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Thursday, July 31st, 2008
[Jayel Aheram / Flickr]
About a month ago, Congress passed and President Bush signed a new GI Bill proposed by Senator Jim Webb. This is a bill that Bush threatened to veto and McCain opposed (and didn't vote on) because they were afraid it would encourage people to leave the military. ...
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Thursday, July 24th, 2008
Many young Republicans appear concerned that their ranks are thinning. Not so Ian Gallagher, UVA student and intern at the university's Center for Politics. He rallied support for McCain during the Virgina primary, and he's not giving up on his generation. He thinks Republican values and votes are there among ...
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Friday, July 18th, 2008
Barack Obama heads to Europe and the Middle East this weekend. It looks like he may receive some friendly greetings in Iraq, but it seems fairly certain he'll be welcomed warmly in Europe, where a vigorous strain of Obamamania has taken hold. Exhibit A: this ad for a 100-page special ...
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Thursday, June 26th, 2008
American TV-network coverage of the Iraq war is dropping off significantly. In fact most mainstream US media seems to be following the trend. Add to that the Pentagon's ongoing reporting restrictions for caskets and funerals and it's no wonder it's hard to absorb the human cost of the war.
This photograph ...
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Thursday, June 19th, 2008
JustA11en starts by saying, "In the interest of full disclosure, this video will not be entertaining..." That may be true, but you should watch it to the very end anyway. JustA11en is a veteran and a self-described "veritable cornucopia of useless, non applicable, knowledge." In this particular case, his intensity ...
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Wednesday, June 18th, 2008
The devastating midwest floods point to a bunch of election issues. Global warming, for one. Whether or not these particular floods are a direct result, they're a preview of the kind of extreme weather predicted by climate models. Then there are the rising corn prices due to flooded cropland, which ...
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Friday, June 13th, 2008
Don't Ask, Don't Tell: Obama has said he would lift it; McCain feels it's working and ought to be left alone. In this video, kevdude25, who is gay and on active duty in the military, asks the Republican candidates (now whittled down to McCain) what freedom he's fighting for when ...
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Friday, May 30th, 2008
Vlogger verticalpolitics believes John McCain has said some stupid things during the campaign that deserve to be taken on. McCain's "100 years in Iraq" comment, however, isn't one of them. That remark, says verticalpolitics, has been twisted and taken deliberately out of context by his Democratic opponents (hat tip to ...
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Wednesday, May 28th, 2008
For the presidential candidates, Memorial Day was an opportunity to talk about Iraq. It's less clear that Wijadi had a specific message about this war when he joined a number of other Flickrites for a walk through Fort Snelling National Cemetery in Minneapolis, Minnesota. But intentional or not, the light ...
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Thursday, May 8th, 2008
Inside a confessional [two stout monks / Flickr]
Stephen M. Bauer from New Jersey calls himself an ordinary Catholic. A Catholic whose guilt, it seems, includes his pre-Iraq-war thinking (via Ann Raber):
I am very disappointed in my own clarity of thinking just before the invasion of Iraq. Originally, I was opposed ...
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Friday, May 2nd, 2008
This sarcastic engineer is armed with a calculator, and he's no fool. He tells John McCain that his proposed summer "gas-tax holiday" (which Clinton supports and Obama opposes) is ridiculous. The engineer figures it will save each American a grand total of 30 dollars. Which, compared to what we'll be ...
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Tuesday, April 29th, 2008
Undecided [iluvrhinestones / Flickr]
Libertarian Jason Kuznicki is still undecided about how he'll vote in November. It's a tough election for libertarians because it's forcing them to weigh some core priorities: divided government, free trade, and withdrawal from Iraq. Kuznicki explains (thanks, Ann Raber):
So… depending on one’s priorities, a libertarian swing ...
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Friday, April 25th, 2008
If the city of Berkeley, CA, could vote in November, it would surely cast an anti-war ballot for the Democrat. In the ongoing struggle between its city council and its Marine Corps recruiting center, one of the latest moves was a pro-troops rally a month ago. The anonymous blogger ...
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Friday, April 25th, 2008
Musician Desjon Deluxe describes himself as "just some guy with something to say." In this song, that something is a message to the candidates about addressing poverty (thanks, James Mills):
Desjon closes with a note: "Make up your own mind about the candidates, think for yourself..."
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Thursday, April 24th, 2008
He dresses in a bright orange "highway volunteer" vest and haunts highway bridges. He's the Freeway Blogger. His mission: to end the Iraq war. His weapons of mass distribution (in addition to the web): cardboard, paint, bungee cords, and wit. Since 2004, he's displayed, on freeways all across the West, ...
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Thursday, April 10th, 2008
This week General David Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan Crocker answered hours of questions from Senate and House committees about the status of Iraq. So, as a small bookend, here are the perspectives -- both discouraging and hopeful -- of some Iraqis on the state of their country.
First, via Sarolta Cump, ...
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Friday, March 28th, 2008
McCain, Clinton, and Obama (here and here) have all given big speeches recently to mark the 5th anniversary of the Iraq war. The Kibitzer, a midwestern Lutheran who is "temperamentally conservative with a weakness for radical politics," points out that both McCain and Obama are staking out moral positions on ...
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Thursday, March 27th, 2008
Via co-curator Ann Raber, a largely conservative student perspective -- from the University of Dallas and the University of Texas at Dallas -- on the Democratic candiates:
Sirmontag, who made the video, grew up in Dayton, OH, and currently lives in Dallas. He is a man of many hobbies, from blacksmithing ...
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Thursday, March 20th, 2008
Iraqi refugees in Syria [James Gordon / Flickr]
Iraqi Kurdish woman [James Gordon / Flickr]
Global Voices, which highlights bloggers from around the world, has developed a very cool election-08 project called Voices Without Votes. Its goal is a close cousin of ours: it focuses on citizen media created by non-Americans about ...
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Thursday, March 20th, 2008
The Iraq war started five years ago yesterday. Here is one American's textured experience of it. Jayel Aheram is a 24-year-old active-duty Marine, a blogger, and an avid photographer. He's also a Ron Paul supporter, so it's easy to assume he might be against the war, but what he writes ...
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