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Archives of Previous Posts
All you need to know about me
This blog is written by a pissed-off patriot with a fierce dedication to the Constitution - the only words ever put to paper worth dying for. I'm here to remind y'all that America was founded on four boxes:
- • The Soapbox
- • The Ballot Box
- • The Jury Box
- • The Ammo Box
I read GAO reports & policy papers so you don"t have to...
2007 Winner - True Golden Monkeyfist Award
Blogroll of Fellow 2007 Winners
People I would call to throw my bail
Never take your eyes off the bastards, not even for a second
Two years of venting my spleen can be found here...
Hissy Fits & Greatest Hits - 2007
These Democrats Represent Me Quite Ably
U.S. House of Representatives Links
- • House of Representatives Home Page
- • House Committees Home Page
- • Agriculture (Collin Peterson, Chair)
- • Appropriations (David Obey, Chair)
- • Armed Services (Ike Skelton, Chair)
- • Budget (John Spratt, Chair)
- • Committee on House Administration
- • Education & Labor (George Miller, Chair)
- • Energy & Commerce (John Dingell, Chair)
- • Financial Services (Barney Frank, Chair)
- • Foreign Affairs (Tom Lantos, Chair)
- • Homeland Security (Bernie Thompson, Chair)
- • House Administration Committee
- • Intelligence (Sylvestre Reyes, Chair)
- • Joint House-Senate Committee on Taxation
- • Judiciary (John Conyers, Chair)
- • Natural Resources (Nick Rahall, Chair)
- • Oversight & Governmental Reform (Henry Waxman, Chair)
- • Rules (Louise M. Slaughter, Chair)
- • Science & Technology (Bart Gordon, Chair)
- • Small Business (Nydia M. Velasquez, Chair)
- • Standards of Official Conduct (Ethics)
- • Transportation & Infrastructure (James Oberstar, Chair)
- • Veteran's Affairs (Bob Filner, Chair)
- • Ways & Means (Charlie Rangel, Chair)
U.S. Senate Links
- • U.S. Senate Home Page
- • U.S. Senate: Committees Home Page
- • Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry (Tom Harkin, Chair)
- • Appropriations (Robert C. Byrd, Chair)
- • Armed Services (Carl Levin, Chair)
- • Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs (Christopher Dodd, Chair)
- • Budget (Kent Conrad, Chair)
- • Commerce, Science and Transportation (Daniel Inouye, Chair)
- • Energy & Natural Reseurces (Jeff Bingaman, Chair)
- • Environment & Public Works (Barbara Boxer, Chair)
- • Finance (Max Baucus, Chair)
- • Foreign Relations (Joe Biden, Chair)
- • Health, Education, Labor & Pensions
- • Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs (Joe Lieberman, Chair)
- • Judiciary (Patrick Leahy, Chair)
- • Rules & Administration (Diane Feinstein, Chair)
- • Small Business & Entrepreneurship (John Kerry, Chair)
- • Veterans Affairs (Daniel Akaka, Chair)
U.N. and Government Sites and other insanely useful resources
- • Centers for Disease Control
- • CIA World Factbook
- • Dept. of Defense Iraq War Casualty Database
- • Environmental Protection Agency
- • FactCheck_dot_org
- • Government Accountability Office
- • Human Genome Project
- • National Archives
- • National Institutes of Health
- • National Science Foundation
- • National Snow and Ice Data Center
- • Office of Special Councel
- • Open Congress
- • State Department
- • UNHCR - The UN Refugee Agency
- • UNICEF
- • Where are the Carriers?
- • World Health Organization
Read the policy papers, or you"re rowing with one oar
Read a Newspaper! ---regional papers
- • Arizona Republic
- • Boston Globe
- • Cleaveland Plain Dealer
- • Dallas Morning News
- • Denver Post
- • Des Moines Register
- • Detroit Free Press
- • Eugene Register Guard
- • Houston Chronicle
- • Miami Herald
- • Minneapolis Star Tribune
- • Orlando Sentinel
- • Portland Oregonian
- • San Diego Union Tribune
- • San Francisco Chronicle
- • Seattle Times
- • Times-Picayune
- • Virginian-Pilot
- • Wichita Eagle
Missouri Newspapers
- Kansas City Star
- St. Louis Post-Dispatch
- • Carthage Press
- • Chillicothe Constitution-Tribune
- • Columbia (MO) Daily Tribune
- • Independence Examiner
- • Jefferson City (MO) News Tribune
- • Joplin Globe
- • Kirksville Daily Expresss
- • Moberly Monitor-Index and Evening Democrat
- • Springfield News-Leader
- • St. Joseph News-Press
National Newspapers
Columnists Worth Reading
- • Bob Herbert
- • Clarence Page
- • E.J. Dionne Jr.
- • Eugene Robinson
- • Frank Rich
- • Harold Meyerson
- • Joe Posnanski
- • Joel Achencach - the Achenblog
- • Leonard Pitts
- • Molly Ivins (is stayin' right here, thank you very much.)
- • Nicholas Kristoff
- • Paul Krugman
- • Rhonda Chriss Lokeman
- • Yael Abouhalkah (KC Political Pundit Extraordinairre)
- • You can get Times Select columns and articles here
Newspapers that offer the Military Take
British & European News Agencies
Middle East Newspapers
Asian Newspapers
News & Media Sites
- • Atlantic Free Press
- • Blog Briefing Room @ thehill.com
- • Blue Herald
- • Blue State
- • Bob Geiger
- • Common Dreams
- • Consortium News
- • CorrenteWire
- • Editor & Publisher
- • Media Matters
- • Memeorandom
- • National Examiner
- • National Journal
- • Nieman Watchdog @ Harvard School of Journalism
- • Oliver Willis (Like Kryptonite to Stupid!)
- • OpEdNews
- • Pensito Review
- • Political Wire
- • PressThink - ghost of Democracy in the media machine (NYU School of Journalism)
- • Raw Story
- • Real Clear Politics
- • SCOTUSblog
- • The Daily Scare
- • The Hill
- • The Hill's Blog Briefing Room
- • The Krile Files
- • The Politico
- • The Red Blue Blog - a clearinghouse of politics in the blogosphere
- • Think Progress
- • Truthdig
- • Truthout
- • U.S. Politics
- • Washington Note
- • Washington Watch
- • Washington Watch Blog
- • Watching Those We Chose
- • Wayne Madsen Reports
- • You Decide 2008
Professional Journals
Magazines
Which kinda makes this a given...
In other words, I'm bitchy, contrarian, and pretty much pissed-off as a matter of everyday course.
I don"t think the Geneva Conventions are "quaint"
This Blog is a twit-free zone
Look elsewhere for fluff, puffery and gossip.
Stuff you should have learned in school, but you were smoking pot in the bathroom
Required Reading - the ability to pass a pop quiz on any of the following is just implied for y"all
- • Energy Resources and Our Future - by Rear Admiral Hiram G. Rickover
- • War is a Racket - by Major General Smedley Butler
- • I'm a fighting liberal - by Steve Gilliard
- • On Liberty - by John Stuart Mill
- • Drinking the Kool-Aid - by Pat Lang
- • Dissent is Patriotic - by Fiona Morgan
- • The Republic - by Plato
- • Why I am not a Christian - by Bertrand Russell
- • Candide - by François Marie Arouet de Voltaire
- • John Locke - Views on Government
- • Discourse on Method for Reasoning Well and for Seeking Truth in the Sciences - by René Descartes
- • The Leviathan - by Thomas Hobbes
- • The Law of Peoples - John Rawles
- • The Social Contract - Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- • Journalism in Tennessee - Mark Twain
- • The War Prayer - Mark Twain
- • The Justice Department Investigations Must Not Be Portrayed As Us Versus Them - by bmaz
- • Calling Out Idiot America - by Scott Ritter
Fighting the Good Fight to Protect Missouri"s Courts from Partisan Politics
Deal in facts and check the sources
In Good Company: Blogrolling the Vast Left-Wing Conspiracy
Daily Reads: Keeping up with the goings on 'round Missouri
- Show Me Progress
- • Big Muddy Politics
- • Change for Missouri
- • Chatter: by Ron Davis
- • Columbia Tribune Politics Blog
- • Committee for County Progress (JaCoMo Dems)
- • eKC online
- • Fired Up! Missouri
- • Inside Missouri Politics (Spfld News-Leader)
- • Judge's Opinion
- • KC Blue Blog
- • KC Community News
- • Left in Missouri
- • MO Political News
- • The Blog of Independence
- • The Blog of the Jackson County Democratic Committee
- • The Blunt Assessment
- • The Political Fix Blog @ St. Louis Post-Dispatch
- • The Turner Report
- • Young Democrats of Greater St. Louis
- • Young MO Politico
Compatriots, cohorts and partners in thought-crime
- • Amygdala
- • Angry Black Bitch
- • Army of Dude
- • Badtux - the Snarky Penguin
- • Balloon Juice (John Cole)
- • Barstool Chronicles
- • BeggarsCanBeChoosers
- • Betty Cracker
- • Blondesense
- • Blue Gal (the other one)
- • Blue Man in a Red District
- • Brilliant at Breakfast
- • Buck Naked Politics
- • Bus Plunge
- • Corner of the Sky
- • Cryptogon
- • Dashiell
- • Desdinova - Supervillian of the Ozarks (cuz you gotta blogroll the guy who will let you live when he rules the universe)
- • Dove's Eye View
- • Driftglass
- • Fear and Loathing - The Gonzo Papers
- • GI Kate
- • Going Green
- • Gone Mild
- • Gun Toting Liberal
- • I Was Just Wondering
- • In this moment
- • Information Dissemination
- • Informed Voters
- • Instaputz (Systematically documenting the putziness of Glenn Reynolds, Pajamas Media, and various other Putzen)
- • Jim Putnam
- • Kiko's House
- • Liberality
- • Liberty Street
- • LibsEarthWatch.com
- • Lost Chord
- • Maeven @ The Constant American
- • Manifesto Joe
- • Maya's Granny
- • Mercury Rising???
- • Mixter's Mix
- • Monkeyfister
- • MSR / Constructive Interference
- • NTodd
- • Operation Yellow Elephant
- • Opit's Linkfest
- • Outta the Cornfield
- • Pole Hill Sanitarium
- • Politicky Bitch
- • PoliTits
- • PSoTD
- • Qwerty's Qoncepts
- • Rants From the Rookery
- • Red State Rebels (Idaho!)
- • Rook's Rant
- • Sic Semper Tyrannis
- • Simply Left Behind
- • Singularity
- • Skippy the Bush Kangaroo
- • Small Wars Journal
- • Someone Should Care...
- • Tennessee Guerilla Women
- • The 2 Dollar Bill
- • The Brad Blog
- • The Broken Soldier
- • The Command Post
- • The Existentialist Cowboy
- • The Head Heeb (knocking down 4000 years of icons)
- • The Left-Handed Elephant
- • The News Blog
- • The Quaker Agitator
- • The Third Path
- • The WAWG Blog
- • TPZoo (Zooey's Place)
- • Voice of Reason
- • We Torture
- • Welcome to the Revolution
- • Worldwide Sawdust
- • Yellow Dog
Runnin" Buddies - Courtesy Link Exchange
- Everyday Citizen
- • 2Parse
- • A Feather Adrift
- • Agewise: Raising Hell in the Last Half of Life
- • Barbara's Tchatzkahs
- • Berry Street Beacon
- • Beulahman's RedState Revolt
- • Branson Edge
- • Carrie, Uncensored
- • Contact With the World
- • Dead Issue_dot_com
- • Dragyn's Breath
- • Dystopian USA
- • Earthbound Misfit
- • Eccentricity
- • Edgeing
- • Feminist Moms
- • First Fleet On
- • Grumpy Lion (snarling and growling op-ed!)
- • Hillary Style
- • House of the Rising Sons
- • It must be the vapors...
- • Jon Swift
- • Lady Boomer NYC
- • Left Out Arizona
- • LT Nixon Rants
- • Main and Central
- • Marine Mom Activist
- • News Media Tube
- • Pajamadeen
- • Rambling, Rants & Mommyhood Journal
- • Sairy
- • Sign Sans Signified
- • Sirened
- • Sit. Stay. Good Blog.
- • Sling Some Ink
- • Some Notes on Living
- • SuzyRiot...Rants from the Left
- • The Blues & Then Some
- • The Hoochie-Mama Blog
- • The Immoral Minority
- • The Modulator
- • The Political Cat
- • The Wisdom of Experience
- • Tikun Olam-תקון עולם
- • Vagabond Scholar
- • VBS.TV - reinventing teevee and media
- • Walking Upstream
Talking Points Memo in all it"s forms
The Middle East: Commentary and Context with Credibility - worth the pixels it"s printed with.
- • Abu Aardvark: A Blog by Professor Marc Lynch
- • Baghdad Burning: Riverbend's Blog
- • Informed Comment Global Affairs (A group blog of knowledgeable experts on the middle east, founded by Juan Cole)
- • Inside Iraq: Blogs from the McClatchy Baghdad Bureau
- • IraqSlogger
- • Juan Cole: Informed Comment
- • Raed in the Middle
- • The Missouri, the Kaw, the Tigris and the Euphrates: a blog by KC Star reporter Scott Canon while he is on the ground in Iraq for McClatchy
We want to be one of these blogs when we grow up - some of them* have even linked us!
- Salon Blog Report *
- • All Spin Zone
- • Altercation
- • AMERICAblog
- • Andrew Sullivan
- • Atrios
- • Balkinization
- • Carpetbagger Report *
- • Colbert Nation
- • Crooks & Liars *
- • Daily Howler
- • Daily Kos
- • Daily Kos: The Blue Girl Page
- • Democracy Arsenal
- • Digby *
- • Intel Dump
- • Lawyers, Guns & Money *
- • Lindsay Beyerstein
- • Making Light
- • Matt Yglesias
- • Max Speak (You Listen!)
- • MyDD
- • Newshoggers *
- • Newshounds (They watch Faux News so we don't have to)
- • Obsidion Wings
- • Political Animal *
- • Sadly, No!
- • Swing State Project
- • Tapped (Ezra Klein) *
- • The Anonymous Liberal
- • The Left Coaster
- • The Smirking Chimp
- • TruthDig
- • War & Piece by Laura Rozen*
- • VetVoice - the blog at VoteVets.org *
Science Blogs
Global Warming, Environment, Peak Oil, and Information you didn"t know you needed
What have you done today to stop the war?
The Human Cost of Bush"s Vanity War to the Iraqi People
Worthy Causes - or - where it goes when I put my money where my mouth is
- • Air Force Aid Society
- • American Civil Liberties union
- • American Red Cross
- • Amnesty International
- • Carter Center
- • Council for Secular Humanism
- • Democrats-dot-org
- • Fisher House
- • Habitat for Humanity
- • Heifer International
- • IAVA (todays Vet's spoken for here)
- • Kansas City Blues Society
- • Kansas City Public Library
- • KC Free Thought
- • League of Women Voters
- • Medicines Sans Frontieres (Doctors who deserve to be)
- • Oxfam International
- • Peace Action
- • Reporters Without Borders (Telling the truth in the face of tyranny)
- • Sierra Club
- • Southern Poverty Law Center
- • The Nature Conservancy
- • The Panda People (WWF)
- • The Quakers
- • Union of Concerned Scientists
- • Women's International League for Peace and Freedom
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