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'He's taken the security issue totally away from the Republicans' - Obama campaign sees possibility of winning over GOP's military voters
Seeded on Sat Jan 28, 2012 7:27 AM EST (TheHill.com)
the Obama campaign is making no secret that it sees a possibility to win over military voters—long thought to be a GOP stronghold—an important constituency in key battleground states such as Florida, Virginia, and North Carolina. Obama’s wins — from the …
Report: Marine video prompted Afghan to kill
Seeded on Mon Jan 23, 2012 3:50 PM EST (Navy Times)
The Afghan soldier who killed four French troops and wounded 15 was acting in retaliation after viewing the video of U.S. Marines urinating on dead bodies of three suspected insurgents in Afghanistan, according to an Agence France-Presse report.
Afghanistan the Intractable
Sat Jan 21, 2012 11:28 AM EST
It is convenient to dismiss the deaths of allied troops at the hands of Taliban infiltrators by asserting that danger comes with the territory, that the profession of arms is always risky business, that losses are regrettable but inevitable.
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I Ran This on My FaceBook account, Wow!
Seeded on Wed Jan 18, 2012 12:00 PM EST ()
I have been around technology for a while and their are few things that would make me go "WoW", this is one of them. Everyone should run this on their face book account from time to time and save it.
Along the Backstretch: It's Iran by a Length
Sat Jan 14, 2012 10:45 AM EST
Not long ago, huge numbers of Iranians were in the streets in protest, and prominent Americans were hailing this as a new revolution, this time by moderates rather than by radicals.
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Paranoid Iranians Sentence Ex-Marine to Death for Spying
Mon Jan 9, 2012 9:20 PM EST
Ever since the Green Movement in the summer of 2009, paranoia by the Iranian government has become a way of life.
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Military donors giving cash to Paul campaign - Navy Times
Seeded on Sat Jan 7, 2012 1:59 PM EST (Navy Times)
Paul, a former Air Force surgeon, received at least $95,000 from military donors from Jan. to Sept. 2010.
Rumsfeld Redux
Fri Jan 6, 2012 1:33 PM EST
President Obama's speech at the Pentagon on 5 January marked the most acute public turn in American military strategy since the end of our involvement in Vietnam, and perhaps even since 1945. In multicolored resplendence and standing at attention behind t …
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The Obama Kwanzaa Series Day 6 of 7 2011
Sat Dec 31, 2011 3:50 PM EST
In the Obama Kwanzaa Series we have been comparing Obama's principles and performance, especially his third year as President, to each of the seven principles of Kwanzaa.
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2012
Sat Dec 31, 2011 2:39 PM EST
Our calendar is a vestige of Roman and papal edicts, but its roots are in pagan fears and festivals, descriptions of phenomena we didn't understand.
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