July 2010

Tonight They Try to Escalate the War

Tonight the House of Representatives will try to vote over $30 Billion to escalate the war in Afganistan.  Here’s how it’s expected to go down (thanks to Peace Action for some of this):

First they’ll vote on unemployment insurance as a stand-alone bill.

Then, following some unrelated votes, they’ll debate and vote on the Rule for the Supplemental.  Rules are procedural votes that caucuses of congress members serious about blocking something read more

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The Nonbinding Resolution of Independence

IN CONGRESS, JULY 4, 2010
The unanimous Declaration of the fifty united States of America, Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico, Guam, Guantanamo Bay, Assorted Offshore Oil Rigs, and the U.S. Servicemen and Women serving the Homeland in 177 nations around the globe, as drafted by the President

When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to bomb the bejesus out of another people and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and hegemonic station to which the Laws read more

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