1. No escalation in Afghanistan 9 hours ago   permalink

No escalation in Afghanistan
Scriptingnewsmail / Scripting News

I assumed that because we elected Obama to end the war in Iraq that it went without saying that the war in Afghanistan would be ended as well. Apparently not so. The President is now considering an escalation of the war in Afghanistan. I can't imagine he will not face substantial opposition in the US and elsewhere, if the answer is escalation. I ...

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Pakistan to US: Don't surge in Afghanistan, talk to Taliban   —  Pakistan contradicts US Gen. McChrystal's strategy of pulling back from Afghanistan borders, and disagrees with the strategy of a surge to defeat the Taliban.

2. ACORN San Diego office dumps 20k docs in dumpster Amid Calif. AG Investigation 13 hours ago   permalink

ACORN San Diego office dumps 20k docs in dumpster Amid Calif. AG Investigation
Biggovernment.com

On October 1st, 2009 California Attorney General Jerry Brown announced that an investigation had been opened into ACORN’s activities in California, resulting from undercover videos showing employees seemingly offering to assist the undercover film makers with human smuggling, child prostitution and even tax advice to boot.

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Breaking: ACORN document dump scandal in San Diego Breitbart Interviews P.I. Who Discovered ACORN Doc Dump in San Diego...   —  The last two months of the growing ACORN scandal have focused on the damning videos shot by James O’Keefe and Hannah Giles. In seven out of eight offices, ACORN employees attempted to aid and abet O’Keefe and Giles’ illicit “scheme” to establish a brothel for underage illegal-immigrant prostitutes from Central America. .

3. Afghan Source: The U.S. Has Offered the Taliban Control in Return for Quiet 23 hours ago   permalink

Www.thememriblog.org

An Afghan source in Kabul reports that U.S. Ambassador in Afghanistan Karl Eikenberry is holding secret talks with Taliban elements headed by the movement's foreign minister, Ahmad Mutawakil, at a secret location in Kabul. According to the source, the U.S. has offered the Taliban control of the Kandahar, Helmand, Oruzgan, Kunar and Nuristan ...

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THREATSWATCH: Whispers Of Surrender In Afghanistan?… Taliban's Afghan allies tell Barack Obama: 'Cut us a deal and we'll ditch al-Qaeda'   —  President Barack Obama's review of strategy in Afghanistan means America will end up making a deal with the Taliban, and tolerating warlords, to end the fighting.

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THREATSWATCH: Whispers Of Surrender In Afghanistan?… Troops advance on Taliban bastions in Hangu, Orakzai   —  Troops destroyed 17 installations, including a communications tower, an FM radio station and a training camp, of Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan in Kasha and Darha Darh Mamozai areas in the Upper Orakzai agency.

4. The Republican Elites Versus The Grassroots 2 hours ago   permalink

Www.riehlworldview.com

Some interesting battles breaking out on Twitter this AM, even if I say so myself - having played a big role in fueling them! No need to link all the back and forth, but it amounts to a discussion about what works. The problem as I see it, is too many inside the Beltway Republicans have convinced themselves that they are all that.

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5. New documents: White House scrambled to justify AmeriCorps firing after the fact 15 hours ago   permalink

New documents: White House scrambled to justify AmeriCorps firing after the fact
Www.washingtonexaminer.com

Just hours after Sen. Charles Grassley and Rep. Darrell Issa released a report Friday on their investigation into the abrupt firing of AmeriCorps inspector general Gerald Walpin, the Obama White House gave the lawmakers a trove of new, previously-withheld documents on the affair. It was a twist on the now-familiar White House late-Friday release ...

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6. Palin visit brings throngs to Fort Bragg 2 hours ago   permalink

Palin visit brings throngs to Fort Bragg
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7. AOL Reveals Lame New Look & Logo 47 minutes ago   permalink

AOL Reveals Lame New Look & Logo
Gigaom.com

AOL will launch a new look and logo along with its official spinout from Time Warner on Dec. 10, as it tries to become a content-centric company. Wolff Olins, a global brand and innovation consultancy, worked on this new look and logo which seeks to replace the older, more iconic AOL branding. The minute I saw the logo (and its various ...

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AOL Reveals Lame New Look & Logo – GigaOM AOL Revamping Its Logo, Hoping to Revive the Brand   —  A new brand identity to be adopted by AOL next month, when it is spun off from Time Warner, ditches the odd-looking triangle that has long served as the brand symbol and replaces the letters AOL with “Aol.” -- complete with a period.

8. Operation Warm Hearts/Warm Hands 1 minute ago   permalink

Operation Warm Hearts/Warm Hands
SondraK / Knowledge is Power

and smelly feet! I just did a quick add of the funds in my hot little hands and we’re at $668...with a bunch of donated air fresheners, some Hog Whitman cds and a couple of checks in the mail. My mom is making a presentation to her ladies group Wednesday morning and was told that they’d be contributing funds to our endeavor as well. ...

9. Into the Silence 1 hour ago   permalink

Into the Silence
AMERICAN DIGEST

1. The last sound heard before the silence Wrapped around my flesh in wisps, Was the shriek of frozen ambulances Carved in sharp, revolving red. Then two holes in my skull sealed shut, And on my tongue I heard the tang of brass. At first a ringing whine rose high and faded far, Then bells began, each dun and laced with smoke, And merged with ...

10. Call DARPA 1 hour ago   permalink

Apotheosis / Knowledge is Power

I didn’t read the blurb at the end so I don’t know what message they’re trying to convey, but what I took away from it was that polar bears - a biodegradable and renewable resource - can, when dropped from a sufficient height, cause massive havoc and property destruction. So I’m wondering, how many polar bears can you fit ...

11. Introducing Velvet Lair 1 hour ago   permalink

Introducing Velvet Lair
Sister Toldjah / Sister Toldjah

I wanted to take a few minutes to introduce y’all to a blog I have started as a “companion” of sorts to this one. It’s called “ Velvet Lair .” I started it earlier this year because 1) I have started back (after a long hiatus) to creative writing in my spare time and wanted to document my journey back to that ...

12. "But keep going, Ann. Debunk them all. With facts, not spin." 2 hours ago   permalink

Althouse.blogspot.com

So let me give him one. It's only fair. Andrew Sullivan, what if, with the same intensity and standards you've aimed at Palin, you went through the things Barack Obama has said and written? (Pick a segment of his career that is equivalent to the period you examined of Palin's.) What kind of a list would you end of with?

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13. Meet Grant Bosse . 2 hours ago   permalink

Www.redstate.com

On the principle that if a Congressional District that doesn’t exist can still generate 2,800 jobs (which also don’t exist) thanks to a ’stimulus’ (which really doesn’t exist), it can generate a Congressman:

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DougM (commissarophobe) / Knowledge is Power :   Vaporjobs in vapordistricts

14. Cheating the young 2 hours ago   permalink

Cheating the young
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15. 9/11 Defense Lawyer: The Jurors Will Determine Whether They Murdered People 2 hours ago   permalink

9/11 Defense Lawyer: The Jurors Will Determine Whether They Murdered People
Stable Hand / The Jawa Report

The lawyer is a bastage, that is the only way I can describe him. Areshole....

16. AT AMAZON, starting Black Friday on Monday. 2 hours ago   permalink

AT AMAZON, starting Black Friday on Monday.
Pajamasmedia.com

"Glenn also has a rather dry sense of humour, which I'm guessing not enough people pick up on." -- Andrea See

17. WHEN THE PRESS CAN IGNORE A SEX SCANDAL, you know it’s covering for politicians, not covering them. 2 hours ago   permalink

Pajamasmedia.com

WHEN THE PRESS CAN IGNORE A SEX SCANDAL, you know it’s covering for politicians, not covering them.

18. The Moon 2 hours ago   permalink

The Moon
Michael Laprarie / Wizbang

A beautiful clear Oklahoma sky from our back yard tonight, and a beautiful conjunction between the Moon and Jupiter. Here is tonight's Moon, through a 3.5" refracting telescope and 30mm...

19. BDS - A Generation of Gnats 3 hours ago   permalink

Jon Haber / Solomonia

With zero colleges choosing to divest after all that time (and Hampshire providing an abject lesson to college administrators nationwide on what can happen if you give the BDS crowd the time of day), with churches running from their program, with "right wing" groups like J Street abandoning their squalid little project, how would they apply their ...

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A new generation of giants   —  I am just back from the Hampshire National Campus Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions Conference and trying to collect my thoughts. Phil and I attended together and it was a whirlwind of action, energy and information. We’ll be posting updates and news from the conference over the next days and weeks, but my initial impression is simply awe.

20. Bo Versus Beau 2 hours ago   permalink

Spectator.org

Writer/artist extraordinaire Katherine Eastland posts some typically smart, unconventional ruminations on the divergent doggy christening styles of Jimmy Stewart and Barack Obama over at the Blog Around the Corner. Here's a bite:

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