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Freedom Politics
by Thomas J. Lucente Jr.

During the 2008 election, Barack Obama made more than 500 promises, if the website PolitiFact.com is to be believed. According to PolitiFact, which is a project of the St. Petersburg (Fla.) Times, Obama has broken 40 of his campaign promises, compromised on 41 others and 70 have stalled. He has kept 134, or 26 percent, of his promises. The rest are either in the works or not rated...

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Defense and the deficit

The American Prospect
by Ben Adler

04/01/11

You might think that with the Iraq War thoroughly discredited and recent polls showing that a majority of the public favors reducing defense spending, cutting the Pentagons bloated budget would finally be on the table. Or at least you'd expect Democrats would propose cutting military spending instead of home-heating subsidies for the poor. But you'd be wrong...

http://prospect.org/cs/articles?article=defense_and_the_deficit


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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