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Name: Mike's America
Location: Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, United States

Currently living in the South Carolina Lowcountry, Mike has taken a keen interest in politics and government since his days as a young whippersnapper in Ohio. There, he organized College Republicans clubs, worked as a professional staffer on two statewide campaigns and was elected to the Delaware County Republican Central Committee among other achievements. In 1986 he began graduate studies in government at Columbia University where he specialized in National Security matters under the tutelage of former National Security Advisor, Zbigniew Brzezinski. Leaving New York in 1988 he moved to Washington, D.C. to become a White House Intern in the Political Office of President Ronald Reagan. With backing from the first Bush Administration he spent four years at the Environmental Protection Agency. He has lived on Hilton Head since 1996 where he writes, photographs and gardens.

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Tuesday, March 27, 2007

No Pork for War!

"No Blood for Spinach!" was how mamaspajamas coined the phrase in a comment at Chatterbox Chronicles.

But as we are learning, the bill which Democrats rammed through Congress to "support the troops" had much more to do with supporting votes from Congressmen and Congresswomen who would otherwise have voted NO and defeated the defeatist measure.

Funny how the same Democrats who railed against "earmarks" in congressional spending bills found little wrong with billions in aid to agricultural fat cats like California spinach growers.

More cartoon blogging on the issue at "Deputy Wordsmith's" page.

posted by Mike's America | 3/27/2007