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Recasting the War on Terrorism

By | 11.20.08 | 6:10 am

Buoyed by high expectations for the first year of Barack Obama’s administration, an informal coalition of progressive national-security and civil-liberties experts are urging the president-elect to redefine the war on terrorism.

Eight years of the Bush administration’s approach to counterterrorism have yielded two open-ended and bloody wars; a massively expanded More…

Did McCain Propose Cutting Dept. of Education?

By | 09.09.08 | 6:41 pm

Via TPM.

In its latest ad about education, titled “What Kind,” the Obama campaign charges that Sen. John McCain once “proposed abolishing the Dept. of Education.” WHAAA?!?