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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Karl Rove, the often sleazy former senior adviser to George W and current Wall Street Journal commentator, claims President Obama has “won a place in history with the worst ratings of any president at the end of his first year.”
Rove is referring to a USA Today/Gallup Poll showing 49 % of those who were polled [...]

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Once again, the party in power has shown how powerless it really is in the face of opposition from Republicans and some conservative and even so-called moderate Democrats.
After having dropped the public option in its health-care overhaul package, Senate Democrats have now caved in and have agreed to drop an alternative plan that would have [...]

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