Fighting Abroad and Fighting At Home
Administration and Congress turn their back on veterans.
Read moreCongress
This category is for posts related to actions by the Congress of the United States (House and/or Senate), and any member’s of Congress.
Don’t Let Them Go Hungry
The House Agriculture Committee approved budget cuts Friday that would take food stamps away from an estimated 300,000 people and could cut off school lunches and breakfasts for 40,000 children.
Read moreWage Peace-American Friends Society
Here is an incredable video about the war by the American Friends Society. Three minutes that will have you choked up.
Read moreWhat Democrats Stand For
What do Democrats stand for? It seems a common refrain, or assumption, that Democrats do not have an overall theme or narrative, and I will certainly agree that the party as a whole does a rather bad job of articulating the message. But it lodged in my brain, and after a half hour of thought I realized that I, at least, know what I stand for. And it’s not complicated.
Read moreV.P. Fights Against Outlawing Torture
The Bush administration wasn’t happy when the Senate overwhelmingly voted to limit and define U.S. interrogation techniques against terrorism suspects. Vice President Cheney is now attempting to exempt the Central Intelligence Agency from this measure.
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