Jobs
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Actualy report comes out Friday, but the private estimate comes out today.
-169k!
Less scary than some recent numbers, but need +140k or so per month just ...
Robert L. Borosage: Imperial Blues
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..."[O}ur troop commitment in Afghanistan cannot be open-ended -- because the nation that I am most interested in building is our own." But Afghanistan...
*Family Ties* Mom, Meredith Baxter: I'm Gay
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Family Ties mom Meredith Baxter (above, now and then), came out of the
closet on the Today show following reports in the National Enquirer that she
was spo...
The Morning Plum
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Some quickie reactions to Obama’s Afghanistan speech and the political
fallout… * Peter Baker: Escalation combined with exit plan a “jarring”
contradiction...
Your Abbreviated Pundit Round-up
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Wednesday punditry at its best and worst and in between.
NY Times:
In his speech Tuesday night, President Obama showed considerable political
courage ...
Mike's Blog Roundup
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Fafblog!: Victory Science
Scott Horton: Two retirees
Threat Level: Sprint Nextel provided law enforcement agencies with customer
location data more th...
Carper Crafting Health Care Compromise
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Sen. Tom Carper (D-DE) "has for years worked quietly to build consensus on
some of the Senate's most vexing issues," Roll Call reports. "But this year,
the...
NY marriage vote coming soon
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Andy Towle has the latest. We almost had a vote yesterday, but now it looks
like it might happen today. Joe Sudbay has good friends in NY who are quite
con...
The Afghanistan Speech
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I have not yet watched the speech, but I have read the text and wanted to
put some thought down before my impressions are polluted by contact with
other pe...
Obama Has Spoken; Now, Let's Have a Debate
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President Obama delivered a carefully-constructed and nuanced call Tuesday
night for the extension of the U.S. occupation of Afghanistan. Obama came to
t...
The Speech Isn't the Story
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I feel underqualified to talk about this one because I don't claim any
expertise in the area of foreign policy and have rather ambivalent feelings
toward A...