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Your Tax Dollars at Work and Play

Washington Times, April 15, 2011 Uncle Sam’s big plans for your hard-earned tax dollars by James Bovard Congratulations – your tax payment is probably your biggest purchase of the year. The federal tax burden now amounts to more than $20,000 per household, according to Internal Revenue Service data. Your contribution to the Treasury coffers will [...]

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Obama’s Torture Regime?

Spencer Ackerman of Wired has an excellent piece today on the Pentagon’s Joint Special Operations Command’s secret jails in Afghanistan. Ackerman notes: Human rights groups have been sounding the alarm about these detention centers since 2009. Detainees who claim to have gone through the sites have told them about abuses inside the so-called “Black Jails” [...]

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Obama’s Dead Excuses for Afghan Carnage

from the Ottawa Citizen

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Dicking Afghanistan: Where Obama Went Wrong

Washington Post ace Al Kamen has an outtake from Woodward’s new book that shows how Obama was on the wrong foot on Afghanistan from his first days in office: “It wasn’t until well into the Obama presidency,” Woodward writes, that vet

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Winning Hearts and Minds and Fingers in Aghanistan

The latest PR challenge in Afghanistan…

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