Jan Tyler reports on a Progressive Democrats of America election reform seminar. One strategy promoted was for Barack Obama not to concede a loss until every vote is counted in order to create…
Jan Tyler explains how the Brennan Center for Justice redefines voter fraud narrowly, then claims there isn't any. What about election fraud?
To hear Barack Obama tell it, Campaign 2008 is all about change. Unfortunately, both he and John McCain today agreed to the same, tired routine of debates organized by the Commission on…
Looks like the Navy finally got its online act together and secured Internet access for the bloggers it invited aboard the USS Kearsarge. Thomas Crowe, who recently left the Navy's chaplain…
The Navy appears to be engaged in a serious public-relations push, as the bloggers aboard the USS Kearsarge aren't the only ones reporting on life at sea. J.J. Green, the national security…
Members of Congress love to ingest pork by the barrel full. But there appears to be a side effect from that budgetary diet: It makes them go mute, as it did in the Fox News special report "Porked…
With the USS Kearsarge afloat about 25 miles off the coast of Miami, Navy pilots ferried three bloggers, including Eyeblast TV's Danny Glover, back to land. Two bloggers stayed, and more will join…
John Edwards on "The Daily Show": "Are you going to ask me about Uganda?"
"We want to make sure that the entire world knows about your struggle." Sadly, this video visit to a land torn by war and sexually transmitted disease has since vanished from Edwards' web page -…
John Edwards rides in on his Lear Jet to attack the evil Wal-Mart on moral grounds -- an epic campaign video captured by his mistress, Rielle Hunter.
John Edwards mistress Rielle Hunter taped videos for his campaign. Here's one nugget: "I've come to the personal conclusion that I actually want the country to see who I am. ... But I don't know…
... so let the blogging begin. I'm sitting in Miami International Airport awaiting my return flight to the Washington, D.C., area. I spent the past two-plus days on the USS Kearsarge, a Navy ship…
One aspect of Operation Continuing Promise is engineering aid for poor Latin American countries that requested help. Air Force Maj. Tom DeFazio discussed the work that his team will do when the…
Modern-day pirates are a recurring problem in the waters off Africa, and the U.S. Navy has had its share of run-ins with them. Lt. Quinn O'Bannon, now the chaplain of the USS Kearsarge, recalled…
Lt. Quinn O'Bannon, the chaplain of the USS Kearsarge, talked about the role of chaplains in the Navy as both a facilitator of various faiths and as a counselor on everything from finances to…
The Navy really doesn’t know what to do with us bloggers. Apparently we’re a bit nosier than the other people who come aboard. We ask questions that to us seem pretty basic but that apparently…
That’s what the military promises, and that’s what it delivers. OK, the options are limited, but there’s plenty of food, and save for the occasional blandness, it doesn’t taste bad, either. I…
Air Force Maj. Tom DeFazio is heading the engineering team for Operation Continuing Promise. In this interview, he discusses the work the team will do when the USS Kearsarge comes to port in Latin…
Cmdr. David Damstra, head of the medical team for Operation Continuing Promise, recaps the work his people will be doing when the USS Kearsarge comes to port at its various stops in Latin America…
While aboard the USS Kearsarge, bloggers found a passageway that led to an outdoor platform directly below the flight deck. One night, we were treated to helo flight operations occurring not far…
This wasn’t a good day to be on an unfamiliar ship if you drank a lot of liquids, as I did. The crew “secured” for random drug-screening the heads that all of us bloggers had been using , and we…
Man's best friend doesn't typically get to ride along with U.S. sailors, but a mutt named Jenna did for two years aboard a ship stationed in Japan. Lt. Cmdr. Matthew LaPointe was her commanding…