Earlier this semester, a few guys got together to form a university recognized organization now known as the GW Veterans.  This year we have been featured in several articles, the most recent is immediately below (Veterans Day) and our previous event Ask a Veteran's Forum was featured on MTV, CNN, and the Pentagon Channel.  I share with you these articles to keep you posted on our progr

I was canvassing in Louisiana in favor of the restoration of the Gulf Coast.  While doing so, I encountered certain ordinances or other restrictive regulations that restrict access to housing in certain areas, like closed subdivisions or limit access at certain times.  I believe that having an executive government in place at the federal level that tries so hard to keep information from its citizens, allowing these type of restrictions that negatively impact canvassers's ability to disseminate information to the public is very bad.  Since it seems to be local government bodies and public officials that have either put these restrictions into place directly or else have allowed them to be adopted, we need to take a closer look to see if these actions run afoul of the First Amendment.

Part of the Military Commissions Act seems to eliminate the right of habeas corpus. “Countdown” examines in a special investigation.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/15214437#15214437

Faux News and the CBC may need to review the terms of their presidential debate agreements... again... take it under full consideration for many, many reasons.

The least of which, but certainly the most recent:

A Case of Mistaken Identity!

Rangel's Mad As Hell And He's Not Going To Take It -- Unless Dems Win

Newsday's McCarthy writes: Rep. Charles Rangel (D-NY) "wasn't just whining" when he threatened his own retirement if Dems don't win the House this year. "He was expressing his frustration at the way" the GOP has "frozen" the Dems "out of a meaningful role in Congress, and at the mess this has made for the country." AEI scholar Norman Ornstein: "If you look at abuse on a scale from 1 to 10, in the final yeras of Democratic rule, they occassionally hit a 6 or 7.... It only took five or six years before the Republicans were consistently hitting an 8 or 9, before going to 10. The odds are pretty good that" Dems will "get their majority." Rangel is "right to feel that if voters won't turn some of these scoundrels out, he no longer wants to be part of it" (8/7).

It may be stormy, but things never cool off here in DC in the summer.

Congress is in recess, but they're giving us plenty to work on.

Tuesday, Jun 13, PFAW and YP4 staff and interns attended a forum at Demos on Immigration and Voting Rights. After remarks by Demos president Miles Rapoport, panelists Ron Hayduk and Tamar Jacoby

laid out two remarkably different positions.

Say what you want about the Senate immigration bill. I was struck by the meta-level questions that immigration and non-citizen voting raise.