A new president takes over. Will he prepared for the looming threat of attack?
Sucker
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Deep down, John McCain has got to be feeling relieved to have lost. He gets to go back to the Senate and relax. Obama is screwed, having inherited a country in a state of collapse.
Change We Can Bereave In
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Even as the war in Afghanistan becomes more deadly, Obama pledges to send more troops.
Harvest
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Not to be outdone in the hopeless military adventurism department, Barack Obama promises a “surge”–not in Iraq, but against the people of Afghanistan, who are even more fiercely opposed to U.S. occupation than Iraqis.
Communism at Gitmo
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It was a page one story in the New York Times, but the fact that the military relied on a memo describing how to elicit false confessions through torture became the basis of torture training at Gitmo somehow fell off the radar screen.
Half
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I hope Obama wins. It’s more fun to criticize a Democrat for his hypocrisy and worthlessness than a Republican for being true to his well-heeled donors.
Shooting the Koran
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George Bush killed more than a million people and got away with it. One of his soldiers shot a Koran for target practice, however, and he was prompted to formally apologize.
He Died. We Litigated.
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Based on a strange, but true, story. Bush killed their kid. They sued the T-shirt guy.
Domestic Violence
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I was reading recently about the typical pattern of an abusive relationship. Then I realized that it seemed terribly familiar.
A Shock to the System
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Of the 4,000 soldiers who have died in the Iraq War, at least a dozen were electrocuted due to shoddy wiring on U.S. bases.
