Think Progress has compiled a listing of Congressmen who voted against the Stimulus Bill who subsequently took credit for its success. They have posted the actual proof for each Congressman. The list below is just who they are. House Of Representatives [49% No votes took credit] House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-OH) Minority Whip Eric […]
Navy opens review of care Murtha received in surgery CNN By Barbara Starr February 17, 2010 Washington (CNN) — The National Naval Medical Center has opened a review of the surgical care provided to the late Congressman John Murtha after the Pennsylvania Democrat died following surgery, a senior U.S. military official told CNN Wednesday. The […]
Secret Joint Raid Captures Taliban’s Top Commander New York Times By MARK MAZZETTI and DEXTER FILKINS February 15, 2010 WASHINGTON — The Taliban’s top military commander was captured several days ago in Karachi, Pakistan, in a secret joint operation by Pakistani and American intelligence forces, according to American government officials. The commander, Mullah Abdul Ghani […]
Listen to Bayh’s reason for retiring Washington Post by Eugene Robinson February 15, 2010 Indiana Sen. Evan Bayh’s decision not to seek reelection will be analyzed ad nauseam for its political implications. Will the Democrats be able to hold the seat? Might they even lose the Senate? Is this bad for me and good for […]
Amy Bishop’s murdering the faculty who voted against her Tenure brings up the age old discussions of Tenure in general. An Example: A trying time for tenure Yale Daily News By Timothy Ellison Guest Columnist February 15, 2010 The shocking murder of three faculty members and wounding of three others at the University of Alabama […]
Series of missteps by climate scientists threatens climate-change agenda Washington Post By Juliet Eilperin and David A. Fahrenthold February 15, 2010 With its 2007 report declaring that the "warming of the climate system is unequivocal," the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change won a Nobel Prize – and a new degree of public trust in […]
Liz Cheney: Civil terror trials led to 9/11 Raw Story By David Edwards and Gavin Dahl February 14th, 2010 The daughter of former vice president Dick Cheney said today on Fox that she believes military tribunals, instead of civilian trials, following the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, would have produced intelligence that could have prevented […]
Recall when we went into Afghanistan and Iraq, there was a reporter "embedded" with every unit. Then the direct reporting stopped, almost like the wars were impersonal exercises lost in terms like "insurgency" and "the surge." Looks like we’re back to personal G.I. Joe stories: The Marines move on Marja: A perilous slog against Afghanistan’s […]
Some are stronger than others. I couldn’t watch Cheney this morning. I tried, but before he finished his first sentence, I was out of there. I have a choice as to what I listen to, and just his smug face and his voice pushed the channel button on my clicker. I couldn’t help it. A […]
Troops Take Positions in Taliban Haven New York Times By DEXTER FILKINS February 13, 2010 KABUL, Afghanistan — American, Afghan and British troops seized crucial positions across the Taliban stronghold of Marja on Saturday, encountering intense but sporadic fighting as they began the treacherous ordeal of house-to-house searches. More than 6,000 American, Afghan and British […]