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[Business Insider] John Boehner's Genius Move: Demanding That Every Obama Economic ...: I was writing my Congresspeople, including a senior Senator on the Financial Committee, begging him not to approve Geithner's nomination to Treasury due to his apparent lack of ethics as well as demonstrated incometetence while at the NY Fed. He was, after all, the point person for regulating the major Wall Street firms in the years running up to the 2007-2008 crisis.

[Freakonomics] The Costs of War - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com: Globally, the war in iraq will likely be a net economic benefit, though the US may not recover the value of the lives and resources lost. And, most of the spending is spending that is done in the US.

[POLITICO Top Stories] Sunday talk show tip sheet - Dianna Heitz - POLITICO.com: In The 9/11 Commission Report,(page 147), it is stated that this is why Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, (KSM), mastermind of 9/11, hates us: "By his own account, KSM's animus toward the United States stemmed not from his experiences there as a student, but rather from his violent disagreement with U.S. foreign policy favoring Israel.”all

[The Hollywood Republican] THR Twitter Weekly Digest for 08-02-2010 | The Hollywood Republican: Rangel explores possible deal in ethics case - WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A second House Democrat called on Re”¦ http://ht.ly/18jRuw #; THR: House Passes War Funding Bill, Troop Surge in Afghanistan and Iraq http://ht.ly/18jNDW #; THR: Kerry ...

[DoD Buzz] DoD Buzz | Gates Cuts Leading to 'Strategic Drawdown:' Wynne: Can you envision China’s retaking Taiwan triggering the North Koreans invading South Korea or vice versa ( anyone thinking that a Trillion dollar investment or the loss of the WallMart contract will inhibit the PRC doesn’t understand the mindset of a five thousand year old society or the PLA). And certainly the dynamics of a Pakistan/India/China conflict could come about in a heartbeat as we have seen recently.

[Firedoglake] The Upcoming Iraq Supplemental: Putting The Squeeze On ...: The next Dem president is going to need some leeway until he/she can change course without being hung up on asking for continuing funding until the drawdown occurs”¦.unless McBush were to win that is. The bigger problem is that there is no accountability for the money they’ve already received since the invasion/occupation began, so who really knows what this would be for in reality.

[The Confluence] Private Party « The Confluence: -McCain takes advantage of some timing issues in Florida and Michigan to make sure that none of the votes count during election night.  BUT, knowing how bad that PR will be in the final analysis, works with the federal election authorities to make sure those votes count during the electoral college proceedings so that the voters in those states don’t cause a fuss and discredit the election results.

[Political Punch] $72408 Per Stimulus Job? White House Says No - Political Punch: Each time an American is killed because of something called Jihad, we'll have a trial. Hope and Change.

[Re/Creating Tampa] Happy Wedding Day Lisa Simpson « Re/Creating Tampa: By Steve Bousquet, Times Tallahassee Bureau Chief Friday, August 27, 2010 If you're looking for a statewide race with substantive differences between the two candidates, your search is over.In the race for attorney general, Pam Bondi and Dan Gelber provide plenty of contrasts.They disagree on Obamacare, education, guns and vouchers, and they seem to dif […] Times Staff

[The Center of the Universe] The Center of the Universe » Blog Archive » courant coverage: Mertes wants to cut the 800 bases, well I like being a citizen in a superpower with bases all over the world so when I travel I got a little piece of home near me and think our military is what keeps our oil prices cheaper than most places so I don’t like his message. Simmons lost every old person when he started talking about SS cuts :( So round 2 I give points to schiff, simmons and mertes no points, I give you a point for round 2 as well Warren, but I think most j6p’s wouldn’t.

[The Literateur Magazine] The Literateur Magazine » Blog Archive » Open to the World: Stefan Zweig, and Michael Hoffman’s unfavourable review of his republished memoir The World of Yesterday in a recent LRB, lurks behind the conversation, referenced obliquely at the end as ”˜an article on a certain writer.’ If Hoffman’s assault on Zweig can be more generally applied, as the panel suggests, to a need to ”˜clear away dead wood’ from the large body of ex-empire, German-language writing available to an Anglophone readership, then the literatures of Soviet Europe are not, as Szirtes says of Hungary’s slim translated canon, ”˜ in the luxurious position to be pruned.’

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