Army's 'Debt Of Service' Leaves Vets Perplexed: Unbelievably, Soldiers Must Pay For Damaged Equipment.

The gist:Former Army Specialist Rodriguez started getting bills for $700 for lost or damaged government property this summer. Although he was discharged some four years ago, bills recently arrived demanding payment, but giving no details on what ( Read more... )

So the AFA is doing an online poll on illegal immigration and trying to be all serious about it, stating that they'll send the results "to Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert, Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, and President George Bush." Their solution to illegal immigration? "The first step in dealing with the illegal immigration problem is to ( Read more... )

It's almost like I care or something. Weird ( Read more... )

No, your eyes do not deceive you. I am in fact updating this thing. Don't get your hopes all up though - I don't know whether this is going to be semi-regular again or not ( Read more... )

A poster displayed at one of the Moveon vigils against ( Read more... )

As you may know, the Democratic Party is promoting Bob Casey, Jr. as their choice to defeat Rick Santorum in the Pennsylvania Senate race this year. Unfortunately, Bob Casey's politics are the same as Santorum's. He's an anti-choice, anti-birth control, pro-war, anti-civil rights, anti-national health care, corporate lapdog who takes money from a ( Read more... )

I am assuming there are other moveon.org members in this community so I am posting this comment here. I really value the e-mails I get from moveon.org, but I am very frustrated with the Action Forum on their website. The Action Forum is supposed to be a place where members can suggest issues that moveon.org should focus on. Members can also rate ( Read more... )

I just volunteered to host people overnight at my apartment while Cindy Shehan's trip makes its way to Washington DC - think you might want to do the same?

http://www.bringthemhomenowtour.org

(x-posted widely)

If you're interested, you can complain to the FCC about Pat Robertson's recent fatwa -- just write and explain the offense and when/where it took place, and it'll go into the official logs and whatnot. (Contact info here, with thanks.)I tend to think that an FCC fine might be good for the ol' CBN -- they have pleeeenty of money ( Read more... )

What would happen if Right-Wing Christians took on the theory of gravity.
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