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Wednesday, August 31, 2011
Obama repeats call for Gaddafi to step down, pledges help for Japan
President Obama called again Friday for Libyan leader Moammar Gaddafi to step down but declined to lay out any specific military steps the United States would take to force him from power.
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The Plum Line: Rep. King undermines his own case for anti-Muslim hearings
Is Pete King backing away from his own stated reasons for holding hearings on Muslim radicalization this week?
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Bachmann suggests drilling in the Everglades, 'responsibly'
She's serious about being responsible about
drilling in the Everglades.
drilling in the Everglades.
The United States needs to be less dependent on foreign sources of energy and more dependent upon American resourcefulness.
Then she kept talking:
Whether that is in the Everglades or whether that is in the eastern Gulf region or whether that is in North Dakota, we need to go where the energy is. But, of course, it needs to be done responsibly. If we can't responsibly access energy in the Everglades, then we shouldn't do it.
To Bachmann, then, American resourcefulness doesn't mean developing new forms of energy or becoming a world leader in existing clean energy technologies that can be accessed here. It certainly doesn't mean finding ways to cut our energy use. No, resourcefulness means doing the same thing we've been doing?drilling for oil?just in more places. Just, you know, responsibly. Whatever that means to Michele Bachmann.
Let's settle this right here and now: We can't responsibly access energy in the Everglades.
There are a few things to stress on that front. Kate Sheppard at Mother Jones points out:
"No one wants to hurt or contaminate the earth," [Bachmann] continued. "We don't want to harm our water, our ecosystems or the air. That is a minimum bar." But Bachmann wants to abolish the Environmental Protection Agency. So it's not entirely clear who would be charged with ensuring that we are protecting the environment in our bid to drill in the Everglades and any other part of the US.
Jerry Karnas, communications director for the Everglades Foundation, says that drilling in the Everglades wouldn?t even be economically viable, as there really isn?t oil within Everglades proper and the little oil available in surrounding areas is of a very low quality."As time has worn on, the Everglades has begun to encompass other areas, including Big Cypress Preserve," says Karnas. "In 1972, there were some historic mineral rights retained by the Barron Collier family, and today, it is nothing more than a very, very small operation where the company drills for meager amounts of oil that are of a very low quality."
It's a delicate balance, going for the hard-right vote while seeming "serious" to the traditional media. Apparently suggesting "responsible" drilling for oil in a place where there's basically no oil and no way to drill responsibly is the balance Bachmann is comfortable with.
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Romney Says He's Doubling ? Not Quadrupling ? Size of Home
The presidential hopeful denied reports that he was quadrupling the home.
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FBI investigates gunshots at congressman's office
The FBI and local Texas authorities are investigating reports of gunshots Tuesday striking the north Houston office of U.S. Rep. Gene Green, authorities said. 
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Obama speaks out against bullying, says, 'I wasn't immune'
President Obama and the first lady spoke out against bullying Thursday, urging parents, schools and community leaders to look for ways to address a problem that they say has gotten worse in the age of the internet and social networking.
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Help Libya? Americans say no thanks
Almost three-fourths of those polled in a CNN survey say they oppose committing financial aid to Libya.
Source: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0811/62315.html
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Tuesday, August 30, 2011
ATF head reassigned in wake of 'Fast and Furious'
Kenneth Melson, the acting director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives who came under criticism for the "Fast and Furious" operation involving illegal weapons sales, is being reassigned to the Justice Department as a senior adviser on forensic issues, the department announced Tuesday. 
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Cheney 'Fears Being Tried as a War Criminal'
Powell's former chief of staff reacts to Cheney's memoir and accuses Cheney of committing war crimes
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AP source: Obama to tap Locke for China ambassador
WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama will nominate Commerce Secretary Gary Locke, the son and grandson of Chinese immigrants, to be the next U.S. ambassador to China, a senior administration official said Monday. A formal announcement could come as early as Tuesday.
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Stetson Kennedy Dies at 94; Infiltrated Ku Klux Klan
In the 1950s, Mr. Kennedy, an author, wrote ?I Rode with the Ku Klux Klan,? which was later renamed ?The Klan Unmasked.?
Source: http://feeds.nytimes.com/click.phdo?i=08f736c121554b4c6432f3477768ef67
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It's official: More than $30 billion wasted in Iraq, Afghanistan
(Jason Reed/Reuters)
Put aside the fact that the entire cost of the war in Iraq was a waste?in lives lost, in opportunity costs, in American prestige around the world?and that the diversion of that war turned Afghanistan into a quagmire, now there is a solid number attached to waste, fraud and abuse in the wars.
A bipartisan commission on wartime contracting pegs that number at more than $30 billion, one in every six dollars spent.
Those sobering but conservative numbers are a key finding of the bipartisan Commission on Wartime Contracting in Iraq and Afghanistan, which will submit its report to Congress on Wednesday. All eight commissioners agree that major changes in law and policy are needed to avoid confusion and waste in the next contingency, whether it involves armed struggle overseas or response to disasters at home.Tens of billions of taxpayer dollars have been wasted through poor planning, vague and shifting requirements, inadequate competition, substandard contract management and oversight, lax accountability, weak interagency coordination, and subpar performance or outright misconduct by some contractors and federal employees. Both government and contractors need to do better.
Our final report shows that the costs of contracting waste and fraud extend beyond the disservice to taxpayers. The costs include damage to the support for U.S. military, diplomatic and development efforts; fostering corruption in host countries; and undermining U.S. standing and influence overseas.
Um, we told you so? Seriously, the DFH bloggers knew this would be the outcome before the fucking Iraq war even started. The monetary cost doesn't even begin to touch on what America has lost through the adventures of the last decade. We hardly needed a blue ribbon commission to tell us that. But since it's all "bipartisan," maybe our fearless leaders in Washington will pay attention now, and prevent this from happening again.
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White House moving to repair troubled relationship with Cabinet
News this week of the first departure of a Cabinet secretary from the Obama administration comes amid a wide-ranging effort under the new chief of staff, William M. Daley, to repair badly frayed relations between the White House and the Cabinet.
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It's official: More than $30 billion wasted in Iraq, Afghanistan
(Jason Reed/Reuters)
Put aside the fact that the entire cost of the war in Iraq was a waste?in lives lost, in opportunity costs, in American prestige around the world?and that the diversion of that war turned Afghanistan into a quagmire, now there is a solid number attached to waste, fraud and abuse in the wars.
A bipartisan commission on wartime contracting pegs that number at more than $30 billion, one in every six dollars spent.
Those sobering but conservative numbers are a key finding of the bipartisan Commission on Wartime Contracting in Iraq and Afghanistan, which will submit its report to Congress on Wednesday. All eight commissioners agree that major changes in law and policy are needed to avoid confusion and waste in the next contingency, whether it involves armed struggle overseas or response to disasters at home.Tens of billions of taxpayer dollars have been wasted through poor planning, vague and shifting requirements, inadequate competition, substandard contract management and oversight, lax accountability, weak interagency coordination, and subpar performance or outright misconduct by some contractors and federal employees. Both government and contractors need to do better.
Our final report shows that the costs of contracting waste and fraud extend beyond the disservice to taxpayers. The costs include damage to the support for U.S. military, diplomatic and development efforts; fostering corruption in host countries; and undermining U.S. standing and influence overseas.
Um, we told you so? Seriously, the DFH bloggers knew this would be the outcome before the fucking Iraq war even started. The monetary cost doesn't even begin to touch on what America has lost through the adventures of the last decade. We hardly needed a blue ribbon commission to tell us that. But since it's all "bipartisan," maybe our fearless leaders in Washington will pay attention now, and prevent this from happening again.
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