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Self-Styled Budget Hawk Mike Pence Defends Spending $560 Million On Unnecessary Weapons Program
Recognizing the need to cut spending in light of record budget deficits, Defense Secretary Robert Gates announced major cuts to a number of big-ticket weapons programs last year that the Pentagon concluded it no longer needed.
Michigan Oil Spill Damages Wildlife, Forces Residents To Evacuate
On Monday, a disastrous leak in one of the world’s largest pipeline systems gushed over 1 million gallons of oil into the Kalamazoo River, located in southwest Michigan.
Florida Judge Throws Out Anti-Health Care Reform Ballot Measure Because Of ‘Manifestly Misleading’ Language
Last month, The Hill reported that Republicans in a number of states across the country were putting anti-health care reform measures on the ballot for the mid-term elections this year in order to bolster conservative voter turnout.
When Pressed By ThinkProgress, Rep. Frank Wolf Demonstrates Incoherence Of Stimulus Opposition
Earlier this week, two leading economists released a study that “empirically proved” that the government’s response to the Great Recession, including the stimulus bill, prevented the loss of “some 8½ million jobs.” The study’s autho
Pastor Hosting ‘International Burn A Quran Day’: ‘We Have Nothing Against Muslims’
On September 11, 2010, the extremist evangelical Dove World Church — whose pastor, Terry Jones, has written a book called “Islam Is Of The Devil” — plans to host “International Burn A Quran Day,” when i
Pakistan’s U.N. ambassador: Afghan war ‘doesn’t seem winnable.’
Three U.S. service members were killed in Afghanistan yesterday, bringing the death toll for July to at least 63, making it the deadliest month thus far in America’s longest war.
