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      Are Americans smart enough to vote?

      Posted by VincebusEruptum from Scholarsandrogues

      In order to bring a little more depth to this debate I thought I'd do some research to discover whether or not the nation's citizens are under-informed and, if so, to what degree. I've decided to present some interesting poll results. Here's what I discovered...

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      Thomas Friedman: Charge It to My Kids

      Posted by Jeff from New York Times

      Of course, we can pay for the Iraq war without a tax increase. The question is, can we pay for it and be making the investments in infrastructure, science and education needed to propel our country into the 21st century? Visit Singapore, Japan, Korea, China or parts of Europe today and you’ll discover that the infrastructure in our country is not keeping pace with our peers’.

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      KPMG judge attacks US Government

      Posted by SoxFirst

      Judge Lewis A. Kaplan, who threw out the charges against KPMG employees for illegal flogging tax shelters, has serious questions about the way the US Government has used the threat of criminal prosecution of companies to get leverage in investigations of alleged wrongdoing by company employees.

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      Plame sues CIA over memoir

      Posted by theangryindian from Yahoo News!

      WASHINGTON - Valerie Plame, the former undercover CIA officer whose 2003 exposure touched off a leak investigation, is accusing the government of delaying publication of her new book. Plame and her publisher, Simon & Schuster, sued the CIA in a New York federal court Thursday. They accused the government of illegally refusing to let Plame write about the specific dates she worked for the agency. The CIA, which has acknowledged only that Plame worked for the agency since 20

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    acommontater comments on:

    U.S. to rely on Russia for manned spaceflight - International Herald Tribune

    McCain denounced Russia as a KGB run state and has called to oust Russia from the G8. How will this partnership be affected if he gets voted in?

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    5:26 am 10/07/08
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    muckraker comments on:

    'Suicide is Painless' fraudster turns himself in

    One of the many tragedies of the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina three years ago was the fact that insurance companies used the event to systematically deny claims, leaving victims further in desperate straits. That shouldn’t happen following any natural disaster, and even though the immediate storm effects did not cause as much damage as predicted, there are sure to be plenty of claims for flood damages throughout the Midwest and along Gustav’s path. If you or someone you know has been denied an insurance claim related to Gustav: that would be a site you should visit.

     

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    9:27 pm 9/11/08
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    okami comments on:

    Ransom claim in Ingrid Betancourt release | World news | guardian.co.uk

    . . .thanks for the link. . .

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    7:10 am 7/06/08
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    okami comments on:

    Ransom claim in Ingrid Betancourt release | World news | guardian.co.uk

    . . .ah, so. . .but exactly what are the facts?

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    7:04 am 7/06/08
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    asesino comments on:

    Ransom claim in Ingrid Betancourt release | World news | guardian.co.uk

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    6:10 am 7/06/08
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    okami comments on:

    Ransom claim in Ingrid Betancourt release | World news | guardian.co.uk

    If Betancourt’s assertions are true, then the United States is once again responsible (at least in part) for the setting up of false ‘heroic rescues’ and similar phenomena.

    We should not forget that intitial reports from Iraq claimed that Kurdish forces captured Saddam Hussein, who then turned him over to Coalition forces.

    Neither should we forget the Pat Tillman and Jessica Lynch affairs.

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    12:13 am 7/06/08
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    admin comments on:

    National security agencies have failed in Iraq, Afghanistan (3/10/08) -- www.GovernmentExecutive.com

    this sucks

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    8:12 am 3/15/08
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    okami

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    former US Marine, retired police; now alternately protected and terrorized by gangs of cats

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    Jeff

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    Jeff is the founder of NewsCloud. He is also a freelance writer and blogs at Idealog.

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