Pentagon Leaders Recognize 70 Years of Service by USO

Top civilian and military leaders, including Deputy Secretary of Defense William Lynn and the nation's highest ranking military officer, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Adm. Mike Mullen, take time at the Pentagon to commemorate the United Service Organizations (USO) and its 70 years of service to troops and their families.

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Labor Department Agreements Protect Illegal Workers

Labor Secretary Hilda Solis has overseen a number of signed agreements between U.S. agencies and foreign officials pledging to give migrant workers the full protections of U.S. workplace laws -- regardless of their legal status -- and she says her department will uphold them.

Source: http://feeds.foxnews.com/~r/foxnews/politics/~3/Wqjm5EVoReY/

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Right Turn: Didn't Obama pledge to complete 3 free-trade deals?

The Wall Street Journal reports: "U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk on Monday appealed to congressional leaders to begin work "without delay" toward ratifying a free-trade deal with South Korea, even as Republican leaders continued to press to link such action with movement on trade pacts with C...

Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/03/08/AR2011030804720.html?wprss=rss_politics

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Solis rips Perry's Texas

“There is a lot of need” to better the plight of workers in the state, she says.

Source: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0811/62416.html

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Rebels: Qaddafi loyalists have 3 days

Rebels say holdouts must surrender by weekend or face military onslaught; U.N. frees $1.6B to shore up new leaders

Source: http://feeds.cbsnews.com/~r/CBSNewsMain/~3/3NTuIpqEouQ/main20099638.shtml

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Wisconsin protests: Gov. Scott Walker and Democratic state senators continue standoff

Protests in Wisconsin continue as Democratic legislators remain in exile to avoid voting on Governor Scott Walker's proposed changes to union laws. An end to the impasse does not appear imminent:

Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/03/08/AR2011030804258.html?wprss=rss_politics

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Obama salutes veterans for 'extraordinary burden'

Recalling "those awful attacks," President Barack Obama saluted the 9/11 generation of veterans Tuesday and publicly relished the prospect of U.S. forces getting out of both Iraq and Afghanistan.

Source: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44329691/ns/politics-white_house/

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GOP imposes $100 fines on AWOL Wisconsin Senate Democrats

MADISON, Wis. -- Republicans in the Wisconsin Senate have voted to fine the chamber's AWOL Democrats $100 for each day they miss of the legislative session.

Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/03/09/AR2011030903629.html?wprss=rss_politics

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First Read: The Katrina effect

President Obama and state leaders have learned the lessons about handling disasters, but will the rest of Washington?

Source: http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/08/29/7510596-first-thoughts-the-katrina-effect

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Politico's Hit Piece a Taste of What's Coming

John Nolte, Big Journalism
One day, in the heat of the 2008 presidential election, the mainstream media’s anointed candidate was strolling through a swing-state neighborhood looking for a quick photo-op so he could be seen touching the flesh of a few “bitter-clingers” — and then something amazing happened. One of those “bitter clingers,” a man simply minding his own business in his front yard, dared to ask the mainstream media’s anointed candidate the kind of tough question the mainstream media never would. The Anointed One, not used to tough,...

Source: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2011/08/30/politico039s_hit_piece_a_taste_of_what039s_coming_262550.html

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Mark Cuban: Google + YouTube is a mistake

Mark Cuban came on the What's Trending Live show to talk about the tenth anniversary of HDNet and what the future holds for him

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Neocon Blogger Cherry Picks Pew Report Data To Dismiss Islamophobia

Neoconservative blogger Ed Lasky takes issue with the Center For American Progress’s new report — “Fear, Inc.” — documenting the Islamophobia industry in America. He cites a Reuters write-up of a Pew poll surveying American Muslims that says, among other things, “that most Muslims felt ordinary Americans were friendly or neutral toward them.” This prompts [...]

Source: http://thinkprogress.org/security/2011/08/30/308005/cherrypick-dismiss-islamophobia/

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NATO's Teachable Moment

Source: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2011/08/30/nato039s_teachable_moment_262512.html

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Watch: Cecil vs. Jesmer: DSCC and NRSC Directors on Senate 2012 Races

Rob Jesmer and Guy Cecil jostle over MA, WI and other hot Senate races for 2012.

Source: http://feeds.abcnews.com/click.phdo?i=4cf5ff474d99e66aa6166dded6e5f682

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Lights and sirens, badges and guns for the TARP cops

Police forces around the country are scrambling to make do in these tough economic times. Nearly half the force in Camden, N.J. - not exactly known as a crime-free town - has been laid off. The bicycle unit is gone, and the canine unit lost two of its three dogs. The number of patrol cars has bee...

Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/03/08/AR2011030805323.html?wprss=rss_politics

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Puerto Rico senator resigns in nude photo flap

A Puerto Rico lawmaker has resigned following reports that explicit photos of him surfaced on an iPhone application for gays and bisexuals, the head of the U.S. territory's Senate announced Sunday.

Source: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44307357/ns/politics-more_politics/

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Watch: Margaret Hoover: GOP Must Make Inroads with Millenials

Author says GOP must capture youth vote in the next 16 months.

Source: http://feeds.abcnews.com/click.phdo?i=4f32e831438476df14e1bcbb70dc833e

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Wisconsin Assembly approves bill to slash union rights for public workers

The Wisconsin State Assembly approved a bill Thursday that would slash union rights for public workers. The vote comes a day after the state Senate used a legislative maneuver to pass the bill without the 14 Democratic senators who fled the state in an effort to block it.

Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/03/10/AR2011031002020.html?wprss=rss_politics

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The Plum Line: Rep. King undermines his own case for anti-Muslim hearings

Is Pete King backing away from his own stated reasons for holding hearings on Muslim radicalization this week?

Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/03/07/AR2011030702321.html?wprss=rss_politics

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The Fix: John Ensign to retire in 2012

Nevada Sen. John Ensign (R) will retire rather than seek reelection in 2012, he announced Monday afternoon. The decision brings to an end a tumultuous several years that saw him go from one of the party's rising stars to persona non grata.

Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/03/07/AR2011030704074.html?wprss=rss_politics

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MSNBC Hired Sharpton to Carry Obama's Water

Laura Washington, CST
In black America’s cacophonous search for its own voice, the Rev. Al Sharpton is a tuba, and Tulane University Professor Melissa Harris-Perry is a flute. America’s leading black journalists can’t even get into the orchestra pit.That’s the score on cable channel MSNBC’s recent decision to hand a plum prime time hosting gig to Sharpton, America’s civil rights big tuna. Perry, who also has been guest-hosting on MSNBC, was shut out.

Source: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2011/08/29/msnbc_hired_sharpton_to_carry_obama039s_water_262454.html

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Right Turn: Didn't Obama pledge to complete 3 free-trade deals?

The Wall Street Journal reports: "U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk on Monday appealed to congressional leaders to begin work "without delay" toward ratifying a free-trade deal with South Korea, even as Republican leaders continued to press to link such action with movement on trade pacts with C...

Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/03/08/AR2011030804720.html?wprss=rss_politics

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Rep. Peter King's Muslim hearing: Plenty of drama, less substance

One half of the Muslim contingent in Congress paused, his voice high and breaking. He tugged at his glasses. He held up a finger and gathered himself.

Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/03/10/AR2011031002045.html?wprss=rss_politics

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This week in the War on Women

This is sad and totally expected:

A new study from the Guttmacher Institute reports that as the rate of unintended pregnancies continues to decrease among wealthy or educated women, the rate among women who fall below the federal poverty line has climbed.

It doesn't take a genius to understand that when you cut funding for women's health services, including and especially family planning services, of course you're going to see a rise in unplanned pregnancies. Because slashing funding doesn't mean women are going to stop having sex. They just won't have the knowledge or resources to prevent unintended pregnancies.

And not addressing the epidemic of unintended pregnancies is a serious problem for this country. Because family planning is better for women's health, better for their children's health, better for their relationships, and, as it turns out, it's also better for the economy. Unintended pregnancies, meanwhile, have the opposite effect.

So when Republicans want to balance budgets on the backs of poor women by cutting off their access to health care, including family planning, what they're actually doing is harming women, harming their children and harming the economy.

You want to know the best way to reduce unintended pregnancies? Give women, of all economic backgrounds, access to family planning. Because that way, everyone wins.

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No sugar-coating. It's been a baaaaaad week. Atrocities below the fold.

Source: http://feeds.dailykos.com/~r/dailykos/index/~3/Y90x-lro-AQ/-This-week-in-the-War-on-Women

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