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Archive for August, 2009

As the United States debates an overhaul of its health care system, thousands of American retirees in Mexico have quietly found ...

George Will / NorthJersey.com:
Why are we still in Afghanistan?  —  George Will writes for Washington Post Writers Group.  —  YESTERDAY," reads the e-mail from Allen, a Marine in Afghanistan, “I gave blood because a Marine, while out on patrol, stepped on a [mine's] pressure plate and lost both legs.

Joe Klein / Swampland:
Glenn Greenwald  —  Twice in the past month, my private communications have been splashed about the internet.  That such a thing would happen is unfortunate, and dishonorable, but sadly inevitable, I suppose.  I ignored the first case, in which a rather pathetic woman acolyte of Greenwald's published …

Eric Etheridge / The Opinionator:
There Goes the Meritocracy  —  What can a young woman’s new job tell us about America?  A lot, apparently, if the young woman is Jenna Bush Hager, the 27-year-old daughter of the most recent President Bush, and the job is “Today Show” correspondent.  —  Hager teaches at a charter school in Baltimore.

Political Punch:
ABC News Exclusive: National Security Adviser Says President Obama Is Having Greater Success Taking Terrorists Out of Commission Than Bush Did  —  Responding to criticism from former Vice President Cheney that President Obama is making the nation more vulnerable to terrorism …