One Fewer Good Man
Posted by admin in State of the Nation on 10 31st, 2007 | No Comments
Lt. Col. Colby Vokey has served in the Marine Corp for the final twenty years, and spent the final four as chief of the Corps’ defense lawyers for the western United States. Everyone who knows Vokey has described him as the straightest of straight arrows.
“Colby Vokey?” muses retired...
Huckabee Reaches October Fundraising Goal
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ABC News’ Kevin Chupka reports: Former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee, a candidate for the Republican presidential nomination in 2008, has announced via his campaign’s website that they have raised by a million dollars online since October 1.
A strong showing at the recent Republican debates...
Huckabee Reaches October Funraising Goal
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ABC News’ Kevin Chupka reports: Former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee, a candidate for the Republican presidential nomination in 2008, has announced via his campaign’s website that they have raised by a million dollars online since October 1.
A strong showing at the recent Republican debates...
MD-04: Wanna take on the establishment?
Posted by admin in State of the Nation on 10 31st, 2007 | No Comments
Yeah, there are times when it all seems pretty hopeless — our efforts taken for granted by a corrupt and out-of-touch establishment more interested in protecting itself, than in main the country forward.
If we want to be relevant in the political world, we have to go beyond just electing more Democrats...
Giuliani Says Gov’t Needs “Flexibility” on Waterboarding
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ABC News’ Jan Simmonds Reports: In Nashua, New Hampshire, nowadays Rudy Giuliani maintained his position that waterboarding may not be torture after he was asked whether he had wanted to re-articulate his position.
Holding his ground, Giuliani said “the way it’s defined is very very...
Go Home Already: Trick or Treat Yourself
Posted by admin in DC Life on 10 31st, 2007 | No Comments
>> Candey Hardware on 18th and Connecticut is closing its doors for good tonight. [Free Ride]
>> Police Chief Cathy Lanier has scheduled another “All Hands on Deck” weekend after four murders took place in D.C.’s Fifth District by the past week. [WJLA]
>> Surprise,...
Trick or Treat, Daily Kos Style
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The contributing editors of Daily Kos occasionally confer via mail about various site things. Who’s going to write about X breaking news subject. Does anyone want to do an interview with whatever media outlet. Travel schedules and the like. But occasionally what starts out as a fairly straightforward...
AMERICA LOVE IT
Posted by admin in State of the Nation on 10 31st, 2007 | No Comments
Pickup trucks are, in America, the perfect canvas for patriotism. I am the owner of an (unadorned) truck myself, so I can well appreciate the sheer square footage available for expressions of national loyalty. On a compact car, you can manage a few bumper stickers, a magnetic ribbon — the usual,...
The vaunted Iraqi army
Posted by admin in State of the Nation on 10 31st, 2007 | No Comments
Via the country’s most recent Democratic convert, John Cole, we get that:
Those are Iraqi Army conscripts, not a hilarious Saturday Night habitable skit.
I weep for Iraq’s future…
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OK-Sen: The crazy radical Andrew Rice
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Gasp. The Oklahoma Republican Party has just blown that race absent by exposing State Sen. Andew Rice’s (D) connection to the most radical of radical organizations. The most leftest of leftist groups. We’re talking shit so far out of the mainstream, that I have the vapors just thinking about...


