Rayne

Our FDL community's regularly scheduled posts may be out of kilter due to coverage of the debate on health care reform now underway.

With their function scheduled for phase out as the military's role in Iraq comes to an end, top folks at office of the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction propose an new governmental agency -- just in time to save their own, um, jobs.

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They are whiz kids, the shining scions of our families, the cream of the crop. And with a little help, they crashed the financial industry and our economy as if they were taking a drive without lessons in the family car.

Did you know that today is the Festival of Lights for many people around the world?

There's an expansion of bodies dedicated to military efforts in Afghanistan, but it's not clear who's given the orders.

The calendar may say it's fall, but summer is still here and it's in jars on my counter.

Perhaps we should be paying closer attention to personnel changes among key military personnel paid with our tax dollars.

Here's this week's wrap-up: A step forward, a step back; another step forward, another step back.

Explain it to me like I'm stupid: why are we negotiating with these organizations at all?