Oct 30, 2009 -
Long, but worth the effort (I think)
By Scott Ritter
There is a curious phenomenon taking place in the American media at the moment: the lionization of Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the American military commander in Afghanistan. Although he has taken a few lumps for playing politics with the White House, McChrystal has generally been sold to the American public as a “Zen warrior,” a counterinsurgency genius who, if simply left to his own devices, will be able to radically transform the ongoing debacle that is Afghanistan into a noble victory that will rank as one of the greatest political and military triumphs of modern history.
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Sep 18, 2008 -
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Oct 29, 2009 -
Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) officially unveiled the House health care reform bill that is headed to the House floor. The ceremony, held on the West steps of the Capitol, marks the greatest progress toward the Democratic Party's top domestic priority goal in more than half a century.
The bill, the Affordable Health Care for America Act -- H.R.
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Oct 13, 2009 -
BOISE, Idaho - A Utah music teacher killed while trying to prevent the crash of a bus carrying dozens of her students was hailed as a heroine.
Heather Christensen, 33, a woodwind instructor at American Fork High School, was killed Saturday night when the bus veered from Interstate 15 and rolled south of Pocatello, where the band had won a competition hosted by Idaho State University.
Christensen, of Spanish Fork, Utah, left her seat to grab the steering wheel after seeing the bus driver slump over, students and colleagues said.
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Aug 13, 2009 -
By Robin of Berkeley
Hello, my name is Robin of Berkeley and I write for American Thinker. I was left but last year turned right, and, if you'd like to know more, you can read Everything You've Ever Wanted to Know About Robin (But Were Afraid to Ask) by clicking on my byline (at American Thinker.)
Thank you for taking the time to read this letter which I've been meaning to pen for a while. I just had a provocative conversation with my editor extraordinaire at AT which has prompted this piece.
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Jun 16, 2009 -
In which the author imagines what America would be like if the GOP's man had won. Critics of Obama, take note.
By Michael Lind
http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/06/16/president_mccain/index.html
Picture, if you will, an America apparently like our own.
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Jun 11, 2009 -
PUBLIC POST
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Missing in Action: American mainstream media
By Larry Elder
Back when our military failed to find stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, The New York Times apologized to its readers.
Why?
Before the war, the paper wrote article after article — relying on both government and non-government sources — that assumed the presence of stockpiles.
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Apr 09, 2009 -
Obama vs. Kim Jong Il: Who Is the Greater Leader?
Let's compare what our press says about our dear leader with what the North Korean press says about theirs.
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Oct 22, 2008 -
I know most (if not all) of the Conservative Sugar gals have their minds made up about this election.
So the following post is aimed at the Liberal Sugar gals and any undecided readers who may frequent Conservative Sugar.
The following article is written by Neal Boortz.
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Oct 25, 2008 -
!!!***PUBLIC POST***!!!
By ADAM GELLER, AP National Writer Adam Geller, Ap National Writer – 2 hrs 44 mins ago
NEW YORK – The war of words waged by John McCain and Barack Obama for the votes of plumbers and other average Joes is a reminder of the nation's long-standing doubts about concentrated wealth — and its qualms about doing something about it.
Americans have voiced concerns about putting too much wealth in to too few hands since the country was founded, but the public's views also come with contradictions.
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