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Fine Print: State Department reports play role in START ratification
In 2005, the State Department told Congress that Russia had not reported that a road-mobile intercontinental ballistic missile launcher had left its production plant and therefore should have become an entry under the accountability section of the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty.


United States Department of State – United States – Government – State Department – Executive Branch

Democratic campaign committees losing big Wall Street donors
A revolt among big donors on Wall Street is hurting fundraising for the Democrats’ two congressional campaign committees, with contributions from the world’s financial capital down 65 percent from two years ago.


Democratic – Wall Street – Politics – United States – Parties

More Indian Americans seeking office this year
Five years ago, a group of Indian Americans who worked as staffers on Capitol Hill started up a club. They called themselves the “Desi Power Hour,” and met to share their experiences and help each other get a leg up in Washington. Small in number and short on experience, they may have been Desis –…


Ethnicity – Native American – Indigenous – United States – Native Americans in the United States

Tea party movement’s energy, anger make it target for admakers
In the ad, a line of British redcoats kneel in the field, muskets raised, waiting to gun down the approaching Colonial insurgents. A lonely violin plays in the background. It’s a perfect election-year spot for our time. Any second now, the candidate will appear to wax patriotic, pay tribute to the…



Anger – Relationships – Health – Tea – People

It’s Really Starting to Feel Like 1932
Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, Telegraph
“The economy is still in the gravitational pull of the Great Recession,” said Robert Reich, former US labour secretary. “All the booster rockets for getting us beyond it are failing.””Home sales are down. Retail sales are down. Factory orders in May suffered their biggest tumble since March of last year. So what are we doing about it? Less than nothing,” he said.California is tightening faster than Greece. State workers have seen a 14pc fall in earnings this year due to forced furloughs. Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger is cutting pay for 200,000…

Hard Times Bring Out Best in America
Mike Lupica, New York Daily News
In a mean, hard time, when the country is supposed to be backed up again and leaning over the ropes, they still keep coming after us. This time it is with Russian spies, out of another time, like dumb bunglers out of “The Russians Are Coming! The Russians Are Coming!” Just with bimbos in the movie this time.We are constantly led to believe that in the very next moment, the whole country could go flying right off the globe and into outer space. We are told, by the people for whom attacking this President is good business and good ratings, that the President is failing and the country…

Vitter Proving to be Difficult Democratic Target

Freedom in Peril Around the World
Fred Hiatt, Washington Post

Liberals and Flag Avoidance Syndrome
Jill Lawrence, Politics Daily
Once again on a patriotic holiday, only two flags flew on my block, and it breaks my heart. What is it about liberals that makes so many so disinclined to embrace patriotic symbols, to show the world that they care?My block is in upper Northwest Washington, D.C., a beating heart of liberal America. On the Fourth of July, as usual, one flag was flown by a couple who had long government careers in defense and science. The other was at my house.