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http://www.commondreams.org/video/2011/01/13-0

The President's Speech as Consolation: Is That What is Needed?
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/01/13-11

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The conservative awakening

Antiwar.com
by Justin Raimondo

01/14/11

It wasn?t all that long ago that David Frum could credibly excommunicate Bob Novak, Pat Buchanan, and other conservative opponents of the Iraq war in the pages of National Review. Today, however, as the American empire goes into foreclosure, and a decade of constant war has brought us no closer to 'victory,' those who want to limit the power and expense of government are finally beginning to wake up to the war racket...

http://tinyurl.com/4jj5qym



GOP can eclipse Obama

Cato Institute Cato Institute
by Jim Harper

01/12/11

Congress's new rules package could mean that Republicans eclipse President Barack Obama on a signature issue: government transparency. During his first two years in office, the president generated a lot of heat in the transparency area ? but little sunlight. House Republicans can quickly outshine Obama and the Democratic Senate. It all depends on how they implement the watch phrase of their amendment package: 'publicly available in electronic form'...

http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=12698



Wars to stay out of

Campaign For Liberty Campaign For Liberty
by Doug Bandow

01/13/11

Most people desire peace, but not Washington policy wonks. Safely ensconced in well-appointed offices throughout the nation's capital, a network of neoconservatives, leftish Wilsonians, and liberal hawks yearn for war. While they presumably don't actually enjoy the killing involved, most of them have never met a war they didn't want America to enter. And conflict is 'good for business' as they peddle foreign policy advice...

http://www.campaignforliberty.com/article.php?view=1288



The reflexive call for fewer liberties

Salon
by Glenn Greenwald

01/12/11

What Galston is doing here is what the American political class reflexively does in the wake of every tragedy: it immediately seeks to exploit the resulting trauma and emotion to justify all-new restrictions on basic liberties (such as the right not to be locked away against one's will in the absence of a crime or a serious threat to others) and all-new government powers. Every traumatic event -- in the immediate, emotionally consuming aftermath -- leads to these sorts of knee-jerk responses...

http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2011/01/12/galston


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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