Global News Feature: For President, Five Programs, One Message

No one shifted an armchair, moved a flower arrangement or asked an unexpected question. President Obama gave five back-to-back television interviews broadcast on Sunday that were as tightly choreographed — and eerily similar — as the multiple Magritte bowler-hatted men milling in the remake of “The Thomas Crown Affair.” Global News: Full Source

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Global News Feature: Report: More troops needed for Afghan war success

By ANNE GEARAN
AP National Security Writer

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The situation in Afghanistan is growing worse, and without more boots on the ground the U.S. risks failure in a war it's been waging since September 2001, the top U.S. and NATO commander in Afghanistan says in a confidential report...Global News Full Source:

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Global News Opinion: Getting Acquainted I

For several years after the 2004 election The Editor ran a Left-leaning political blog under his own name, the one at the bottom of all these posts. Sheer writer's fatigue, and worsening illness, resulting in his total disability put a stop to it. You will see his opinions here, but only once a week.

He can no longer sustain the pace of daily blogging, and has come to believe that the besetting curse of the politics of our time is the disconnection of political opinions from the realm of evidence, genuine news, and fact. Hence the focus of this blog is on news, not opinion; fact, not free-floating political fantasy; evidence and not argument. And he seeks a like-minded readership--of whatever political views--who wish to ground their thinking in evidence, genuine news, and fact.
But for the sake of truth in packaging, The Editor will take the next several weeks or so giving a broad outline of his opinions, which are still Left-leaning. He does not believe they will matter very much to the functioning of this blog, but he wants anyone who wishes to apply a discount of his political biases to the coinage offered here to be free to do so.

All such things must start with the last Presidential administration and George W. Bush. The events of the past 10 years have made the 20th Century not only history, but ancient history.