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$69.3 Million Afghan-Contracting Fine May be a Record
Washington - A nearly $70 million fine announced Friday against one of the U.S. government's largest Afghanistan contractors is an apparent record war-zone settlement, and it grew from a …
Karl Rove: “Valerie Plame and Joe Wilson Are Fair Game“
Former CIA Officer Valerie Plame & Former US Ambassador Joe Wilson—wife and husband—came by Brave New Studios to talk about their new film, Fair Game, a biography picture, at …
Obama in India: What to Look For
New Delhi, India - U.S. President Barack Obama arrives in India on Saturday with a difficult mission.
Rick Perry Proposes Letting States Opt Out of Social Security
Appearing on CNN’s Parker/Spitzer this past week, occasionally secessionist Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R) proposed allowing states to opt-out of Social Security: “Here’s what I think would be a …
ForeclosureGate Could Force Bank Nationalization
For two years, politicians have danced around the nationalization issue, but ForeclosureGate may be the last straw. The megabanks are too big to fail, but they aren't too big …
E.J. Dionne, Jr. | Pelosi: Why She Wants to Stay
Washington - House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is calmly assessing the political cyclone that routed her Democratic majority and will, at least temporarily, force her to vacate one of the …
Wallowing in Bloody Destruction
In this illustration, Republican Sen. Mitch McConnell and Reps. John Boehner and Eric Cantor are standing in the bloody human, economic and social destruction their party caused during the …
Another Hard November
I am beginning to loathe November. Every second year, we as a nation endure the paroxysm of election, and every second year seems to be more demented than the …
Beyond the WikiLeaks Files: Dismantling the Iraqi State
The United Nation's Human Rights Council in Geneva reviews the human rights record of the United States on November 5, 2010, on the occasion of the Ninth Session of …
AWOL Soldier Refusing Deployment Because of Severe PTSD
"I am just trying to get help," insisted Jeff Hanks, active duty US Army infantryman, who has served in Iraq and Afghanistan. "My goal in this situation is to …