No matter what happens in the special election to fill the Senate seat left vacant by the late Senator Edward Kennedy in Massachusetts Tuesday, the Obama administration has taken a major hit.
Of course, should Republican Scott Brown win, it could derail the Democratic Party’s (and President Obama’s) health reform legislation by denying the Democrats the [...]

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I’m sorry. I have no sympathy for most U.S. airlines or the people who work for them! Sorry, but I don’t!
While there are, of course, exceptions, many U.S. airlines have some of the oldest fleets on the planet. I think even Vietnam’s commercial air fleet tends to be newer.
After years of cutbacks and slim downs [...]

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President Obama is in the middle of trying to find out how U.S. intelligence agencies so badly botched the handling of a Nigerian terrorist whose mission to blow up a U.S. airliner Christmas Day was derailed only because of luck and certainly not because of anything in “the system” that worked. It didn’t.
But maybe the [...]

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So, we end the year 2009 with the country still seemingly in a mess!
We are still at war in Afghanistan and bent on escalating it with the addition of a lot more troops. We have expanded our “secret” war in Pakistan while also now taking  more than a closer look at Yemen and even Somalia. [...]

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Ok, they’ve gone too far.  Not only are they making it even more difficult to get through airport security on the ground, but, on International flights, passengers will now have to remain seated for the last full hour of their flight!
This is all because of the alleged Christmas Day terror attempt on a Delta-Northwest airlines flight [...]

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So much for true health care reform.
The Democrats in the U.S. Senate are congratulating one another for a job well done because they managed to pass something they can call health care reform. And, in many ways, it is certainly that.
But it is a far cry from what the President said he wanted when he [...]

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