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I rarely think about the Vietnam War anymore. I didn’t think about it when, at 17 years old, I entered the Air Force in the mid 1960’s. Even when our Bomb Wing was sent to Guam to fly missions over Vietnam, I didn’t think much about it… at first. That...
by Mark Ira Kaufman
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on Mon Oct 31, 2022 at 05:25 AM PDT
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Being a chickenhawk is nothing new to members of the Republican Party. It seems to me that the QAnon and pro-political violence caucus in Congress had two choices after Donald Trump incited the January 6 Save America crowd to storm the Capitol. They...
by Bill Berkowitz
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on Fri Feb 12, 2021 at 09:05 AM PST
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There is much outrage over Trumpcare but these chickenhawks who voted for this piece of crap
legislation knew nothing about how veterans and their kids and grandkids were exposed to toxins. We knew they knew nothing already about humanity and...
by Vetwife
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on Fri May 05, 2017 at 05:14 AM PDT
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A weak, unstable president imperils the nation and the world.
Dissent is patriotic, especially when your fellow citizens are being herded off a cliff. Remember this the next time the pundits go soft over the mad grifter in the Oval Office.
To...
by Richard J Rosendall
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on Wed Mar 08, 2017 at 05:12 PM PST
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Megan McCain vs. ISIS
Formerly amusing, now strident Megan McCain was up-on-step today on FOX. She tore into Prez Obama and waxed nostalgic about the tough-talking idiot Prince Dubya. Well Megan, you have come to a Rubicon for yourself and all the...
by Lewis Picton
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on Wed Jun 29, 2016 at 05:40 PM PDT
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When the Republican Presidential frontrunner in the New Hampshire primary threw one of his trademark hissy fits and blew off the voters who tuned in to in the last Republican Presidential debate, most
by Dartagnan
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on Thu Feb 04, 2016 at 06:16 PM PST
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Mr George Will (R, Nam dodger, skirt chaser) wrote a column excoriating the late Dalton Trumbo as a traitor. Being a member of the CPUSA is not by itself treason. So, Mr Will listed a litany of cha
by Lewis Picton
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on Sun Jan 31, 2016 at 08:36 PM PST
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Republicans are embracing the full Dick Cheney doctrine. I don't mean simply the "let's break international law and bomb the fuck out of people in service to Halliburton." I mean the doctrine that, ...
by Tasini
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on Wed Jul 29, 2015 at 06:31 AM PDT
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Iowa Veterinary School Study: 47 Cows Correctly Identify Iran On A Map, Outperform 47 GOP Senators B Michael JF Matheron, March 17, 2015.
Today, the partisanship whirlwind consuming Congress powered up substantially due to an Iowa veterinary school study that would normally go unreported because ...
by mfb1949
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on Tue Mar 17, 2015 at 03:29 PM PDT
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From my home state too.
by GreenMother
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on Sat Nov 01, 2014 at 08:20 AM PDT
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I try to ignore the Cheneys -- Dick and, now God help us, Mini-Me -- as much as possible because, to me, they smell strongly of sociopathy and I try to avoid that sort of thing. I blame the ...
by BetteNoir
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on Thu Sep 25, 2014 at 01:11 PM PDT
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Numerous pundits and politicians on the right (otherwise known as chickenhawks) have been making the argument that what is happening in Iraq is what President Obama should have expected when he "cut ...
by Village Vet
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on Sat Jul 05, 2014 at 09:36 PM PDT
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This is a must read. Here's the first few sentences:
All we fought for in Iraq is on the cusp of vanishing.
That’s what Mitt Romney says.
We fought for. We fought for. We.
Oh, so it’s we now, ...
by Persiflage
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on Sun Jun 15, 2014 at 02:05 PM PDT
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Veterans Day is November 11. That means many Republicans or various Right Wingers, whatever corner of wingersphere market they claim, will be circulating syrupy e-mails, Facebook posts, blog entries,
by dannyboy1
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on Wed Nov 06, 2013 at 05:08 AM PST
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Dick Cheney is mad as hell and he isn't going to take it anymore. On Saturday, Dick went before the Wyoming Republican Party and gave President Obama a piece of what is left of his rotted mind on ...
by Steven Payne
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on Sun Feb 10, 2013 at 04:45 PM PST
with 243 Recommends
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Cross Posted at The Progressive Zionist
Over at the Maddow Blog we have reports from the newest Village Idiot (even by Congressional Standards) Ted Cruz (R-Secessionist Republic of Texas).
Here ...
by volleyboy1
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on Tue Jan 29, 2013 at 09:50 AM PST
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http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0811/62114.html#.UKW511k71SU.twitter
This is a very interesting article which may provide some insight as to why McCain is trying so hard to create a false ...
by Patrick Egan
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on Fri Nov 16, 2012 at 08:21 AM PST
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Last night the world witnessed Scranton, PA's own Joe Biden (D) successfully win the Vice Presidential race against GOP opponent, Congressman Paul "End Medicare As We ...
by poopdogcomedy
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on Fri Oct 12, 2012 at 11:02 AM PDT
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al Qaeda style training camps, already under ground here in the states, ya know folks ruuning around in the woods playin soldier and trainin for the coming government takeover of their lives, or ...
by jimstaro
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on Sun Aug 19, 2012 at 05:58 AM PDT
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Wandering around a bookstore the other day, I found a 50% off copy of Good-Bye to All That by Robert Graves, the English author most famous for writing I, Claudius . Graves decided, at the age of 34,
by Cartoon Peril
46 comments
on Thu Jun 07, 2012 at 08:20 PM PDT
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