U.S. Economy Gets Lift From Stimulus online.wsj.com – Government efforts to funnel hundreds of billions of dollars into the U.S. economy appear to be helping the U.S. climb out of the worst recession in decades. Much of the stimulus spending is just beginning to trickle through the economy, with spending expected to peak sometime later [...]
Archive for September 3rd, 2009
3 Sep
The Limits Of Force
Iraq and Afghanistan Aren’t Ours to Win or Lose By Chuck Hagel Thursday, September 3, 2009 It all came tumbling back — the tragedy, the innocent victims, the waste. Too often in Washington we tend to see foreign policy as an abstraction, with little understanding of what we are committing our country to: the complications [...]
3 Sep
The Real Town Hall Story
By E.J. Dionne Jr. Thursday, September 3, 2009 But what if our media-created impression of the meetings is wrong? What if the highly publicized screamers represented only a fraction of public opinion? What if most of the town halls were populated by citizens who respectfully but firmly expressed a mixture of support, concern and doubt? [...]
3 Sep
President Obama: You Promised Healthcare, Not Futile Wooing of GOP Obstructionists
By Anne Lamott, Los Angeles Times. Posted September 3, 2009. An open letter reminds the president of the major campaign vow that got him into the White House. I am afraid there has been a misunderstanding since that election in 2008, during which 66,882,230 Americans cast their votes for you. Perhaps one of your trusted [...]
3 Sep
Obama Is Leading the U.S. Into a Hellish Quagmire
By Mark Ames, AlterNet. Posted September 3, 2009. Obama is doubling down in Afghanistan with more troops deployed now than the Soviets ever had, at a time when public support for it is sinking like a rock. America now has more military personnel in Afghanistan than the Red Army had at the peak of the [...]
3 Sep
Pushing For Accountability On Torture
thinkprogress.org NATIONAL SECURITY Last week, the Justice Department declassified a 2004 Inspector General’s report on the CIA’s interrogation program. According to the Washington Post, the report “describes the early implementation of the agency’s interrogation program in 2002 and 2003 as ad hoc and poorly supervised, leading to the use of ‘unauthorized, improvised, inhumane and undocumented’ [...]
