Honoring the Price of Freedom

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Sunday November 11, 2007 · 3:54 PM PST

2007/11/11 · 15:54

Veterans Day Pledge

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Thursday August 09, 2007 · 6:34 AM PDT

2007/08/09 · 06:34

This past weekend I traveled to Chicago for the national Yearly Kos convention, and I was really impressed by the amount of energy I saw in all the bloggers, activists, and candidates. I was glad to see folks from local New York blogs like The Albany Project, Rochester Turning, and WNYMedia. I also met with national bloggers from Firedoglake and MyDD as well as DailyKos founder Markos, and Simon Rosenberg from NDN who gave a great talk about the momentum building up towards a Democratic victory in 2008. It was nice to put some faces to names.

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Thursday July 26, 2007 · 10:17 AM PDT

2007/07/26 · 10:17

Howie Klein has a great post on downwithtyranny.com about a new plan by the Bush administration to use the word "leaving" while continuing the same failed policies that have created the mess we're in today.

The Bush Regime's chief of ideological purity, bathtub boy Grover Norquist, is asking Bush to just throw in the word "leaving" now and then to confuse the kind of people who watch Fox-TV (the GOP base) "The one-paragraph explanation of what we’re doing in Iraq has to have the word ‘leaving’ in there," said Norquist. "If Bush would move to ‘leaving,’ then other people, including the MoveOn.org people and the [Democrats], move to a more extreme position than you have, because they have put themselves in the anti-Bush position."

We owe our troops more than just lip service. As our troops have a sworn duty to defend our country, we have a duties to them.

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Tuesday July 03, 2007 · 8:38 AM PDT

2007/07/03 · 08:38

The Fourth of July is upon us and it is a day to celebrate our nation’s Declaration of Independence from Great Britain in 1776. This day is commonly associated with fireworks, parades, barbecues, and other grand celebrations that we Americans use to enjoy the peak of the summer. On this Fourth of July, I ask that we also make a point to remember those men and women in uniform who are serving today to protect our independence, to protect our freedom.

Over 1.6 Million soldiers have deployed to either fight or support our wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. These brave troops have courageously worked to complete every mission we ask them to regardless of the continued failure in leadership shown by their civilian counterparts through mismanagement and lack of planning. Nearly 4,000 soldiers have made the ultimate sacrifice in Iraq and Afghanistan while many of these soldiers are returning to home with both physical and mental scars that will last them their entire life.