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Is Obama Keeping His Promises?

Newsweek | Anna Quindlen | Posted 10.24.2009 | Politics

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History will judge Barack Obama over the long haul. But we've learned something in the short term that is simple, obvious, and has less to do with him...

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Friday Talking Points [99] -- Misdirection

Chris Weigant | Posted 10.26.2009 | Politics

Read More: White House, Pentagon, Troops, Medicare for All, Rumor Mongering, Guantanamo, Monopoly, Reform, Alan Grayson, Dscc, Pentagon Budget, Roger Ailes, Nixonian, Charles Schumer, President, Magic, Military, Bailout, Emanuel, Midotw, Nancy Pelosi, Ailes, Most Impressive Democrat of the Week, Health Care, Reid, Public Option, Olympia Snowe, Democrat, Congress, Playing the Victim, Close Gitmo Now, Rumor, Stage Magic, Democrats, Barack Obama, Rage Against the Machine, Executive Compensation, Calls, Schumer, Mddotw, Rahm Emanuel, Wasted, Health, Weiner, Harry Reid, Nixon, Healthcare, Senate, Orchestra Pit Theory, President Obama, Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, Fox, Obama, Democratic, Media, Grayson, Friday Talking Points, Republican, Pelosi, Snowe, Enemy, Organizing for America, Misdirect, Guantanamo Bay, Most Disappointing Democrat of the Week, Orchestra Pit, Victim, Robust Public Option, Anthony Weiner, Trigger, Trust Busting, House, Tom Morello, Victim Card, War, Ad, Opt Out, 1000 Hours, Defense Appropriations, Enemy of America, Misdirection, Wall Street, Chris Weigant, Health Insurance, Health Insurers, 300000, Fox News, Medicare, Chuck Schumer, Executive Pay, Torture, Morello, Politics News
Chris Weigant

The real head-scratcher for serious media-watchers right now is what the "war" between the White House and Fox News was meant to distract us from this week. The "war" itself is laughable, for a number of reasons.

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Historic Day: Obama Signs Advance VA Funding into Law

Paul Rieckhoff | Posted 10.22.2009 | Politics

Read More: Women's Rights, Iava, Military, Va, Homelessness, Veteran, Afghanistan, War Wire, War, Advance Appropriations, Iraq, Politics News
Paul Rieckhoff

Rey Leal has fought on the streets of Fallujah; for mental health care in south Texas; and in Washington, for a solution to years of late veterans' health care budgets. Today, Rey and millions of veterans have won their fight.

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The Twin Brother of Annihilation

Robert Koehler | Posted 10.22.2009 | World

Read More: World War I, Time Magazine, Nuclear Weapons, Doomsday Clock, War, Nobel Peace Prize, Russell-Einstein Manifesto, World War II, Mutually Assured Destruction, Albert Einstein, World News
Robert Koehler

The argument: In a world held hostage by nuclear weapons, there are smaller aggregate numbers of war dead; therefore, God bless nukes. Or maybe not.

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Cheney: Stop The "Dithering" As Troops Face Danger

AP | DOUGLASS K. DANIEL | Posted 10.22.2009 | Politics

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WASHINGTON — Former Vice President Dick Cheney on Wednesday night accused the White House of dithering over the strategy for the war in Afghanis...

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What Is Patriotism?

Janet Ritz | Posted 10.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Politics, Patriotism, Unemployment, The Environmentalist, Economy, War, Health Care Reform, Green News, Climate Change, Afghanistan, Health Care, Barack Obama, Global Warming, Corruption, Congress, Politics News
Janet Ritz

President Obama may deserve criticism. But trying to undermine his presidency, his legitimacy, his personal safety, especially in a time of war, is unpatriotic at best.

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Obsessions: Small and Monstrous

Thomas Scheff | Posted 10.20.2009 | Living

Read More: Iraq War, Obsession, Anger, Wwi, Compulsion, War, Delusion, Humiliation, Living News
Thomas Scheff

Humiliation can spiral to the point that it haunts us. Emotions, at their core, are bodily states of arousal. It is bodily arousal over which one has no direct control that makes the obsession painful and compulsive.

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Afghanistan: An Election Without Results

Abdulhadi Hairan | Posted 10.19.2009 | World

Read More: Afghanistan, 2009, Election, Abdullah, Afghan Election, Hamid Karzai, Kandahar, Kabul, Election Fraud, Fraud, Terrorism, War, Tension, Us, Un, World News
Abdulhadi Hairan

Everyone here is impatient to know the outcome of the much-discussed, controversial Afghan elections, but two months have passed and still no one has a clue about the real situation.

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Was "Ardi" a Liberal?

Frans de Waal | Posted 10.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Neocons, Bonobos, Evolution, Fossils, War, Chimpanzee, Politics News
Frans de Waal

What if we descend, not from a blustering chimp-like ancestor, but from a gentle, bonobo-like ape? What if we share characteristics with both of these relatives instead of the one favored by our political ideology?

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Drugs: Losing the Longest War

Michael Kaplan | Posted 10.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: Durgs, Marijuana, Los Zetas, War, Addiction, Failure, Policy, Methamphetamine, Cocaine, Politics News
Michael Kaplan

On October 14, 1982, President Ronald Reagan declared war on drugs ... again. There have been one or two conflicts in human history that lasted longer -- though we'd better win this before 2012, or we'll find ourselves alone in a league with the Hundred Years' War.

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Afghan Troop Request Hides Real Numbers

Jeff Stein | Posted 10.15.2009 | World

Read More: Politics, Pentagon, Counterterrorism, Afghanistan, Counter-Insurgency, War, Obama, stanley_mcchrystal, Frontline, 60_minutes, celeste_ward, john_nagl, World News
Jeff Stein

Despite grim new portraits of U.S. fortunes in Afghanistan, Washington's debate over troop levels continues unhinged from reality.

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Women Warriors: Supporting She 'Who Has Borne the Battle'

Paul Rieckhoff | Posted 10.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: Veteran, Women, Iava, Homelessness, War, Va, Military, Iraq, Afghanistan, Sexual Assault, War Wire, Politics News
Paul Rieckhoff

After honorably fighting overseas, female veterans shouldn't have to wage new battles once they get home. And they should be treated like heroes, not candy stripers.

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Achilles and the Dodgers

Gershon Hepner | Posted 10.15.2009 | Home

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Gershon Hepner

ACHILLES AND THE DODGERS Putting Agamemnon down as sack of wine, with dog's eyes and the heart of deer, Achilles anticipates the way the Dodgers too...

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Why Ostrom's Nobel Is Even More Shocking Than Obama's

Randall Amster | Posted 10.14.2009 | Business

Read More: Resources, Tragedy of the Commons, Elinor Ostrom, Nobel Prize, Obama Nobel Peace Prize, Nuclear Weapons, Economics, Conflict, Cooperation, Resource Conflict, War, The Commons, Nobel Peace Prize, Socialism, Mutual Aid, Business News
Randall Amster

Make no mistake, despite the somewhat tame Nobel committee description, Ostrom's body of work is inherently radical, demonstrably anti-corporate, and implicitly socialistic.

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U.S. Speeds Up Delivery Of "MOP" Bunker-Bomber, Denies Iran Is Reason

AP | ANNE GEARAN | Posted 10.13.2009 | World

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WASHINGTON — The Pentagon is speeding up delivery of a colossal bomb designed to destroy hidden weapons bunkers buried underground and shielded ...

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Reflections on Suicide

Christopher Lukas | Posted 10.12.2009 | Books

Read More: Iraq PTSD, US Marines, Survivor, Afghanistan, General Mark Graham, Army Suicide, US Soldiers, War, Suicide, Iraq, Ptsd, Suicide Prevention, US Army, War on Terror, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Books News
Christopher Lukas

The rate of death by suicide in the armed forces is increasing at alarming rates. Death is terrible, no matter how it comes. But death by suicide leaves those left behind, asking Why? How?

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Mullah Omar Leading Afghan Insurgency In Extraordinary Military Comeback

New York Times | SCOTT SHANE | Posted 10.11.2009 | World

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Eight years later, Mullah Omar leads an insurgency that has gained steady ground in much of Afghanistan against much better equipped American and NATO...

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US weapons failed in 2008 Afghanistan firefight

AP | RICHARD LARDNER | Posted 10.12.2009 | Politics

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WASHINGTON — It was chaos during the early morning assault last year on a remote U.S. outpost in Afghanistan and Staff Sgt. Erich Phillips' M4 c...

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A Time for War, A Time for Peace Prizes

Rabbi Jennifer Krause | Posted 10.10.2009 | World

Read More: General Mcchrystal, Bible, Terrorism, War, President Obama, Nobel Peace Prize, Ecclesiastes, Peace, The Byrds, Us Troops Afghanistan, Afghanistan War, World News
Rabbi Jennifer Krause

The Nobel Committee's puzzling decision to award President Obama with the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize inspired me to return to Ecclesiastes.

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Obama and the Nobel: Just Bizarre

Jesse Larner | Posted 11.13.2009 | World

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Jesse Larner

Now I know a lot of my friends are going to be very happy about this; a new day has dawned, etc. Personally I found it inexplicable. And disturbing. And vaguely annoying.

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Why Obama Deserves His Nobel

Rob Asghar | Posted 10.13.2009 | World

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Rob Asghar

What truly deserving champion of peace did the Nobel committee slight this year in the process? None to my knowledge.

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Congo Spurns Burundi Refugees at Border

Georgianne Nienaber | Posted 10.10.2009 | World

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Georgianne Nienaber

Frustration in the face of this humanitarian tragedy is understandable. Where is SOS Hillary Clinton in the face of this, especially after her courageous meetings with Congolese President Joseph Kabila?

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Power With, Power Over

Robert Koehler | Posted 10.07.2009 | Politics

Read More: Violence, Restorative Justice, Peace Circles, Power, Derrion Albert Murder, War, Chicago Public Schools, School Reform, Education Reform, Politics News
Robert Koehler

Derrion Albert's death is just another symptom of a city, a nation and a world at perpetual war with itself. It's merely one in a series of tragedies that we are numb to or never hear about.

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Gen. McChrystal Is No MacArthur

Jeff Stein | Posted 10.07.2009 | World

Read More: Politics, Communism, Afghanistan, Counter-Terrorism, Terrorism, War, Taliban, Obama, Counterinsurgency, Stanley McChrystal, World News
Jeff Stein

McChrystal is in for a rude awakening if he thinks he's a latter-day MacArthur, with a vast conservative following ready to rally to his side.

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Poll: Obama's Approval Rating Jumps 6 Percent

AP | BETH FOUHY | Posted 10.06.2009 | Politics

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NEW YORK — President Barack Obama's approval ratings are starting to rise after declining ever since his inauguration, new poll figures show as ...

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