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Leo W. Gerard: Gone with the Wind: Blowing U.S. Tax Dollars Off ShoreIt turns out a Texas windmill farm developer's request last month for nearly half a billion dollars in stimulus funds to create 2,000 jobs in China doesn't rank first on the audacity scale. Shockingly for American taxpayers, and sadly for the staggering 10.2 percent of Americans who are ...
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U.S. forces missed chance to get bin Laden in 2001 - Yahoo! NewsThe U.S. military could have captured or killed Osama bin Laden in 2001 if it had launched a concerted attack on his hideout in Afghanistan, according to a report prepared for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. The report, written by staff working for the Democratic majority on the ...
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Six Uighurs released from Guantanamo sent to PalauVote 0 Six Uighurs released from Guantanamo sent to Palau By DPA, IANS October 31st, 2009 WASHINGTON - Six Chinese Uighurs who had been held at the Guantanamo Bay prison camp were released to the Pacific island nation of Palau, the US Justice Department said. The Chinese Muslims have ...
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U.S. will be out of Afghanistan by 2017: White House | U.S. | ReutersU.S. will be out of Afghanistan by 2017: White House WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States will not be in Afghanistan eight years from now, the White House said on Wednesday, as President Barack Obama prepared to explain to Americans next week why he is expanding the war effort. After ...
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Dana Milbank - Washington Sketch: Republican senators do an about-face on judicial filibusters - washingtonpost.comFor much of this decade, Sen. Jeff Sessions of Alabama, now the top Republican on the Judiciary Committee, led the fight against Democratic filibusters of George W. Bush's judicial nominees. He decried Democrats' "unprecedented, obstructive tactics." To have Bush nominees "opposed on a partisan ...
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Similar counties, but stimulus impact miles apart - The Elkhart Project- msnbc.comIf you want to win the stimulus sweepstakes, it helps to have one of the planet's nastiest toxic waste sites in your back yard. Doling out $787 billion in extra federal spending from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, the Obama administration relied heavily on “shovel ready” public ...
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The new wave of female firebrands striking fear into liberal America | World news | The ObserverAll these women express a mood of conservative discontent that is becoming increasingly vocal and, some experts warn, extreme. The Republicans have been kicked out of power in the White House and Congress. The party is becoming more white and southern at the same time as national demographic ...
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SEIU's Andy Stern to lead Goldman Sachs protest - Victoria McGrane - POLITICO.comGoldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein may have had his tongue in his cheek when he said his bankers were doing “God’s work,” but the company’s critics aren’t laughing. In fact, a couple hundred of them — led by Service Unions International Union president Andy Stern — plan to gather outside of ...
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Wall Street Gets H1N1 Vaccine - ABC News"Greed goes beyond just money," said Dr. Michael Coates, professor of Family and Community Medicine at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, N.C., of the news, which first appeared in a BusinessWeek article on Monday. "We have neither the seasonal nor the H1N1 vaccines for our patients. I had ...
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David Plouffe: No Difference Between President Obama and Candidate ObamaFrustration about the pace of change, even disagreement on select issues, of course is understandable. But stepping back a bit, as those of us in the Obama orbit have learned to do, reveals an administration that already has made a significant down payment on the change so many fought for last year.
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