphans -- Lots

Chris Norwood | Posted 05.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: Homeless Kids, Gates, Clinton, HIV Mothers, Madonna, AIDS Orphans, Mentoring, Youth Depression, Bono, America, New York City, Politics News
Chris Norwood

As Madonna and Angelina Jolie comb the world for orphans, American children who have lost parents to AIDS seem to have no celebrity champions.

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Weekly Foreign Affairs Roundup

Christopher Herbert | Posted 03.22.2009 | World

Read More: Gates, Pakistan, Energy Deal, Obama, Ceasefire, Hamas, Manas, Kyrgyzstan, News Review, Nato, Egypt, Swat Valley, Russia, Taliban, Chavez, Hillary Clinton, Afghanistan, Israel, China, Foreign Affairs Roundup, Foreign Policy, Ukraine, World News
Christopher Herbert

By Christopher Herbert and Victoria Kataoka Rebuffet The Week's Top Stories in Foreign Affairs: Afghanistan Facts: US commander in Afghanistan Da...

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Gates' Iran Comments Undermine A President's Plans -- Again

Inter Press Service | Gareth Porter | Posted 04.14.2009 | World

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WASHINGTON, Jan 27 (IPS) - When U.S. Defence Secretary Robert Gates accused Iran of "subversive activity" in Latin America Tuesday, it raised the qu...

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Afghanistan: The Indispensable Nation?

Allison Silver | Posted 02.27.2009 | World

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Allison Silver

No occupying power has been able to exercise full control in Afghanistan. When did this become Washington's essential, indispensable aim?

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Gates: Afghan War Is America's "Greatest Military Challenge"

AP | ANNE GEARAN | Posted 02.27.2009 | World

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WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Tuesday "we are lost" unless the United States can find a way not to kill so many civilians in ...

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Obama's Nuclear War: At Odds With Gates

Time | Posted 02.27.2009 | Politics

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The latest U.S. nuclear showdown doesn't involve any foreign enemy. Instead, it pits President Barack Obama against his Defense Secretary, Robert Gate...

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President Bush and the Flying Shoes: A Cautionary Tale

Robert Scheer | Posted 01.16.2009 | Politics

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Robert Scheer

That an Iraqi journalist, whose family had been victimized by Saddam Hussein, came to so loathe the American president should serve as the final grade on the Bush administration.

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Gates Warns Foreign Powers Against "Testing" Obama

New York Times | ELISABETH BUMILLER | Posted 01.13.2009 | Politics

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Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates warned Saturday that foreign powers should not try to "test" President-elect Barack Obama with a crisis in his first...

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Robert Gates: Obama's Defense Secretary

Huffington Post | Posted 12.23.2008 | Politics

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***Check back for updates. For the latest on President-elect Barack Obama's cabinet picks, check out HuffPost's Obama Cabinet Big News Page*** ***U...

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Bush Appointees Gates, Mullen, Bernanke Likely To Stay On Under Obama

Washington Post | Posted 12.11.2008 | Politics

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As President-elect Barack Obama prepares to fill top positions for his incoming government, he faces a stubborn reality: Some of the key individuals h...

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Obama on the Brink

Robert Scheer | Posted 07.31.2008 | Politics

Read More: Robert Scheer, Jimmy Carter, Barack Obama, Occupation, Afghanistan, Cold War, Pornography of Power, Fisa, Gates, John McCain, President, Obama on the Brink, Politics News
Robert Scheer

Both candidates are embracing, rather than challenging, the fundamental irrationality of Bush's "war on terror," which substitutes hysteria for rational analysis in appraising the dangers the country faces.

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