Go To War, Lose Your Kids
From Glenn Sacks: A Military Hero's Service Costs Him His Right to be a Father When Gary, a US Navy SEAL, was deployed in Afghanistan as part of Operation Enduring Freedom in the wake...
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Michael Kelly, RIP
Michael Kelly, editor-at-large of the Atlantic Monthly and a former columnist with the Washington Post died today in a humvee accident in Iraq. Link courtesy of Chuck Karczag.
Cpl Ryan Dupre
Well, I share the same sadness that others in the blogosphere have regarding the slaughter of women and children near An Nasiriyah. The whole incident was disgusting and unncessary and I'll not blame the...
Support Legislative Oversight of Secret Courts
The ACLU has set up a fax page for those who wish to contact their legislators regarding Oversight of the Secret FISA Court : Under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (most commonly known as...
Page cannot be displayed, Error when making changes using MT
Question from a poster on MovableType Support Forum: When I use MT, I am frequently getting a browser page error that states 'The page cannot be displayed The page you are looking for is...
VA Budget Cuts
Win Without War has released the list of those Members of Congress who voted to cut $25 billion from the VA budget, the day after the House voted to "support the troops and the...
Patriotism
R. Lee Wrights, editor of Liberty For All on What's Wrong With Patriotism?: For too many people the answer to the question, "What is wrong with patriotism," is simple and easy. They will merely...
Justice Screwing Us Again
The Electronic Privacy Information Center is calling for signatures for a petition to be sent to the Office of Management and Budget regarding the Justice Department, once again attempting to muck things up: We...
Humanitarian Pledge
The Education for Peace in Iraq Center has A Citizens’ Humanitarian Pledge regarding the reconstruction effort. You know, that time that the Adminstration has set aside for political paybacks, special favors and fabulously large...
Claire Calls It
Claire Wolfe makes much the same point in this post that I made previously in another post: AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL LISTS 111 COUNTRIES WHOSE POLICE OR "SECURITY FORCES" COMMIT TORTURE OR OTHERWISE ABUSE PEOPLE'S RIGHTS,...