From On High (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
Senator James Webb came out Monday in opposition to that egregious cap-and-tax bill that Representative Boucher and so many other Democrats in the House voted for a few months ago. This is great news for the coalfields of Virginia. Perhaps the legislation is truly dead. The report: Jim Webb bails on cap-and-trade By Lisa Lerer, Politico Virginia Democratic Sen. Jim Webb said on Monday he would not...
Marathon Pundit (Free subscription) | 11/14/2009
This week's Obama administration "Friday news dump" was the announcement that five 9/11 plotters, including Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, will be tried in a civilian court in New York. Americans will have plenty to talk about this weekend. And politicians of both parties are denouncing the move: Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) issued this statement: The White House's decision today...
The Snooper Report (Free subscription) | 10/10/2009
The Taliban WITH Al Qeada killed close to 3,000 people on 91101 and now the Taliban are going to be brought into the government of Afghanistan because the elections in Afghanistan are corrupt. Let me say that again. The Taliban are going to be brought into the government of Afghanistan because the elections in Afghanistan are corrupt. So, the Taliban, the MOST corrupt in the history of Islamis, the...
Business Wire (Free subscription) | 09/21/2009
SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dr. Ngai Nguyen, the Vice Secretary of the Democratic Party of Vietnam, in a visit to Washington, D.C., briefed Senator Jim Webb and other members of Congress and the Human Rights Caucus on the recent unlawful imprisonment of five members of the Democratic Party of Vietnam (DPV). This includes Nguyen Tien Trung, Le Cong Dinh, Tran Huynh Duy Thuc, Tran Anh Kim and...
Quigley (Free subscription) | 08/30/2009
Jim Webb and Russ Feingold on Afghanistan by Bernie Quigley - for The Hill on 8/31/09 Directly after the invasion of Iraq I attended an anti-war rally in Montpelier, Vermont. But I knew any efforts then would be useless because the invasion brought out the same anti-war crowd that had been waiting for this moment since Vietnam. And when I was told at a party for Wes Clark by one of his state administrators...
Tom Nelson (Free subscription) | 08/29/2009
The computer has spoken: Copenhagen will be a failure | Grist Cancel your plans for flying to Denmark this December. Send the polar bear suits back to the costume shop, and quit boning up on all those U.N. acronyms (IPCC ... UNFCCC ... AWG-LCA ...). The COP-15 climate talks in Copenhagen will fail. Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, “one of the world’s most prominent applied game theorists,”...
Will and Testament (Free subscription) | 08/15/2009
John Yettaw, an American Mormon, says he was sent by God to deliver a message to Burma's pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi that she was about to be assassinated. His unannounced and uninvited visit to her home has cost the Nobel laureate an extended prison sentence. Ms Suu Kyi has described Mr Yettaw in less than theological language ("wretched", "fool"). The American's release...
Denver Post (Free subscription) | 08/15/2009
Days after the world slammed Myanmar for sentencing Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi to more house arrest, U.S. Sen. Jim Webb, D-Va., arrived in the military-ruled country's capital Friday.
BLACKFIVE (Free subscription) | 08/11/2009
Harvard professor Stephen Peter Rosen has been asking himself why Americans are so much more warlike than other democracies. His basic argument is that the root of American culture is fused from Puritan northerners, and the Scots-Irish who settled the South and Appalachia. The Puritains were basically peaceful folk, unless their lawful authority calls them to war, in which case their sense of order...
News Unfiltered (Free subscription) | 08/04/2009
Following the President's appearance yesterday in Virginia with Veterans Affairs Secretary Shinseki and Senator Jim Webb (D-VA) announcing the implementation of the Post-9/11 GI Bill, Lt. General Claudia Kennedy, U.S. Army (Retired), and Col. Don Fowler, U.S. Army (Retired), Co-Chairs of the Democratic National Committee's Veterans and Military Families Council released the following statement. The...
Blog for Democracy (Free subscription) | 08/04/2009
Back in January 2007 in his first act as senator, decorated Vietnam War veteran and former Secretary of the Navy Jim Webb, the then-junior senator from Virginia, proposed a massive and desperately needed update to what many have called one...
Kicking Ass (Free subscription) | 08/03/2009
Today, President Obama and Vice President Biden joined Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki, Senator Jim Webb (D-VA) and others at George Mason University in Fairfax, VA to mark the implementation of the Post-9/11 GI Bill . The bill provides people who have served in the armed forces since the attacks of September 11, 2001 with the most generous educational benefits package since the original...
Mouth of the Potomac (Free subscription) | 08/03/2009
President Obama is highlighting the Post- 9/11 GI Bill that provides increased educational assistance for qualified men and women who serve in the Armed Forces. A co-sponsor of the original bill, Obama traveled today to George Mason University in the Virginia suburbs to mark the new program. “We owe a debt to all who serve. And when we repay that debt to those bravest Americans among us, then...
Military Times - News (Free subscription) | 08/01/2009
A new era in veterans education benefits begins Saturday with the official launch of the Post-9/11 GI Bill, a program that promises almost everyone who serves three years or longer on active duty a college education at government expense.Career service members also can transfer their benefits to immediate family members.The new benefit is available to people who have served a minimum of 90 days on...
2 Political Junkies (Free subscription) | 07/22/2009
From The Hill : Senate Democrats on Wednesday banded together to defeat — barely — a Republican proposal to allow concealed weapons to be carried across state lines. Voting 58-39, the chamber beat back an amendment by Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.), a potential presidential hopeful who has taken on a growing role among Senate Republicans, that would have permitted weapons to be transferred from...
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