Bush doesn’t think so. Erin Ferns explains :
The ability of injured veterans to vote in November’s presidential election rests in the hands of Bush Administration officials, who have so far refused demands from advocates and lawmakers that the Department of Veterans Affairs help hospitalized veterans register to vote.
“‘It is an insult to those who have fought to spread democracy and freedom overseas to be denied the right to participate in their own democracy here at home,’” wrote Sens. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) and John Kerry (D-Mass.) to the Department of Veterans Affairs in March. “‘If each facility took a few simple steps to provide voter registration materials, the VA could do its part to guarantee access to voter registration.’”
In response, VA Secretary James Peake opposed efforts by lawmakers to get the federal agency to provide voter registration opportunities under the National Voter Regi...
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Update on Inmate Voter Registration Situation -
On Tuesday, The Legal Defense Fund of the NAACP filed a federal lawsuit in Alabama asking for a prison ban on inmate voter registration to be lifted.
This lawsuit follows Rev. Kenneth Glasgow, of Dothan, Alabama, and his inmate voter registration program being told by the Alabama Prison Commissioner that they could not enter Alabama prisons to register inmates. The Alabama Supreme Court has ruled that those convicted of crimes not i... more
Day two of Live From Main Street and GRITtv’s special programming on voting in the United States. Registration deadlines loom and there are many obstacles. From reading tests to ID challenges, felon disenfranchisement laws and the endless purging of voter rolls the U.S. is almost alone among industrial world democracies in having no uniform federal voting law.... more
National Voter Turnout in Federal Elections: 1960–2008 — Infoplease.com
In 1960 when John Kennedy ran against Richard Nixon the voter turnout was high- 63.1
This week states and individual are predicting anywhere fdrom 76% to 88% voter turn out.
Do you believe the predictions?
And if so
Do you think this trend will continue? Why or why not? ... more
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Cabinet on Wednesday approved a proposal for amending the Registration Act to empower the government to cancel transfer of land done using bogus documents and deeds. Briefing presspersons on the Cabinet decisions, ...... more
James Reynolds is an experienced actor with an extensive career. He is probably best known for his Emmy nominated role as Abe Carver on “Days of our Lives” but has also performed in the theater and appeared in a number of big screen films including “Mr. Majestyk” and “Fun With Dick and Jane.” As author and film critic Betty Jo Tucker points out , his work and background extend beyond that.
Recently named Chairman of the Department of Veterans Affairs 20... more
Given the growing number of veterans with PTSD, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), Congress, and the research community urgently need to take steps to overcome the problems that often plague studies of psychiatric therapies for PTSD, and ...... more
Big news for Brattleboro. Bernie Sanders secures new Vets health clinic in Brattleboro. This was just released today from Bernie Sanders’ office. Great job Bernie!
BURLINGTON, December 2 – Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), a member of the Senate veterans committee, announced today that the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs will open a health clinic in Brattleboro.
The clinic will provide veterans in southern Vermont and New Hampshire, and northern Massachusetts, greater access to prima... more
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Bribery. Drug trafficking. Migrant smuggling.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection is supposed to stop these types of crimes. But instead, so many of its officers have been charged with committing those crimes themselves that their boss in Washington recently issued an alert about the ”disturbing events” and the “increase in the number of employee arrests.”
Thomas S. Winkowski, assistant commissioner of field operations, wrote a memo to more than 20... more
They never learn From: leisureguy.wordpress.com Post Date: 2008-03-04 14:54:59
Ronald Reagan had his Iran-Contra, and now George Bush has his Hamas blowback. Read the whole article . The blurb:
After failing to anticipate Hamas’s victory over Fatah in the 2006 Palestinian election, the White House cooked up yet another scandalously covert and self-defeating Middle East debacle: part Iran-contra, part Bay of Pigs. With confidential documents, corroborated by outraged former and current U.S. officials, David Rose reveals how President Bush, Condoleezza Rice, and Dep... more
Read the whole thing , but this in particular struck me:
… Finding the theft took 60 seconds; drafting a post for my blog, about an hour. I held it overnight to give my ex-colleagues a little notice and published it at 7:38 a.m. Friday. It was linked pretty quickly by Romenesko and then by some of the big-traffic amplifiers ( Talking Points Memo , Atrios ). I figured the story would get some notice, but I was unprepared for the turns it would take.
After posting the orig... more
When you can pack multiple gigabytes of files on a USB driver the size of a pack of chewing gum, you pretty much have to encrypt those files—it’s too easy to loose the thing, and it is a UNIVERSAL serial bus device: i.e., it will work in the finder’s computer.
Kruptos 2 offers an excellent solution for Windows XP and 2000 computers. It’s free, but definitely worth a contribution.
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