project for the old american century 


Government

 

Waxman Ousts Dingell From Energy Chair In Bruising Dem Fight

http://snipurl.com/62y75  [www_huffingtonpost_com]

 

 

What happens if your party suffers massive losses in the recent elections? Well, if you're Rep. John Boehner (R-Ohio), you keep your leadership position

http://snipurl.com/61tor  [www_upi_com]

 

 

"The Republican Party has become increasingly beholden to an element that used to be relegated to wooden crates on street corners."

http://snipurl.com/61xfr  [www_washingtonpost_com]

 

 

Some St. Tammany schools banned talk of Obama's election; some parents outraged

http://snipurl.com/61y3x  [www_nola_com]

 

 

Rep. Michele Bachmann offers a new explanation: 'Urban legend'

http://www.startribune.com/politics/national/house/34774804.html

 

 

Lieberman: "I Feel Closer To Dems Than Ever."

http://snipurl.com/61zar  [www_huffingtonpost_com]

 

 

McCain lost his home precinct to Obama, no word on how he did in his other 7 home precincts

http://snipurl.com/61zsi  [www_azcentral_com]

 

 

Hate crimes surge following Obama election

http://snipurl.com/620b2  [rawstory_com]

 

 

Karl Rove advises Obama not to politicize the DOJ. I'll say that again Karl Rove advises Obama not to politicize the DOJ

http://snipurl.com/62w98  [www_huffingtonpost_com]

 

 

McCain's pollster gets Medieval on another GOP pollster: "[He] is a moron -- I want to make sure this is clearly on the record ... I would like to take a hammer and start breaking bones in Frank's arms"

http://snipurl.com/62xvu  [www_huffingtonpost_com]

 

 

Senate Throws Good-Bye Party For Ted Stevens, Gives Convicted Felon A Standing Ovation

http://thinkprogress.org/2008/11/20/stevens-ovation/

 

 

Poll: GOP image goes from bad to worse

http://snipurl.com/63glu  [politicalticker_blogs_cnn_com]

 

 

59% of Republicans want their party to become even more reactionary, less moderate, and more exclusive

http://snipurl.com/63g9v  [www_gallup_com]

 

 

domestic programs

 

Conservatives mull the political future. "We have to restrain and hold back the Obama healthcare train."

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1108/15814.html

 

 

Daschle brings stature to U.S. health debate

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N20422929.htm

 

Iraq

 

Security developments in Iraq, Nov 20 

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/KAM037878.htm

 

 

U.S. forces kill Qaeda leader wanted for attacks 

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/LK616142.htm

 

 

Iraq to coordinate fight against separatist Kurds 

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/LK675431.htm

 

 

The political fight for Basra

http://uruknet.info/?p=m48912&hd=&size=1&l=e

 

 

US will withdraw troops if Iraq does not sign security deal

http://uruknet.info/?p=m48900&hd=&size=1&l=e

 

 

The U.S. government is refusing to make public the security pact it has signed with Iraq, even though it has already been published in full in an Iraqi newspaper, a congressional hearing was told on Wednesday.

http://uruknet.info/?p=m48899&hd=&size=1&l=e

 

 

Unofficial Translation of U.S.-Iraq Troop Agreement from the Arabic Text

http://uruknet.info/?p=m48897&hd=&size=1&l=e

 

 

Baghdad: Joint Forces Murder Two Teenagers 15, 13

http://uruknet.info/?p=m48885&hd=&size=1&l=e

Afghanistan

 

Pashtun tribes seen as key to Afghan peace 

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/ISL347548.htm

 

 

Taliban Regains Power, Influence in Afghanistan: Sets Up Courts, Local Governments in Southern Regions

http://uruknet.info/?p=m48907&hd=&size=1&l=e

Iran

 

Iran Said to Have Nuclear Fuel for One Weapon

http://snipurl.com/61yc8  [www_nytimes_com]

 

 

US congresswomen 'seek talks with Iran'

http://uruknet.info/?p=m48910&hd=&size=1&l=e

Israel and Palestine

 

Israel Bans International Media from Gaza, Arrests Human Rights Activists

http://snipurl.com/62b6p  [www_metimes_com]

 

 

Dr. Hussein Ashour, head of the Al Shifa medical center in Gaza, one of the biggest medical centers in the Gaza Strip, stated that main facilities at the center stopped functioning due to the lack of fundamental equipment and tools.

http://uruknet.info/?p=m48913&hd=&size=1&l=e

 

 

Gaza: A Dire life Zone Still Clings to Hope

http://uruknet.info/?p=m48909&hd=&size=1&l=e

 

 

Disaster warning as Gaza still cut off

http://uruknet.info/?p=m48911&hd=&size=1&l=e

 

Central Asia

 

Security developments in Pakistan, Nov 20 

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/ISL124185.htm

 

 

'US missiles' hit Pakistani town

http://uruknet.info/?p=m48894&hd=&size=1&l=e

 

Foreign Affairs

 

Russia has granted NATO-member Germany permission to ship weapons and equipment for its force in Afghanistan overland through Russia

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/LK666100.htm

 

Human Rights

 

Closing Guantanamo Is Just the Beginning

http://www.truthout.org/112008N

 

civil Liberties

 

ACLU Comes to the Defense of Joe the Plumber

http://www.wcpn.org/index.php/WCPN/news/15341/

 

 

GOP Obama Supporter Proposes Prop 8 Compromise: Civil Unions for All, Leave ‘Marriage’ to Churches

http://snipurl.com/62aak  [www_pensitoreview_com]

 

 

ACLU suing to free US citizen

http://snipurl.com/63lr2  [www_contracostatimes_com

 

Environment

 

New Study Finds World's Coastal Waters Are Vastly Under Protected

http://snipurl.com/63kxc  [www_prweb_com]

 

veterans' Issues

 

Dept of Defense denies posthumous Medal of Honor to Marine who threw himself on a grenade because he had already been shot in the head and "may not have acted deliberately." Those bullets to the head? Yeah, 'friendly fire'

http://snipurl.com/61yhi  [www_sfgate_com]

 

Media

 

Bill "War on Christmas" O'Reilly refrains from using references to Christmas on his own site

http://snipurl.com/6201b  [www_huffingtonpost_com]

 

 

WSJ columnist blames financial crisis on the War on Christmas.

http://thinkprogress.org/2008/11/20/henninger-christmas-economy/

militarization

 

Against the Militarized Academy

http://www.truthout.org/112008J

Corporate America

 

The US Federal government has spent $3.8tn on the credit crisis this year, so far. More than the entire amount spent on WWII adjusted for inflation

http://www.cnbc.com/id/27719011

 

 

What Toyota knows that GM doesn’t

http://edgehopper.com/what-toyota-knows-that-gm-doesnt/

 

 

Bailout is 'multi-trillion-dollar crime scene.'

http://snipurl.com/5xk33  [rawstory_com]

church and state

 

Preacher refuses to take down 'Obama is a Muslim' sign

http://snipurl.com/5q3li  [www_myfoxkc_com]

 

 

Texas preacher encourages parishioners to have lots of sex in order to secure a GOP super majority by 2027

http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=6264959&page=2

 

 

Guess which Christian organization is laying off 20% of their employees after spending all their money screwing gays in California

http://www.krdo.com/Global/story.asp?S=9366479

 

economy

 

Child hunger in US rose by 50 percent in 2007

http://uruknet.info/?p=m48915&hd=&size=1&l=e

 

Citigroup Cutting Up To 40,000 Jobs

http://www.cnbc.com/id/27737329

 

editor's picks

 

1996 Cato Institute report lauding the benefits of privatizing social security and putting every individual's entire retirement in the hands of private fund managers. Imagine how screwed we'd be. Lock Box.

http://www.socialsecurity.org/pubs/ssps/ssp4.html