‘Left, Right & Center’: GOP Scores; Unemployment Up; Fort Hood Fallout
Unemployment reaches 10.2 percent -- do we need a bigger stimulus? What do the GOP victories in Virginia and New Jersey mean for both parties? Will the House’s historic health care bill pass, and, if so, why wait till 2013 to implement it?Unemployment reaches 10.2 percent — do we need a bigger stimulus? What do the GOP victories in Virginia and New Jersey mean for both parties? Will the House’s historic health care bill pass, and, if so, why wait till 2013 to implement it? Plus, in the aftermath of the Fort Hood tragedy, “Left, Right & Center” regulars Robert Scheer, Tony Blankley, Arianna Huffington and Matt Miller on this week’s show discuss the shooter’s Muslim faith, military education and his work as a psychiatrist treating vets with post-traumatic stress disorder. –KA
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The recent television kerfuffle involving "Real Time" host Bill Maher and guest Sam Harris over whether Muslims are bad people because their religion is, in the words of Harris, "the mother lode of bad ideas," is symbolic of the new American Islamophobia.
The Fort Hood military base in Texas, which was the site of a 2009 mass shooting, ordered all staff to take shelter Wednesday amid media reports of an active shooting situation that had left several people dead and wounded.
A U.S. soldier who has been absent without leave since early July was arrested Wednesday in a motel room hear Fort Hood in Texas where FBI officials announced Thursday that he had been found with guns and bomb-making materials. The AWOL soldier admitted to planning an attack on the base, an Army alert said Thursday.
American-born al-Qaida leader Anwar al-Awlaki has apparently survived a U.S. military drone attack in Yemen after he traded vehicles with two supporters who were killed at the scene. (more)
There seems to be some confusion about who are the real terrorists these days. Allow me to shed some light on the issue.
What’s as interesting as Stack’s motives are our motives in labeling this act. Was Stack’s gesture an attention-grabbing suicide plot, a deliberate criminal act, an act of heroism or an act of terrorism? It seems that the answer varies according to whom we ask.Was Stack’s gesture an attention-grabbing suicide plot, a deliberate criminal act, an act of heroism or an act of terrorism?
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