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Written by: Gerry Lykins on Nov 22, 2009 8:25 AM EST

Sunday~

***************round of articles about our domestic ‘issues’ ~ November 22nd, 2009

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Senate votes to begin debate on health care overhaul

By David Lightman | McClatchy Newspapers

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/227/story/79271.html

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Where Does This Leave Us?

http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/2009/11/where_does_this_leave_us.php?ref=fpblg

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GOP Obstruction Goes Unnoticed—and Unpunished

By E.J. Dionne —

Democrats in the Senate may engage in collective suicide, but it’s Republicans who, with Machiavellian brilliance, have brought the country to a halt.

http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/gop_obstruction_goes_unnoticed_--_and_unpunished_20091118/

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Bill To Audit Federal Reserve Passes Key Hurdle
By Ryan Grim

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24018.htm

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15 Signs American Society Is Coming Apart at the Seams

David DeGraw, Amped Status

http://www.alternet.org/workplace/144109/15_signs_american_society_is_coming_apart_at_the_seams

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Thom Hartmann & Lamar Waldron on the Discovery Channel Sunday Nov. 22 8pm ET. JFK 2images Thom and Lamar Waldron will talk about the new ...
www.thomhartmann.com/2009/.../thom-hartmann-lamar-waldron-on-the-discovery-channel-sunday-nov-22-8pm-et/

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The Pit Bull in the China Shop

By Frank Rich

AT last the American right and left have one issue they unequivocally agree on: You don’t actually have to read Sarah Palin’s book to have an opinion about it.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/22/opinion/22rich.html?_r=1&adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1258891727-wm/H4vZyTmVmRvYVs2215Q

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Animal, Vegetable, Miserable

By Gary Steiner

The free-range turkey debate ignores whether it’s wrong to kill animals for human consumption at all.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/22/opinion/22steiner.html?ref=opinion

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Ah, but they’re not going to make it easy for those who ‘care’

The War on Soy: Why the 'Miracle Food' May Be a Health Risk and Environmental Nightmare

By Tara Lohan, AlterNet

http://www.alternet.org/water/144074/the_war_on_soy%3A_why_the_%27miracle_food%27_may_be_a_health_risk_and_environmental_nightmare

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Bill Moyers to Leave Weekly Television

http://www.truthout.org/topstories/112109vh01

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**************Closer to ‘home’ items…(Ohio/Indiana/Kentucky area)

Check your local paper’s website for items relevant to where you live…

Please take a few moments today and tomorrow to leave a quick comment to an LTE or make a ‘recommendation’ to someone else’s comment or LTE..

YOUR progressive opinion needs to be seen…

Among the most recent LTEs on the Cincinnati area website ..

http://news.cincinnati.com/opinion

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Politics & Government

http://news.cincinnati.com/apps/pbcs.dll/section?Category=NEWS

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From the Cincinnati Beacon:

Green Friday in Cincinnati!

Shop Local Today! Cincinnati Unchained

Thinking about charitable giving for the holidays
Obama to pardon genetically modified animal product

http://www.cincinnatibeacon.com/

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Ohio Talkin' Judicial Reform

http://www.ohiodailyblog.com/content/ohio-talkin-judicial-reform

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Strickland Blasts GOP EDU CUT
By: Bret Thompson, ProgressOhio
http://www.progressohio.org/page/community/post/bretprogressohio/CXtF

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Moyers on the Quagmires

John Nichols:

http://www.thenation.com/blogs/thebeat/499437/bill_moyers_tells_a_tale_of_two_quagmires_vietnam_afghanistan

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Danny Schechter:
Moyers Message to Obama: Study History or Repeat its Mistakes

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/11/21-4

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Juan Cole: Informed Comment

Polk: Let America Be America, and Depart Afghanistan

http://www.juancole.com/

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Is imam a terror recruiter or just an incendiary preacher?

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/251/story/79261.html

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The Fort Hood massacre and the media coverage

http://www.todayszaman.com/tz-web/news-193615-109-centerthe-fort-hood-massacre-and-the-media-coveragebr-i-by-i-brmetin-bosnakcenter.html

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Who Created Major Hasan?

By Robert Wright

The wars in Afghanistan and Iraq may be inspiring homegrown terrorism.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/22/opinion/22wright.html?ref=opinion

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U.S. should reject tainted coming election in Honduras

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/340/story/79156.html

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Intelligentsia Against Intelligence

By David Sirota —

Any hope that we aren’t turning into a full-on slobbering idiocracy was snuffed out last week by two of the Washington intelligentsia’s most respected voices.

http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/intelligentsia_against_intelligence_20091119/

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from and about ‘over there’

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Rule-of-Law Extremism Engulfs Primitive Eastern Europe

Glenn Greenwald:
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/11/21-5

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Should Obama Fire Gen. McChrystal?

by Ray McGovern

http://original.antiwar.com/mcgovern/2009/11/20/should-obama-fire-gen-mcchrystal/

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Obama's Extrajudicial Killers
by Nat Hentoff