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This week marks the 10th anniversary of the US-led invasion of Iraq ? a war that lasted far longer and was more costly than Americans were told to expect by their military and political leaders, a war that has led to much public questioning as well as private soul-searching.
It?s clear that a decade of war has led to changed attitudes.
At the conclusion of the Conservative Political Action Conference this weekend, there was a presidential straw poll. But conservative activists also were asked about the US role in the world, and the response was clear: only 34 percent said the US should adopt a more muscular role; 50 percent said the US should pull back, leaving it more to allies to take care of trouble spots.
Those results are similar to other recent polls taken of the general populace regarding whether the Iraq War was worth the effort and cost. By about two-to-one, Americans today answer ?no.?
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It will take years before the total costs are tallied. For one thing, thousands of combat veterans will require long-term treatment and disability benefits related to the conflict?s signature injuries: Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI).
But a new report by Brown University scholars gives some indication of the financial and human toll.
Among the findings:
? More than 70 percent of those who died of direct war violence in Iraq have been civilians ? an estimated 134,000. This number does not account for indirect deaths due to increased vulnerability to disease or injury as a result of war-degraded conditions. That number is estimated to be several times higher.
? The Iraq War will ultimately cost US taxpayers at least $2.2 trillion. Because the Iraq war appropriations were funded by borrowing, cumulative interest through 2053 could amount to more than $3.9 trillion.
? The $2.2 trillion figure includes care for veterans who were injured in the war in Iraq, which will cost the United States almost $500 billion through 2053.
? The total of US service members killed in Iraq is 4,488. At least 3,400 US contractors have died as well, a number often under-reported.
? Terrorism in Iraq increased dramatically as a result of the invasion and tactics and fighters were exported to Syria and other neighboring countries.
? Iraq?s health care infrastructure remains devastated from sanctions and war. More than half of Iraq?s medical doctors left the country during the 2000s, and tens of thousands of Iraqi patients are forced to seek health care outside the country.
? The $60 billion spent on reconstruction for Iraq has not gone to rebuilding infrastructure such as roads, health care, and water treatment systems, but primarily to the military and police. The Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction has found massive fraud, waste, and abuse of reconstruction funds.
?Nearly every government that goes to war underestimates its duration, neglects to tally all the costs, and overestimates the political objectives that will be accomplished by war?s violence,? said Neta C. Crawford, professor of political science at Boston University and co-director of the "Costs of War" project at Brown University's Watson Institute for International Studies.
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Meanwhile, although anti-war protesters no longer demonstrate in this country, the inevitable debate over the war continues.
In a new Showtime documentary ?The World According To Dick Cheney,? the former vice president says ?If I had to do it over again, I?d do it in a minute.?
No doubts for Mr. Cheney now ? as others have ? based on what?s known about Saddam Hussein?s nonexistent stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) or the Iraqi dictator?s questionable ties to Al Qaeda, the terrorist organization led by Osama bin Laden and responsible for the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon killing nearly 3,000 people.
Other senior officials in the administration of George W. Bush are not so adamant.
Regarding the elusive WMD, Bush administration national security advisor Stephen Hadley told NPR over the weekend: "Republicans thought [Hussein] had them, Democrats thought he had them, the Clinton administration thought he had them, the Bush administration thought he had them.?
"We were all wrong,? he says.
Regarding the human toll on both sides, Mr. Hadley admits that "clearly the situation got away from us."
But, he said in the NPR interview, "I think this is a country that is taking responsibility for its security both internally and externally.?
Responding to the Brown University ?Costs of War? report, State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland, said that the US and Iraq have forged a "strategically important bilateral relationship."
"Compared to where we were in the Saddam era, we now have a bilateral security agreement,? she said, according to several press reports. ?We have deep economic interests and ties. We have a security relationship. We have a political relationship.?
Still, stability in Iraq remains a serious concern.
?Ten years after the US-led invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein, talk swirls in government circles of Sunni protesters planning to destabilize the country,? Monitor correspondent Jane Arraf reports from Baghdad. ?While many discount the possibility of a coup, rising sectarian tension and an ongoing political crisis have raised fears that there is a new battle looming between Baghdad and the provinces.?
In a column last Friday titled ?Five Myths About Iraq,? Washington Post associate editor and former Baghdad bureau chief Rajiv Chandrasekaran notes the latest violent news from Iraq: ?On Monday, a suicide bomber drove his explosives-laden car into a police station, killing five people; the same day, six more people were killed in various militant attacks in Baghdad. Three days earlier, 19 people died in a string of attacks targeting security personnel.?
Andrew Bacevich has what is perhaps a unique view of the Iraq War, its outcome and its aftermath. Dr. Bacevich is a West Point graduate who served in Vietnam, a career US Army officer who retired as a colonel, and a professor of history and international relations at Boston University.
Bacevich's son, a 27 year-old US Army First Lieutenant, was killed in Iraq by a roadside bomb. The loss weighs heavily on Bacevich. (He wrote about it movingly shortly after his family's loss.) But he was speaking and writing critically about the war before his son was killed in 2007, and he continues to do so today.
In a long Washington Post essay earlier this month (?Ten years after the invasion, did we win the Iraq war??), Bacevich puts the Iraq War in the context of earlier conflicts ranging back to the War of 1812 through World War I to Vietnam, writing that ?battlefield outcomes thought to be conclusive often prove anything but.?
?A challenge facing historians of the Iraq war ? will be to gauge what senior members of George W. Bush?s inner circle were actually trying to accomplish,? he writes. ?The justifications offered for the invasion were all over the place, including supposed weapons of mass destruction, claims that Saddam Hussein had collaborated with al-Qaeda and visions of democracy throughout the Arab world.?
?Eventually, only this last ? Bush?s Freedom Agenda ? remained,? he continues. ?Yet, as the war dragged on, expectations of transforming the Middle East gave way to more modest definitions of success. When it came to advancing the cause of liberty, the Bush administration set out to build a cathedral. In the end, the Obama administration declared itself content with a shaky two-car garage.?
Politicians may argue vigorously about the conduct of the war and its outcome, as Sen. John McCain did in charging that Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel would be found to have been ?on the wrong side of history? regarding Iraq in general and the ?surge? in particular.
But Bacevich argues that ?judgments rendered by history tend to be tentative, incomplete and reversible.?
?More than occasionally, they arrive seasoned with irony,? he writes. ?This is especially true when it comes to war, where battlefield outcomes thought to be conclusive often prove anything but.?
Just as it was in Vietnam ? and back and back through previous wars ? the outcome of the US-led invasion and occupation of Iraq remains unclear. ?Was it worth it?? is a question impossible to answer.
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NASCAR Sprint Cup Series driver Kasey Kahne (5) celebrates after winning the Food City 500 auto race, Sunday, March 17, 2013, in Bristol, Tenn. (AP Photo/Wade Payne)
NASCAR Sprint Cup Series driver Kasey Kahne (5) celebrates after winning the Food City 500 auto race, Sunday, March 17, 2013, in Bristol, Tenn. (AP Photo/Wade Payne)
Denny Hamlin (11) leads driver Kyle Busch (18), driver Kasey Kahne (5) and others during the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Food City 500 auto race on Sunday, March 17, 2013, in Bristol, Tenn. (AP Photo/Wade Payne)
Kasey Kahne (5) leads the field during the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Food City 500 auto race on Sunday, March 17, 2013, in Bristol, Tenn. (AP Photo/Wade Payne)
Jamie McMurray (1) spins as driver Kevin Harvick (29) and others get past during the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Food City 500 auto race on Sunday, March 17, 2013, in Bristol, Tenn. (AP Photo/Wade Payne)
Crew members work on Tony Stewart's car during the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Food City 500 auto race on Sunday, March 17, 2013, in Bristol, Tenn. (AP Photo/Wade Payne)
BRISTOL, Tenn. (AP) ? Kasey Kahne won his first career Sprint Cup Series race at Bristol Motor Speedway after Brad Keselowski struggled on the final restart.
Tempers flared after the race when Joey Logano leaned inside the car window of former teammate Denny Hamlin to complain about Hamlin spinning him during the race. At the time, Logano was racing Jeff Gordon for the lead.
Logano was pulled away from Hamlin's car by crew members for both drivers in a classic post-Bristol clash that delighted the crowd. "They're fighting! It's Bristol!" yelled Clint Bowyer, who saw the action on the infield big screen.
Logano wouldn't discuss what he told Hamlin.
"That is for me to know and Denny to know. Frustrating," he said. "I had a really fast ... Ford and I felt like it was capable to win the race."
Hamlin shrugged it all off.
"He said he was coming for me," Hamlin said. "I usually don't see him, so it's usually not a factor."
The two sparred briefly on Twitter after the season-opening Daytona 500, when Hamlin complained Logano ruined the closing laps of the race. But he said Sunday's flap was not a carryover.
"It didn't have anything to do with that," Hamlin said. "You've really got to control your car and he slipped up into me. Really, he would have been in the garage with no radiator in it if I had not checked up twice. I meant to run in to him. I didn't mean to spin him out, but his day was fine. We finished bad and he finished bad. It's even."
Their feuding may have played a role in the outcome of the race.
Keselowski was the leader on the final restart with 39 laps to go and lined up next to Kahne. Hamlin was lined up behind Keselowski, with Logano lined up behind Hamlin. When the flag waved, Keselowski didn't go and Kahne rocketed to the lead and never looked back.
Although it appeared Keselowski spun his tires, he was adamant after the race about what happened ? "I got ran over!" ? and that prevented him from breaking away on the restart.
Hamlin backed up Keselowski's account.
"The 22 (Logano) ran into me and shoved me into (Keselowski)," Hamlin said. "Sorry to the 2, but I was the pinball in the sandwich. Once he throttled up, the 22 lifted me up and just flat out pinned me up against the 2."
Logano seemed to think Keselowski spun his tires and that created the bottleneck, but Keselowski believed he had help from behind.
"I haven't seen the replay, I just know my rear tires were off the ground before I got to the restart zone," he said. "Eventually I got hit so hard it pushed my foot in the gas pedal, made myself look like a (fool). That was the deal. Never had another chance."
Nobody came close to Kahne, who drove his Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet to the win by 1.7-seconds. Hendrick drivers have now won two of the first four races this season.
Kyle Busch snagged second from Keselowski, who took over the Sprint Cup Series points lead as the only driver to open the season with four top-five finishes. Kurt Busch finished fourth and was followed by Bowyer and Dale Earnhardt Jr.
Ryan Newman was seventh, Brian Vickers was eighth and Paul Menard and Jamie McMurray rounded out the top 10.
The race changed dramatically with 110 laps to go in a bizarre crash between leaders Gordon and Matt Kenseth. Gordon was out front when he suddenly lost a tire and his car darted up the track into the wall. Kenseth had nowhere to go to avoid him and drove directly into the back of Gordon, causing heavy damage to both cars.
"You all right?" crew chief Alan Gustafson radioed Gordon.
"Yeah, I'm OK. Did we take out Matt, too?" Gordon asked.
With the top two cars in the garage, the rest of the field headed to pit road to reset for the final 100 laps.
"I hate that for Matt Kenseth," Gordon said. "He was coming, and it was just a matter of time before he caught us. We needed points. This definitely isn't going to get us many."
Kenseth, winner of last week's race at Las Vegas, said the crash was unavoidable.
"There's not a lot either one of us can do about that," he said. "There was nowhere to go."
Before the Gordon-Kenseth crash, Gordon and Logano were dueling for the lead. Gordon used a two-tire stop with about 175 laps to go to gain eight spots on pit road and take the lead. Logano chased Gordon around the 0.533-mile bullring, pulling even with the four-time champion as he exited the corners only to lose ground on the straights.
Lurking behind in third was Hamlin, who apparently got tired of waiting for Logano to get past Gordon and showed how restless he was with slight contact on Logano's bumper as they exited Turn 2.
The tap caused Logano to back his car into the wall and took him out of contention, leading to the post-race drama Bristol is known to create.
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OBAMA IN MIDEAST NEXT WEEK ? ?Israel sees Obama visit as chance to show its best side: an estimated 500 foreign journalists are arriving to cover the U.S. president's trip,? by L.A. Times? Edmund Sanders in Jerusalem: ?When the White House tweaked the president's upcoming Holy Land itinerary to include Bethlehem's Church of the Nativity, Israelis feared he wouldn't have time for a field trip to see their beloved Iron Dome missile defense system. No problem, Israeli officials decided. If Obama can't come to the Iron Dome, the Iron Dome will come to him. One of the five U.S.-funded batteries, which Israel is marketing for sale internationally, will be temporarily repositioned to the airport for a photo op with the arriving president. Obama's three-day trip to Israel and the West Bank, which begins Wednesday, offers Israelis a rare opportunity to shine before a global audience. ?
?Politicians and pundits will schmooze with some of the estimated 500 visiting foreign journalists at a government-sponsored cocktail reception, while special excursions are being offered for visitors to highlight the softer side of Israel, from wine tasting to Christian pilgrimage. The trip even has an official government logo (U.S. and Israeli flags morphed into one), a slogan (?Unbreakable Alliance?) and a new smartphone app launched by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office to track every step.? With a great AFP pic: ?Workers in the town of Kfar Saba ready U.S. and Israeli flags in preparation for President Obama's visit to Israel and the West Bank.? http://lat.ms/ZxCYPg
THE PRESIDENT?S WEEK AHEAD: ?On Saturday and Sunday, the President has no public events scheduled. ? On Tuesday, the President will welcome Prime Minister (Taoiseach) Enda Kenny of Ireland to the White House.? ? In the morning, the President will meet with the Taoiseach in the Oval Office, and subsequently he will attend the traditional St. Patrick?s Day lunch at the U.S. Capitol.? During the day, the President will also greet First Minister Peter Robinson and Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness of Northern Ireland at the White House to discuss their progress toward meeting their shared commitment to a peaceful and prosperous future for the people of Northern Ireland.? In the evening, the President and the First Lady will host a reception to celebrate their fifth St. Patrick?s Day at the White House.? During the reception, the President and Kenny will participate in the annual Shamrock ceremony started under President Truman.? Later in the evening, the President will depart for Israel.
?On Wednesday, the President will have separate meetings with President Peres and Prime Minister Netanyahu.? He will also hold a joint press conference with Prime Minister Netanyahu. On Thursday, the President will meet with President Abbas of the Palestinian Authority and will tour a youth development center with Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Fayyad.? Later in the day, the President will deliver a speech to the Israeli people at the Jerusalem International Convention Center.? He will also hold a joint press conference with President Abbas. On Friday, the President will meet with King Abdullah II of Jordan and later will hold a joint press conference with King Abdullah II. On Saturday, the President will return to Washington.?
THE V.P.?S WEEK AHEAD: ?On Saturday, the Vice President will be in Wilmington, Delaware. There are no public events scheduled. On Sunday, the Vice President will depart from Washington, DC, en route Rome, Italy, to lead the U.S. Delegation to attend the Inauguration Mass celebrating the Pontificate of His Holiness Pope Francis. The Vice President will arrive at Ciampino Airport in Rome at 9:40 PM LOCAL TIME/4:40 PM ET. The arrival is open press.?
2017 WATCH ? ?Campaign for Obama library in full swing,? by AP?s Josh Lederman in D.C., with Sara Burnett in Chicago: ?In Illinois and Hawaii, the two states Obama calls home, universities and community groups are drafting plans and deploying a mix of public and private efforts to persuade Obama to choose their site for what will be a monument to his historic presidency and an instrument to continue his legacy. ? In December, top officials from the University of Chicago, where Obama once taught law, traveled to Dallas and met with archivists at The George W. Bush Presidential Library at Southern Methodist University. At the meeting was Susan Sher, first lady Michelle Obama's former chief of staff and longtime friend and now a senior adviser to the University of Chicago's president.
?Alice McLean, who heads special programs in the university [of Chicago] president's office ? met Susan Donius, the director of presidential libraries for the National Archives and Records Administration, who provided a set of architectural and design standards required for presidential libraries. ? In Honolulu, where the president was born, University of Hawaii officials have visited nearly all the 13 official presidential libraries to talk to officials involved in setting them up. An American studies professor, Robert Perkinson, is leading a statewide effort coordinated by the university, with support from Gov. Neil Abercrombie and other state and federal officials. The state Legislature has passed two resolutions urging Obama to pick Hawaii.?
KEEPING IT CLASSY: N.Y. Post cover, "KOREAN TAKEOUT: US aims anti-nuke missiles"
2016 WATCH?? "Jeb Bush CPAC Speech Says GOP Must Stop Being 'Anti Everything' Party,? by HuffPost?s Jon Ward in National Harbor, Md.: ?Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush , ? speaking at the Conservative Political Action Conference annual dinner, made the heart of his speech a call to the GOP to ?learn from past mistakes. ?. All too often we?re associated with being ?anti? everything ? Way too many people believe Republicans are anti-immigrant, anti-woman, anti-science, anti-gay, anti-worker ? Many voters are simply unwilling to choose our candidates even though they share our core beliefs, because those voters feel unloved, unwanted and unwelcome ? It is not a validation of our conservative principles if we can only point to the increasingly rare individual who overcomes adversity ? Here?s reality: if you?re fortunate enough to count yourself among the privileged, much of the rest of the nation is drowning. In our country today, if you?re born poor, if your parents didn?t go to college, if you don?t know your father, if English isn?t spoken at home, then the odds are stacked against you. You are more likely to stay poor today than at any other time since World War II.?? http://huff.to/XKda6F
** A message from the Coalition for Medicare Choices: 16 days until CMS's proposed new Medicare Advantage cuts become permanent. If nothing is done, 14 million seniors in Medicare Advantage get hit with an average of $50-$90 per month in higher costs and benefit cuts next year. View the new TV ad at: www.medicarechoices.org. **
TOP TALKER -- Financial Times p. 1 (Asia and U.S. editions), ?China sees 330m abortions in 40 years of enforced controls on family size,? by Simon Rabinovitch in Beijing (online hed: ?Data reveal scale of China abortions?): ?Chinese doctors have performed more than 330m abortions since the government implemented a controversial family planning policy 40 years ago, according to official data from the health ministry. ? Since 1971, doctors have performed 336m abortions and 196m sterilisations ? The Chinese government has previously estimated that without restrictions, the country?s 1.3bn population would be 30 per cent larger. In the US, where the population is 315m or about one-quarter the size of China?s, an estimated 50m abortions have been performed since ? Roe vs Wade ? legalised abortion in 1973.?
GREAT OUT-OF-OFFICE MESSAGES -- Kerry Kennedy, president, Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights: ?I will be on a delegation to Uganda and Zimbabwe.?
BEYOND THE BELTWAY ? L.A. Times second front, ?L.A.?S RACE FOR MAYOR: EMILY adds Greuel to list: The group?s endorsement could help her expand her fundraising network,? by Maeve Reston and Seema Mehta: ?Los Angeles mayoral hopeful Wendy Greuel got a potentially powerful boost Friday by winning the endorsement of EMILY?s List, which could help her tap into a deep network of female donors across the country. Under city campaign finance rules, City Controller Greuel and her rival City Councilman Eric Garcetti were required to spend all their money from the March 5 primary before entering the runoff. They now have 10 weeks to solicit the millions of dollars they will need to finance an expensive television campaign to reach city voters. That forced them to spend much of their time in the last week dialing donors, asking for contributions that are limited to $1,300 in the runoff cycle. Garcetti headlined a fundraiser Friday at the home of film producer James Lassiter and has an event planned next week at the Los Angeles manse of billionaire Tony Pritzker.?
BIRTHDAYS: WaPo's Ellen McCarthy (hat tip: Patrick Gavin) ... ABC?s ABCs Eric Avram ? comedian-director Jerry Lewis is 87 ? game-show host Chuck Woolery is 72 ? Erik Estrada is 64 (h/ts AP)
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THE SHOWS, from @MattMackowiak:
--NBC?s ?Meet the Press?: Cardinal Francis George; Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) and House Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy (R-CA); Gov. Scott Walker (R-WI); roundtable with MSNBC?s Chris Matthews, former Gov. Frank Keating (R-OK), author and former Lt. Gov. Kathleen Kennedy Townsend (D-MD) and Republican strategist Ana Navarro
--ABC?s ?This Week?: Speaker Boehner; roundtable with ABC News? George Will, Rep. Xavier Becerra (D-CA), NPR?s Audie Cornish, ABC News political analyst Matthew Dowd and former HP CEO Carly Fiorina; foreign policy roundtable with Will, former Clinton administration Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, former Bush administration National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley and former Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. James Cartwright (USMC, Ret.); ?Sunday spotlight? segment with ABC News? Bob Woodruff
--CBS?s ?Face the Nation?: Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI); Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN); RNC Chairman Reince Priebus; foreign policy roundtable with Council on Foreign Relations president Richard Haass, AEI?s Danielle Pletka, The Atlantic?s David Rohde and The New York Times? David Sanger
--?Fox News Sunday?: Sen. Bob Corker (R-TN) and Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL); roundtable with The Weekly Standard?s Bill Kristol, FORTUNE Magazine?s Nina Easton, former Bush White House senior adviser Karl Rove and former Howard Dean campaign manager Joe Trippi
--CNN?s ?State of the Union? (SUN 9-10am ET / 12pm ET): Rep. Mike Rogers (R-MI) and Rep. Dutch Ruppersberger (D-MD); Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI) and Rep. Tom Cotton (R-AR); roundtable on the future of the Republican Party with ACU?s Al Cardenas, Democratic strategist Kiki McLean, Rep. Raul Grijalva (D-AZ) and Johns Hopkins University?s Dr. Ben Carson
--CNN?s ?Fareed Zakaria GPS?: (SUN 10am ET / 1pm ET): Former Bush administration Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz; discussion on Afghanistan with Wolfowitz, former Pakistani Ambassador to the U.S. Hussain Haqqani and the Council on Foreign Relations? Gayle Tzemach Lemmon; discussion on North Korea with former Bush administration National Security Council Asian Affairs director and Georgetown University?s Victor Cha and former U.S. Ambassador to South Korea and Korea Society chairman emeritus Donald Gregg; Yale University?s Emma Sky
--Univision?s ?Al Punto? (SUN 10am ET): Argentinian journalist and co-author Sergio Rubin (?The Jesuit,? a biography of Pope Francis); Mexican Cardinal Juan Sandoval I?igues and American Cardinal Sean O?Malley; Jesuit priest and friend of Pope Francis, Ernesto Giobando; Vatican archives expert Roberto Antonio Ve?lsquez; Basque Country newspapers Vatican correspondent I?igo Dominguez (from the Vatican)
--C-SPAN: ?The Communicators? (SAT 6:30pm ET): Last in a series of interviews from the CES International 2013, highlighting the newest developments in TV, communications and consumer technology ? ?Newsmakers? (SUN 10am ET / 6pm ET): Rep. Steve Scalise (R-LA), questioned by Bloomberg News? Heidi Przybla and The Hill?s Russell Berman ? ?Q&A? (SUN 8pm ET / 11pm ET): Weekly Standard executive editor Fred Barnes
--NBC?s ?The Chris Matthews Show?: Roundtable with NBC News? Chuck Todd; NBC News? Kelly O?Donnell, TIME Magazine?s Joe Klein and BBC?s Katty Kay
--Bloomberg?s ?Political Capital? with Al Hunt (SUN 8am ET / 1pm ET): House Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy (R-CA)
--Bloomberg?s ?Capitol Gains? (SUN 12pm ET / 5pm ET): Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI); White House Big Data Senior Steering Group?s co-chair Dr. George Strawn; segment with Bloomberg Government technology analyst Mike Nelson
--ABC7?s ?Inside Washington?: (SAT 7pm ET on NewsChannel 8 / SUN 9am ET on ABC7 WJLA): Roundtable with syndicated columnist Mark Shields, POLITICO?s Lois Romano, Evan Thomas and syndicated columnist Charles Krauthammer
--PBS?s ?To the Contrary?: Re-broadcast of ?Meet the new Congresswomen? with Rep. Krysten Sinema (D-AZ), Rep. Jackie Walorski (R-IN), Rep. Joyce Beatty (D-OH), Rep. Elizabeth Etsy (D-CT), Rep. Susan Beldene (D-WA), Rep. Carol Shea Porter (D-NH) and Rep. Ann Kuster (D-NH)
--TV One?s ?Washington Watch with Roland Martin? (SUN 9am ET): The Potter?s House Worship Center?s (Dallas, TX) Bishop T.D. Jakes; AFL-CIO chief economist Williams Spriggs; The Washington Post?s Michael Fletcher; panel with former Ohio Secretary of State Ken Blackwell (R-OH), The Buten Group?s Charles Butler, The Grio?s Sophia Nelson and SiriusXM radio host Joe Madison
--SiriusXM's ?Polioptics? with Josh King (Sat., Sun.; noon and 6): Jenni LeCompte, former Assistant Treasury Secretary for Public Affairs of the U.S. Department of the Treasury (with guest exit interviewer Timothy Geithner). And chapter two of breaking down Netflix's "House of Cards" with executive producer and show runner (and former Howard Dean advance man) Beau Willimon. On SiriusXM's POTUS Ch. 124; available for download on iTunes and at http://www.polioptics.com.
** A message from the Coalition for Medicare Choices: In just 16 days, CMS's proposed new Medicare Advantage cuts become permanent. Vulnerable seniors will pay more, get less and lose choices. If the cuts become permanent, the average senior will get hit with $50-$90 a month in higher costs and benefit cuts next year. Many seniors will lose their Medicare Advantage plan altogether. According to an independent analysis, "Virtually all of the 14.1 million Medicare beneficiaries are likely to be affected by these changes, either through increased premiums, reduced benefits, or plan exits from local markets." Time is running out. Take action now to stop the proposed new Medicare Advantage cuts. View the new TV ad at: www.medicarechoices.org. **
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We're here at beautiful Fort Mason, with San Francisco Bay and the Golden Gate Bridge as our backdrops, and Engadget Expand is about to kick off! We couldn't be more thrilled about this weekend's lineup, which includes fireside chats with innovators from Google, Kickstarter, OUYA and more -- not to mention our first-annual Insert Coin competition and -- wait for it -- Tesla Model S test drives. If you haven't purchased tickets in advance, don't despair: they're available on-site at $60 for a full pass, $40 for Saturday only (including access to our after-party, which you won't want to miss) or $30 for just Sunday. We'll be liveblogging a handful of sessions today, and you can catch all of the action from the Expand stage in our livestreams as well. Click past the break for a breakdown of both.
Source: http://www.engadget.com/2013/03/16/live-at-expand-2013/
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Just because XBMC 12 Frodo has been officially released we wouldn't expect the team behind the media PC software to take too long of a break. In fact, in a blog post it's announced plans to return to a monthly development cycle, as well as a code name for version 13 of the software: Gotham. While we wait for the next official release to arrive, the February build features improvements to UPnP with a "Play Using..." push server feature that should be familiar if you've used Play To on Windows for example. also new are Android fixes that let it rotate in any direction, and control the device's native audio. there are other changes as well, which can be reviewed beyond the source link, along with test versions for your preferred platform.
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