November 8: Top 8 Moments from Sunday Talk
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Joe Lieberman is ready to filibuster, Michael Steele almost gets physical, and Rachel Maddow says a magic troop number won't placate the GOP. That and more in our Sunday roundup.
Fort Hood Shooting: The Aftermath
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Authorities are still piecing together a troubling portrait of the man thought to be the killer of at least 13 people in Thursday's mass shooting at Fort Hood. Follow the breaking details about the victims, suspected shooter, and government response.
Fort Hood Shooting: Breaking News
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12 are dead and 30 wounded after a gunman opened fire on Texas' Fort Hood military base. Follow the breaking details about the event, victims, suspected shooter, and military and government responses.
Police respond at the scene at the U.S. Army base in Fort Hood Texas where a member of the military opened fire killing 13 people and wounding 31, ...
Generals Can't Be Trusted
Lee Siegel has written about culture and politics and is the author of three books: Falling Upwards: Essays in Defense of the Imagination; Not Remotely Controlled: Notes on Television; and, most recently, Against the Machine: Being Human in the Age of the Electronic Mob. In 2002, he received a National Magazine Award for reviews and criticism.
General Stanley McChrystal wants 40,000 more troops for Afghanistan. Lee Siegel on why presidents should be skeptical of such requests from people who are, at heart, warriors.
Hillary, Go Home
Fatima Bhutto is a graduate of Columbia University and the School of Oriental and African Studies. She is working on a book to be published by Jonathan Cape in 2010. Fatima lives and works in Karachi, Pakistan.
As Secretary Clinton arrives in Pakistan amid pandemonium today, The Daily Beast's Fatima Bhutto says her visit is pure charade-and that American aid is the gift that keeps on taking.
Lloyd Grove is editor at large for The Daily Beast. He is also a frequent contributor to New York magazine and was a contributing editor for Condé Nast Portfolio. He wrote a gossip column for the New York Daily News from 2003 to 2006. Prior to that, he wrote the Reliable Source column for the Washington Post, where he spent 23 years covering politics, the media, and other subjects.
The Daily Beast Video curates the most essential and entertaining video, and brings you original and exclusive productions from our talented contributors.
Peter Beinart, senior political writer for The Daily Beast, is a professor of journalism and political science at City University of New York and a senior fellow at the New America Foundation.
Gerald Posner is The Daily Beast's Chief Investigative Reporter. He's the award-winning author of 10 investigative nonfiction bestsellers, ranging from political assassinations, to Nazi war criminals, to 9/11, to terrorism. His latest book, Miami Babylon: Crime, Wealth and Power—A Dispatch from the Beach, was published in October. He lives in Miami Beach with his wife, the author Trisha Posner.
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