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Iraq Asks for Timetable for U.S. Withdrawal

News – Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki raised the prospect on Monday of setting a timetable for the withdrawal of U.S. troops as part of negotiations over a new security agreement with Washington.

View Story Discuss (11) (uk.reuters.com) 1 day ago by Neophile

Voted for on July 08, 2008 09:36pm Commented on 1 time: 1

This story has mostly positive ratings. 57 votes / No sinks

Lieberman: After Iran wipes out Israel and 'Arab countries' in the Middle East, 'we're next!'

Politics – When host George Stephanopoulos asked if Israel should then attack Iran, Lieberman said, "That's up to Israel," warning that Iran not only represents an "existential threat" to Israel but also the Middle East and the United States.

View Story Discuss (29) (thinkprogress.org) 1 day ago by TechnologyExpert

Voted for on July 08, 2008 02:15pm Commented on 2 times: 1 2

How McCain Is Skirting His Own Spending Caps
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How McCain Is Skirting His Own Spending Caps

Politics – Even though McCain has agreed to an $84.1 million spending cap by accepting public funds--a decision he likes to portray as a principled stand against the corrupting influence of money on politics--at least double that sum will be spent on his behalf thanks to loopholes in the law that allow largely unregulated "soft money" contributions.

View Story Discuss (217) (blog.newsweek.com) 1 day ago by ybdogsct

Voted for on July 08, 2008 01:42pm

Bush Edits Out Jefferson's Anti-Religious Views
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Bush Edits Out Jefferson's Anti-Religious Views

Politics – President Bush was at Monticello for a 4th of July celebration and he delivered an address. But it's quite telling that his speechwriters, in quoting Jefferson, cut out an anti-religious statement from a long and famous quote.

View Story Discuss (74) (scienceblogs.com) 2 days ago by Aidenag

Voted for on July 07, 2008 08:29pm Commented on 1 time: 1

This story has mostly positive ratings. 45 votes / 1 sink

Why some conservatives are backing Obama

Politics – The "Obamacans" that Sen. Barack Obama used to joke about - Republican apostates who whispered their support for his candidacy - have morphed into a new phenomenon, or syndrome, as detractors like to call it: the Obamacons.

View Story Discuss (3) (sfgate.com) 2 days ago by TechnologyExpert

Voted for on July 07, 2008 06:35pm

DNC Convention Stumbles
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DNC Convention Stumbles

Politics – "In some ways, it provides an excellent manifestation of Democratic governance. Underfunded, overspent, and chock-full of unrealistic mandates, the entire enterprise appears on the brink of failure " and Team Obama has six weeks to attempt a rescue"

View Story Discuss (105) (nytimes.com) 2 days ago by bigurn

Sunk on July 07, 2008 04:42pm

The buck doesn't stop here; it just keeps falling
This story has mostly positive ratings. 192 votes / 5 sinks

The buck doesn't stop here; it just keeps falling

Money – The almighty dollar is mighty no more. It has been declining steadily for six years against other major currencies, undercutting its role as the leading international banking currency.

View Story Discuss (63) (news.yahoo.com) 2 days ago by engineer

Voted for on July 07, 2008 02:36pm

Kerry: McCain's Judgment Is Dangerous
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Kerry: McCain's Judgment Is Dangerous

Politics – Says Republican Candidate Is A "Changed Man" For Siding With Bush On War, Economy, Energy

View Story Discuss (189) (cbsnews.com) 2 days ago by TimALoftis

Voted for on July 07, 2008 12:33pm Commented on 1 time: 1

Cheer up. We're winning this War on Terror
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Cheer up. We're winning this War on Terror

Do No Evil – Al-Qaeda and the Taleban are in retreat, the surge has worked in Iraq and Islamism is discredited. Not a bad haul

View Story Discuss (413) (timesonline.co.uk) 2 days ago by libsRfunny

Sunk on July 07, 2008 11:08am

Abu Graib: What the Most Seen Photographs Say
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Abu Graib: What the Most Seen Photographs Say

Movies – 'Standard Operating Procedure', the new film by Errol Morris, is the fruit of meticulous research into the ill-treatment of Iraqi detainees. Featuring numerous interviews with military personnel who served at Abu Ghraib, it leaves the viewer in little doubt that the cruelty captured on camera was authorized at the highest levels in Washington.

View Story Discuss (371) (ipsnews.net) 3 days ago by bubba2

Voted for on July 06, 2008 03:28pm

Iraq veteran's movie helps him cope
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Iraq veteran's movie helps him cope

Movies – Counseling and medication weren't enough to help Laef Fox recover from his grim war experience in Iraq, and drugs and alcohol didn't work either, so he tried making a movie instead. The result is "Changing Us," a film about the invasion from a grunt's point of view. It will be screened in a private Fourth of July preview in Denver.

View Story Discuss (0) (armytimes.com) 4 days ago by bubba2

Voted for on July 05, 2008 02:45pm

This story has mostly positive ratings. 32 votes / No sinks

IRAQ: Journalist Charges Censorship by U.S. Military in Fallujah

Do No Evil – U.S. journalist Zoriah Miller says he was censored by the U.S. military in the Iraqi city of Fallujah after photographing Marines who died in a suicide bombing on June 26.

View Story Discuss (0) (ipsnews.net) 5 days ago by bubba2

Voted for on July 04, 2008 12:57pm

This story has mostly positive ratings. 33 votes / 1 sink

America's Forgotten Declaration

Politics – When the King of England signed a peace treaty he named all of the individual states. That's who he waged war against, not something called "the United States government." In the Articles of Confederation and the Constitution, the phrase "united states" is everywhere in the plural

View Story Discuss (0) (lewrockwell.com) 5 days ago by populist

Voted for on July 04, 2008 12:57pm

This story has mostly positive ratings. 34 votes / 1 sink

Cashing in on the Iraq Slaughter

Do No Evil – That is, to support their backers, it is the "function" of the fascist American government to declare an illegal war and illegally invade Iraq, kill over 1.2 million Iraqis, maintain an occupying army in Iraq far into the future, sacrifice over 4100 Americans, incur over $532,000,000,000,000 in debt, all for the benefit of these four oil

View Story Discuss (0) (populistamerica.com) 5 days ago by populist

Voted for on July 04, 2008 12:57pm

This story has mostly positive ratings. 40 votes / No sinks

Commentary: How dare they rip the Fourth Amendment?

Politics – Next week the Senate will vote on an extension of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, with a few amendments to immunize telecommunications corporations that assisted our government in warrantless and illegal wiretapping. That such a gutting of the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution even made it out of committee is yet another stain on Cong

View Story Discuss (12) (mcclatchydc.com) 5 days ago by bubba2

Voted for on July 04, 2008 12:56pm