Bush/Cheney do nation building with drug dealers?
Time-President Karzai’s younger half-brother, long accused of links to the narcotics trade, was embroiled in fresh controversy yesterday after an American newspaper reported that he had been on the CIA’s payroll for much of the past eight years. Ahmad Wali Karzai was paid for services including arranging contacts with [...]

The first priority of Congress needs to be insuring that our financial system is on sound ground. Where is the effort to reign in the “too big to fails?”.  Where is the effort to reduce leverage and break up the big banks ?  Frank wants to give the czars all the controls. The direction appears to be going [...]

Anyone buy this from Cheney?
USA-Citing faulty memory, former Vice President Dick Cheney told federal investigators in a 2004 interview he had no idea who revealed to reporters that Valerie Plame, the wife of a Bush administration critic, worked for the CIA.
Cheney’s chief of staff, I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby, was convicted of perjury, obstruction and lying [...]

HP….JARDIN: The funny thing about net neutrality is that nobody cares how the internet works, we just want to know that it works. Kind of like picking up the phone to call your mom. The idea behind net neutrality is that we should all have equal access to whatever website, whatever funny video, whatever animated [...]

And who will pay for this NATION BUILDING?

All should read!
EC-Right now, President Barack Obama is trying to decide what to do about the war in Afghanistan.
According to a senior administration official, President Obama “has embarked on a very, very serious review of all options.”
…but is that true? Are all options on the table? When you hear White House spokesman Robert [...]

Does the American military and the Obama administration—and by extension all Americans—have a leg to stand on here? Wouldn’t foreign drone attacks that killed hundreds of innocent civilians in American cities be described as ‘terrorism’ by Americans?
I guess that’s what American exceptionalism means: Sure, it’s illegal, except when we do it.
NYT: U.S. Secretary [...]

I agree!
AJC-The timing was probably coincidental, but days after announcing that the feds would no longer prosecute folks for using medicinal marijuana, Attorney General Eric Holder and the Drug Enforcement Administration publicized huge raids conducted nationwide, including in metro Atlanta, against the Mexican drug cartel La Familia. In other words, they want it [...]

Palin: money first, everything else…
Politico-A conservative Iowa group’s effort to lure Sarah Palin to its banquet next month has had an unintended effect: Rather than exciting conservatives about the prospect of a visit from the former Alaska governor, the group’s plan to raise a six-figure sum to bring her to the state has GOP [...]

This is very good post by Icarus all should read from the PP.
PP-and I’ve done a lot of crazy things…
I’m going to recommend you read today’s column by Jay Bookman. I’ll go so far as calling it required reading if you self-identify as either a conservative or a Republican.
I don’t recommend it because I [...]

Auto sales analysts at Edmunds.com say the pricey program resulted in relatively few additional car sales.
By Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNNMoney.com senior writer
Last Updated: October 29, 2009
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — A total of 690,000 new vehicles were sold under the Cash for Clunkers program last summer, but only 125,000 of those were vehicles that would not have [...]

It is disgusting enough that John’s president will not make a decision about Afghanistan. But to make matters worse, he actually gathered up a film crew to video him welcoming dead warriors back from the battlefront last night…akin to a murderer attending the viewing of his victims. Using the dead for a photo opp…how low [...]

Bad deal by the Bush team?
Bloomberg….In a recent interview in the Financial Times, John Thain, Merrill Lynch & Co.’s former chief executive officer, gave an insider account of those dark days: “Once it became clear that Lehman wasn’t going to be rescued and was going to go bankrupt, the group then shifted its [...]