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  • Iraq will have to wait

    The latest wakeup call comes from Scott Ritter: Sadly, there really is no alternative for the antiwar movement: Put opposition to the war in Iraq on the back burner and make preventing a war with Iran the No. 1 priority, at least until the national election cycle kicks in during [...]
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    Posted: September 30, 2007, 2:59pm EDT
    by Susan

  • Dear Sherrod Brown

    Thank you for voting against the Liebermann-Kyl amendment and please continue working to head off war with Iran. Persuade your colleagues to do likewise. America's strength is in our ideas, not in our ability to kill and destroy. I say this as an Army mom deeply concerned about the misuse [...]
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    Posted: September 27, 2007, 8:19am EDT
    by Susan

  • Wes Clark endorses Hillary

    I feel smacked down. [...]
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    Posted: September 15, 2007, 2:43pm EDT
    by Susan

  • END THIS WAR

    Somebody, get out front and lead. All demogoguery and no action won't cut it. Calculating for political advantage is the moral equivalent of "stay the course." The Bush spinners are having their way again, still, always, and nobody, N-O-B-O-D-Y, is stopping them. There are ways. Read the freaking Constitution. Smell [...]
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    Posted: September 15, 2007, 11:10am EDT
    by Susan

  • Not gonna watch

    Number of comments: 1
    I can think of about a gazillion and one better things to do with my time tonight when the Idiot in Chief goes on TV to spin the latest version of the "progress" being made in Iraq. (I do wonder how he plans to explain the the killing today of [...]
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    Posted: September 13, 2007, 4:25pm EDT
    by Susan

  • FACT CHECK: Petraeus To Withdraw Troops Next Summer Because Of Broken Military, Not ‘Progress’

    UPDATE: And in today's hearing, Jack Reed got Petraeus to admit as much. The Center for American Progress produced this pre-buttal video of Petraeus’ testimony that lays out the key myths and facts. Watch it: http://thinkprogress.org/2007/09/10/surge-next-summer/ [...]
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    Posted: September 11, 2007, 7:41am EDT
    by Susan

  • Bush kisses up to terrorists in Anbar

    Number of comments: 1
    Where is the American media on this? How are people in this country supposed to have any idea what is going on? [...]
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    Posted: September 09, 2007, 1:23pm EDT
    by Susan

  • The key to getting our troops home requires different focus

    In the US, the dialogue has been all about troops and tactics... but it's a pity the debate is being fought out on these points, because the solution doesn't lie at this level. While Republicans may claim some victory from the limited and fragile military gains, and the Democrats are [...]
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    Posted: September 09, 2007, 9:58am EDT
    by Susan

  • Bush's plan for bringing the troops home

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    Posted: September 09, 2007, 9:13am EDT
    by Susan

  • Blood in the water?

    Number of comments: 1
    Now that Rosemary Palmer has taken a few licks at Dennis Kucinich, watch for the sharks to come swarming. Make popcorn. It's going to get REALLY interesting, before it gets really disgusting. [...]
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    Posted: September 07, 2007, 6:21pm EDT
    by Susan

  • ENOUGH, over and over again

    The location in Cleveland each Sunday at noon is E.9th and Lakeside. I'll be out of town this weekend, but I trust that others will be holding down the fort in my absence. [...]
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    Posted: September 06, 2007, 4:58pm EDT
    by Susan

  • What the hell is going on here?

    Staging nukes for Iran? [...]
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    Posted: September 05, 2007, 8:52pm EDT
    by Susan

  • They're going to steal the next election, too

    Unless you do something to stop them. [...]
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    Posted: September 04, 2007, 3:34pm EDT
    by Susan

  • Where we are and how we got there

    You can hear so much better when you take your fingers out of your ears. "I'm one of those people who don't believe in occupying countries to extract their natural resources. I think you buy them on the world market." --- General Wes Clark Feb.2004 There's a Peace Show downtown today [...]
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    Posted: September 03, 2007, 10:32am EDT
    by Susan

  • While we're distracted

    by Larry Craig's bathroom behavior and Britney Spear's butt cheeks, the international gang of criminal bastards moves ahead with their grand scheme to remake the Middle East for fun and profit, while draining the US Treasury and shrinking our government down to a size they can drown in a bathtub. [...]
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    Posted: August 31, 2007, 9:26am EDT
    by Susan

  • Gonzo's Greatest Hits

    Video from Josh Marshall. [...]
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    Posted: August 29, 2007, 6:43am EDT
    by Susan

  • Goodbye to all that

    He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it. Martin Luther King, Jr. “The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in times of great moral crises [...]
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    Posted: August 26, 2007, 7:37am EDT
    by Susan

  • I'm not a Ron Paul fan, but...

    this little video is a wake up call for all of us. [...]
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    Posted: August 22, 2007, 6:36am EDT
    by Susan

  • Iran war is a done deal?

    This article is a MUST read. I only wish the MSM would quit their blathering about [Michael Vick] the latest earth-shatteringly important scandal long enough to ask he hard questions and inform their audience. When pigs fly. Some of the very best food for thought was in the comments posted after [...]
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    Posted: August 21, 2007, 6:20am EDT
    by Susan

  • Are you following this evil genius?

    You think Bush won't attack Iran because we don't have the troops to do it? Hell, we don't need no stinkin' troops! Just classify the Iranian Revolutionary Guard as a foreign terrorist group and then pay the Mujahadeed-e-Khalq (MEK)--already on the state department's list of terrorist organizations-- to fight them, [...]
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    Posted: August 17, 2007, 7:10am EDT
    by Susan

  • Progressivism on life support?

    Draw your own conclusions. [...]
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    Posted: August 16, 2007, 6:47am EDT
    by Susan

  • That was then...

    Simply amazing what becoming CEO of Halliburton will do to one's perspective. Nice going...Dick. [...]
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    Posted: August 15, 2007, 6:26am EDT
    by Susan

  • Nice going, Democrats

    You can't keep a lame duck down. Bush to bolster Iraq troop surge as antiwar lobby gives ground President Bush plans to continue his Iraq troop surge well into next year after a string of positive reports left Democrats increasingly powerless to end the war. Mr Bush, bolstered by growing public support [...]
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    Posted: August 13, 2007, 6:36am EDT
    by Susan

  • Somebody, PLEASE--make this stop!

    NOW. Put the campaigns on hold and GET TO FREAKING WORK! We have to get rid of the corporate mafia running our country and make the atrocities stop. NOW. It can't wait till January 2009. And most people are too busy shopping to realize how scared they ought to be. Fatigue [...]
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    Posted: August 12, 2007, 7:53pm EDT
    by Susan

  • You know this is coming

    Number of comments: 8
    Murdoch is just waiting till Hillary has a lock on the nomination, and then this face will be everywhere. Again. Consider yourself forewarned. Back to the future. [...]
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    Posted: August 12, 2007, 8:34am EDT
    by Susan

  • How much are you going to put up with?

    The Enterprise is in the Gulf. Cheney is urging military strikes on Iran. President Bush charged Thursday that Iran continues to arm and train insurgents who are killing U.S. soldiers in Iraq, and he threatened action if that continues. At a news conference Thursday, Bush said Iran had been warned of [...]
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    Posted: August 10, 2007, 10:13am EDT
    by Susan

  • FISA Friday

    Number of comments: 2
    Now that our duly electeds are back in their home districts for their August "recess" [editorial comment deleted], it's time for us to welcome them by letting them know how we feel about their votes on the FISA bill--the one that ripped another hole in the Constitution by legalizing all [...]
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    Posted: August 09, 2007, 7:10pm EDT
    by Susan

  • This is why Dennis Kucinich and his supporters are full of nonsense

    Number of comments: 5
    Somebody finally spelled it out, on a blog, no less. During a live blogging session on Daily Kos yesterday, General Wes Clark was asked what it would take to get out of Iraq now. Here is the answer he typed back: Getting out now There are three sets of issues [...]
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    Posted: August 09, 2007, 6:58am EDT
    by Susan

  • Ohio Hall of Shame

    Number of comments: 3
    Sorry we have to shred the Constitution and sell you up the river to dishonest, incompetent Alberto Gonzales, but we're afraid the GOP will say mean things about us. Late last night, 43 House Democrats caved and voted with the Republicans to legalize warrantless spying. Ohio congressmen joining this ignominious club [...]
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    Posted: August 05, 2007, 8:13am EDT
    by Susan

  • So I got invited...

    Number of comments: 2
    As a result of having these ENOUGH protests, we've been invited to attend Cleveland Peace Action's Alternatives to Military Recruitment meeting, to contribute our opinions and ideas on how to keep our young people from joining the military. Which seems rather, well, unseemly for a military mom like me, but [...]
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    Posted: August 01, 2007, 2:27pm EDT
    by Susan

  • One word says it all

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    Posted: July 30, 2007, 7:50am EDT
    by Susan

  • Will somebody answer me?

    Is it only the 2% of us who are military families that care enough to stand up and scream about stuff like this? Will we ever take our government back from the criminals if life just goes on as usual for the other 98%? [...]
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    Posted: July 29, 2007, 7:55am EDT
    by Susan

  • Who would want to murder Pat Tillman?

    Read this letter, which was pretty much ignored by the media, from Pat's brother Kevin last fall. It is Pat’s birthday on November 6, and elections are the day after. It gets me thinking about a conversation I had with Pat before we joined the military. He spoke about the risks [...]
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    Posted: July 27, 2007, 12:48pm EDT
    by Susan

  • All the President's Henchmen

    It would make a great movie, wouldn't it? The Attorney General of the United States is a big fat liar. Football star Pat Tillman's death, used in the immediate aftermath for feel-good American hero pro-war propaganda until the "friendly fire" truth started to leak out, is now beginning to look like [...]
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    Posted: July 27, 2007, 8:10am EDT
    by Susan

  • No Health Care for You(th)

    George Bush, in his infinite lack of wisdom, has decided that millions of low-income children can eat cake when it comes to health care. He plans to veto a bipartisan plan that would reauthorize the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) which, with the renewal, would cover nearly 10 million [...]
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    Posted: July 24, 2007, 12:00am EDT
    by Veronica

  • Gut check

    Why Germans Supported Hitler It has long intrigued me why the German people supported Adolf Hitler and his Nazi regime. After all, every schoolchild in America is taught that Hitler and his Nazi cohorts were the very epitome of evil. How could ordinary German citizens support people who were so obviously [...]
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    Posted: July 23, 2007, 7:16am EDT
    by Susan

  • Everybody Knows

    Had ENOUGH yet? [...]
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    Posted: July 21, 2007, 8:53am EDT
    by Susan

  • Executive privilege nullifies contempt?

    From the Washington Post: Bush administration officials unveiled a bold new assertion of executive authority yesterday in the dispute over the firing of nine U.S. attorneys, saying that the Justice Department will never be allowed to pursue contempt charges initiated by Congress against White House officials once the president has invoked [...]
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    Posted: July 20, 2007, 7:41am EDT
    by Susan

  • How to create an Angry American

    HAD ENOUGH? Stand with us this Sunday 12-1 pm at E.9th and Lakeside in downtown Cleveland. Wear a t-shirt or carry a sign that simply says ENOUGH. [...]
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    Posted: July 19, 2007, 7:21am EDT
    by Susan

  • Call Voinovich now!

    And then pop some popcorn and turn on C-Span. Things are going to get pretty snarly when 4 am rolls around. The Levin-Reed amendment (S.AMDT.2011) is an add-on to the Department of Defense authorization bill and what it does is require that George Bush do two main things. First, begin reducing [...]
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    Posted: July 17, 2007, 7:32pm EDT
    by Susan

  • Items of interest from the big blogs

    In testimony before the House Armed Services Oversight and Investigations subcommittee, Wes Clark lays it on the line and proposes our "least worst" option for getting out of Iraq, with an appeal to the subcommittee members "to do your duty: help save our military, and help rescue our nation from [...]
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    Posted: July 17, 2007, 3:36pm EDT
    by Susan

  • These people are vile

    For an eye opening peek at the breathtaking depravity we decent people are up against, check this out: Ship of fools: Johann Hari sets sail with America's swashbuckling neocons The Iraq war has been an amazing success, global warming is just a myth – and as for Guantanamo Bay, it's [...]
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    Posted: July 17, 2007, 6:35am EDT
    by Susan

  • I'm disappointed in you, Cleveland

    It was a beautiful sunny day at E.9th and Lakeside yesterday, with a wonderful view of our lake in the background. A steady stream of people, moving on foot as well as by the more environmentally damaging mode--on their way to events at the Rock Hall, Great Lakes Science Center, [...]
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    Posted: July 16, 2007, 7:29am EDT
    by Susan

  • Sunday: ENOUGH, Week 2

    Please stand with us for one hour, from noon till one o'clock, at E.9th and Lakeside in Cleveland (the corner near the FREE stamp), and wear a t-shirt or hold a sign that simply says ENOUGH. Whatever you've had ENOUGH of (the war, the shredding of the Constitution, the incompetence, [...]
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    Posted: July 13, 2007, 7:16am EDT
    by Susan

  • My letter to George Voinovich

    Senator Voinovich, As the mother of a soldier serving overseas, I was shocked and dismayed at your vote yesterday blocking the Webb-Hagel Readiness Amendment, especially following your williness to meet face to face with parents and spouses of currently deployed troops on Monday and hear about the extreme hardships they [...]
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    Posted: July 12, 2007, 1:39pm EDT
    by Susan

  • Belated "Shouts Out"

    I keep getting into these little pockets that keep me away from my blog keyboard for days or weeks at a time. During the away time, I miss (or forget) to call out something or someone notable. I've got three quick hits today. First off, congrats and good luck to Jason [...]
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    Posted: July 12, 2007, 10:02am EDT
    by Anthony Fossaceca

  • It's time to put up or shut up

    Call George Voinovich today at (202) 224-3353 and tell him to support the Webb-Hagel Readiness Amendment. From VoteVets Veterans Outreach Coordinator Peter Granato: Their amendment simply says that active duty troops should have as much time home as they had on deployment, and that National Guard and Reserve troops should have three [...]
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    Posted: July 11, 2007, 7:26am EDT
    by Susan

  • Democracy: What a Terrible Thing to Waste

    Alberto Gonzales is a big fat liar. Iraq is costing us $12 BILLION a month, and Petraeus says fighting the insurgency could take decades. The Army missed their recruiting goals two months in row, which has the DoD worried. The propaganda machine continues ramping up for our attack on Iran. Our media has let [...]
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    Posted: July 10, 2007, 7:48am EDT
    by Susan

  • Better Late Than Never

    The New York Times finally comes to its senses about Iraq. [...]
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    Posted: July 08, 2007, 4:49pm EDT
    by Veronica

  • Did you enjoy LiveEarth? Here's your morning after reality check

    The simple but profoundly depressing fact is that the entire world economic and political system as it exists today is based around practices that are destroying the planet slowly but surely. The corporations, political elites and others who benefit from the existing system are not good Christians and will not [...]
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    Posted: July 08, 2007, 6:58am EDT
    by Susan

  • Did you enjoy LiveEarth? Here's your morning after reality check

    The simple but profoundly depressing fact is that the entire world economic and political system as it exists today is based around practices that are destroying the planet slowly but surely. The corporations, political elites and others who benefit from the existing system are not good Christians and will not [...]
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    Posted: July 08, 2007, 6:58am EDT
    by Susan

  • HAD ENOUGH?

    Enough corruption, incompetence, lawlessless, and needless death? Stand with us this Sunday at E.9th and Lakeside in Cleveland for one hour from noon till one o'clock. Wear a t-shirt or carry a sign that simply says ENOUGH. [...]
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    Posted: July 05, 2007, 9:07am EDT
    by Susan

  • And Justice for All (The President's Men)

    I am pissed beyond belief. To paraphrase "Queen of Mean" Leona Helmsley: "We (the wealthy) don't go to jail. Only the little people go to jail." That was driven home with a sledge hammer on Monday when King George Bush commuted the sentence of "Scooter" Libby. Never mind that that Libby outed [...]
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    Posted: July 04, 2007, 8:57am EDT
    by Veronica

  • Keith Olbermann rocks my world

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    Posted: July 03, 2007, 10:45pm EDT
    by Susan

  • Wes Clark Jr., Patriot

    Like father, like son, or something else? Wes Jr. has had ENOUGH and is going to do something about it. Today he posted this diary on DailyKos: Enough of seeing the Constitution trashed? Enough of the corruption? Enough of the war? Enough of the gutless response of our elected Democratic representatives? I [...]
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    Posted: July 03, 2007, 6:01pm EDT
    by Susan

  • Bush commutes Libby's sentence

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    Posted: July 02, 2007, 8:04pm EDT
    by Susan

  • A chat with the DC Madame

    or, Dick Cheney, still paying women for compliments after all these years... Rock on, Prissy Patriot! [...]
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    Posted: June 27, 2007, 11:11am EDT
    by Susan

  • Edwards Campaign Scores with Coulter Ambush

    I generally don't like fundraising emails, but the one the Edwards camp is pushing today is pretty good. The email has a link to yesterday's Elizabeth Edwards ambush of Ann Coulter on Chris Matthews' Hardball. Normally, "ambush" is a bad thing, but the way the Edwards campaign orchestrated not only [...]
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    Posted: June 27, 2007, 10:11am EDT
    by Anthony Fossaceca

  • Missing White Woman Syndrome

    Submitted by Veronica Johnson for BlueOhioan Yes, I am on the warpath today. What happened to Jessie Davis is horrendous. If (I say "when") her boyfriend is found guilty, there is no punishment that will be good enough for him. (I believe that we need torture chambers for this type of crime. [...]
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    Posted: June 27, 2007, 8:54am EDT
    by Anthony Fossaceca

  • Slouching toward insanity

    I got that sinking feeling upon reading Frank Rich's column "They'll Break the Bad Bad News on 9/11." Rich points out that the administration is already warming up the audience, in the pattern now familiar to the dozen or so people bothering to pay attention, by deploying their minions to [...]
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    Posted: June 26, 2007, 8:29pm EDT
    by Susan

  • Voinovich caves!

    Are we seeing the beginning of the end? Sen. George Voinovich said Tuesday the U.S. should begin pulling troops out of Iraq and bolster diplomatic efforts, becoming the second Republican lawmaker in as many days to declare President Bush's war strategy a failure. "It's in their best interest to become [...]
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    Posted: June 26, 2007, 5:21pm EDT
    by Susan

  • The Hearts and Minds of Voters

    Jonathan Alter's piece in this week's Newsweek is a must-read for Democrats actually serious about winning in 2008 and beyond. In the piece, Alter correctly scratches his head and wonders why Democrats in Congress can't find either a plan, or a way to communicate a plan, that resonates with voters [...]
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    Posted: June 25, 2007, 10:28am EDT
    by Anthony Fossaceca

  • President Dodd, how would you....

    What would you ask a candidate for President if you had 15 minutes? Jerid over at BuckeyeStateBlog gets his shot at Chris Dodd on Sunday. Here's what I'd throw at the Senator if I had a chance.... "This week, you proposed expanding the AmeriCorps program and doubling the Peace Corps. You [...]
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    Posted: June 23, 2007, 4:05pm EDT
    by Anthony Fossaceca

  • From Rolling Stone - MUST READ

    The Secret Campaign of President Bush's Administration to Deny Global Warming Why do these people keep getting away with this shit? [...]
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    Posted: June 23, 2007, 11:07am EDT
    by Susan

  • Is another Gulf of Tonkin coming?

    This is from Ukrainian media, and is the only report I've seen so far, but if true, the crazies may be winning the power struggle inside the administration. A third US carrier, the nuclear-powered USS Enterprise Strike Group is speeding towards the Persian Gulf June 21, 2007, 12:17 PM (GMT+02:00) The USS Enterprise [...]
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    Posted: June 22, 2007, 12:46pm EDT
    by Susan

  • OH-10: Rosemary Palmer challenges Dennis

    From the PD: Ohio Congressman Dennis Kucinich, who is busy running for president largely on his anti-war stance, lost an ally today and gained an opponent. Rosemary Palmer, an anti-war activist whose son died in the war in Iraq in 2005, announced her candidacy for Kucinich's 10th District seat. Because Palmer is a [...]
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    Posted: June 20, 2007, 9:21pm EDT
    by Susan

  • We interrupt the bread and circuses with this breaking news...

    It's time we stopped acting like 10-yr-old children who can't handle the truth (which is what our politicians seem to think we are) and start demanding some reality from those who aspire to lead our nation. Seriously, those of us with family members in the military are getting mightily pissed that [...]
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    Posted: June 20, 2007, 10:18am EDT
    by Susan

  • MUST READ

    What Every American Should Know About Iraq The comments which follow are as interesting as the article itself. [...]
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    Posted: June 18, 2007, 7:00am EDT
    by Susan

  • Clark responds to Lieberman

    Where are the other Democrats? Clark, Lieberman Spar Over Iran Hartford Courant | David Lightman | June 12, 2007 Joe Lieberman has triggered a war of words over Iran. The senator told CBS' "Face the Nation" Sunday that the U.S. should be prepared to strike Iran if necessary. He repeated that view Monday on [...]
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    Posted: June 12, 2007, 1:05pm EDT
    by Susan

  • And Iran fires back

    TEHRAN (AFP) - Iran has warned that US military bases in the Middle East are within the range of its missiles, amid increasing tensions with Washington over the Iranian nuclear programme, media reported Sunday. "All the American bases in the region are within the reach of our weapons," said Mohammad Baqer Zolghadr, [...]
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    Posted: June 11, 2007, 9:15am EDT
    by Susan

  • Joementum climbs aboard the Bomb Iran Express

    This morning on CBS’s Face the Nation, Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT) strongly advocated preparing for a strike against Iran. “I think we have to be prepared to take aggressive military action against the Iranians to stop them from killing Americans in Iraq,” Lieberman said. Host Bob Schieffer followed-up: “Let’s just stop [...]
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    Posted: June 10, 2007, 6:25pm EDT
    by Susan

  • Bush falls ill at G-8 summit

    HEILIGENDAMM, Germany - A stomach ailment forced President Bush to miss some meetings at an international summit on Friday, but after resting in his room, he rejoined the gathering and prepared for talks in Poland on a missile defense system. "He feels well enough to continue with his full activities," White House [...]
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    Posted: June 08, 2007, 8:24am EDT
    by Susan

  • One day you're gonna wake up

    This is a fabulous rant. [...]
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    Posted: June 08, 2007, 6:29am EDT
    by Susan

  • Could an Al Qaeda attack trigger war with Iran?

    Following revelations of a George W. Bush administration policy to hold Iran responsible for any al-Qaeda attack on the U.S. that could be portrayed as planned on Iranian soil, former national security adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski warned last week that Washington might use such an incident as a pretext to bomb [...]
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    Posted: June 06, 2007, 9:00am EDT
    by Susan

  • Wouldn't it be quaint...?

    Gary Hart at Huffington Post: Wouldn't it be quaint to have discussions among presidential candidates about the history of the Middle East and the lessons to be drawn from it instead of the hollow, shallow, ritualized "debates" that only the pundits and insiders watch for clues to cleverness, cleverness now being [...]
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    Posted: June 04, 2007, 1:24pm EDT
    by Susan

  • Reality check

    GIs Face Bloody Start to June in Iraq General Sanchez: US Can't Win in Iraq Ambassador Sees Long-Term Effort in Iraq Putin, Reacting to US, Issues Threat on Europe US Strikes Inside Somalia, Bombing Suspected Militant Hide-Out Gates Won't Rule Out Attacking Iran, Says More Sanctions Are Needed Immediately Note to politicians: Knock off the freaking [...]
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    Posted: June 04, 2007, 8:41am EDT
    by Susan

  • Now we start getting the truth...

    Check this out, you "out of Iraq" people: The half-century US military presence in South Korea may be a model for a future in which US forces play a support role in Iraq rather than a frontline combat role, the White House said. "The Korean model is one in which the United [...]
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    Posted: May 31, 2007, 8:36am EDT
    by Susan

  • Blue Plate Specials

    Just one special today... Pho takes the Dispatch's Joe Hallett and bloggers to taskfor not fact checking Hallett's comments about Connie Schultz's comments about bloggers which he (Hallett) claims to agree with. Confused? Pho makes sense of it. [...]
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    Posted: May 29, 2007, 11:46am EDT
    by Anthony Fossaceca

  • Save the Economy - Buy These $85 Jeans

    How much would you pay to save something of value? Up until this year, I've always done my best to recycle and conserve, but this year it has become more of an obsession. Before you write this whole piece off as another "save the planet" appeal, let me explain. Yes, some [...]
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    Posted: May 29, 2007, 8:41am EDT
    by Anthony Fossaceca

  • 3455

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    Posted: May 28, 2007, 9:34pm EDT
    by Susan

  • Memorial Day

    AB Negative (The Surgeon’s Poem) Thalia Fields lies under a grey ceiling of clouds, just under the turbulence, with anesthetics dripping from an IV into her arm, and the flight surgeon says The shrapnel cauterized as it traveled through her here, breaking this rib as it entered, burning a hole through the left lung to finish in her [...]
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    Posted: May 28, 2007, 9:04am EDT
    by Susan

  • This weekend

    About that sour taste in your mouth from the news of the past few days? NOBODY should be feeling surprised and betrayed. Hello, Democrats? This is reality calling. Reality is huge, the 800 lb. gorilla in the room. It's bigger than congressional votes on any particular piece of legislation, and as [...]
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    Posted: May 26, 2007, 7:53am EDT
    by Susan

  • Coup d'etat alert

    Tighten your tinfoil hats. First of all...we knew this because we've been watching PNAC in action for years, but shards of daylight are just beginning to pierce the awareness of the general public In testimony before the Senate Appropriations Committee this month, Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Peter Pace uttered a “carefully [...]
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    Posted: May 23, 2007, 8:25am EDT
    by Susan

  • More, More, MORE!

    Great blog today by marketing guru Seth Godin. Godin suggests that the way to win the war on climate change and efficiency is to encourage people to do more of something instead of less.Example one: require all new cars to have, right next to the speedometer, a mileage meter. And [...]
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    Posted: May 21, 2007, 4:18pm EDT
    by Anthony Fossaceca

  • Blue Plate Specials

    Jerid at BuckeyeStateBlog is in New Hampshire covering the Presidential Campaigns. He comments in his first report about how difficult it is to reach actual people via the websites of the campaigns. I had a similar problem last month while I was on business in Chicago and wanted to meet [...]
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    Posted: May 21, 2007, 11:12am EDT
    by Anthony Fossaceca

  • Monday moaning

    WARNING: I feel like crap and I'm in no mood for suffering fools. I've been knocked flat for the past four days with some ridiculous upper-respiratory virus. But, even in my cough syrup and decongestant addled state, I've been watching the news and reading the blogs and wondering when it was [...]
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    Posted: May 21, 2007, 8:10am EDT
    by Susan

  • This should be required reading

    Al Gore's new book, The Assault on Reason. Excerpt here. Anthony, how about a bookstore? [...]
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    Posted: May 17, 2007, 10:51am EDT
    by Susan

  • Free Wolfowitz!

    Since Paul Wolfowitz appears to be on his way out at the World Bank, and the President appears to be trying to abdicate himself of all responsibilities in his Constitutional duty as Commander-In-Chief by appointing Lt. Gen. Douglas Lute as War Czar, would it not make sense for Bush to [...]
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    Posted: May 17, 2007, 9:32am EDT
    by Anthony Fossaceca

  • Clark goes on offense

    against the Bush-enabling scum that have sold our country out. Send VoteVets a few bucks to keep these ads running. They've been brilliant. Also: link to audio of Clark's speech on American legitimacy yesterday at the Johns Hopkins University - School if Advanced International Studies - Center on Politics and Foreign Relations [...]
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    Posted: May 17, 2007, 8:14am EDT
    by Susan

  • The Ohio Poll : Strickland Blowing Up

    Great numbers out of The Ohio Poll from the University of Cincinnati. I'll have a complete breakdown and comments later tonight. In the mean time, Ted Strickland has the highest initial gubernatorial approval rating in the 26 year history of the poll - 68%. The state legislature is also receiving [...]
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    Posted: May 14, 2007, 10:55am EDT
    by Anthony Fossaceca

  • Question of the Day

    Who do you want sitting in the Oval Office on the day Musharraf is assassinated and nuclear-armed Pakistan falls into the hands of radical Islamists who hate us? Don't you think it's time to stop treating our Presidential candidates as if they're running for Governor of some Rust Belt state (or [...]
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    Posted: May 14, 2007, 7:57am EDT
    by Susan

  • Mother's Day

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    Posted: May 13, 2007, 10:40am EDT
    by Susan

  • The Unsinkable Titanic!

    I'm not going to be all the way back into the groove today, but I'm treating today and the rest of the weekend like a baseball rehab assignment after coming off the disabled list. I threw a few innings in a minor league blog out of state to get some [...]
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    Posted: May 11, 2007, 11:20am EDT
    by Anthony Fossaceca

  • Waiting for Fossaceca

    While Bahrain and Kyrgyzstan prepare for a US-Iran war and most of the American public remains oblivious (and can't even find these countries on a map), the generals are stepping up the pressure to clip this administration's wings. John Batiste was magnificent last night on Olbermann. And my man Clark handed [...]
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    Posted: May 11, 2007, 8:42am EDT
    by Susan

  • Fossaceca and Friday. Like Captain and Tennille.

    Just because a few of you cared enough to ask...No, I did not end up at Camp Gitmo. I've been handling a number of rather large, complex projects the last few weeks. This has made blogging next to impossible. After all, smart ass comments about John Boehner don't feed the [...]
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    Posted: May 09, 2007, 4:41pm EDT
    by Anthony Fossaceca

  • Cheney in Baghdad

    Getting the oil deal locked down. [...]
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    Posted: May 09, 2007, 8:51am EDT
    by Susan

  • What would $456 billion buy?

    Sometimes pictures say so much more than words. [...]
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    Posted: May 07, 2007, 8:13am EDT
    by Susan

  • Oh God

    WaPo's Dana Millbank on the sparsely attended Bible Reading Marathon on the west front of the Capitol, and who planned this thing? "This isn't that kind of event," explained Jeff Gannon, spokesman for the host, the International Bible Reading Association. Gannon, actually a pseudonym for James Guckert, had earned fame in [...]
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    Posted: May 04, 2007, 3:52pm EDT
    by Susan

  • The families left behind

    Laura says nobody suffers more than George. Ohio members of Military Families Speak Out (MFSO) beg to differ. Snippets from my inbox over the past 24 hours: As my son prepares to leave again - it rips at my heart as I know it deeply saddens him to leave his little [...]
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    Posted: May 03, 2007, 7:52am EDT
    by Susan

  • World News Roundup

    Will they or won't they hook up? The government of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran announced Sunday that it would attend a regional conference on Iraq later this week, setting the stage for the first cabinet-level meeting between Iran and the United States since the end of 2004. The American envoy [...]
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    Posted: April 30, 2007, 3:36pm EDT
    by Susan
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