Louis XIV didn't exactly have a good rap as king of France. Is Newsom in danger of becoming Louis' SF equivalent?
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‘We may have a strong-mayor system of government, but it is not a monarchy,” writes Sup. David Campos in a Dec. 10 letter to City Attorney Dennis Herrera, sent the day that the Board’s veto-proof civil rights legislation to restore due process to undocumented kids is supposed to kick in—except Mayor Gavin Newsom has said he intendsSource: SFBG Politics RSS Feed
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The Moonie-run Washington Times recently announced it was laying off 40 percent of its workforce, and shifting to free distribution.
Pretty soon it will have all the reach and influence of a nickel shopper. Which is only slightly less than its reach and influence now -- outside of Planet Wingnuttia, of course.
One can't help wonder if the Times' chief problem has been that its subscription base -- mostly Republican congressmen Source: Crooks and Liars RSS Feed
Mike Mount and Larry Shaughnessy
CNN Pentagon Unit
President Obama is expected to announce Tuesday that he's sending more than 30,000 additional troops to Afghanistan and discuss the U.S. strategy there.
Here are some frequently asked questions about the U.S. involvement there:
Q: How many troops are in Afghanistan and how many more are going?
A: More than 100,000 U.S. and NATO troops are in Afghanistan, and the president is expected to announceSource: AC360 RSS Feed
Like most problems his administration faces, Obama inherited the the war in Afghanistan from his predecessor, George W. Bush. And, like most of these Bush legacies, it's the result of incompetence, neglect, and an obsession with neoconservative ideology. Afghanistan is a big pile of military blunders and foreign policy mistakes. Let's look at the military side and just focus on the obvious for a moment.
Afghanistan is well-known as the "graveyard of empires," an impossible terrain in a Source: Griper Blade RSS Feed
What a coward, I guess his head is still smarting from the tail whooping he took from that woman scorned known as his wife ....lololol since he's been able to blow off the Florida State Police for 4 days now and 3 canceled meetings....
I know I've been ripping him, and I think the man is definitely one of the best golfer's the world has seen, which is great, and he's probably a great guy to hang with, but he's jivin' and jukin' on this one..and just like his good buddy and fellow golfSource: Chicagoray RSS Feed
Donny Deutsch is host of The Entrepreneurs, a primetime special profiling the success stories of America’s entrepreneurs on CNBC. I thought I would introduce him to you because I didn’t know who he was until he appeared on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” today, and I assume you haven’t heard of him before either.
As said, despite him being an absolute nobody, hosts Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough invited Deutsch to appear on their show nonetheless. ‘Why?’ I wondered, ‘why Source: PoliGazette RSS Feed
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has a message for Pakistan: you’ve taken some measures against Al Qaeda but you need to get tougher on it and Osama bin Laden:
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has called on Pakistan to take tougher action against al Qaeda and step up its efforts to track down the group’s leader Osama bin Laden.
Brown said the efforts of British and coalition forces in Afghanistan to tackle the Taliban insurgency needed to be matched by more effectiveSource: The Moderate Voice RSS Feed
