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• Christian Leaders Unite on Political Issues

  —Cracker Squire

  From The New York Times:
  
  Citing the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s call to civil disobedience, 145 evangelical, Roman Catholic and Orthodox Christian leaders have signed a declaration saying they will not cooperate with laws that they say could be used to compel their institutions to participate [...]

  Posted: November 20, 2009, 7:08am EST
  

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• Air Defense Push Inspired by 9/11 Gets a 2nd Look

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  From The New York Times:
  
  The commander of military forces protecting North America has ordered a review of the costly air defenses intended to prevent another Sept. 11-style terrorism attack, an assessment aimed at determining whether the commitment of jet fighters, other aircraft and crews remains justified.
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 7:01am EST
  

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• Sen. Lindsey Graham has a dern good point: Holder Defends Decision to Use U.S. Court for 9/11 Trial

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  From The New York Times:
  
  Senator Lindsey Graham, Republican of South Carolina, . . . argued that Mr. Holder’s decision was a mistake [because] in the future, he said, interrogators facing a freshly captured terrorist would fear jeopardizing a later prosecution.
  
  “If you’re going to prosecute anybody [...]

  Posted: November 19, 2009, 7:01am EST
  

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• Charge him something, anything. Send him to Yemen: Born in U.S., a Radical Cleric Inspires Terror

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  From The New York Times:
  
  In nearly a dozen recent terrorism cases in the United States, Britain and Canada, investigators discovered the suspects had something in common: a devotion to the message of Anwar al-Awlaki, an eloquent Muslim cleric who has turned the Web [...]

  Posted: November 19, 2009, 6:50am EST
  

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• Let's keep our eyes on this one to see if President Obama stands tough: U.S. Attorney Nominee Criticized Over Raids

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  From The New York Times:
  
  Eleventh-hour criticism is arising over President Obama’s nomination for United States attorney in northern Iowa of a prosecutor who had a leading role in the criminal cases against hundreds of illegal immigrants arrested in a May 2008 raid at a meatpacking plant in [...]

  Posted: November 17, 2009, 7:25am EST
  

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• GOP Post II: Meet John Thune

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  David Brooks writes in The New York Times:
  
  Some days the Republican Party seems to be going crazy. Its public image is often shaped by people who appear to have gone into government because they saw it as a steppingstone to talk radio.
  
  But deep in the [...]

  Posted: November 16, 2009, 5:58am EST
  

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• The ingrats: Rebuilding Its Economy, Iraq Shuns U.S. Businesses

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  From The New York Times:
  
  Iraq’s Baghdad Trade Fair ended Tuesday, six years and a trillion dollars after the American invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein, and one country was conspicuously absent.
  
  That would be the country that spent a trillion dollars — on the invasion and occupation, [...]

  Posted: November 13, 2009, 6:47am EST
  

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• Maine Finds a Health Care Fix Elusive

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  From The New York Times:
  
  Maine is the Charlie Brown of health care. The state’s legislators have tried for decades to fix its system, but their efforts have always fallen short: health insurance premiums are still among the least affordable in the nation, health care spending per person [...]

  Posted: November 11, 2009, 7:23am EST
  

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• Health economists say it is impossible to know whether the bill would meet cost-cutting goals, and many are skeptical that they even come close.

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  From The New York Times:
  
  As health care legislation moves toward a crucial airing in the Senate, the White House is facing a growing revolt from some Democrats and analysts who say the bills Congress is considering do not fulfill President Obama’s promise to slow the runaway rise [...]

  Posted: November 10, 2009, 6:44am EST
  

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• High school cross-dressing in the spotlight

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  The New York Times spotlights the changing environment for cross-dressing in high school and mentions the North Cobb County student recently in the news. [...]

  Posted: November 09, 2009, 1:17pm EST
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• No one understands the Middle East better than T. Friedman -- Until Palestinians & Israelis are serious about peace, we should get out of the picture.

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  Tom Friedman writes in The New York Times:
  
  The fact is, the only time America has been able to advance peace — post-Yom Kippur War, Camp David, post-Lebanon war, Madrid and Oslo — has been when the parties felt enough pain for different reasons that they invited our [...]

  Posted: November 08, 2009, 9:23am EST
  

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• Mighty Mouse runs to gunfire and ends it, engaging in some impressive active shooting protocol. Thanks Sergeant Kimberly Munley!!

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  From The New York Times:
  
  The police officer who brought down a gunman after he went on a shooting rampage at the Fort Hood Army base here was on the way to have her car repaired when she responded to a police radio report [...]

  Posted: November 07, 2009, 8:26am EST
  

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• Democrats ought to read and consider this David Brooks's column. Every word of it is accurate.

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  David Brooks writes in The New York Times:
  
  Liberals and conservatives each have their own intellectual food chains. They have their own think tanks to provide arguments, politicians and pundits to amplify them, and news media outlets to deliver streams of prejudice-affirming stories.
  
  Independents, who are [...]

  Posted: November 06, 2009, 5:20pm EST
  

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• In Iowa, Second Thoughts on Obama -- His standing has fallen in the state that jump-started his campaign, especially among independents & Republicans.

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  From The New York Times:
  
  One year after winning the election, Mr. Obama has seen his pledge to transcend partisanship in Washington give way to the hardened realities of office. A campaign for the history books, filled with a sky-high sense of possibility for Mr. Obama not just [...]

  Posted: November 03, 2009, 6:58am EST
  

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• Tom Friedman's opinion matters. He was a hawk on Iraq for a long time. -- Don’t Build Up in Afghanistan

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  Tom Friedman writes in The New York Times:
  
  It is crunch time on Afghanistan, so here’s my vote: We need to be thinking about how to reduce our footprint and our goals there in a responsible way, not dig in deeper. We simply do not have the Afghan [...]

  Posted: October 28, 2009, 6:47am EDT
  

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• Not good, not good at all: Union Votes Go Against Cuts at Ford (no good deed -- Ford's not having to file bankruptcy -- goes unpunished by the union)

  —Cracker Squire

  From The New York Times:
  
  Many workers at the Ford Motor Company are signaling that they are unwilling to help the automaker cut its labor costs further, by voting against what would be the third round of concessions in the last two years.
  
  Ford, the only one [...]

  Posted: October 28, 2009, 6:35am EDT
  

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• Eyes on the prize

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  Tom Friedman writes in The New York Times:
  
  Six years after the U.S. invasion, Iraq continues to unnerve and tantalize. Watching Iraqi politics is like watching a tightrope artist crossing a dangerous cavern. At every step it looks as though he is going to fall into the abyss, [...]

  Posted: October 25, 2009, 10:56am EDT
  

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• Our office is experiencing this: Small Business Faces Sharp Rise in Costs of Health Care

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  From The New York Times:
  
  As Congress nears votes on legislation that would overhaul the health care system, many small businesses say they are facing the steepest rise in insurance premiums they have seen in recent years.
  
  Insurance brokers and benefits consultants say their small business [...]

  Posted: October 25, 2009, 10:35am EDT
  

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• Strains for Democrats in Budget-Balancing Act

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  From The New York Times:
  
  When economists met privately with Democratic leaders of the House on Wednesday, the topic was how to pump billions more into the economy to stimulate job creation. They left with a homework assignment: How to cut trillions from future federal budget deficits.
  
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  Posted: October 23, 2009, 7:19am EDT
  

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• Decision on Afghan Troops May Wait

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  From The New York Times:
  
  The White House signaled Sunday that President Obama would postpone any decision on sending more troops to Afghanistan until the disputed election there had been settled and resulted in a government that could work with the United States.
  
  The delay . . [...]

  Posted: October 19, 2009, 7:11am EDT
  

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• On troops to send to stabilize Afghanistan & Pakistan, remember: Where there is no people power & only bad ideas, there will be no happy endings.

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  Tom Friedman writes in The New York Times:
  
  The problem we have in dealing with the Arab-Muslim world today is the general absence or weakness of people power there. There is a low-grade civil war going on inside the Arab-Muslim world today, only in too many cases it [...]

  Posted: October 18, 2009, 2:07pm EDT
  

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• Putin, excuse the slip of the tongue, I mean the White House Agrees to Let Insurers Warn Medicare Recipients About Pending Health Bills

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  From The New York Times:
  
  The Obama administration on Friday backed away from an order that had prohibited insurance companies from warning Medicare recipients about the possible loss of benefits under pending legislation to overhaul the health care system.
  
  Medicare officials set off a political storm when [...]

  Posted: October 17, 2009, 2:50pm EDT
  

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• Acorn has been enmeshed in urban politics for years, & its relationship with the Democratic Party has always been as productive as it has been uneasy.

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  There is an informative article in The New York Times today appropriately entitled "Acorn’s Woes Strain Its Ties to Democrats." [...]

  Posted: October 16, 2009, 7:07am EDT
  

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• Taliban, Al Qaeda and militant groups once nurtured by the government are tightening an alliance aimed at bringing down the Pakistani state.

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  From The New York Times:
  
  A wave of attacks against top security installations over the last several days demonstrated that the Taliban, Al Qaeda and militant groups once nurtured by the government are tightening an alliance aimed at bringing down the Pakistani state, government officials and analysts said.
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  Posted: October 16, 2009, 6:54am EDT
  

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