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Thursday, November 20
Reuters and CBS News Report: U.S. Influence Will Fade By 2025
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Roland, the Gunslinger
on Thu 20 Nov 2008 10:59 PM EST
Analysts gazing into what amounts to an intelligence-based crystal ball see a future world marked by dwindling resources, more people and diminished power for the United States, as CBS News correspondent Bob Orr reports. The grim assessment, entitled ''Global Trends 2025: A Transformed World'', comes from the National Intelligence Council, an independent government body. More>>>
The Obama Health Plan Emerges
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Roland, the Gunslinger
on Thu 20 Nov 2008 10:22 PM EST
One signal is yesterday's news that Barack Obama has selected Tom Daschle, the very liberal former Senate warhorse, to head the Health and Human Services Department. But an even clearer sign was last week's release by Montana Senator Max Baucus of a policy blueprint that closely resembles the one Mr. Obama campaigned on for 17 months. The plan is significant not only because its author is Chairman of the powerful Finance Committee, which oversees taxes and about half of all government spending. Mr. Baucus is also one of the more moderate, and cautious, senior Democrats. If the Obama White House decides that reorganizing the 17.1% of the economy that the U.S. is likely to spend on health care in 2010 is a first-year priority, then Mr. Baucus's bill will be the place they start. Americans need to learn what they'd be paying for. More>>>
Federal Judge Orders Release of 5 Terror Suspects Held at Guantanamo Bay Prison
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Roland, the Gunslinger
on Thu 20 Nov 2008 10:10 PM EST
A federal judge ordered the release of five Algerian terror suspects held without charges at Guantanamo Bay prison for almost seven years. In the first civilian court ruling for terror suspects challenging their detention, U.S. District Judge Richard J. Leon said Thursday that the five men could not be held indefinitely as enemy combatants More>>>
The Waxman Democrats
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Roland, the Gunslinger
on Thu 20 Nov 2008 10:05 PM EST
John Dingell's fall from power yesterday is an important inflection point in the history of the modern Democratic Party. The House purge marks the final triumph of the Congressional generation that came of political age during the 1970s over the last lion of New Deal liberalism, and it is symbolic of the party's change in culture and policy priorities in the Barack Obama era. Sitting chairmen are nearly impossible to depose More>>>
Evidence of vast frozen water reserves on Mars: scientists
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Roland, the Gunslinger
on Thu 20 Nov 2008 10:01 PM EST
NASA scientists have discovered enormous underground reservoirs of frozen water on Mars, away from its polar caps, in the latest sign that life might be sustainable on the Red planet. Ground-penetrating radar used by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter reveals numerous huge glaciers up to one half-mile thick buried beneath layers of rock and debris. Researchers said one glacier is three time the size of Los Angeles in area. More>>>
Pentagon Hit by Unprecedented Cyber Attack
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Roland, the Gunslinger
on Thu 20 Nov 2008 09:54 PM EST
The Pentagon has suffered from a cyber attack so alarming that it has taken the unprecedented step of banning the use of external hardware devices, such as flash drives and DVD's, FOX News has learned. The attack came in the form of a global virus or worm that is spreading rapidly throughout a number of military networks. More>>>
Cheney-targeting DA is no-show
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Riley Jones
on Thu 20 Nov 2008 03:36 PM EST
Willacy County prosecutor Juan Angel Guerra stumped a presiding judge and attorneys for clients as high up as Vice President Dick Cheney when he failed to show up to court on his own grand jury’s indictments.
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GOP Stars Pence and Flake Say Party Moving To The Right (It's About Time)
by
Roland, the Gunslinger
on Thu 20 Nov 2008 01:17 PM EST
Boehner, on the other hand, disagreed: "“No, I don’t think it’s right or left. It’s what are the issues Americans are concerned about, and how do we build solutions on our principles? It’s not left or right. “That’s minimizing and marginalizing the situation,” Boehner told CNSNews.com when asked if he saw a trend towards conservatism in his conference. “I think our members are trying to avoid that.” (Mr. Boehner, the GOP will continue to lose elections for as long as it continues to bill itself as the Democrat Party Lite. -Roland) More>>>
Tarp the TARP
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Roland, the Gunslinger
on Thu 20 Nov 2008 12:21 PM EST
Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson has called for a pause in the financing request for the Troubled Assets Relief Program (TARP), halting it at $350 billion. (The original request was for $700 billion.) I think that’s an excellent idea. But in a recent hearing of Barney Frank’s Financial Services Committee, Democrats went ballistic at the thought of no more TARP money. They want to keep spending. More>>>
Congressman Sez Bailout Money Isn't Our Money...Wait...What?
by
Roland, the Gunslinger
on Thu 20 Nov 2008 11:23 AM EST
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