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Obama Reiterates F-22 Veto Threat

By | 07.15.09 | 11:55 am

Today was supposed to be a critical day for the Obama administration’s efforts to kill the troubled F-22 fighter jet. It goes like this: the Senate is taking up the fiscal 2010 defense authorization, which 13 pro-F-22 Senators on the Armed Services Committee last month used as a vehicle More…

Body Count’s in the House

By | 05.11.09 | 10:55 am

So, keeping up on the Pakistani military’s offensive against the Taliban, there’s this:

The government claimed 700 insurgents had died and the Taliban were on the run.

And good for that. But how does that statistic sound compared to this one:

The United

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