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AP on Care2.com- Obama Announces End of Combat Ops in Iraq : Video September 1, 2010President Barack Obama addressed the nation from the Oval Office Tuesday evening, announcing the formal end of combat operations in Iraq. The announcement comes more than seven years after the initial invasion, initiated by the George W. Bush ad... […]
- Gibbs' "Professional Left" Complaints, Better Left Unsaid August 16, 2010White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs riled the Obama administration's progressive critics, complaining about the latter to Sam Youngman of The Hill. Within Youngman's Aug. 10 post, Gibbs makes his frustration with the "profressiona... […]
- Shirley Sherrod has a Case, Intends to Sue Breitbart (...But, Should She?) August 6, 2010The sad political-media fiasco that brought about the forced resignation of Shirley Sherrod from her USDA post is far from over. At the crux of the controversy is a video clip, posted by conservative political operative Andrew Breitbar... […]
- Obama Announces End of Combat Ops in Iraq : Video September 1, 2010
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- Iraq War Redux: Goodbye “Iraqi Freedom”, Hello “New Dawn” September 2, 2010Earlier this week, President Obama declared, in his oval office address to the nation, that the US combat operations in Iraq were officially over. This is obviously an effort from the President to convince Americans, right before the November elections, that he has fulfilled one of his key 2008 campaign promises: To end the Iraq […]
- Pat Robertson: Fueling The Mosque Arson September 1, 2010Pat Robertson used his program as a platform for anti-Muslim activists and participated in spreading propaganda and misinformation capable of fueling actions such as the vandalism and arson committed only days later. […]
- Can Interfaith Dialogue Help The Middle-East Peace Process? September 1, 2010By Anthony Zeitouni Recently, I read a short piece of news in Arabic that the Emir of Qatar has officially approved the establishment of the Doha International Center for Interfaith Dialogue (DICID) as a “private institution for public benefit”, known in America as a Public Benefit Corporation (PBC). This pushed me to ask: can interfaith […]
- Iraq War Redux: Goodbye “Iraqi Freedom”, Hello “New Dawn” September 2, 2010
- This Day in Failure
- This Day in Failure: September 3 April 7, 20092009: University of Oregon running back LeGarrette Blount sucker-punches Boise State linebacker Byron Hout in the immediate aftermath of Boise State’s 19-8 win over the Ducks at Bronco Stadium, a game in which Blount carries the ball eight times for minus-5 yards. Then, while leaving the field, Blount initiates another confrontation, this time with Broncos f […]
- This Day in Failure: September 3 April 7, 2009
- AP’s Tweets ~ @pastINprint
- pastINprint: My pleasure, @shadowfax_rulz ! Happy to have made your day. :)pastINprint: My pleasure, @shadowfax_rulz ! Happy to have made your day. :) […]
- pastINprint: RT @MaddowBlog: Go ahead and thank the GOP for Iraq: http://bit.ly/aQOLGO (#Maddow clip w/text)pastINprint: RT @MaddowBlog: Go ahead and thank the GOP for Iraq: http://bit.ly/aQOLGO (#Maddow clip w/text) […]
- pastINprint: RT @Mercypolitics: Climate Change: The Question Of Bread | NEWS JUNKIE POST http://bit.ly/bGKe2xpastINprint: RT @Mercypolitics: Climate Change: The Question Of Bread | NEWS JUNKIE POST http://bit.ly/bGKe2x […]
- pastINprint: Obama Announces End of Combat Ops in Iraq : Video http://bit.ly/apQfU4 via @Care2CausespastINprint: Obama Announces End of Combat Ops in Iraq : Video http://bit.ly/apQfU4 via @Care2Causes […]
- pastINprint: RT @CAFalk: The Daily Show takes on the attacks on the 14th Amendment http://bit.ly/cXClDw #p2pastINprint: RT @CAFalk: The Daily Show takes on the attacks on the 14th Amendment http://bit.ly/cXClDw #p2 […]
- pastINprint: My pleasure, @shadowfax_rulz ! Happy to have made your day. :)
Following Obama’s prime time address to the nation from the Oval Office, Jon Stewart offers us a reminder that energy independence has been a presidential priority for quite some time:
“Counting President Obama, he last eight presidents have gone on television and promised to move America towards an energy-independent future.”
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Stewart’s hilarious, yet sad, commentary should serve as a reminder to us all: Presidents can only lend rhetorical weight to the nation’s goals. Without support from the electorate, they’re just words.
Rachel Maddow dropped by The Daily Show, discussing MSNBC‘s upcoming documentary, The McVeigh Tapes.
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Think Progress reports that Virginia isn’t the only state harboring nostalgia for the Confederacy — Both Mississippi And Georgia Have Confederate History Proclamations Without Any Mention of Slavery.
Back from his vacation, Stephen sends up Senator Jim “Creme” DeMint (R-SC) and his “Waterloo” meme. DeMint articulated what became the Republican strategy to “break” Obama by defeating the administration’s effort to reform health care in July, 2009.
Now that the Democrats have successfully passed reform, DeMint has taken to pushing back the goal posts, telling Face the Nation‘s Bob Schieffer that the true test of the GOP’s cynical strategy will come with the results of the 2010 midterm elections.
Stephen, of course, has some fun with DeMint’s assessment:
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History News Network ~ Breaking
- Wiesenthal Worked for Israeli Spy Agency, Book Alleges September 2, 2010Source: New York Times (9-2-10)Simon Wiesenthal, a Holocaust survivor who gained worldwide fame for decades as a one-man Nazi-hunting operation, was in fact frequently on the payroll of the Mossad, Israel’s spy agency, a new biography asserts. The assertion, based on numerous documents and interviews with three people said to be Mr. Wiesenthal’s Mossad handl […]
- Have LDS, Jews resolved proxy baptism dispute? September 2, 2010Source: Salt Lake City Tribune (9-2-10)The LDS Church and Jewish leaders in New York are looking forward to working together on relief efforts and other endeavors after announcing Wednesday the resolution of a sticky dispute: posthumous proxy baptisms by Mormons of Jewish Holocaust victims. But not everyone is convinced the problem is settled. The Utah-based […]
- Army Chaplain is 1st killed in action since 1970 September 2, 2010Source: Associated Press (9-2-10)A chaplain killed in Afghanistan this week was the first Army clergyman killed in action since the Vietnam War, the military said Thursday. Capt. Dale Goetz of the 4th Infantry Division at Fort Carson, Colo., was among five soldiers killed by an improvised bomb on Monday. Before Goetz, the last Army chaplain to die in action […]
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