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All you need to know about me
This blog is written by a couple of pissed-off patriots who share a fierce dedication to the Constitution - the only words ever put to paper worth dying for. We exist to remind y'all that America was founded on four boxes:
- The Soapbox
- The Ballot Box
- The Jury Box
- The Ammo Box
We read GAO reports & policy papers so you don"t have to...
I am very proud to be the very first recipient of the 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
Endorsed Candidates
Help Kay Bury Graves!
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
Media Matters