One Little Victory

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Just a few noteworthy items from Wednesday… Very good NBC video footage walking through the bin Laden compound, and a better understanding of what was meant by a “firefight.” The House Republicans have now cynically redefined “rape” to promote their [...]

We actually planned to get this piece out earlier, but life and the killing of Osama bin Laden (accompanied by the 24/7 news cycle) got in the way. But better late than never, and this week’s winner is a doozy. Today we welcome Rep. Sally Kern (R – Oklahoma City), a member of the Oklahoma [...]

There is a lot of celebrating surrounding yesterday’s U.S. assassination of Osama bin Laden. Looking at it from the person on the street perspective, what’s not to celebrate? This is a man who was responsible for the embassy bombings in Tanzania and Kenya, the attack on the USS Cole, and of course for the September [...]

As the war in Afghanistan draws on, Brave New Films asks how much money this is costing each of us as taxpayers. According to their calculator, I paid $4,798 to fund American war efforts this year. That’s a lot of damn money for a war that a large percentage of American taxpayers are sick of. [...]

As long-time readers of this site know, a popular feature of the former incarnations of OLV was “Moron of the Moment,” where we poked fun at some of the idiocy of the day. And while our material didn’t always come from social conservatives, they certainly went above and beyond the call of duty in providing [...]

Just a few items that caught our attention… Obama the Appeaser: Ezra Klein reviews President Obama’s “progressive” ideas, and the Republicans who came up with them. Now she is the rational one? All hell is breaking loose if Governor Jan Brewer is making sense. Speaker Boehner playing “chicken”… with world economy. We say let him, [...]

What a nicely crafted explanation of the real problems driving the US deficit. A nice piece by Move On.

We at OLV are becoming big fans of the Coffee party. Initially formed to promote civil debate (as opposed to the tactics of the Tea Party), the Coffee Party seems to have found its progressive voice and is now actively calling on citizens to engage our government. Right now the focus is on calling Congress’ [...]