By David Swanson The latest hardcopy newsletter from the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities opens with an article about poetry about war, which opens with this line: "Many of my favorite poets are soldiers." The author begins with a poet who "has served in the current war in Iraq." Served what we are not told. Then she jumps to Virgil and declares: "Neither Virgil ...

A number of Democrats and "liberal" pundits are smugly attacking GOP chairman Michael Steele for telling the "inconvenient truth" about Afghanistan: "Keep in mind again, federal candidates, this was a war of Obama's choosing. This is not something the United States had actively prosecuted or wanted to engage in."... "It was the president who was trying to be cute by half by flipping a script demonizing Iraq, ...

House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer spoke Tuesday morning in a large private room (the Columbus Room) at Union Station in Washington, D.C. and took questions. He had no answers for the questions I put to him. Hoyer's topic was fiscal responsibility, and he said that his proposals -- which were all pure vagueness -- would be appropriate to enact "as soon as the economy is fully ...

45 of 10000 people have signed – see totals by state and Congressional District.BackgroundBP's massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico will have disastrous consequences for the Gulf environment and millions of people who depend upon it. But under current law, BP must pay only $75 million in economic damages, while damages from this spill could reach $14 billion, if not much more. There must be ...

3206 of 10000 people have signed – see totals by state and Congressional District.BackgroundThe wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have cost Americans over $1 trillion in direct costs, and over $3 trillion altogether.At a time when our national debt exceeds $13 trillion, we can no longer afford these wars.It's time for Congress to reject any funding except to bring all our troops safely home. As ...