by Alan Grayson, Member of Congress, Florida
On May 30, 2010, at 10:06 a.m, the direct cost of occupying Iraq and Afghanistan will hit $1 trillion. And in a few weeks, the House of Representatives will be asked to vote for $33 billion of additional “emergency” supplemental spending to continue the occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan. [...]

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by Dave McGill
First comes the dreaded knock on the door, and then a deluge of decisions to deal with at a time when the mental faculties of the stunned survivors are at a particularly low level.

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by Dave McGill
Ahmed Wali Karzai is the younger half-brother of Afghan President Hamid Karzai, who will be in Washington for high level talks with the Obama administration over the next four days.

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by Dave McGill
For a little under 30 minutes today, the New York Stock Exchange became the center of the Twilight Zone.

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by Susan Stellin, New York Times
Published: May 2, 2010
THE airlines use the phrase “irregular operations” to refer to travel disruptions caused by blizzards, power failures and thunderstorms. But what happened in the wake of the Icelandic volcano eruption was referred to by a different phrase: total chaos.

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