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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...
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
Professional Journals
Magazines
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
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
- • Angry Black Bitch
- • Badtux - the Snarky Penguin
- • Balloon Juice (John Cole)
- • Betty Cracker
- • Blondesense
- • Blue Gal (the other one)
- • Brilliant at Breakfast
- • Bus Plunge
- • Desdinova - Supervillian of the Ozarks (cuz you gotta blogroll the guy who will let you live when he rules the universe)
- • Driftglass
- • Going Green
- • Gone Mild
- • Instaputz (Systematically documenting the putziness of Glenn Reynolds, Pajamas Media, and various other Putzen)
- • Manifesto Joe
- • Monkeyfister
- • NTodd
- • Pole Hill Sanitarium
- • Politicky Bitch
- • Qwerty's Qoncepts
- • Rook's Rant
- • Sic Semper Tyrannis
- • Skippy the Bush Kangaroo
- • Small Wars Journal
- • The Brad Blog
- • Yellow Dog
Global Warming, Environment, Peak Oil, and Information you didn"t know you needed
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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