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  CBS News  WASHINGTON - The Pentagon has ended the $500 million effort to train and equip Syrian rebels, officials said Friday. The program, which produced only a handful of trained Syrian rebels, has drawn sharp critici stanley cup sm from both sides of the aisle. In her September 20 appearance on Face the Nation, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, an early advocate of training and equipping the moderate Syrian rebels, took aim at the unsuccessful program.                                           Where we are today is that we have a failed  stanley italia program. You heard the testimony. Five people trained for...$500 million, half a billion dollars,  she told John Dickerson. But the presidential hopeful also said that it wasn t time to give up on the effort.          I wouldn t give up on train and equip, but I sure would push the Pentagon to take hard look why what has been done has been such a failure and what more we could do to support, like, Kurdish fighters who are on the front lines,  she said.  And one of the difficulties we ha stanley becher d in the train and equip is that we basically were trying to train people to only take on ISIS and terrorist networks. We were not training and equipping them to take on Assad or his military or his proxies, which include Hezbollah, by the way,  she added. At the time of our interview, Russia was in the early stages of their growing military intervention, amassing equipment in Syria, but had not yet launched airstrikes.                                            Znrt Obama s Health Care Plan at a Glance
By Michael Barone, Thomas Jefferson Street blogA pair of academics, Jason Sorens at the University of Buffalo and William Ruger of Texas State Un gourde stanley iversity,  have ranked the states according to degree of freedom--economic freedom, personal freedom and stanley cup usa  so forth. They look at fiscal policy, regulatory policy and paternalism in a libertarian index. New Hampshire ranks number 1, New York ranks number 50: no great surprises there. Here s their full report  64 page pdf .One thing that in stanley mug terested me is that there is little correlation between degrees of economic and personal freedom--with the notable exception of New York, which ranks number 50 on economic freedom and number 48 on personal freedom. South Dakota, New Hampshire, Colorado and North Dakota rank tops in economic freedom, far ahead of any other state. But they re only middling on personal freedom  with New Hampshire the highest of the four . Alaska ranks way out in front on personal freedom; Maine in second place is far ahead of any other state. But Alaska ranks 47 in economic freedom and Maine 49. Perhaps readers can come up with an explanation for why this is so.                                        On Facebook  You can keep up with Thomas Jefferson Street blog postings through Facebook s Networked Blogs.-- Read more by Michael Barone.        -- Read more from the Thomas Jefferson Street blog.-- Read more about freedom of speech.By Michael Barone                                                                      ponen

Szex Tina Fey to Come Back as Sarah Palin
  CBS News  WASHINGTON - The Pentagon has ended the $500 million effort to train and equip Syrian rebels, officials said Friday. The program, which produced only a handful of trained Syrian rebels, has drawn sharp critici stanley cup sm from both sides of the aisle. In her September 20 appearance on Face the Nation, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, an early advocate of training and equipping the moderate Syrian rebels, took aim at the unsuccessful program.                                           Where we are today is that we have a failed  stanley italia program. You heard the testimony. Five people trained for...$500 million, half a billion dollars,  she told John Dickerson. But the presidential hopeful also said that it wasn t time to give up on the effort.          I wouldn t give up on train and equip, but I sure would push the Pentagon to take hard look why what has been done has been such a failure and what more we could do to support, like, Kurdish fighters who are on the front lines,  she said.  And one of the difficulties we ha stanley becher d in the train and equip is that we basically were trying to train people to only take on ISIS and terrorist networks. We were not training and equipping them to take on Assad or his military or his proxies, which include Hezbollah, by the way,  she added. At the time of our interview, Russia was in the early stages of their growing military intervention, amassing equipment in Syria, but had not yet launched airstrikes.                                            Znrt Obama s Health Care Plan at a Glance
By Michael Barone, Thomas Jefferson Street blogA pair of academics, Jason Sorens at the University of Buffalo and William Ruger of Texas State Un gourde stanley iversity,  have ranked the states according to degree of freedom--economic freedom, personal freedom and stanley cup usa  so forth. They look at fiscal policy, regulatory policy and paternalism in a libertarian index. New Hampshire ranks number 1, New York ranks number 50: no great surprises there. Here s their full report  64 page pdf .One thing that in stanley mug terested me is that there is little correlation between degrees of economic and personal freedom--with the notable exception of New York, which ranks number 50 on economic freedom and number 48 on personal freedom. South Dakota, New Hampshire, Colorado and North Dakota rank tops in economic freedom, far ahead of any other state. But they re only middling on personal freedom  with New Hampshire the highest of the four . Alaska ranks way out in front on personal freedom; Maine in second place is far ahead of any other state. But Alaska ranks 47 in economic freedom and Maine 49. Perhaps readers can come up with an explanation for why this is so.                                        On Facebook  You can keep up with Thomas Jefferson Street blog postings through Facebook s Networked Blogs.-- Read more by Michael Barone.        -- Read more from the Thomas Jefferson Street blog.-- Read more about freedom of speech.By Michael Barone                                                                      ponen