Ta-Nehisi flags a new report.
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Your one stop pundit shop. Jimmy Carter believes that the "devastating invasion of Gaza by Israel could easily have been avoided." Nicholas Kristof described the Boomerang Syndrome:
Read more »“No Burris, no way, no how! (Never mind)”
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Durbin, Burris and Reid enjoy a chuckle together
Wow, that was fast! One minute Harry Reid and Dick Durbin are vowing never to seat anyone appointed to the Senate by Hot Rod Blagojevich and turning the appointee away in the rain. The next, we’re all chums (”Rod who?”).
After several days in which only attacks on Hamas [...]
A Plan for Stimulus Money: National Parks
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There are any number of things that could be done with the upcoming, huge stimulus package to put Americans back to work and and improve infrastructure. About $2.5 billion of that to go to our national parks, says the National Parks Conservation Association, and they have a plan. Back in the 1930s, the New Deal's Civilian Conservation Corps essentially built our national parks:
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Psychologist Jeffrey Kaye, who Kossacks know as Valtin and who has his own blog, Invictus, has written with passion and insight about torture for years. On Wednesday, he wrote an important piece published at Alternet titled How the U.S. Army's Field Manual Codified Torture -- and Still Does. The Daily Kos version is here.
Read more »Nancy Killefer Named Chief Performance Officer
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Signaling how serious he is about tackling the economic crisis, today President-elect Barack Obama announced that he was creating a new position to restore fiscal order, naming Nancy Killefer as the nation's first Chief Performance Officer. According to a transition team press release, Obama is calling this "one of the most important" appointments that he will make, and said that the current situation "requires immediate and decisive action." Killefer is tasked with a line by line examination of the budget to identify what works and to eliminate wasteful spending.
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A bit counter-intuitive. But okay ... From John Harwood's CNBC interview with Obama ... President-elect Barack Obama confirmed to CNBC Thursday that he plans to lay out a roughly $775 billion economic stimulus plan but indicated that the amount could...
Josh Marshall
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Study Guide
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Everything here is stated as absolutes, and the perceptive student will observe that various history books written by professionals in fact break one or all of my rules.
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New scrutiny for Obama's business tax cut proposals....
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