Members of the military can now show how many tours of duty they’ve had in Iraq when they wear their Class A uniforms. The Department of Defense has announced that campaign stars are authorized for the Iraq Campaign Medal (ICM), also for the Afghanistan Campaign Medal (ACM).
Service members who have qualified for the medals […]
Come one, come all pundits on this blog, to a penetrating quantitative analysis of Presidential greatness versus experience at–
http://www.electoral-vote.com/evp2008/Pres/Maps/Mar10.html
(scroll down to “Is an Experienced President a Good President?”)
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Conclusion: no correlation whatsoever!
My meditation:
According to this data, LBJ, with 27 years in the Congress, is the number two most experienced president and for my […]
From Kristen Thompson at A Soldier’s Peace:
We finally finished our documentary of Sgt. Marshall Thompson’s 500-mile walk through Utah. We were able to interview peace activists Martin Sheen, Cindy Sheehan, Daniel Ellsberg, M.C. Hammer, Rocky Anderson, and many more. The film explores the cost and effectiveness of peace activism, apathy regarding the war, and the […]
Over the weekend, I read a fascinating book - Frans De Waal’s, Our Inner Ape. De Waal, one of the few primatologists to really study bonobo’s in depth, argues in the book that humans, chimps and bonobos are extremely closely related and that studying the behavior of all three species leads to a […]
Not long ago, I read an interesting article from “Newsweek” magazine entitled “The Evolution Revolution”. It dealt with how man has evolved over the past 50,000 years or so and what we have now become. In reading it, I had to smile about my own personal evolution. How I perceived God as a child […]
What with yesterday’s Chris Cannon blogconference, there has been some talk about bloggers looking for chances to do some first-hand reporting.
What do you know, a blogger from Berkeley, California is leading the way. Take a look at Jane Stillwater’s Web Log. Jane is a 64-year-old grandmother who got herself accredited with […]
I have ceased to wonder who our National media are actually working for anymore folks. Newsweek has long appeared to me as a premier apologist for the Iraq War and Bush Administration policies. Someone bought me a subscription to the News magazine about 3 years ago. I could have just as well done without it. […]
A woman arrived very early at the place where I work for a meeting last week, because it’s difficult to time things just right when you take the bus. She seemed to me to be the retired sort, with plenty of time on her hands, and she was content to read and pay her bills […]
Sunday, the Tribune ran this article about declining support in Utah for the Iraq war. Highlights:
Jeffrey Jones wasn’t surprised to see that a two-year compilation of Gallup polls showed American Mormons, more than any other religious group over that period, believed the United States was right to invade Iraq.
A January poll by The Salt Lake […]
I don’t often spend two hours watching C-SPAN like I did today. Assuming you weren’t watching too, imagine two hours on C-SPAN with only one elected official in sight. Yup, it was Mayor Rocky Anderson at the A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition’s Pentagon rally. Here are my unsolicited observations.
The rally wasn’t at the Pentagon, exactly. […]
Hundreds Die in Clash Near Shiite Holy City
Monday 29 January 2007
Baghdad - Iraqi and American forces killed several hundred gunmen apparently planning to attack a Shiite Muslim shrine Sunday, fighting a daylong battle in which a U.S. helicopter crashed, killing two U.S. troops, Iraqi security officials said.
The fighting near the holy city of Najaf […]
First, allow me to thank Richard for a superb assessment of one aspect of the situation on the ground under the “Surge Strategy.” I was on-line a week or so ago and came across an news report that honestly made me sick to stomach. Perhaps, the PTSD and suicides of returning Iraq Veterans ought to […]
20 U.S. service members killed in Iraq
BAGHDAD, Iraq - At least 20 American service personnel were killed in military operations Saturday in one of the deadliest days for U.S. forces since the
Iraq war began, and authorities also announced two U.S. combat deaths from the previous day.
The day’s worst loss came from the crash of a […]
It appears almost beyond question that the Shia-dominated government of Iraq rushed to execute Saddam Hussein on the first day of the Sunni version of Eid al Adha (Festival of Sacrifice) as an affront to Sunnis. The shouts of “Muqtada, Muqtada, Muqtada!” and other taunts of Saddam just before his death were completely uncalled […]
In Talking Points, George Lakoff and Co. include a discussion of the distinction between the ways in which people regard steadfastness.
Among Iraq war supporters, the worse the situation, the more obvious it becomes that the war was a disastrously bad idea from the beginning, the more important “steadfastness” becomes. In the face […]
Whatever our view on the life and possible divinity of Jesus Christ during this Christmas season, it is healthy that we can each have and share our personal beliefs, and that we afford ourselves the courtesy of celebrating and enjoying each others’ religious diversity.
Even better is when an easily accessible forum is provided wherein those […]
Now Bush has something to read that’s better than Camus’ The Stranger (which is about a guy who kills an Arab for no good reason).
In fact, we can all read the short (160 page) Iraq Study Group Report today in PDF format. Below are the options presented in the report. Which one would […]
It has been evident well before 9/11 that George Bush would invade Iraq in the name of the United States of America. The carnage, the savagery, the tribal, sectarian and feudal brutality was foreseen by many, including me. Some of us have been writing and speaking against this butchery since Bush took office. Our choice […]
It has been evident well before 9/11 that George Bush would invade Iraq in the name of the United States of America. The carnage, the savagery, the tribal, sectarian and feudal brutality was foreseen by many, including me. Some of us have been writing and speaking against this butchery since Bush took office. […]
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