Pictures of the Week
From: The Surge: Now You Know(photo: Chris Hondros/Getty Images. United States Military Academy at West Point December 1, 2009 in West Point, New York.)
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Pictures of the Week
From: The Surge: Now You Know(photo: Chris Hondros/Getty Images. United States Military Academy at West Point December 1, 2009 in West Point, New York.)
From: [...]
Lately, we’ve been buzzing about oil drilling and how that will impact Florida’s beaches, tourism, the ecosystem, and the economic bottom line. However, there is another issue related to Florida’s beaches and the case is being heard by the United States Supreme Court. The case is Stop the Beach Renourishment [...]
Addressing an audience of cadets barely older than my eldest son, President Obama took ownership of the war in Afghanistan and asked the people of the United States -- and our allies -- to give him a mulligan on the prosecution of that conflict.
We were, the President argued plausibly, doing [...]
New Florida Sen. George LeMieux's first foray into foreign relations has drawn brickbats from former high-ranking State Department officials who say his effort to block the Obama administration's new ambassador to Brazil is damaging U.S. relations with Latin America.
"This continuing, prolonged vacancy sends an unintended signal that the United States does not consider'" [...]
Much of Charlie Crist's old campaign staff already is on the payroll of Sen. George LeMieux, so it only makes sense that LeMieux is now actively raising money to help Crist take over his temporary Senate seat:
You are invited to a Luncheon honoring Governor Charlie Crist Candidate for Florida United States Senate with Special [...]
In yesterday's lone post at Babalu, Alberto de la Cruz is outraged, I say outraged!!!!, over the fact that President Obama bowed before Japan's emperor.U.S. Rep. Lincoln Diaz-Balart of Miami:
Friday's violent attack on Yoani Sanchez, as she and her colleagues were on their way to a peaceful demonstration in Havana, was repulsive and condemnable. Through a series of overtures, the Obama Administration has indicated that the United States would seek a new approach to [...]
These are pictures, quotes, policies, etc., that either helped make me become a liberal, made me stay a liberal or emphasize liberal values to me (or show why the other side is wrong, emphasizing my liberalness). Today’s example:
Medicare is a social insurance program administered by the United States government, [...]
Forty Years of Sesame Street:IT is almost too perfect that the first African-American president of the United States was elected in time for the 40th anniversary of “Sesame Street.” The world is finally beginning to look the way that the PBS show always made it out [...] Nothing new here… move along, nothing to see here… we’ll just pass that monstrosity without you peons…
Welcome to the Imperial Government of the United States.
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