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3 Contests on Election Day Could Signal Political Winds
In this supposedly quiet off-year election, three contests taking place Tuesday are filling the void. Voters in New Jersey and Virginia will elect governors, while voters in upstate New York are filling a vacant House seat in a race with national implications. Here are some things to look for as the results come in.The New Liberalism and the end of American ascendancy.
Decline Is a Choice The New Liberalism and the end of American ascendancy. by Charles Krauthammer The weathervanes of conventional wisdom are registering another round of angst about America in decline. New theories, old slogans: Imperial overstretch.Obama Administration Stonewalls U.S. Civil Rights Commission on Black Panther Case
Obama Administration Stonewalls U.S. Civil Rights Commission on Black Panther Case The Justice Department won't cooperate with an inquiry into why they helped the New Black Panther party avoid the legal consequences of voter intimidation. September 13, 2009 - by Jennifer Rubin Last month, the Obama administration’s decision to dismiss a default judgment against the New Black Panther Party in a clear case of voter intimidation (caught on videotape and circulated on the internet) drew scrutiny from Congress and from the U.S.The Ultimate Cost Saver - Editorial on Passive Euthanasia
The Ultimate Cost Saver By Jeffrey Lord on 8.18.09 @ 6:08AM So. The infamous Section 1233 "death panel" has been pulled from the Senate version of the House ObamaCare Bill. Or so goes the tale as this is written.Military ignores its own regulations, permits white supremacists to join
((Sorry this is so long, and the language is rough...)) On a muggy Florida evening in 2008, I meet Iraq War veteran Forrest Fogarty in the Winghouse, a little bar-restaurant on the outskirts of Tampa, his favorite hangout. He told me on the phone I would recognize him by his skinhead. Sure enough, when I spot a white guy at a table by the door with a shaved head, white tank top and bulging muscles, I know it can only be him.BREAKING: AP source: GM to sell Hummer to Chinese company
PUBLIC POST * This has to be a great move for national security. I'm staggered at how short-sighted so many of the actions taking since January have been. DETROIT (AP) - General Motors Corp.The Learning Curve (Rediscovering counterinsurgency in Iraq. )
The Learning Curve Rediscovering counterinsurgency in Iraq. by Mackubin Thomas Owens Baghdad at Sunrise A Brigade Commander's War in Iraq by Peter R. Mansoor Yale, 416 pp., $28 Some years ago, the late Carl Builder of RAND wrote a book entitled The Masks of War, in which he demonstrated the importance of the organizational cultures of the various military services.Why China Will Continue to Buy U.S. Treasuries
Why China Will Continue to Buy U.S. Treasuries Rick Newman Think American workers have it bad? It's worse in China.Why Atheism May Be the Best Way to Understand God
By Larry Beinhart, AlterNet Posted on December 19, 2008, Printed on December 19, 2008 http://www.alternet.org/story/113063/ Editor’s note: Religion is among the most volatile and divisive issues in the world today. Yet there’s little serious investigation into why people believe, or why some will kill and die for their faith. Larry Beinhart, in his new novel, Salvation Boulevard -- and this series of articles -- is hoping to start a conversation about these issues.Book includes details of previously unknown mass exterminations
KIEV, Ukraine - The Holocaust has a landscape engraved in the mind's eye: barbed-wire fences, gas chambers, furnaces.
Less known is the "Holocaust by Bullets," in which over 2 million Jews were gunned down in towns and villages across Ukraine, Belarus and Russia. Their part in the Nazis' Final Solution has been under researched, their bodies left unidentified in unmarked mass graves.
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