The one memo you don’t want your name on is the one the CIA prepares to begin the process that ends with a drone blowing your body to bits. A drone attack in Pakistan on Friday killed nine alleged militants and the L.A. Times reported today that CIA analysts are now compiling a case [...]

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by Dave McGill
Two of the president’s main objectives, mentioned during the pageant called the State-of-the-Union speech, were to reduce the deficits and to bring down unemployment. If he can do both at the same time he will truly be a miracle worker.

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by Bernard Weiner – The Crisis Papers
Sometimes when I’m on a photo shoot, I change my camera focus to close-up, which puts me just inches, say, from the inside of a flower. I can spend much time in-tight like that, marveling at the complexities of a leaf, pistil, stamen, occasionally even a bumblebee inside stuffing [...]

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by Dave McGill
It’s a one-two-three series of punches, the third one coming tonight. Can it be happening? Main Street is being clobbered by a Democratic president.

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by Dave McGill
Some things don’t “change” and, last week, the military-industrial complex made that perfectly clear. Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates visited the two nuclear powers, India and Pakistan, and carried with him a trunk full of arms deals for both countries. The news was reminiscent of a study by the International [...]

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