1 hour ago by Mike_Kelly

Over 300,000 sold on its first day! Get it now on Amazon for just $14.50 with Free Shipping. Save 50% Could have McCain Palin taken the state of Pennsylvania during the 2008 election? Why didn’t McCain allow Palin to go after Obama’s pastor Jeremiah Wright One year ago, Sarah Palin burst onto the na ...

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3 hours ago by billmo

How many of you were embarrassed by the Bush government as they tried to bring in our war dead from Iraq and Afghanistan in the middle of the night. Of course thy said it was to protect the families. The real reason was to insulate the American people from the death, the pain and the wars. Canada ha ...

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3 hours ago by emptysuit

A billboard in suburban Denver compares President Barack Obama to a terrorist. Wolf Interstate Leasing in Wheat Ridge, Colorado put up a billboard insinuating that President Obama is somehow tied to Jihadists and the Fort Hood shootings. The billboard shows a cartoonish Obama wearing a turban and sa ...

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4 hours ago by ArtieFufkin

(Photoshop/hack job by ArtieFufkin) Psychological warfare has long been an important part of military strategy. From Alexander the Great to Ghengis Khan to Winston Churchill, world leaders have always used propaganda and other psychological tactics to get into the minds of their enemies. And now, Ne ...

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5 hours ago by Howie

4th Brigade Combat Team, 1st Armored Division Story by Capt. John Landry Date: 11.20.2009 CONTINGENCY OPERATING BASE ADDER, Iraq – “Watchdog” is a term often used to describe the role the media plays in society and in an environment of rebuilding a nation, with corruption and evolving leadership, it ...

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5 hours ago by emptysuit

1983 Moved to Chicago, Illinois in late 1983 in preparation to host the talk show A.M. Chicago for WLS-TV 1984 January 2: First episode of A.M. Chicago. Show was extremely successful in the ratings The show is later renamed “The Oprah Winfrey Show,” expanded from 30 minutes to an hour, and begins na ...

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6 hours ago by emptysuit

Transcript: After much prayer and months of careful thought, I have decided that next season, season 25, will be the last season of The Oprah Winfrey Show. Over the next couple of days, you may hear a lot of speculation in the press about why I am making this decision now…and that will mostly be con ...

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6 hours ago by Chandler

Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Adm. Mike Mullen on Thursday said additional troop deployments to Afghanistan likely would happen at a slower pace than the surge in Iraq because of the lack of infrastructure in Afghanistan. In Iraq, the Pentagon was able to d ...

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7 hours ago by Daphne Eviatar

Jeffrey Kaye at Truthout has a good piece today on the suicide — or murder? — of Yemeni Guantanamo Bay prisoner Mohammad Ahmed Abdullah Saleh al Hanashi in June. It’s a powerful reminder of why human rights advocates, as well as U.S. military leaders, think it’s important to close that prison soon. ...

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7 hours ago by Barak

Jack Santucci at the Democratic Piece has some good insights into the institutional foundations of Iraq’s current political impasse. Jack’s basic point is that the primary fear of minority groups in Iraq (Kurds and Sunnis) is domination by the majority Shia. Thus, we should expect political leaders ...

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