Jeff Cox is a deputy attorney general for the state of Indiana. This weekend he took to Twitter to go after the protestors in Wisconsin: On Saturday night, when Mother Jones staffers tweeted a report that riot police might soon sweep demonstrators out of the Wisconsin capitol building—something that didn’t end up happening—one Twitter user […]
It’s funny how over the past year we keep hearing about the Tea Party being a “grassroots” organization. Now we have more proof dismissing that myth: Just days after the first widespread tea party demonstrators hit the streets a year ago Thursday, Joe Wierzbicki, a Republican political consultant with the Sacramento firm Russo Marsh + […]
About time someone did this: The father of a Marine whose funeral was picketed by anti-gay protesters from a fundamentalist Kansas church filed an invasion-of-privacy suit against the demonstrators Monday. It is believed to be the first lawsuit brought by a serviceman’s family against Westboro Baptist Church of Topeka, Kan., whose members routinely demonstrate at […]
I am glad to see how much the Middle East is loving us. We “liberated” Afghanistan from the Taliban and this is how we are thanked: A deadly traffic accident Monday involving U.S. troops sparked the worst rioting in the Afghan capital since the fall of the Taliban regime, with hundreds of protesters looting shops […]
An interesting story has been developing in Iraq over the past couple days, and its one that does not seem to be gaining attention here in the United States. With the Katrina recovery and Rita steaming forward as a category 4 hurricane, it should be no shock as this information really shows a state of […]
From Reuters via MSNBC: Protest campsite moving closer to Bush ranch Relative of man who fired shotgun offers space to antiwar demonstrators Reuters CRAWFORD, Texas – Antiwar protester Cindy Sheehan, whose son was killed in Iraq, is moving her camp closer to President Bush’s Texas ranch. The piece of private property was offered by a […]
From ABC news Australia: Hundreds join anti-war protest at Bush ranch Several hundred people have joined a protest near US President George W Bush’s holiday ranch in Texas to demonstrate against the war in Iraq. The two-week-old protest organised by Cindy Sheehan, whose son was killed in Iraq last year, is being held to […]
Yesterday, pro-war ralliers formed across the street from Cindy Sheehan in Crawford to show their support for Bush. Here is one account of their rally I have received: A group of about 50 pro-Bush demonstrators from the Metroplex armed with various sizes of American flags, as well as banners and posters, arrived directly across from […]
Via KHOU 11 Houston moms heading to Crawford to protest war More protesters from the Houston-area are headed to President Bush’s Crawford ranch. They loaded their cars and left from the Heights area Wednesday afternoon. They’re upset by the mounting casualties in Iraq and are opposed to the Bush administration’s handling of the war. More […]