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Minor point on Gingrich vs Romney
Fri Jan 27, 2012 7:42 AM EST
I'm not a republican, and the only reason I care about their primaries is because it's in my face ALL THE TIME. But if Gingrich wins the primaries it will be thanks to the supreme court decision on Citizens United.
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Small Donors Are Slow to Return to the Obama Fold - NYTimes.com
Seeded on Sun Sep 25, 2011 4:54 AM EDT (The New York Times)
This is what is meant by chickens coming home to roost
Confused? « The Baseline Scenario
Seeded on Thu Sep 22, 2011 7:44 AM EDT ()
...by assuming extension of the Bush tax cuts in his adjusted baseline (of the deficit reduction proposal), Obama has moved that item from a contestable policy choice to a fait accompli. It strikes me that no one should be happier about this outcome than President George W. Bush.
Robert Scheer: One Betrayal Too Many - Robert Scheer's Columns - Truthdig
Seeded on Thu Sep 15, 2011 5:25 PM EDT (Truthdig)
President Obama's job creation mirage | Dean Baker | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
Seeded on Tue Aug 30, 2011 7:50 AM EDT (Guardian Unlimited)
President Obama has discovered how serious the recession is. That's what he told an audience in Chicago last week. To be fair, he was referring to revised data from the commerce department showing that the falloff in GDP was larger than originally reported.
Corey Robin · The War on Tax: Downgrading Obama · LRB 25 August 2011
Seeded on Sun Aug 28, 2011 10:45 PM EDT (London Review of Books)
More on Why Progressives Should Stay Home On November 6th, 2012
Sun Aug 28, 2011 6:26 PM EDT
(at the risk of being tagged a firebagging flip-flopper) The good news is that if the energy in the responses to this blog post is a predictor of anything, then the Dems should win by a landslide in 2012.
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Why Progressives Should Stay Home On November 6th, 2012
Fri Aug 26, 2011 5:41 PM EDT
Lets face it, the economy is as bad as it gets. Obviously, things could get worse, but are not likely to, at least according to most economists.
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Drone War Exposed – the complete picture of CIA strikes in Pakistan: TBIJ
Seeded on Sat Aug 13, 2011 8:20 AM EDT (The Bureau of Investigative Journalism)
A Few Points Regarding Obama's Speech On Israeli/Palestinian Peace
Sun May 22, 2011 1:56 PM EDT
First, it is evidence of the political climate in which anything that comes out of Obama’s mouth elicits rightwing outrage and faux-controversy in mainstream media, that when he outlined what has always been the framework of the peace negotiations (including under George W …
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Deadly Medicine
Seeded on Sat Dec 18, 2010 11:34 AM EST (The Latest From VanityFair.com)
From Article: Prescription drugs kill some 200,000 Americans every year. Will that number go up, now that most clinical trials are conducted overseas—on sick Russians, homeless Poles, and slum-dwelling Chinese—in places where regulation is virtually nonexistent, the F.D.A.
Why Wikileaks is a Cultural Breach
Tue Dec 7, 2010 10:26 PM EST
A friend of mine recently relayed to me his experience meeting a marketing company in the US. He and his business partner, both from Mediterranean countries, founded an innovative startup, and were in the process of entering the US market.
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sorry for being politically incorrect...
Sun Jul 25, 2010 11:23 AM EDT
Let me start by saying that i'm black, OK? or rather half black, half Jewish (one up on diversity over our President), and this story with Shirley Sherrod is annoying me.
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Bring The Solar Panels Back to the White House
Seeded on Thu Jul 22, 2010 9:59 PM EDT (Romantic-Future | Facebook)
Barack Obama should lead by example. If we are going to move to renewable energy, why not start from the stop. Jimmy Carter did it, Obama can too!
You Have No Idea What Health Costs
Seeded on Tue Sep 22, 2009 12:48 AM EDT (The Washington Post)
The average health-care coverage for the average family now costs $13,375, according to Kaiser. Over the past decade, premiums have increased by 138 percent.
The rich still run the US
Seeded on Sun Sep 20, 2009 1:21 PM EDT (Guardian Unlimited)
The power of business in US government is corruption in a different form than what is found in 3rd world countries, but corruption nonetheless.
What the heck, Obama?
Sun Sep 6, 2009 10:44 AM EDT
In the remake of the Manchurian Candidate, the all-evil USSR was replaced with the all-evil specter of a weapons manufacturing corporation (wooooh).
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A Lesson From Rabin's Assassination
Thu Aug 13, 2009 7:54 PM EDT
I was at the pro-peace demonstration in 1995 when Rabin was murdered.
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Remember who to blame, America!
Wed Aug 5, 2009 4:46 PM EDT
Dear everyone, Next time your child is diagnosed with diabetes and your health premium goes up; Or s/he is denied care because it was a 'pre-existing condition'; Or that you re-mortgage your home to cover the medical expenses of your spouses heart surgery, or breast cancer treatm …
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Spreading cracks, or just real life?
Fri Apr 17, 2009 7:29 PM EDT
I will admit I was not a 'die hard' Obama fan. Until the last minute I wavered between Barack Obama and Ralph Nader, and donated equally to both campaigns (boohoo me). But it was always apparent that Obama is a centrist Democrat, and a political realist.
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What Americans (including Jews) Don't Get
Mon Jan 12, 2009 9:34 AM EST
At a party a few days ago, my "ethnic" appearance and "funny" accent quickly yielded the inevitable question of my identity. Being three days into the onslaught on Gaza, unlike better times, revealing my Israeli identity yielded a brief and uncomfortable silence.
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Bloody New Year in Gaza
Sun Dec 28, 2008 10:20 PM EST
It has been now almost 48 hours since Israel launched it's attack on Gaza. It is the end of 2008.
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Minor point on Gingrich vs Romney
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