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Rep. Alan Grayson proposes a bill that: * Limits the amount of funding for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan * Eliminates the federal income tax on the first $35,000 of every American’s income ($70,000 for married couples) * Cuts the Federal deficit by $15.9 billion The bill requires the president to fund the wars from the $549 billion budget …

Yesterday the number of American soldiers killed in Afghanistan reached 1000. And the end of the war is nowhere in sight. On Tuesday, the toll of American dead in Afghanistan passed 1,000, after a suicide bomb in Kabul killed at least five United States service members. Having taken nearly seven years to reach the first 500 dead, the war killed …

Former Clinton White House adviser Dick Morris says Barack Obama is the first anti-American president because he’s said that he wouldn’t use nuclear missiles to respond to a non-nuclear terrorist attack on an American city.

Because we need another war.

The president is getting a lot of criticism for his decision to send another 30,000 troops to Afghanistan. Below, Rachel Maddow compares Obama’s decision to Dubya’s “Bush Doctrine.” The exit strategy seems a long way in coming.

This story just destroys me. It was a promise neither man would have wanted to keep. Yesterday the funeral of a Black Watch soldier killed in Afghanistan took a bizarre turn when his best friend arrived in a bright green dress and pink leg warmers to honour a pact that the two of them had made. Private Kevin Elliott and …

The Pentagon is considering banning the use and sale of tobacco products for U.S. soldiers. Pentagon health experts are urging Defense Secretary Robert Gates to ban the use of tobacco by troops and end its sale on military property, a change that could dramatically alter a culture intertwined with smoking. Jack Smith, head of the Pentagon’s office of clinical and …

In another dramatic reversal of the previous administration’s policy, the Pentagon has announced it will now all allow video and photo coverage of the return of dead U.S. soldiers to American soil. At his daily briefing, White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said, “The president asked that the secretary of defense review our policy toward media and photos at Dover air …

…as a war correspondent. And on his first day on the job as a reporter covering the war, he decides that reporters have no business covering wars.

Thousands of pro-Palestinian protesters jammed Times Square this weekend to decry the Israeli/Hamas conflict. Chanting “Free Palestine,” thousands of Palestinian supporters demonstrated in Times Square Saturday to protest Israel’s punishing military offensive in Gaza. The wave of protesters stretched across three blocks, dwarfing the dozens of boisterous supporters of Israel assembled across Seventh Ave. “What’s happening in Gaza is something …

Yesterday the Israeli army launched their own channel on YouTube so the world can witness the mighty mighty power of their American-made-and-paid-for technology.

Shit! Georgia’s president said Friday that his country is under attack from Russian tanks and warplanes, and he accused Russia of targeting civilian populations as tensions over the breakway Georgian region of South Ossetia appeared to boil over into full-blown conflict. Russia’s Channel 1 shows heavy tanks purported to be on their way to South Ossetia. “All day today they’ve …

“An abridged history of American-centric warfare, from WWII to present day, told through the foods of the countries in conflict.” I liked the suicide falafel. Here’s a cheat sheet if somehow you don’t which foods represent which countries.