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NASA Forced To Spend Nearly $500 Million On Defunct Program

Seeded on Tue Dec 28, 2010 6:37 AM EST (The Orlando Sentinel)

WASHINGTON — Thanks to congressional inaction, NASA must continue to fund its defunct Ares I rocket program until March — a requirement that will cost the agency nearly $500 million at a time when NASA is struggling with the expensive task of replacing the space shuttle.

us-news, space-exploration, budget-deficit

Senator Kyl holding New START hostage to tax cuts?

Seeded on Thu Dec 2, 2010 12:40 PM EST (The Washington Post)

Today, five former Republican secretaries of state urged Republicans in the Senate to ratify the new START treaty:

politics, senate-republicans, start-i, consider-kyls, mock-and-attack

Loves me my Russians: Stanislav Petrov — World Hero

Seeded on Fri Nov 19, 2010 5:42 AM EST ()

In 1983 in Russia, there was a man who would have been considered an enemy by the people of America. But as it turned out, he would become for them and for the world an unknown hero — perhaps the greatest hero of all time.

history, start, cold-war, foreign-affairs, arms-control

Don't Hang Tariq Aziz

Seeded on Mon Nov 8, 2010 10:34 PM EST (Slate)

The decision of the Iraqi war crimes tribunal to sentence Tariq Aziz to death is one that needs to be vigorously opposed for several reasons.

iraq, saddam-hussein, world-news, baathist-party

In wake of CIA suicide bomber, what went wrong depends on who you ask

Seeded on Mon Oct 25, 2010 9:19 PM EDT (CNN)

Washington (CNN) -- In the wake of the deadly attack at one of its bases in Afghanistan, there is disagreement among CIA veterans about what went wrong. Intelligence officials, both current and former, all agree that mistakes were made.

history, national-security, counterterrorism, cia-khost

Reframing the Iraq War

Seeded on Mon Oct 4, 2010 9:03 PM EDT (The Huffington Post)

Washington, DC -- The more we learn about how the Iraq War began the worse the story gets.

middle-east, world-news, iraq-war, counterterrorism

Phillies Dominate Braves, Playoff Opponent Still TBD

Seeded on Sun Oct 3, 2010 10:48 AM EDT ()

Dateline ATLANTA Even with a fourth straight National League East title locked up, Phillies manager Charlie Manuel promised that his team would not let up on the final weekend of the regular season.

phillies, sports, philadelphia, world-series

Washington, We Have a Problem

Seeded on Mon Sep 27, 2010 9:31 AM EDT (The Latest From VanityFair.com)

How broken is Washington? Beyond repair? A day in the life of the president reveals that Barack Obama's job would be almost unrecognizable to most of his predecessors—thanks to the enormous bureaucracy, congressional paralysis, systemic corruption (with lobbyists spending $3. …

media, congress, politics, obama

How is it people fail to see? Old Testament spells out Evolution!

Mon Sep 20, 2010 11:08 AM EDT

If you are of the opinion the Book of Genesis precludes Darwinian precepts, clearly you need to reacquaint yourself with the Old Testament, Genesis specifically.

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evolution, religion, darwin

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Friends, or "Enemies"? Your call, "Fellow American"

Tue Sep 14, 2010 12:48 AM EDT

We're Friends buddy, but you don't know us by that name. You call us "Quakers." The misconception is, "They quake in the Presence of God."

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religion

Glenn Beck's George Washington Whopper

Seeded on Wed Sep 1, 2010 11:16 AM EDT (MotherJones.com)

During his much-ballyhooed "Restoring Honor" rally on Saturday, Glenn Beck told a whopper involving the founding father who was supposedly unable to tell a lie: George Washington.

politics, fox-news, glenn-beck

Not just an American racist, I am the racist American.

Sun Aug 29, 2010 9:08 AM EDT

Like many of you my friends, particularly the Americans of a more conservative bent, I am long- and over-sick of the overuse and misapplication of the term "racist." Those of my friends inclined to commit the offense of which I speak, you should be the ones most dismayed by and g …

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politics, liberal, conservative, race-relations, counterterrorism

U.S. Soldiers Punished for Not Attending Christian Concert

Seeded on Fri Aug 20, 2010 10:00 AM EDT (The Huffington Post)

For the past several years, two U.S. Army posts in Virginia, Fort Eustis and Fort Lee, have been putting on a series of what are called Commanding General's Spiritual Fitness Concerts.

religion, counterterrorism

What is Gulf Denialism and why is it a potential crisis for the White House?

Seeded on Fri Aug 20, 2010 9:47 AM EDT ()

Of all the wrongheaded ideas proudly trumpeted by America's right, anti-environmentalism occupies a unique position: it is at once the most devoid of a rational or moral foundation and the most dangerous.

white-house, global-warming, environment, climate-change, gulf-oil-spill

Jeffrey Goldberg's fabrications (regarding Israel, Iran, and preemptive war)

Seeded on Fri Aug 20, 2010 9:31 AM EDT (Salon.com)

The calling out of an alleged "serious journalist" who is in fact a shameless propagandist once again beating the drum for yet another ill-considered act of war; this opinion piece contains several useful links for background. Follow them, be informed, and stay angry.

israel, iran, world-news, counterterrorism, glenn-greenwald

What is Americanism?

Sun Aug 15, 2010 10:31 AM EDT

This morning I found myself, as I find myself many mornings, in contemplation of the overall security of America's present posture. Actually, on reflection I must say this is something I wake to every morning... and it's something which far predates the present war.

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constitution, politics, counterterrorism, founding-fathers

The Crime of the Century: What BP and the US Government Don't Want You to Know, Part I

Seeded on Fri Aug 6, 2010 12:24 PM EDT (The Huffington Post)

The unprecedented disaster caused by the BP oil spill at the Deepwater Horizon Mississippi Canyon 252 site continues to expand even as National Incident Commander Thad Allen and BP assert that the situation is improving, the blown-out source capped and holding steady, the situati …

economy, bp, us-news, oil-spill-health-hazards

Letter from Afghanistan: 'So This is Paktya' (Summer 2010)

Seeded on Fri Aug 6, 2010 10:56 AM EDT ()

Sometime after midnight, from an observation post at a small base in Paktya Province, American soldiers watched the battle begin. Tracer rounds streamed into the January sky, followed by the fire trails of rocket-propelled grenades.

world-news, de-parting-afghanistan, combat-outpost-wilderness, hash-monster

Palinism 101

Seeded on Fri Aug 6, 2010 10:44 AM EDT (Newsweek)

Palinisms occur when Palin expresses one of these views in her idiosyncratically involuted syntax ("It is from Alaska that we send those out to make sure that an eye is being kept on this very powerful nation, Russia"); when she expresses two or more of them in combination ( …

politics, sarah-palin, immiscible-imbecility

Network of right-wing PACs preys on small donors, nets millions in fees

Seeded on Wed Aug 4, 2010 11:53 AM EDT (Salon.com)

Thousands of grassroots conservative donors around the country who believe they are contributing to the fight to reclaim Congress in the fall have actually poured millions of dollars into a group of political action committees whose primary function appears to be enriching a noto …

politics, fund-raising, conservative, tea-party, while-veterans

Most Important Speech in History of the American Republic

Seeded on Thu Jul 29, 2010 5:19 PM EDT ()

And now, friends, this incident that has just occurred - this effort to assassinate me- emphasizes to a peculiar degree the need of the Progressive movement.

assassination, politics, progressive, glenn-beck, teddy-roosevelt

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Tennessee Lt. Gov: Religious Freedom May Not Count For Muslims (VIDEO)

Seeded on Tue Jul 27, 2010 1:02 PM EDT (Talking Points Memo)

Tennessee Lt. Gov. Ron Ramsey, currently running third in the state's Republican gubernatorial primary race, says he's not sure if Constitutional guarantees of freedom of religion apply to the followers of the world's second-largest faith, Islam.

constitution, politics, counterterrorism

Tea Party Caucus members endorse Israeli attack on Iran

Seeded on Mon Jul 26, 2010 11:55 PM EDT ()

Foreign Policy magazine's The Cable:

israel, iran, us-news, foreign-policy, tea-party, tea-party-caucus

Sharron Angle's Racist Tea Partier Problem

Seeded on Tue Jul 20, 2010 9:50 AM EDT (MotherJones.com)

Since tea party leader Mark Williams' racist rejoinder to the NAACP ignited into a national scandal, other members of the movement have been clamoring to disown Williams and disavow his inflammatory remarks.

politics, racism, harry-reid, african-american, mark-williams, tea-party-express, sharron-angle

Mel Gibson Isn't Just an Angry Narcissist- Hitchens

Seeded on Tue Jul 20, 2010 9:13 AM EDT (Slate)

And now, in the wake of a Niagara of cloacal abuse directed at the mother of his youngest child, in which we were spared nothing by way of obscenity and menace and nothing by way of paranoid and sexualized racism, there have been those who diagnose Gibson's problem as a lack of a …

entertainment, psychology, under-pressure, mel-gibsons, pope-catholic, enemy-is-still-here

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