Tag: Republican dirty tricks
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October surprise *
Trey Ellis in HuffPo thinks we should be afraid, very afraid of what Republicans might have up their sleeves for October: We taxpayers already have shelled out $100 billion on contractors in Iraq since 2003. They have 180,000 employees in country now building what they had assumed would be permanent bases for a permanent occupation…
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Stakes & Commitments
Photo by Max Whittaker for The New York Times: Barack Obama, then known as Barry, in a 1978 senior yearbook photo at the Punahou School in Honolulu. At Punahou, a preparatory school that had few black students, he talked with friends about race, wealth and class. Back at the time the New York Times explored…