From Tim Tagaris on MyDD:
Following up on Matt’s post, I called the FEC to inquire about their progress into the FEC investigation surrounding the $387,000 Joe Lieberman spread around the streets of Connecticut days before the primary. Essentially, the investigation continues and no one will be able to learn about its progress until it is […]

Michelle Rodgriguez, actress
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Pics are starting to flow into ChinaWouldYouShootMeToo.com, including from some celebrities. Michelle Rodriguez, Andre 3000 of Outkast, actor Martin Henderson (The Ring), actress Jennifer Carpenter (The Exorcism of Emily Rose) and director Stuart Townsend have joined Tibet supporters around the world to ask China: Would You Shoot Me Too?
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Jim Webb, Senator-Elect from Virginia, wore his son’s combat boots on the campaign trail. His son serves in Iraq and Webb wants to bring the troops home.
George Bush, dead-heat for Worst President Ever, did not serve in Vietnam. He has sent over one million American servicemen and women to Iraq and Afghanistan. About 3,000 […]

Senator Christopher Dodd has written a letter to President Bush asking him not to implement the Military Commissions Act of 2006 (aka the torture bill, aka the habeas corpus bill) until after Donald Rumsfeld has been replaced as Secretary of Defense. Dodd is making the incredibly reasonable request that a lame-duck SecDef not make sweeping […]

Why does the Marine Corps hate America?
The U.S. military is no longer able to defeat a bloody insurgency in western Iraq or counter al-Qaeda’s rising popularity there, according to newly disclosed details from a classified Marine Corps intelligence report that set off debate in recent months about the military’s mission in Anbar province.
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The Marines’ August […]

An article in today’s New York Times carries the headline, “Bush Blames Al Qaeda for Rising Iraq Violence.” Surely this is a sign of how far we have yet to go for this administration to wrap its feeble collection of minds around the problem of the Iraqi civil war. Mislabeling the civil war in Iraq […]

Hooray. At least Murphy likes law school.

I first learned about Progressive States Network when they were still PLAN (Progressive Legislative Action Network) and more often than not I’ll still refer to the organization that I get weekly emails from as PLAN. I’ll try my best not to slip up in this post. Progressive States is an organization that is taking the […]

A Tibetan-American reader of the New York Times and this blog sent me a copy of a letter written to Tom Friedman in response to Friedman’s column last Friday. Friedman had called on China to initiate a new Great Leap Forward seemingly not knowing that it was a Chinese Communist Party policy disaster that cost […]

I don’t think I’ve ever heard someone mention John McCain in a way that didn’t immediately cause me to verbally smack them for being twitterpated by his media personality. Something about McCain just turns journalists and voters into mush, sending them into flights of fancy. Never mind his transgressions on torture or his […]