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House Republicans push the need for an eastern missile defense to be built in New York and while they feel it is vital for our National Defense, the reported aim was to try and make this president seem weak on defense.   The question now is will it work. It will work for those who support them because nothing this president will ever do will change their minds about him but it will not work for those looking to advance this nation.   These same Republicans have said before that this country could not afford to extend unemployment insurance, help those Americans struggling to make ends meet, providing funding for healthcare coverage, supporting the jobs bill or even helping student s not pay more for their loans but they now want to spent 2 to 4 billion dollars on a system that has not worked before.   Yes, President Ronald Reagan began this process of a missile defense shield and all evidence has shown that it has not worked; now we look to put good money after bad j...

Latest talk on the Libya conflict is that the rebels are still plugging along and defending much of what they have gained from the pro-Gadhafi forces.   A Karin Laub article written for the Associated Press titled Gadhafi's daughter sends defiant message reports “ The daughter, Aisha, pumped her right fist as she led the audience in late-night chants from the second-floor balcony of the badly damaged Bab Aziziyah compound, targeted by U.S. warplanes in 1986.”   "Let me go back to the past when I was a child, when I was nine years old, in this house," she said. "A rain of missiles and bombs. They tried to kill me. They killed dozens of children in Libya."   "Now, after 25 years, the same missiles, the same bombs, rain on our children's heads," she said. "We are a people that cannot be defeated," she added.”   This was their definition of a defiant message, but to me what it was saying is my brothers are looking to sacrifice my father so i...