July 2006

The Chicken Hawk Thing Really Gets to Them, Doesn’t It?

July 27, 2006

Not doubt stung by the slurs of liberal bloggers about his lack of military service, columnist Jeff Jacoby offers an interesting defense of the idea that it is not somehow inconsistent at best, and immoral at worst to advocate sending other people into war zones while you type about it at home. Mr. Jacoby offers [...]

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Next debate is set…

July 26, 2006

It’s official… the drunken sailor and Jon Tester will have at it again, this time in Hamilton, Montana on September 10th at 2pm at the Hamilton Performing Arts Center. It is Intelligent Discontent’s intent to be there at the event. Details to follow. Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook Buzz it up [...]

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Wear Your Ignorance Proudly!

July 25, 2006

I came across this ad today on the Drudge Report, and couldn’t help but click. I just couldn’t understand how wearing a cap could stop illegal aliens from crossing into the United States. It seems that the hat offers right-wing nativist yahoos another way to support people working in dangerous jobs without actually taking any [...]

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Conrad Burns: Not Bringing It Home to Montana

July 25, 2006

It would appear that Conrad Burns might not ‘deliver for Montana’, after all. Jonathan Allen reports in The Hill that ol’ Senator Sellout is facing an uphill battle moving his spending bill in the Senate: The interior spending bill, including about $60 million he earmarked for Montana, looks like a bad bet to see Senate [...]

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Burns Not Under Investigation? Did I Miss Something?

July 24, 2006

Is this just an offhand remark in the Washington Post, or did I miss some breaking news? In Montana, Sen. Conrad Burns (R) is apparently not under investigation but has been roasted in the news media by Democrat Jon Tester because of his ties to Abramoff. Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook [...]

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Bush quietly guts the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division

July 23, 2006

If you’ll remember back to the ’04 election, among the issues that Kerry and others tried to focus on was the idea that putting Bush back in office doesn’t just mean more war and poorly thought out tax cuts, it means that government will take a more right-wing tone. There is a lengthy article in [...]

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The Right Wing: Attacking Refugees

July 21, 2006

To the right-wing, everyone is an enemy, even the Americans trapped in the warzone in Lebanon. The best quotation by far however, comes from Rush Limbaugh. While acting as if he was one of the people in Lebanon, he managed to recall the exact same line he used before his Draft Board during the Vietnam [...]

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Service? Not-so-much…

July 20, 2006

I don’t want to turn my contributions here into a LiveJournal collection, as I have no interest in sharing with you my thoughts about my place in society or whine about my friends or lack of a social life. However, there are times when my personal experience really confirms some thought I have about our [...]

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