Does anyone remember Newt Gingrich and the Contract for America in 1994? Considering how it turned out you would have thought he would skirt the issue and provide a platform but Newt being who he is wants a new "team" contract in 2012. The GOP can and should do better than the fingers crowding out
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Maybe Julian Assange of Wikileaks needs a long vacation, preferably in a quiet white room cared for by medical people experienced in psychiatry. The man has the infernal nerve to make his employees or associates sign an NDA whereby if they "leak" the free information received from outside sources
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The FCC commissioner, Meredith Attwell Baker, who fought for the NBC/Comcast merger will claim that her decision to join NBC did not color her decision to vote for the merger. For those who want to believe that I can sell you several tons of gold "harvested" from the Golden Gate Bridge. This is the
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Who knew there was liberal population center in Arizona. Liberals in Tucson want to break away from their more conservative Northern cousins to form Baja Arizona. This move might bring back the always dormant desire among Northern Californians to split from Southern Caifornia. This makes for an
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An economist from the U.K. mnakes a connection between the U.S. Fed's quantitative easing and the revolution in North Africa and the Middle East. He says it may not have been the primary cause but as a trigger and driver of these events, the Fed seems very clearly to have achieved more in the
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Pakistan knew the Americans were coming, the Pakistanis did not know the Americans were coming, They knew Osama was in Abbottabad, they did not (!) know he was in Abbottabad. The point just may be that Osama was a losing proposition to Pakistan and his death would help two countries, the U.S. and
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Leaving aside the notion that a country founded on rule of law allows the use of medieval torture on prisoners to get information, it is unclear that these methods such as waterboarding and depriving prisoners of sleep, bombarding them with sound and light etc produce any actionable intelligence.
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There is no satisfying conspiracy theorists, they still have doubts about Osama Bin Laden's death. For this group of people nothing will satisfy unless they have seen it with their own eyes. Photographs can be doctored, the President, the SEAL team, the military - all lied. Videos can be faked. The
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While the U.S. may have exacted revenge for 9/11 or as President Obama said, "Justice is served" the fact remains that Osama Bin Laden's assault on America has cost us enormously. 9/11 triggered two plus wars, a recession, exploding defense budget, the outsized Homeland Security department, huge
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Finally signs of intelligent lifeforms with the GOP. It has been difficult to find a conservative thinker who nevber questioned President Obama's citizenship or tried to de-legitimize his Presidency with various outlandish allegations. Maybe a new class of conservatives will attempt to right
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Can somebody tell Terry Jones, the Koran burning pastor that his 15 minutes are up? Frankly this story is getting old. The shock value of burning the Koran has been exploited by him, his followrs, the media and the thugs in Afghanistan who killed maybe a couple of dozen innocent UN aid workers. Its
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Both political parties have a lot to blame for in not facing to the energy policy time bom. However for the current crisis the weak dollar, wars in the Middle East, rising demand from emerging markets, speculation, increased domestic demand and other factors contribute as well.
But that does
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You could have seen this coming a country mile away. Either the Tea Party is growing up and is being viewed as yet another political party or Americans are just getting tired of the strident voices that really don't yet seem to have a credible plan to rescue the country from hard times. If the
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Did I just wake in China? I read in the Chron that President Obama's thin skinned White House team has banned a political reporter from the SF Chron from its White House pool team...for shooting a hand held digital video of a protest at his fund raiser in San Francisco. The weaselly reason given was
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Are we going to have a Progressive "Koch Brothers" like reclusive billionaires or merely multimillionaires to help fund Obama for 2012? It looks that way. Obama's fund raising team has abandoned transparency to accept donations from secret sources and this cannot be good for the country. As it is
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