Member 577Our view on the war on terror: Iraq improves, but what's the plan for Afghanistan? (USATODAY.com)14-07-2008 13h22USATODAY.com - As the situation in Iraq grows brighter, the one in Afghanistan continues to darken. Opposing view: We're making solid progress (USATODAY.com)14-07-2008 13h21USATODAY.com - After 9/11, the United States helped Afghan partners topple a brutal, repressive Taliban regime. Since then, the Afghan government, under President Hamid Karzai's leadership, has achieved great progress in its fight against the Taliban and al-Qaeda, establishing infrastructure, securing territory and providing education, health care and training. Broad swaths of Afghanistan are hardly recognizable in contrast to where they were in 2001. Religion can help end wars, too (USATODAY.com)14-07-2008 13h16USATODAY.com - Karl Marx famously called religion the opiate of the masses. My political philosopher friend says Marx was wrong. Religion isn't like heroin so much as meth, my friend says — something that can whip us into a jagged frenzy, put our teeth on edge, make us agitated, even violent. Downsize Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (The Christian Science Monitor)14-07-2008 17h00The Christian Science Monitor - Americans are little aware of how much they rely on federal assistance to help pay for a home. No longer. The mortgage crisis has finally caught up with two government-backed giants in home finance. Once the crisis passes, it may be time to further privatize the American Dream. Energy-addicted U.S. can learn a lot from Europe (The Christian Science Monitor)14-07-2008 17h00The Christian Science Monitor - A few days before we flew to Barcelona last month to attend a wedding, international headlines filled with news that truckers had blocked roadways leading to Spain's major cities, leaving some store shelves bare. A Modest Proposal: Dealing with the <em>New Yorker</em> Aftermath (HuffingtonPost.com)15-07-2008 05h09HuffingtonPost.com - Let's be serious for a moment, here: the idea that Barack and Michelle Obama are urban terrorists -- working in cahoots with underground communist rebels, and Osama Bin Laden, to destroy America -- is so ridiculous that nobody with any sense of decency believes it. But if that's the case, why has that idea come to dominate the 2008 presidential election? And what have we done to stop it? McCain's Ideological Flip-Flops (The Nation)15-07-2008 05h28The Nation - The Nation -- Many in the media still can't figure out how to cover Obama v. McCain. Wall Street's Great Deflation (The Nation)15-07-2008 01h38The Nation - The Nation -- Phil Gramm, the senator-banker who until recently advised John McCain's campaign, did get it right about a "nation of whiners," but he misidentified the faint-hearted. Has Obama Lost Virginia? (RealClearPolitics.com)11-07-2008 23h30RealClearPolitics.com - Losing Jim Webb as a VP option means Barack Obama might have lost his best, and perhaps only, chance of turning Virginia blue this November. <<< Prev member Next member >>> Randon Members Member 323 Member 1466 Member 1096 Member 4112 Member 5083 Member 1869 Member 5155 Member 1536 Member 4201 Member 1906 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 | |
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