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Charles Pierce | The Forty Billion Dollar Missile Defense Boondoggle
Charles Pierce, Esquire
Pierce writes: "I will leave it to the rest of you to collect all the quotes from all the politicians in both the Republican and Democratic parties who moaned so loudly about The Deficit, and who worship still at the altar of Entitlement Reform, and who fought over how much to cut the food stamp program, and yet voted to pour down this obvious rathole forty billion fcking dollars."
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Small US Force Moves Into Iraq
Agence France-Presse
Excerpt: "About 275 US military personnel are being deployed to Iraq to help American personnel and protect the embassy in Baghdad, President Barack Obama said Monday in a letter to Congressional leaders."
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The Terrifying Rise of ISIS
Ian Black, Rania Abouzeid, Mark Tran, Shiraz Maher, Roger Tooth and Martin Chulov, Guardian UK
Excerpt: "Isis is the (slightly confusing) English acronym for the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant, a Sunni jihadist group whose sudden capture of Mosul, Tikrit and extensive swaths of Iraqi territory last week has triggered a new crisis, complete with atrocities targeting Iraqi army soldiers and volunteers."
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Court Rulings on Voter Restrictions Create Limbo as Midterms Near
Lizette Alvarez, The New York Times
Alvarez writes: "With the midterm elections only months away, efforts to carry out some of the country's strictest photo ID requirements and shorten early voting in several politically pivotal states have been thrown into limbo by a series of court decisions concluding that the measures infringe on the right to vote."
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The US Has the Most Expensive and Least Effective Health Care in the Developed World
Tara Culp-Ressler, ThinkProgress
Culp-Ressler writes: "For the fifth time in a row, the United States has been ranked last in a prominent think tank's review of industrialized nation's health care systems."
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Obama to Create the World's Largest Marine Sanctuary
Juliet Eilperin, The Washington Post
Eilperin writes: "President Obama on Tuesday will announce his intent to make a broad swath of the central Pacific Ocean off-limits to fishing, energy exploration and other activities, according to senior White House officials."
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