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IAVA Hosting Film Screening at Ft. Benning
The Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America will be hosting a screening of the film Restrepo at Fort Benning, GA on July 12th at 7:00PM. The screening will feature a Q&A with producers Sebastian Junger and Tim Hetherington. IAVA is excited to provide both member veterans and civilian supporters with opportunities to attend free screenings […]
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Time To Share Those Embarrassing GOP Videos
The Democratic National Committee has launched a new website that allows enterprising video snatchers to upload and share their embarrassing GOP videos with each other. Could be viral, maybe not, but it’ll still be an interesting read for me for this cycle. Including Jim DeMint, Marco Rubio, and other GOP asshats in my daily read […]
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Men We Love: Matt Taibbi
Whether it’s his appearances on The Bill Maher Show during the 2008 election or his piercing writing about the financial crisis: The world’s most powerful investment bank is a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money. Taibbi has just returned from his […]
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Hodges Pledges to Fight Corruption
In response to this story in Sunday’s Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Ken Hodges made a pledge to fight corruption in Georgia, should the fine, God-fearing citizens of Georgia elect him as our next Attorney General. “As a citizen’s government watchdog, I will make fighting government corruption a priority. And it isn’t something I just talk about; it […]
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Thank you.
As all know by now, the “Dean” of the Senate and the longest serving Senator in our history, has passed away. Senator Robert Byrd D-WV, died early this morning. We extend deep thanks to his family for sharing Senator Byrd with our country for nearly 6 decades.
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Public Service
This post is essentially a promoted comment (yes, my own) from last week. On June 9th, I received a phone call from Rep. Sheila Jones’ (D-44) campaign asking me to vote for her in the July 20th primary. I was actually surprised that she had primary opposition because I hadn’t heard anything about this race. […]
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