US Adviser: Time to Leave Iraq

Keeping Troops in Iraq Not Worth the Effort, Memo Advises by Jason Ditz, Antiwar.com, July 30, 2009 Colonel Timothy Reese, a senior US military adviser in Iraq, has issued a memo urging the US to dramatically speed up its pullout from Iraq, saying it should be announced that all troops will be out of the [...]

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Cold beer & making hay while the sun shines?

House passes $636 Billion$ defense bill The Hill By Roxana Tiron Posted: 07/30/09 07:47 PM [ET] The House on Thursday bucked President Barack Obama’s veto threats and overwhelmingly approved a $636 billion Pentagon spending bill for fiscal 2010. The bill, passed on a 400-30 vote, does meet Obama’s demand to cap the F-22 fighter jet [...]

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“Suds” Summit -Video

Beer Summit Details: Obama Hails “Friendly, Thoughtful Conversation” (VIDEO) HuffPo- First Posted: 07-30-09 06:46 PM   |   Updated: 07-30-09 07:34 PM As a very private “beer summit” gets underway in the Rose Garden, details remain scant since the “teachable moment’ is closed to the press. But, according to this pool report, Sergeant Crowley seems to be doing most [...]

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Rove’s Second Day Of ‘Testimony’…

Emails Show Rove’s Role In U.S. Attorney Firings TPM Muckraker- By Zachary Roth – July 30, 2009, 3:14PM Karl Rove did his second and final day of testimony before Congress about his role in the U.S. attorney firings today. And we’re getting more confirmation that that role was more extensive than he’s yet let on. [...]

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Evening Jukebox- Sweet Neo Con

The Rolling Stones – Sweet Neo Con

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Are The Republicans Knowingly Lying To Senior Citizens?

There appears to be a simple two-pronged strategy for killing health care reform. One of those prongs involves, of course, delaying reform until it’s too late. If it’s not passed by the end of the year, there won’t be the political balls to do so because of the fast approaching 2010 midterms when members of [...]

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Woman wins right-to-die legal fight

Virgin Media | 30th July, 2009 Multiple sclerosis sufferer Debbie Purdy has won a landmark appeal to the highest court in the land in her battle to clarify the law on assisted suicide. Five Law Lords unanimously backed her call for a policy statement from the Director of Public Prosecutions on the circumstances in which [...]

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Tony Blair will give evidence at the Iraq war inquiry

Blair to be called before UK inquiry to Iraq war LONDON, England (CNN) — Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair will be called before an inquiry into the country’s role in the Iraq war, its chairman said during the opening Thursday. John Chilcot told media he would not “offer a list of witnesses” but that [...]

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A Case For Interrogating Dick Cheney

Sherwood Ross | MWC News, July 29, 2009 Some in Congress are stung by charges that former Vice President Dick Cheney ran an international assassination op from the White House without telling them about it. They say he told the CIA to withhold the facts from Congress. This raises the question of how much power [...]

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Let’s Break Up the Fed!

AMAR BHIDé | WSJ | Wednesday, July 29, 2009 The Obama administration’s plan to increase the powers of the Federal Reserve, says one critic, is like giving a teenager “a bigger, faster car right after he crashed the family station wagon.” Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner disagrees. He argues that the Fed is “best positioned” to [...]

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