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The Washington Post is tsk tsking the U.S. Army and Walter Reed Army Medical Center today for their uninviting of aging 60s' war protester Joan Baez from appearing in a concert for wounded soldiers with John Cougar Mellencamp last Friday. In a sympathetic article the Post can't seem to understand why the Army wouldn't want an over the hill, anti-establishment activist to appear before our wounded heroes. But even a look at just some of the quotes in their article -- much less any perusal of all her wild-eyed rants of the last 40 years -- seems to explain pretty...

The "Central Committee of Conscientious Objectors" is an organization which "supports and promotes individual and collective resistance to war and preparations for war", according to its website. Among the resources available on the website are How-to guides on being AWOL, various reasons for getting out of the military, as well as a list of reasons one should not join the US military. The following picture on its website illustrates the goal of the organization: This organization lists among its sponsors former Democratic congressman Ronald Dellums of California. Dellums was an anti-war, anti-military radical who created a stir during the Vietnam...

Last week, John Walker Lindh  petitioned the president to commute his 20-year sentence for fighting with the Taliban, imposed in 2002.  It’s a shame that this pampered child of Marin County is sitting in a cell for something as trivial as treason. Under a plea bargain, Walker Lindh (AKA: Abdul Hamid, AKA: Sulayman Al-Lindh) pleaded guilty to supplying services to the Taliban regime and carrying explosives for  Afghanistan’s former rulers.Which is like to saying that Benedict Arnold supplied services to George III. Johnny Jihad trained in an al-Qaeda camp – where he learned to fire an AK-47 and rubbed elbows...

Joan Baez has a brand-new album out, but it already feels like a bit of history. "Bowery Songs," released just two weeks ago, is a live album recorded in New York City last November just four days after the election that gave President Bush a second term in the White House. To Baez — the most famous singer not named Dylan to come out of the 1960s-era folk-music era, and a central figure on the political left for 40 years — a lot has happened since then. The spirit that night was one of sadness and soul- searching. "It was...

...Richard Nixon, amid a similar low ebb of popularity with Vietnam, gave a famous speech in 1969. This was the year after the Tet offensive, which caused Walter Cronkite's famous Hagel-like throwing in of the towel. In that speech Nixon described a "great silent majority" in America. The idea, of course, was that the daily media attention commanded by the antiwar movement was missing a class of Americans who sat home seething at the behavior of the protesters. Today, because of the Internet, no one has to seethe in silence, as wired activists in both parties proved in 2004's high-tech...

CRAWFORD, Texas Aug 22, 2005 — Joan Baez was against the Vietnam War and she showed it appearing at marches, once even blocking the entrance of a military induction center. The folk singer is against the Iraq war, too, and she showed her support Sunday to protesters camping out near President Bush's ranch. Baez took to the stage for about 500 people on an acre lot offered by a landowner who opposes the war, performing such classic peace anthems as "Song of Peace," "Where Have All the Flowers Gone" and "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot." Not far way is the camp...

Have you ever wondered if you're really a liberal? Well, wonder no more! Just take this nifty little true/false quiz and all will be revealed! 1. Bush was selected, not elected...like Hitler! 2. Criminals are victims too...well unless, they steal my old Joan Baez tracks. Do you know hard it was to get those? I'd like to kill that guy! 3. Loving America means talking about what's wrong with it incessantly and downplaying all the good things it does. 4. Howard Dean would be another great president...like Jimmy Carter! 5. Jesse Jackson is the greatest living African-American other than the...

Have you ever wondered if you're really a liberal? Well, wonder no more! Just take this nifty little true/false quiz and all will be revealed! 1. Bush was selected, not elected...like Hitler! 2. Criminals are victims too...well unless, they steal my old Joan Baez tracks. Do you know hard it was to get those? I'd like to kill that guy! 3. Loving America means talking about what's wrong with it incessantly and downplaying all the good things it does. 4. Howard Dean would be another great president...like Jimmy Carter! 5. Jesse Jackson is the greatest living African-American other than the...