Two 3rd Cavalry Regiment Soldiers assigned to Train, Advise, Assist Command–East provide security for U.S. advisers in a rural area adjacent to the Nangarhar police Regional Logistics Center during an advising trip last January. A policy change announced Thursday let the world know that 5,500 Americans and an undecided number of NATO troops will remain in Afghanistan after President Obama leaves office.
Here are a few excerpts from the
October Harper's Index:
• Average amount U.S. colleges raise tuition for every additional dollar of Pell Grant aid available to their students: $0.55
• Percentage by which the number of women graduating from college is expected to exceed the number of men in 2025: 47
• Portion of U.S. households with children in which a woman is the primary earner: 2/5
• Estimated number of Americans with developmental disabilities living with caregivers older than 60: 863,000
• Amount the average worker without a bank account will pay in unnecessary fees over a lifetime: $40,000
• Estimated number of deaths each day in China attributable to air pollution: 4,400
• Portion of Iowa Republicans likely to attend a caucus who said in May that they would never back Donald Trump: 3/5
• In August: 3/10
Blast from the Past. At Daily Kos on this date in 2008—Obama Cool:
The pundits are going to talk about the issues and details of the debates, as they should. And it's true that this was Obama's best debate, and possibly McCain's worst. But for me, the story of the night — hell, the story of all three debates — is the sangfroid of Barack Obama.
Nothing can get under his skin. Nothing. No attack can cause him to lose his equilibrium, to cause him to squint or gawp or stare like McCain seems to do three times every minute. Barack Obama is a fundamentally cool cat—and that's one of the reasons he's not just going to win this election, but win big. Americans respect a person who won't get thrown off his game, who won't let his enemies and opponents rattle him.
And Barack Obama isn't just cool—he's redefined cool in politics.
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Greg Dworkin calls in to sift through debate fallout. Who won? What do experts think? How about the polls? Why are those five running, anyhow? Republicans use the debate for horrifying & offensive attention grabs. Another admission that the Benghazi panel was designed to go after Clinton.
Armando takes his turn at the "Who won?" question. The Oath Keepers want to teach students the Carson Bum-Rush. People are getting shot by toddlers on a weekly basis, but you already knew that. Man attempts to put out a garbage fire by driving over it in a van loaded with ammunition. It went well.
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