“Could we block the whole border? No, I don’t think we ever could, just because of the sheer length of it . . . and the sheer willingness and ingenuity of the ... More »
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Jo Bobenhouse Smith
Member (since October 2009)
I am a newly retired single woman living in the heartland. I'll soon return to Arizona in hopes of recapturing the lusty memories of my warm and sunny poolside youth. Retirement came as a "surprise we're down-sizing" life style change; even so, it is actually enjoyable in large part due to the internet's interactive news media. I am now becoming a political junkie--imagine that!
About Jo
Location:
United States
Occupation:
Retired
Interests:
Documentaries, Current Events, Satire,
Expertise:
Arts & Crafts,
Background
Journalism:
Less than 1 year
Education:
Some college
News:
90 minutes a day or more
Internet:
60-90 minutes a day
Languages:
English-only
Age:
65 or over
Gender:
Female
Income:
$25K to $49K
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Politics, Scientific Discoveries, Why People do the Things They Do
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Address:
50312, US
Phone:
515-897-0020
Last Visit:
May 12, 2010 - 7:21 PM PDT
Last Edit:
Nov 21, 2009 - 11:47 AM PST
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Jo posted and reviewed this story - Dec 31, 2009
Jo posted and reviewed this story - Dec 31, 2009
Jo posted and reviewed and starred this story - Dec 29, 2009
So David Rohde does not get a Sidney for his unforgettable series on being held captive by the Taliban. But those pieces possess exactly the virtues that the Sidneys are ... More »
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Jo posted and reviewed this story - Dec 25, 2009
This is a good summation of the US & Yemen attacks on Al-Queda and why civilian deaths are a consequence of Al-Queda actions.
Observers say it would have been almost impossible for the Yemeni army to strike the training camp without casualties among women and children, who were used as human ... More »
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Jo posted and reviewed this story - Dec 25, 2009
Jo posted and reviewed and starred this story - Dec 25, 2009
Jo posted and reviewed and starred this story - Dec 25, 2009
Krugman tells Progressives how to find, if not satisfaction, at the least acceptance in the Health Care Bill.
But those rules are no longer operative. No, Virginia, at this point there is no sanity clause. More »
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Jo posted and reviewed and starred this story - Dec 25, 2009
Jo posted and reviewed and starred this story - Dec 24, 2009
Jo posted and reviewed and starred this story - Dec 24, 2009
Jo posted and reviewed this story - Dec 24, 2009
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Jo posted and reviewed this story - Dec 24, 2009
Jo posted and reviewed this story - Dec 24, 2009
Defense Secretary Robert Gates ordered the service in April 2008 to dramatically increase the number of manned and unmanned aircraft providing intelligence to ground ... More »
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Jo posted and reviewed this story - Dec 24, 2009
Jo posted and reviewed this story - Dec 24, 2009
This is a compelling story about the evolution of the new anti IED vehicles the ARMY is getting for the war build up in Afghanistan.
The excitement among the Georgia National Guardsmen about their new vehicles, which were lined up at Bagram Air Base when the guardsmen arrived Sunday in a convoy, probably ... More »
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Jo posted and reviewed this story - Dec 24, 2009
Jo posted this story - Dec 24, 2009
Jo posted and reviewed this story - Dec 24, 2009
For example, he introduced the Service Dogs for Veterans Act with Sen. Johnny Isakson (R-Ga.); a diabetes prevention amendment with Sen. Richard Lugar (R-Ind.); a bill to ... More »
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Jo posted and reviewed this story - Dec 24, 2009
Jo posted and reviewed this story - Dec 23, 2009
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Jo posted and reviewed this story - Dec 23, 2009
Jo posted and reviewed and starred this story - Dec 23, 2009
“You can’t have the American military telling people what their religion allows,” Boucek says. But someone, he adds, should be arguing the other side on ... More »
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Jo posted and reviewed and starred this story - Dec 23, 2009
Jo posted and reviewed and starred this story - Dec 23, 2009
Jo posted and reviewed and starred this story - Dec 23, 2009
In this story you will feel the almost overwhelming magnitude of the effort it will take to make transparent all that President Obama's team is to accomplish.
Obama’s executive order will follow on the president’s inauguration day initiatives on open government. On his first day in office, Obama instructed federal ... More »
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Jo posted and reviewed and starred this story - Dec 23, 2009
Jo posted and reviewed and starred this story - Dec 23, 2009
Jo posted and reviewed this story - Dec 23, 2009
A cheerful bit of news about the success Panera Bread is experiencing during the recession. It also includes some bonus unrelated Top 10 links just for the fun of it.
Real estate costs are down, development costs are down, volumes are up — these are the highest-return investment stores we’ll ever generate." Panera has hired ... More »
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Jo posted and reviewed this story - Dec 23, 2009
Jo posted and reviewed and starred this story - Dec 23, 2009
And we’re doing it in a way that’s fiscally responsible. It’s not going to involve a whole bunch of new taxes on ordinary, working families. And so I ... More »
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Jo posted and reviewed and starred this story - Dec 23, 2009
Jo posted and reviewed and starred this story - Dec 23, 2009
Jo posted and reviewed this story - Dec 23, 2009
Few people have sustained wars as long, or as consistently, as Murdoch, who from the age of 22 has thrived on publicly sticking it to his enemies. And very few have ever ... More »
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Jo posted and reviewed this story - Dec 23, 2009
Jo reviewed this story - Dec 22, 2009
Jo reviewed this story - Dec 20, 2009
PolitiFact shows in this story how the Death Panel lie started and how it spread like wildfire via all forms of media; how it became part of the congressional record on 40 occassions.
Her assertion — that the government would set up boards to determine whether seniors and the disabled were worthy of care — spread through newscasts, talk shows, blogs ... More »
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Jo posted and reviewed and starred this story - Dec 20, 2009
Krugman gives us historical information as background for his reasoned pitch for making parliamentary proedural changes to the business of congress. .
The political scientist Barbara Sinclair has done the math. In the 1960s, she finds, “extended-debate-related problems” — threatened or actual filibusters — ... More »
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Jo posted and reviewed and starred this story - Dec 20, 2009
Jo posted and reviewed and starred this story - Dec 20, 2009
Jo reviewed this story - Dec 19, 2009
This is an interesting behind the scenes look at what diplomatic interactions it takes to achieve the Copenhagen Accords.
Obama essentially accused other leaders of preferring “posturing to action.” He explained, "I’m sure many consider this an imperfect ... More »
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