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May 18, 2007 03:41 PM EDT -- The congress has voted through a bill to giving the military a 3.5% pay increase. Bush refuses to sign anything over 3%, saying a raise in military pay is unnecessary! Privates in the army make about . . . more
Bush Appeasement...
by Peter Edgerton
views: 24 | rating: 10 | comments: 12
May 15, 2008 08:48 PM EDT -- Our lameduck, criminal president has, once again, demonstrated not only his lack of vocabulary, but his utter disgracefulness, on the International Stage. In thinly and opportunistically launching . . . more
October 04, 2007 09:42 PM EDT -- I write this article as someone who is a politically independent person. I have no ties to the Democrat Party at all. However, I was quite amazed to find out today, that Nancy Pelosi took a proposal that . . . more
We Lost the War
by Jared G.
views: 17 | rating: 5.5 | comments: 7
September 07, 2008 09:18 PM EDT -- Before you can say the surge worked, that we’re “winning” in Iraq, take a second to check out this site .  Every little tick you hear is another soldier killed while serving his country.  . . . more
May 22, 2008 08:22 AM EDT -- Answer: $30 Today's price: $132 Before the Iraq War, Oil was at $30/brl ($1.25 per Gallon at the pump), now Oil is at $132/brl ($4.00 per Gallon at the pump), which translates into about a $4000 . . . more
September 12, 2007 01:41 AM EDT -- http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/blog/2007/09/11/BL2007091100967.html?hpid=topnews     http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/10/AR2007091001303.html?hpid=topnews . . . more
Withdrawal from Iraq.
by Karl Leuba
views: 72 | rating: 6.7 | comments: 64
April 10, 2007 02:52 PM EDT --       Moon Valley Arizona Karl L April 10, 2007 Is the Date Certain for withdrawal a good Idea? The argument against a timetable is that it gives the "enemy" a date . . . more
July 09, 2008 08:36 PM EDT -- I must admit, I am livid. Reported by Eric Lichtblau in the New York Times , today, the Senate passed the new FISA law (69- 28), according the administration shelter from retrospective oversight, since . . . more
September 15, 2007 12:07 AM EDT -- This was to be the monumental week on the Iraq War - the referendum on the Iraq War strategy and policy of President Bush and his Administration.  Early in the week, General Patraeus and Ambassador . . . more
November 12, 2007 09:48 PM EST -- You may have heard a few weeks ago when the Congressional Budget Office came out with its estimate the the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan will cost American taxpayers 2.4 trillion dollars. It's . . . more
February 27, 2007 05:29 PM EST -- In the wake of this morning's news about the suicide bomb attack at Bagram Air Force base in Afghanistan, a check of perspective is called for. Two plain facts come out of this attack: 1. Most . . . more
March 26, 2008 02:38 PM EDT -- U.S. Congressman Patrick J. Murphy , an Iraq war veteran, former West Point professor, criminal prosecutor, and family man, is supporting Senator Barack Obama for President. Listen in on this conference . . . more
May 08, 2007 02:03 PM EDT -- Take all your Obamas Clintons, Edwardses, Gulianis, McCains, whatever, whoever is running and jockeying for money and position in the ongoing, already interminable presidential race for 2008… PLEASE!  . . . more
June 05, 2008 11:49 AM EDT -- The beginning of the arraignments for five of the suspected Al Qaeda operatives in the planning of 9/11 is, in fact, the beginning of the Trial of American Values and American Justice before the World. . . . more
September 16, 2007 12:17 PM EDT -- If you do not read this “Times Online” article, you might as well stop talking about the Bush presidency. I am going to characterize what I am about to say as a Rush Limbaugh style diatribe . . . more
January 15, 2008 10:12 AM EST -- Two veterans, evicted from Veterans Administration Housing have taken their own lives over the past few weeks.  The men were housed in an apartment complex on the grounds of a VA Medical Facility, . . . more
December 07, 2007 12:05 AM EST -- I am putting this into an article because we need to be informed, and the best way to be informed is to listen to candidates, and not pundits or power brokers.   I am still undecided.  I . . . more
April 18, 2007 08:04 PM EDT -- NOTICE: THIS ARTICLE MAY NOT BE USED FOR COMMERCIAL PURPOSES WITHOUT CONTACTING IRIN FOR PERMISSION.   BAGHDAD, 18 April (IRIN) - When 53-year-old Tina Abdallah celebrated the fall of deceased former . . . more
August 24, 2007 08:04 PM EDT -- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=13935730   The URL will take you to a National Public Radio report.  I have nothing to add.   more
March 21, 2008 05:30 PM EDT -- Those of us who are able to follow the news during our work day probably know by now that Obama snatched up another key endorsement today: none other than New Mexico's own Bill Richardson. I . . . more
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