PBS INTERVIEWED Secretary Shinseki, who is making no excuses. Of course, Shinseki isn’t at the top of this food chain, President Obama is. Shinseki also noted that Vietnam, as well as Gulf War veterans, and PTSD sufferers, added hundreds of thousands to the claim logs. President Obama is taking the hit and he should. We [...]
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Call Him Mr. Secretary
THE REPUBLICANS did their worst, but Vietnam war hero Chuck Hagel was confirmed today as President Obama’s Secretary of Defense. A simple majority won the day, 58-41. So, it’s finally over. The biggest loser is Jennifer Rubin, who disgraced herself and the Washington Post with her diatribes and rantings. Senator Ted Cruz was revealed for [...]
Richard M. Nixon Should Have Been Impeached [Videos]
“I’m saying that when the President does it, it’s not illegal.” – Richard M. Nixon MARKING THE 100th anniversary of Richard M. Nixon’s birth, the legacy he leaves behind was seen in full glory through President George W. Bush’s unitary executive notion. It was shepherded by Vice President Dick Cheney, a man who never got [...]
News Desk: Hagel Nomination as Secretary of Defense “Locked Down”
The White House was calling senators’ offices Sunday to inform them Hagel’s nomination is imminent and to help build support for it, a source familiar with the nomination said. CNN reported Friday that the White House had told some senior members of Congress to expect the tapping of Hagel, and another source with knowledge of [...]
Bill Kristol is Leading Chuck Hagel Swiftboating, Launches Cable Ad Campaign [Video]
What I will say is this: Kristol is offensive, wrong, and this kind of swiftboating must stop, now. I know Chuck Hagel, and consider him a friend. I’m also Jewish. I know who Senator Hagel is, and what he stands for. I also know anti-Semitism when I see it, and for William Kristol to use [...]
Journeys: Please Meet Skull.
Please meet Skull. Skull and I have just met ourselves but it’s been fascinating to get to know him and I think you should know him as well. I say he, as a guess, for really Skull is just a skull, and skulls don’t have name tags or gender identification, but Skull seems bigger than [...]
Journeys: A Letter To Senator Max Cleland From Hill 471 Khe Sanh
Dear Max: Well, here I am, Hill 471 in Khe Sanh. I came here because I love and admire you and since I was touring Vietnam I figured what the hell, I’ll head up to Khe Sanh and find Hill 471 and stand where you last stood all those years ago. These days I have [...]
Journeys: A Letter To Senator McCain From Hanoi
TM NOTE: This is a new feature called “Journeys.” My dear friend James will be offering his ruminations from his travels as he takes this most personal of journeys, which he calls “Floating. The Journey” at his blog. Along with Peter Daou, James helped with the launch of The Huffington Post, which is now part [...]
A 50-Year Vietnam “Anniversary” Forgetting Eisenhower
“Commitments by Eisenhower of military supplies, financial aid, and some six hundred military advisers had made the United States an interested party in Vietnam’s six-year-old civil war. To deal with the mounting danger, Kennedy authorized funding for an increase of twenty thousand additional South Vietnamese troops and the creation of a task force to help [...]
Remember Cindy Sheehan? And the Wars Some of Us Use to Protest?
Joyce L. Arnold, Liberally Independent, Queer Talk, equality activist, writer. Cindy Sheehan, whose son Casey was killed in action on April 4, 2004 in Iraq, became one of the best known activists against the “Bush wars.” She’s continued her activism, though along with protests against what we can now accurately call the “Obama wars,” this [...]
Sissy Farenthold Speaks Truth to Power on What We Must Do to Save America
Art offers his perspective as a movement progressive activist. “I am working for the time when unqualified blacks, browns and women join the unqualified men in running our government.” – Sissy Farenthold This week, as President of Meyerland Area Democrats, I was able to get a progressive legend to come and speak. Her name is [...]
Congress Lamely Confronts Obama on War Powers Act
Congress acting like they’re an equal branch of government to the Executive? Aw, go on. Rep. Dennis Kucinich didn’t get his day, because Republicans were afraid his resolution on Libya would pass. So Speaker Boehner called a meeting to discuss alternatives to doing something similar to Kucinich, but instead of showing leadership he punted to [...]
Honoring Veterans on Memorial Day
This weekend we salute Seal Team 6 and all the other warriors, including those who sit behind a desk to help our troops. Here’s to the war hero dogs, who make a huge difference. The men and women at home, including the National Guard in Joplin, Missouri, as well as soldiers stationed around the globe. [...]
Richard Holbrooke’s Last Words: ‘You’ve got to stop this war in Afghanistan.’
–bumped– A foreign policy adviser to four Democratic presidents, Mr. Holbrooke was a towering, one-of-a-kind presence who helped define American national security strategy over 40 years and three wars by connecting Washington politicians with New York elites and influential figures in capitals worldwide. He seemed to live on airplanes and move with equal confidence through [...]
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