Michael Saul, a Daily News Political Correspondent, reported on Tuesday, July 15th 2008, that “Barack Obama says he’s ’seen and heard worse’ than The New Yorker cartoon (below) satirizing attacks on him and his wife by the political right. Barack Obama to the New Yorker: It’s your right – but you weren’t right. In his first substantive talk [...]
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Washington, D.C.
July 15, 2008
Sixty-one years ago, George Marshall announced the plan that would come to bear his name. Much of Europe lay in ruins. The United States faced a powerful and ideological enemy intent on world domination. This menace was magnified by the recently discovered capability to destroy [...]
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The House passed a version of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) on Friday. This bill grants immunity for telecommunications companies that participated in the government’s wiretap program post 9/11. This surveillance program helped the government eavesdrop on suspected terrorists. “Telecommunications companies cooperated with the government, and allowed the National Security Agency access to their [...]
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Operation Iraqi Freedom began on March 20, 2003. According to ZFacts.com, “The United Sates budget for Iraq in 2007 came to $4, 988/Iraqi. This is triple Iraq’s per-person GDP. It’s like spending $121,000 per person ($484,000 per family of 4) in the US.” The amount of deaths that the war has spread is overwhelming. To get a [...]
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