A GROWING NEED FOR A PROGRAM ONCE SCORNED Greg Dawson and his wife, Sheila, of Martinsville, Ohio, help feed their family of seven with a $300 monthly food stamp benefit. Center and right, the food pantry in Lebanon, Ohio, where residents can also enroll in what is formally called the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. More Photos
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Osama Bin Laden was within military reach when the Bush administration allowed him to disappear into the mountains of Afghanistan rather than pursue him with a massive military force, a new Senate report says.
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Senate Report: Bin Laden Was Within Our Grasp
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The Senate Foreign Relations Committee has a new report on Afghanistan . The report states categorically that bin Laden was hiding in Tora Bora when the U.S. had the means to mount a rapid assault with several thousand troops at least. It says that a review of existing literature, unclassified government records and interviews with central ...
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ABC's THIS WEEK doesn't tell you that Dan Senor is a former Bush official
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I'm watching ABC's THIS WEEK with my mom, and the roundtable has Will, Cokie, Krugman, another big journalist (I forget his name), and this guy I don't recognize. The unknown guy is making a lot of weird right-wing partisan comments, and I'm scratching my head trying to figure out who he is. Finally his name pops up on the screen: "Dan Senor, ...
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Stink from Afghanistan
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I'm not saying that setting up an elaborate system of tribal graft isn't the best available way to tamp down the civil war in Afghanistan, but I wonder if this is something that can really stand the light of day in this country. It may well be a long overdue concession to the realities of life in Afghanistan, but it reeks of corruption from our ...
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Here’s my take: Major Hasan may have been mentally unbalanced — I assume anyone who shoots up innocent people is. But the more you read about his support for Muslim suicide bombers, about how he showed up at a public-health seminar with a PowerPoint presentation titled “Why the War on Terror Is a War on Islam,” and about ...
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Powerful stuff, that porn. The Indonesian Minister of Communication and Information (who must be very smart to have a title like that) has determined that recent natural disasters in his country are a consequence of the ubiquity of pornographic DVDs. His logic is something like this: 1) it is a fact that one can easily buy porn in local markets, ...
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'Immorality causes disasters', says minister
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A government minister has blamed Indonesia's recent string of natural disasters on people's immorality. Communication and Information Minister Tifatul Sembiring said that there were many television programmes that destroyed morals.
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Interesting chain of command issues seem to be emerging in the official “denials” being offered about my story in The Nation magazine on Blackwater and the Joint Special Operations Command operations in Pakistan. A few hours before the piece was published, I received a call—unprompted—from the office of Admiral Mike Mullen,
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Editor's note: Ed Rollins, a senior political contributor for CNN, is senior presidential fellow at the Kalikow Center for the Study of the American Presidency at Hofstra University. He was White House political director for President Reagan and chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee.
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A week after my colleague James Delingpole, on his Telegraph blog, coined the term "Climategate" to describe the scandal revealed by the leaked emails from the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit, Google was showing that the word now appears across the internet more than nine million times. But in all these acres of electronic ...
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MARK BRADY: A Climate of Suspicion
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The always insightful Christopher Caldwell writes about the recent leaked emails from the Climatic Research Unit . And correspondent Tom Allan calls for a more open debate about climate change .
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My blogging has been light over the last few days for several reasons. Obviously, I've been occupied with holiday and family related activities. But I've also been reading David Plouffe's new book, The Audacity to Win: The Inside Story and Lessons of Barack Obama's Historic Victory. In addition, after months of watching Congress struggle to pass ...
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Obama Refuses to Sign Landmine Treaty
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Although the United States has deemphasized the importance of land mines in American combat operations, the Obama administration is refusing to reverse a Bush-era policy and sign an international agreement banning such weapons. The Mine Ban Treaty, which went into effect in 1999, bans the use, stockpiling, production or transfer of antipersonnel ...
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“Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known better; the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most; that has made it possible for evil to triumph.” Haile Selassie
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I would hesitate to go so far as to say that the argument taking place in South Carolina by partisans for Lindsey Graham and Jim DeMint is a microcosm of the debate between “moderates” and conservatives across the country. In the first place, someone with a lifetime rating of 90 from the ACU (Graham) can [...]
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The Daily Beast ran an op/ed by retired colonel Ken Allard this weekend. Therein, he argues that the Fort Hood massacre shows why the U.S. military should screen Muslim recruits . "We shouldn’t make Muslims into a mysteriously protected class somehow exempt from scrutiny," Allard wrote. Here's what the Daily Beast didn't tell us about Allard: ...
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And I'm not ready for the weekend to end yet. Mostly because I have to head back to the old job for one more day before starting the new one on Tuesday.
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Time for the professionals again. Here are picks for today's NFL slate: Houston (+3) over the Colts, the Browns (+13.5) over the Bengals, the Vikings (-10.5) over the Bears, Washington (+9.5) over the Iggles, the Fish (-3) over the Bills, Tenn (-2) over Arizona, the Rams (+4) over the Seahawks, the Falcons (-12.5) over the Bucs, Carolina (+3.5) ...
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Open Thread
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With the holiday, it's been a quiet week in the diaries. So in lieu of a Diary Rescue until midweek, what's on your mind? Tags: Open Thread ( all tags )
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Last week Basildon Hospital was condemned by inspectors who found ?blood-spattered? walls and filthy conditions Photo: PAUL GROVER Bolton, Greater Manchester and Basildon NHS trusts have elite “foundation status”. However, The Sunday Telegraph has learned that statistics to be published this week will show a higher percentage of ...
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IN THE MAIL: From David Weber and Eric Flint, Torch Of Freedom. It’s an “Honorverse” book.
 
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It's that most wonderful time of the year! Christmas decorations are going up all over America. Those colorful little strings of twinkling lights racing down eaves and winding artfully around tree trunks can do more than paint pretty holiday vistas. We can use them as an intuitive probe to look at our nearest neighbor in space and speculate on ...
INHOFE UNIMPRESSED BY STARS AND SCIENCE.... A growing number of officials recognize the national security implications of global climate change. The NYT recently ran a report noting the ways in which a warming planet "will pose profound strategic challenges to...
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