Random, occasionally rambling thoughts with links to interesting, scandalous, or partisan news of the day.

Fair and Balanced

Dead Heroes
• Thomas Paine
• Thomas Jefferson
• Benjamin Franklin
  

Living Heroes
We owe the liberty and freedom we take for granted to the enlisted men and women in the armed forces. They sacrifice family, ease, and even life laboring in service to all of us. The least we can do for them is honor their devotion with dignified pay scales, decent education for themselves and their children, and reasonable compensation for service away from their families and death on the battlefield. Flag waving politicians who praise the troops on one hand and cut their pay and benefits with the other should be deeply ashamed of themselves.

Blogs I Read Often
• Talking Points Memo
• Atrios
• FireDogLake
• Brad DeLong
• The Daily Howler
• Daily Kos
• Glenn Greenwald
• MyDD
• The News Blog
• Oliver Willis
• Political Wire
• The Volokh Conspiracy
  

Unethical Pizza (washingtonpost.com) Graft usually starts small. I just find it impossible to believe that any Congressman would start treading back into ethically sticky grounds. It's almost as dumb as Gary Hart challenging the media to catch him fooling around. A $50 dinner isn't chopped liver, and there's no reason a congressman who keeps his staff late shouldn't pay for dinner out of his own pocket. Between the dinners and the new junket rules, Congress has fallen off the corruption bandwagon again.
posted by Dave on 10:09 AM | 0 comments link

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