Woman Struggle for Acceptance After Combat: What
Happens When They Come Home

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According to Yahoo News, "Even near military bases, female veterans who served in Iraq and[...]

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How To Deal With Joe

post from Talking Points Memo on 14 December 2009 11:50:00 AM. © Talking Points Memo

I mentioned this in my post last night. But the key issue senate Democrats now have in dealing with Joe Lieberman isn't his position on the the Medicare Buy-In. They need to confront the problem that Lieberman isn't negotiating in good faith. No[...]

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The Decisions That Must Be Made

post from Open Left - Front Page on 14 December 2009 11:45:13 AM. © Open Left - Front Page

The health care debate has officially arrived at its most critical juncture. Joe Lieberman’s[...]

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Harkin: Abolish the Filibuster

post from Talking Points Memo on 14 December 2009 11:45:00 AM. © Talking Points Memo

I doubt we'll see anything like this happening in time for health care reform. But Sen. Harkin says it's time to end the filibuster. [...]

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Calling on James Denton, Ellen DeGeneres and
Other Stars: No More Race for the Cure Cancer Money to Hadassah Lieberman

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Breast cancer is the leading cause of death among women age 35-44. The people who are anguished over the suffering of those they love and want to help in some meaningful way are attracted to Komen by celebrity names like James Woods, Andie MacDowell,[...]

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MANUFACTURING JOBS

post from Finding Happiness on 14 December 2009 11:42:00 AM. © Finding Happiness

Just 8.9 Percent. There were 131.0 million in the U.S. workforce in November 2009. Of that number,[...]

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Disappointing, but not unexpected

post from They gave us a republic... - Front Page on 14 December 2009 11:37:56 AM. © They gave us a republic... - Front Page

The Supreme Court today rejected without comment the appeal of four British citizens who were detained and have since been freed from the Guantanamo Bay prison camp who claim that they were beaten, threatened with dogs, tortured and denied religious rights, including forced shaving of their beards, during their imprisonment.

The defendants in the case included top Bush military officials such as former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and retired Gen. Richard Myers, former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia twice rejected the defendants' claims that the military officials violated a federal law intended to insure unburdened religious practice and ordered or condoned their mistreatment.
The four men who filed the suit - Shafiq Rasul, Asif Iqbal, Rhuhel Ahmed and Jamal Al-Harith - were released in 2004.
Rasul, Iqbal and Ahmed allege they traveled to Afghanistan from Pakistan to provide humanitarian relief the month after the Sept. 11 attacks. Al-Harith says he traveled to Pakistan the same month to attend a religious retreat.

The administration, to the disappointment and chagrin of the accountability-demanding Democratic base, has steadfastly and stubbornly defended the 'rights' of the Bush administration to have run roughshod over the Constitution and mocked the rule of law.

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Dave Lindorff: Protest What Protest American
Corporate Media Don't See What They Don't Want to See

post from BuzzFlash.org - Progressive News and Commentary with an Attitude | Fight Ignorance: Read BuzzFlash on 14 December 2009 11:37:38 AM. © BuzzFlash.org - Progressive News and Commentary with an Attitude | Fight Ignorance: Read BuzzFlash

Last week, I mentioned a line from an old science teacher: "If you can't measure it, it doesn't exist."

In what passes for corporate journalism in America, this concept has taken the form of, "If we don't report on it, it didn't happen."

That certainly was the case for the emergency protest organized by a coalition of anti-war organizations under the banner EndUSWars.org, which saw over 1,000 people gather on short notice in the bitter cold on Lafayette Park opposite the White House to protest President Obama's escalation of the war in Afghanistan on Saturday, December 12.

Not a word about this impromptu protest, which included many people who had supported the election of President Obama only a year ago, appeared in The New York Times. Nor did The Washington Post bother to mention the protest in its own backyard, not even in its Metro section pages. The other arguably national newspaper, USA Today, likewise blacked out news of the protest.

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