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Let's assume that Hillary Clinton wins the presidency, since that is the most likely outcome.
Which country will she prove how tough she is by killing a whole bunch of helpless, brown-skinned civilians?

This is, of course, in addition to on-going wars that President Obama will leave in his wake, such as Afghanistan and Iraq.
This is also in addition to the on-going Global Assassination Program, known as the Drone War.

Word out of Washington is that a Pentagon policy change allowing transgender members of the military to serve openly is in its final stages of approval.

Originally, we were expecting the change to be announced in March.

Gender dysphoria disqualifies service members under current policy. However, Defense Secretary Ash Carter enacted a de facto moratorium on such dismissals last year as the Defense Department crafted its new guidelines. Officials have been wrestling with several issues regarding transgender troops including recruiting, medical treatment, housing, uniforms and physical fitness standards.

Hope you all don't mind me dumping these two different issues in one essay, but caught them all this morning while busying around and thought they were worth sharing.

Here is Thomas Frank talking about his new book LISTEN, LIBERAL!

The subject of my new book is the Democratic Party’s failure over the last few decades to do anything really meaningful about income inequality.

These would be searches of various electronic items in spy and terrorism cases.

WaPo source

I caught the Diane Rehm show while in the car running errands. The segment to which I listened seemed to be all about the Trump campaign and his relative lack of SuperPac money and organization compared to the Clinton campaign. I heard next to nothing about any policy differences. All I heard was how critically important big money donors are in this election. Here's specifically what I learned from NPR's "expert" panel today:

This was originally posted this morning at Kossacks_for_Sanders and deserves a much wider exposure. It's not as if the MSM will have any interest. An excerpt (emphasis mine):

First, a journalist has actually been held accountable. John Ralston, a powerful Nevada journalist who, over and over again, promulgated the lie about BernieBros throwing chairs in Nevada, has been fired from NPR for his extremely lousy and damaging lack of responsible reporting:

Sometimes a bubble is hard to recognize until after it has burst.
Sometimes it is easy to see.

In 1637 a single tulip bulb in the Netherlands was traded for a 12 acre farm, or 10 times the annual income of a skilled tradesman.
That's clearly a bubble.

So is this.

Please excuse me, but a rant that has been building within me during the last several days- with all the terrible news of both presidential candidates. This essay is my therapeutic efforts to share something with you and I hope help you reflect on our current state of this historic and sad state of affairs for the 2016 presidential election. Moreover, I am just calling things as I see them, so if you get mad at me that is fine, but do something about it.

it's what she demanded."

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