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...Beinart, David Von Drehle and Newt Gingrich note in their stories that are part of our "frozen government" cover package, trust in government is extremely low these days. But trust in government is not by any means a pure virtue; after all, trust in government was high in the 1950s, as some have noted, when the government told schoolchildren they would be safe in the event of a nuclear attack if they put their heads under their desks...
Making Marjah Count A town of 60,000 souls, Marjah is ringed by poppy fields that are watered by irrigation canals built in the 1950s and '60s by U.S. engineers. McChrystal chose this location to launch the reconquest of Afghanistan because it is the western end of a population belt that extends from central Helmand province through Kandahar province - both infested with the Taliban. McChrystal has set out to secure that belt, starting in Marjah, then moving to Lashkar Gah, Kandahar city and finally Spin Boldak. "It's where we hadn't been, it's where the enemy still...
That was true from the days when, while teaching in the 1950s and '60s at Atlanta's historically black Spelman College, he participated in the early, dangerous days of the civil rights movement--and lost his job as a reward...
...filibuster has made it all but impossible to conduct everyday business in the Senate. On an almost daily basis, the Republican minority - just 41 Senators - stops bills from even coming to the floor for debate and amendment," Democratic Senator Tom Harkin wrote recently in the Huffington Post. "In the 1950s, an average of one bill was filibustered in each two-year Congress. In the last Congress, 139 bills were filibustered. The Republican abuse of the filibuster is unprecedented, routine, and increasingly reckless." (See 10 embarrassing things that didn't stop Americans from getting elected...
Although Meclizine has been used as an over-the-counter treatment for nausea and vertigo since the 1950s, doctors had never before recognized its additional therapeutic potential...