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Paging Sen. Warren and Sen. Markey: Join Rand Paul

September 12, 2017 By jconway

Sen. Rand Paul is entirely right that the AUMF passed right after 9/11 needs to be repealed. It has been the blank check and permission to endless war Rep. Barbara Lee warned us against when she was the lone vote against it in 2001. The … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Editor, User Tagged With: AUMF, ed-markey, Elizabeth Warren, iraq, military, war

Whatever the Problem, Very Serious People’s Solution is Always More All-Out War

September 9, 2014 By thegreenmiles

The Washington Post editorial board, which Republicans would have you believe is part of our "liberal" media, today demands President Obama lead us into nothing short of all-out, indefinite war in Iraq, Syria, and wherever else war takes … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: iraq, ISIS, military, national-security, war

A Victory for Equality among Military Families

August 15, 2013 By Steve Kerrigan

Working closely with members of our military and their families across Massachusetts the last 12 years has taught me a few things about the way they see their public service. It shouldn’t surprise any of us that service men and women feel … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: equal-rights, marriage, massachusetts, military, veterans

What the GITMO Files Reveal About State Secrecy

April 27, 2011 By ACLUm blog

by Kade Crockford As researcher Darryl Li points out, most of the Wikileaks Gitmo dump consists of US intelligence “’detainee assessments’ that reveal more about the inner fantasy world of the US intelligence apparatus than who the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: bush, courts, gitmo, gtmo, guantanamo, guantanamo-bay, justice, leaks, liberty, marines, military, military commissions, obama, rule-of-law, secrecy, us, war-on-terror, wikileaks

DADT Update: The Service Chiefs Report, The Republicans Fret

April 11, 2011 By fake-consultant

The Governments of the States Parties to this Constitution on behalf of their peoples declare: That since wars begin in the minds of men, it is in the minds of men that the defenses of peace must be constructed; That ignorance of each … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: air-force, army, dadt, defense, democrats, law, law-and-lawyers, lbgt, lgbt, marines, military, national-security, navy, obama, repeal, republicans

View on DADT from MassEquality

December 21, 2010 By massmarrier

Marriage equality advocates would like to think the DADT repeal would foreshadow one for the Defense of Marriage ACT (DOMA). While Suffredini sees who can serve in the military and who can marry as closely linked in this issue and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: congress, dadt, doma, leftahead, massequality, military, obama, podcast, suffredini

On Actually Ending DADT, Or, “Could It Really Take Another Year?”

December 19, 2010 By fake-consultant

"You cannot eliminate even one basic assumption, one substantial part of this philosophy-it is as if it were a solid block of steel-without abandoning objective truth, without falling into the arms of bourgeois-reactionary … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: air-force, army, dadt, department-of-defense, law-and-lawyers, lbgt, marines, military, navy, red-tape

On “Military Endorsements”, Or, Another Weird Christine O’Donnell Story

October 25, 2010 By fake-consultant

So here's the deal: as I mentioned, Christine O'Donnell, perennial Senate candidate from Delaware, has a "Christine O'Donnell for Senate" MySpace page associated with her 2008 Senate campaign, and she has a "Friend Space" on that page. As … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: christine-odonnell, hatch-act, military, myspace, national, politcs, social-media, us-army, us-marine-corps, us-navy

We Will Be Watching: Victory for the DREAM Act

September 21, 2010 By kyledeb

If you haven't heard about the DREAM Act yet I wouldn't be surprised.  The media has largely been focused on the train wreck that is Christine O'Donnell's campaign.  But the mainstream media is missing out on one of the most … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: business, christine-odonnell, dadt, democrat, dream-act, education, facebook, guatemala, harry-reid, illegal, immigrant, immigration, lady-gaga, lgbt, migrant, migrant-youth, migration, military, millenial, national-defense-authorization-act, polling, republican, spanish, twitter, undocumented, youth

The Stars Have Aligned: The Time Is Now for the DREAM Act

September 17, 2010 By kyledeb

For those that don't know, the Development Relief and Education for Alien Minors (DREAM) Act would give the right to exist to almost a million migrant youth who are American in every sense except for the piece of paper that recognizes them … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: american-dream, civil-disobedience, congressional-hispanic-caucus, dream-act, first-focus, george-lemeiux, global-citizen, harry-reid, illegal, immigrant, immigration, john-mccain, jorge-ramos, kay-bailey-hutchinson, luis-guiterrez, media, migrant, migration, military, mitch-mcconnell, national-defense-authorization-act, nydia-velazquez, olympia-snowe, robert-menendez, roll-call, scott-brown, susan-collins, u.s.-department-of-defense, undocumented

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