Whether or not you believe that American participation in the war in Libya is a good idea, now is a good time to call your U.S. senators and U.S. Representative through the congressional switchboard at 202-224-3121, and tell them what you’d like them to do. Votes on the war authorization legislation could happen in both houses of Congress as soon as tomorrow.
Carl Levin has made news with a demand that the war in Afghanistan be altered. The demand: A reduction of American soldiers in Afghanistan by just 15 percent.
In response to a report revealing that American money has been used to pay for cooks and cleaners for Taliban commanders, Republican senators complained that the report “failed to acknowledge the positive impact of providing employment to local inhabitants”.
Not one of these members of Congress issued any statement at all about the arrests of Hutarree Christian radicals over the weekend, or the indictments of these radicals on charges of conspiracy to wage war against the federal government. Why?
James Moran joins Senator Carl Levin in opposing a new billion dollar military contract for Xe (Blackwater).
In the immediate wake of the National Equality March, some momentum for equal rights legislation was apparent. But that momentum seems to have come crashing to a halt. Senator Carl Levin had promised in October to hold a hearing on reform to the Don’t Ask Don’t Tell law, a law that codifies military anti-gay discrimination. [...]
Why should the United States Senate have passed a resolution celebrating the tossing of a dead octopus onto a hockey rink?
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