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IVAW’s Executive Director on burning the flag

| March 26, 2010 | 18 Comments
IVAW’s Executive Director on burning the flag

The IVAW’s Executive Director, Jose Vasquez, has issued a statement in regards to Matthis Chiroux’s flag burning antics last Saturday in Lafayette Park. Apparently it has become a bone of contention among the remaining members of the organization and once again, Vasquez punts the issue rather than make an actual decision. (I know you can’t […]

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I guess we all have PTSD, then

| March 25, 2010 | 34 Comments
I guess we all have PTSD, then

IVAW member, Jeremy Bergren, has a blog post up on the IVAW website in which he defends his bout with PTSD. Like most of the IVAW members, Bergren never deployed. His unit deployed, but he was legally absent – and that, apparently is the source of his PTSD; I will not get too much into […]

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Matthis and Agosto: flag burning is cool

| March 25, 2010 | 15 Comments
Matthis and Agosto: flag burning is cool

Two new blog posts at IVAW, one by Victor Agosto another by Matthis Chiroux, explain why they’re cool to like flag burning and you’re not. First, Victor rolls out a list of terrible things Americans have done – none of them anything done by people we know, but things that happened before we were all […]

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The DC protest video highlights

| March 24, 2010 | 10 Comments
The DC protest video highlights

Here are some of the videos I’ve found and were sent to me about the protest this last weekend. A young reporter gets a lesson from a tea partier on wardrobe selection;

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Matthis’ Big Weekend Adventure

| March 23, 2010 | 20 Comments
Matthis’ Big Weekend Adventure

A little bird called to tell me that Matthis Chiroux was arrested this weekend for making mud stencils in front of the White House. Sure enough, I found a photo of the arrest at Al Jazeera. Notice the cane on the ground – he’s still playing the sympathy card for his broken leg from A […]

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VFP’s DC theater

| March 21, 2010 | 10 Comments
VFP’s DC theater

I ran into Concretebob at the Code Red rally yesterday and he pointed me to the VFP’s theater in DC yesterday. Anemic doesn’t begin to describe what was going on at their little theater yesterday; The display, of course is supposed to be markers of every soldier killed in Iraq. Some of the markers have […]

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Kokesh won’t quit (Updated)

| March 16, 2010 | 29 Comments
Kokesh won’t quit (Updated)

As I predicted, Adam Kokesh, IVAW diva, announced that, although he could only attract 16% of the delegates in new Mexico’s 3rd District GOP pre-primary race, he won’t quit; “Our campaign is energized, and we’re committed to winning the primary election,” Kokesh said in a news release. “We are a grassroots campaign, and over the […]

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ANSWER’s March 20th Rally

| March 15, 2010 | 8 Comments
ANSWER’s March 20th Rally

I know Gathering of Eagles and some other groups are planning counter-actions to the annual ANSWER rally on March 20th in DC. How many of our readers are planning on being there? I’ll be driving down from my mountain retreat early in morning, so if anyone wants to meet up before hand, let me know. […]

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