Hold Fast

I don’t read Wonkette much, but this sign-off post by 23 year-old Riley Waggaman announcing the ending of his tenure as an author there is one of the most principled pieces of writing I’ve read in just about any corner of the internet. Here are some excerpts: I’m twenty-three. Can anyone even begin to count [...]

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Raven Brooks is asking why there isn’t more hoopla and celebration on progressive blogs about the announcement that all US combat troops are out of Iraq. I’ve been writing in opposition to the Iraq War for coming on six years (I started blogging in late 2004). When I went to work for Chris Dodd on [...]

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Rest in peace, Senator Byrd.

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Alan Grayson is probably the freshman Congressman who has most impressed me. The man works his ass off and takes his position seriously. He’s conducted some of the most grueling examinations of the administrators bailouts at Treasury and recipients of bailout money. Now, in an interview in Vanity Fair, Grayson is making sense on Iraq. [...]

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Richard Smith at VetVoice has an incredibly poignant push-back on Dick Cheney’s recent pro-torture, image rehabilitation tour. Richard writes: [O]ur American way of life includes concepts of freedom from tyranny and a certain American personal independence that has been passed down through the many generations of this nation. If we are to believe that torturing [...]

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Brandon Friedman of VoteVets is interviewed by Bill in Portland Maine for Daily Kos Cheers & Jeers series. It’s a pretty interesting interview and definitely worth a read. Brandon is a veteran of the Afghanistan and Iraq wars and is, in my opinion, one of the sharpest voices for young veterans of America’s 21st centuries [...]

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Alex Horton of Army of Dude is, in my opinion, one of the best writers in the blogosphere. He’s a veteran of the Iraq war and a contributor at VetVoice. His posts on his time in Iraq, often filled with photos and videos, have been one of my most important windows into the war, free [...]

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Brandon Friedman at VoteVets has much more about the campaign launched today by VoteVets, WesPAC, and Brave New Films to put pressure on John McCain to support a new GI Bill. Sign the petition to McCain at The Real McCain.

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I think Joe Lieberman has been spending way too much time with John McCain. Well, I think that – let me say generally that Sen. Obama doesn’t come to this debate with a lot of credibility… If we did what Sen. Obama wanted us to do last year, Al-Qaeda in Iran would be in control [...]

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Brandon Friedman at VetVoice calls attention to recent comments by Army Vice Chief of Staff Gen. Richard Cody and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Michael Mullen that both speak to the military reaching a breaking point because of Iraq, one that threatens its ability to exist as an all-volunteer force. Friedman sees [...]

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