Daily Archives: February 3, 2010

No. 090-10 -------------------------------- CONTRACTS: NAVY                   Oshkosh Corp., Oshkosh, Wis., is being awarded $158,382,797 for fixed-price delivery order #0064 under a previously awarded indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract (M67854-06-D-5028).  This...

Establishment liberals are presenting President Obama's Quadrennial Defense Review (QDR) released this week as a break from the Bush-Cheney-neocon policy. Fair to say that the jury is out.

This should now get interesting with Gulf War Veterans 90-91 and to present and their health effects that our own government has ignored for...

Putting aside for the moment the dubious authenticity of the Bin Laden tapes, Rush Limbaugh is displaying just how off-the-wall crazy Republicans are. I...

Would President Obama speak at a prayer breakfast organized by the KKK? Would Jim Wallis and other "progressive" Christians attend? Then what will they be doing on Thursday Feb 3 at the National Prayer Breakfast founded and sponsored by the notorious gay-bashing "The Family" fringe far right group? (I ask this as a practicing progressive Christian and repentant former religious right leader).

Recommend reading and signing up for a free economic newsletter from these guys, they have been prophetic: Roubini Global Economics! (RGE) --- This week, RGE tracked...

The anti-racism group One People's Project has a blockbuster that rightwing rising star James O’Keefe, attended a white supremacists' conference in 2006 held at...

This is a supplement to Bob Higgins' post on Secretary of Defense Bob Gates in Seven Days in January: How the Pentagon Counts Coups...

In a blog article entitled Abiotic we learn something, that if it is true or even only partially true, underscores the incredible charade that...

We have all heard the reasons why people should not smoke; lung and mouth and throat cancers, heart problems, prematurely aged skin, smelly clothes...

Robert Scheer writes that if Glass Steagal worked for 60 years, it probably ain't broken. A book on evolution to help kids get through the confusion caused by the flat Earthers. Where's all that damn oil? is the quetion at Tomgram. Vets urge close of Gitmo at Huff Post, Objectivity is not the Holy Grail at Truthdig and the sad news of our losses in Pakistan in today's picks.

Today's news takes us away from our tunnel vision of domestic political woes and shows us how deeply disturbed our world is and how...

Top 10 Veterans news from around the country features the top stories on Veterns Benefits,Health, Education and other issues in summary form from the Veterans Administration.

In Viet Nam, for example, U.S. leaders caused the deaths of thousands of their own men and several million Vietnamese after they already knew they had made probably the worst mistake in American history. Velvel writes, “Our top military men create(d) free fire zones where civilians are killed on sight, and bomb and defoliate to the nth degree.” In Iraq, our leaders unleashed “a horrendous reign of terror from the skies, create a thus far thoroughly destabilized post-war society, and then, when all their other myths have shown to be myths, retroactively justify the war by saying that we got rid of an admittedly horrible dictator, his equally horrible sons, and his entirely horrible government.”

Update: Soldiers’ Deaths in Pakistan Raise Questions on U.S. Presence - The deaths of three American soldiers in a Taliban suicide attack Wednesday lifted the...

By Bob Cox | The Fort Worth Star-Telegram Secretary of Defense Robert Gates voiced strong dissatisfaction Monday with a lack of progress on the F-35...

By Joby Warrick The Obama administration's top intelligence officials on Tuesday described it as "certain" that al-Qaeda or its allies will try to attack the...

Today's regional stories on veterans affairs, health, benefits and education from: Fargo, North Dakota, Gainesville, Georgia, Seattle, Washington, Madison, Wisconsin, Tallahassee, Florida, Des Moines, Iowa, Sacramento, California, Washington, DC, Wagner, Souh Dakota, Roseburg, Oregon, Omaha, Nebraska, and Starkville, Mississippi.

What the hell goes through the minds of these evangelicals who think they can tell other religions—at a military academy no less—what to believe?

Deficit hysteria has reached new levels, yet where is the attention to an out of control defense budget that is now the largest since World War II? While the Obama Admistration's three-year freeze on discretionary spending is a bad idea, it's made even worse because unprecedented Pentagon spending is exempted from it.

First, Rush Limbaugh makes a bone-headed statement about Jews and bankers correctly drawing condemnation from the ADL. "Rush Limbaugh reached a new low with his borderline...