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<br />                                                                                                                                       In related news, Donald Trump is demanding to see the long form death certificate.                                                                                                                                                    Update 1: More of the details of the operation:"According to U.S. officials, two U.S. helicopters flew in low from Afghanistan and swept into the compound late Sunday night Pakistan time, or Sunday afternoon Washington time. Twenty to 25 U.S. Navy Seals under the command of the Joint Special Operations Command in cooperation with the CIA stormed the compound and...

President Obama has released his birth certificate. The President was born in Honolulu, Hawaii.(Above---Honolulu from space. Many on the right persist in the far out view that President Obama was born outside the U.S.) I'm not sure why the birth certificate was released. Why not take the political gain offered by folks who never let up on the birth certificate issue?With Donald Trump taking the credit for the release, maybe the intent is to enhance Mr. Trump among...

I remember this moment like it was yesterday. I was teaching a Geography class and we were discussing current events when one of my troublemakers uttered, "why don't we put alligators in the Rio Grande?" I tried to defuse the discussion as best I could, but most of the class laughed in agreement. Sometimes, people say things that are so outlandish, but they make you pause. Maybe this wasn't a good example now that I...

Dear Mr. President, In light of the newly-stated Obama Doctrine of pre-emptive intervention to prevent what could turn into humanitarian crises anywhere in the world, and that "kinetic military action" (aka war) may be required at any time and place of your choosing, and for reasons as vague and undefinable as when American values are threatened, please feel free to take that action wherever and whenever possible.  But. I don't want to hear one more...

How is it that we have the money to attack Libya?Each Tomahawk missile we have launched on Libya cost $569,000 in 1999 dollars.Then there are all the costs of fuel and manpower and whatever else involved.As of 3:37 PM EST, Sunday, March 20 , the U.S and Britain had launched a total of 124 Tomahawks in Libya.Britain has a big austerity program going on.---Still, the U.K. also found the resources for war.How much will this all cost...

Then. Candidate Obama, 2007:"Q: In what circumstances, if any, would the president have constitutional authority to bomb Iran without seeking a use-of-force authorization from Congress? A:The President does not have power under the Constitution to unilaterally authorize a military attack in a situation that does not involve stopping an actual or imminent threat to the nation...History has shown us time and again, however, that military action is most successful when it is authorized and supported...

State Department spokesman P. J. Crowley "abruptly resigned under pressure from the White House" (translation: was fired by President Obama) yesterday after his comments about the treatment of Bradley Manning being "ridiculous, counterproductive, and stupid."That followed this exchange between ABC's Jake Tapper and the president at Friday's press conference: "Tapper: The State Department Spokesman PJ Crowley said the treatment of Bradley Manning by the Pentagon is "ridiculous and counterproductive and stupid," and I'm wondering if...

I would love to know more about Mike Huckabee. What I know is troubling enough. I know from the 2008 campaign for the Republican nomination that he's a religious bigot who took this shot at Mitt Romney's Mormonism:"Don't Mormons believe that Jesus and the devil are brothers?"Now I know he's a panderer who knows that in able to get the Republican nomination in 2012 he has to play to the nutballs who will vote in...

What happened to this guy?<br />Whose press secretary now says this:<br />I can't tell who that mealy-mouthed remark is intended to support, Governor Walker or the public employees. "Tighten their belts and live within their means just as we in Washington, the executive branch and Congress, need to do with our federal situation."Gimme a freakin' break. After they give away a few more hundreds of billions in tax cuts to millionaires, then the belt tightening...

From Think Progress:"During a segment on Hannity earlier this week, GOP strategist Frank Luntz interviewed a panel of Republican voters in Iowa, and half said they believe Obama is a Muslim."<br />"Very intense, very passionate." Also very stupid....