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Smoke Filled Back Rooms
Author: Raine    Date: 01/12/2023 13:59:12

Is smoking allowed in Federal buildings?

Executive Order 13058, "Protecting Federal Employees and the Public from Exposure to Tobacco Smoke in the Federal Workplace," bans smoking in all Executive Branch facilities, all interior space owned, rented, or leased space by the Executive Branch of the Federal government. There are certain excepted spaces, which include:
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9 comments (Latest Comment: 01/12/2023 20:20:31 by Raine)

Priorities
Author: BobR    Date: 01/11/2023 13:49:07

It's the first week of the new Republican-led House, and what have they queued up? Essentially, a laundry list of pet Republican projects, that are largely symbolic, since they aren't going to go anywhere. Let's have a look at some of them:
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6 comments (Latest Comment: 01/11/2023 17:48:31 by BobR)

Ask a Vet
Author: TriSec    Date: 01/10/2023 10:55:59

Good Morning.

Sometimes it's tough to learn lessons. The Pentagon seems intent on repeating a mistake.
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7 comments (Latest Comment: 01/10/2023 22:42:58 by TriSec)

On to Thunderdome, I guess
Author: Raine    Date: 01/09/2023 14:03:34

After nearly a week of what seemed like unbridled chaos, the House of Representatives finally elected a Speaker. Today, the real work begins.
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4 comments (Latest Comment: 01/09/2023 17:51:58 by TriSec)

Moving Day
Author: TriSec    Date: 01/08/2023 12:36:15

Good Morning.

For better or for worse, today we're headed down to Providence with a carful of stuff, headed back to the campus of Johnson & Wales
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1 comments (Latest Comment: 01/08/2023 13:39:45 by BobR)

Funny? Friday
Author: wickedpam    Date: 2023-01-06 13:00:00

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30 comments (Latest Comment: 01/06/2023 21:28:30 by BobR)

Burning Down The House
Author: Raine    Date: 01/05/2023 13:29:56

"The only place that isn't functioning, is the place where Republicans were able to win, and that... should be a telling sign for voters ahead in future elections"

Mathew Dowd, Political Strategist
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35 comments (Latest Comment: 01/05/2023 21:58:11 by Raine)

Insanity (once again into the Breach)
Author: BobR    Date: 01/04/2023 13:44:49

It's been said that one definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result. That certainly seemed to be the case yesterday as 3 separate votes in the U.S. House of Representatives failed to deliver the Speakership to Kevin McCarthy (R-CA). Actually, the results did change, and not in his favor. Perhaps we should reclassify that as the definition of desperation.

This has rarely happened in U.S. history (exceptions being 1855, 1923, and 1997-98). As one writer put it, The House Republican Circular Firing Squad Over Who Will Be Speaker Is a Vision of Things to Come:
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21 comments (Latest Comment: 01/04/2023 20:32:58 by Raine)

Ask a Vet
Author: TriSec    Date: 01/03/2023 10:44:30

Good Morning.

Well, in a few days we'll be seating a new Congress in these United States.
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40 comments (Latest Comment: 01/03/2023 23:48:13 by Raine)

Taking Lee down
Author: Raine    Date: 01/02/2023 13:44:55

Late last year, in between Thanksgiving and the holidays, the last of the confederate statues was removed in Richmond, Virginia. Amid the chaos of the season, and the Mid-term elections, it might have been easy to miss.
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2 comments (Latest Comment: 01/02/2023 22:50:31 by TriSec)

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