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Chris Dickson (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
U.S. Senator Dick Lugar, Chris Dickson, Dr. Tom Ringenberg, Congressman Mike Pence MIKE PENCE RECLAIMING THE REPUBLICAN PARTY AND THE AMERICAN DREAM For Immediate Release | Contact: Matt Lloyd matt.lloyd@mail.house.gov > or Mary Vought mary.vought@mail.house.gov > - 202-226-9000 Pence Urges President to Overturn “Wrongheaded Decision” Regarding Gitmo Detainees “Trying terrorists...
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All Things Anderson (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
Tonight's headlines: news of Oprah ending her show in 2011, the continuation of 360's special investigation Killings at the Canal, and more information on Nidal Hasan. First up, keeping them honest, with more information on whether Nidal Hasan could have been stopped. New information from former coworkers and documents shows that they believed Hasan was had become troubled and a radical extremist....
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The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
CHICAGO — As the Obama administration considers a plan to move Guantanamo Bay detainees to prisons on U.S. soil, including possible sites in Illinois and Michigan, proponents and critics are spinning the facts. The nearly vacant Thomson Correctional Center in the western Illinois farming town of Thomson is the latest potential candidate being evaluated to hold detainees after President Barack...
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The Plank (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
The news this weekend that the administration is considering moving up to 100 Guantanamo prisoners to a little-used facility in northwest Illinois makes you wonder about the political calculation involved in the decision. As regular readers of TNR will recall, local politics has basically killed the idea of relocating prisoners to the depressed town of Standish, Michigan, whose congressman, Republican...
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Marc Valdez Weblog (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
Driftglass is on target (the original link is better than this excerpt): If your idea of eternal damnation is watching the watching the same, lame junior varsity debating team banging the same, stupid arguments together forever...then welcome to Hell. The usually non-vomit-inducing “Face the Nation” was the worst of the lot yesterday, with Rep. Peter Hoekstra (R-Mich) building his Party's...
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cold fury (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
DON’T ASK, DON’T TELL-TERRORISM The King has commanded Congress to stand down, and not to turn the Ft. Hood investigation into a political circus, because the one already being conducted in New York’s courtrooms is already enough. Rep. Peter Hoekstra: In the days after the Fort Hood shooting, I was denied the briefings I am entitled to [...]
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Swing State Project (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
It's been over two months since we last took stock of the open seat situation in the House, so, once again, our crack team of open seat forensic analysts down at SSP Labs have put together a new edition of the 2010 House Open Seat Watch. As always, we've compiled three separate lists: one of confirmed vacancies/retirements, another of potential open seats, and a third - available below the fold - of...
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ColoradoPols.com - Front Page (Free subscription) | 11/15/2009
CBS News : Rep. Peter Hoekstra, R-Mich., said putting Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other terror suspects on trial in a federal court in Manhattan, as was announced this week by Attorney General Eric Holder, is a bad idea, tantamount to " ideology run wild. "We're going to go back into New York City, the scene of the tragedy on 9/11. We're now going to rip that wound wide open, and it's...
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Vox Verax (Free subscription) | 11/15/2009
By FRANK RICH NYT THE dead at Fort Hood had not even been laid to rest when their massacre became yet another political battle cry for the self-proclaimed patriots of the American right. Their verdict was unambiguous: Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, an American-born psychiatrist of Palestinian parentage who sent e-mail to a radical imam, was a terrorist. And he did not act alone. His co-conspirators included...
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Muslims Against Sharia (Free subscription) | 11/15/2009
The US president has said federal and military authorities should complete their investigations into the Fort Hood shootings before a congress committee looks into the the incident. Speaking on an internet video released by the White House on Saturday, Barack Obama said the deaths of 13 people should not be used to create "political theatre" as "the stakes are far too high". The...
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RealClearPolitics (Free subscription) | 11/15/2009
And good morning again. We begin with Congressman Peter Hoekstra , who is with us in the studio here in Washington. Senator Patrick Leahy is in his home state. He's in Burlington, Vermont, this morning. Congressman, I will start with you. You're the ranking Republican on the House Intelligence Committee. I want to get your take about the announcement that they will try Sheikh Mohammed in New York,...
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Military Times - News (Free subscription) | 11/14/2009
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama on Saturday urged Congress to hold off on any investigation of the Fort Hood rampage until federal law enforcement and military authorities have completed their probes into the shootings at the Texas Army post, which left 13 people dead.On an eight-day Asia trip, Obama turned his attention home and pleaded for lawmakers to “resist the temptation to turn...
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The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 11/14/2009
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama on Saturday urged Congress to hold off on any investigation of the Fort Hood rampage until federal law enforcement and military authorities have completed their probes into the shootings at the Texas Army post, which left 13 people dead. On an eight-day Asia trip, Obama turned his attention home and pleaded for lawmakers to "resist the temptation to turn...
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MichiganLiberal (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
There's been a lot made over the last few weeks about the comparative weakness of John Cherry to the rest of the Governor 2010 field, especially his Republican counterparts. It's almost as if the conventional wisdom coalescing around the thing is that Cherry has no shot of winning. That would be fine, I guess, considering the natural link between Cherry and the current sitting governor (who, by the...
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