When we evaluate the facts, the use of private military contractors appears to have harmed, rather than helped, the counterinsurgency efforts of the U.S. mission in Iraq, going against our best doctrine and undermining critical efforts of our troops. Even worse, the government can no longer carry out one of its most basic core missions: to fight and win the nation’s wars. Instead, the massive outsourcing of military operations has created a dependency on private firms like Blackwater that...
WANDERINGS, with Walter Brasch For release: Oct. 3, 2007 brasch@ptd.net by Walter M. Brasch President George W. (“I-Demand-an-Up-or-Down-Vote”) Bush today vetoed the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP), which expired this past week. The highly successful program to aid children was begun in 1997 under the Clinton presidency. The bipartisan legislation bill to increase funding and continue SCHIP was passed overwhelmingly by the House (265–159) and Senate (67–29). It would have increased health insurance for about two...
So if they understand the importance of the Blogsphere and The Social Networking Sphere why aren't they supporting, in return, the very medium that gives them, essentially, a free unlimited forum?
“We should have a national capital fund to make money — capital — available to new businesses that will operate and start in smaller towns and smaller communities. Right now all the capital stays in big cities. We’ve got to get it out into the rural areas.”
The Supreme Court roared back into session yesterday. I was profoundly troubled. But what bothered me wasn’t in this news story: Supreme Court Back in Session By Robert Barnes WASHINGTON POST Article Launched: 10/02/2007 03:05:53 AM PDT WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court convened its new term Monday, and the justices immediately immersed themselves in the first of several election-law challenges the court has agreed to decide in the midst of the 2008 elections … Nope. It has absolutely nothing...
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