Note: Please excuse any formating errors that may arise, I am on the other side of the world with little bandwith and mediocre computer skills (at best). First, disclaimer #1: the following comments and opinion are neither indorsed by, nor reflect the policies of the US Government, the Dept of Defense, CENTCOM, ISAF, USACE, CJTF82 or any other pencil-necked bureaucrat involved with the conduct of | Read More »
Most folks saw right through the Congressional Democrats’ bribery efforts with Senators Nelson and Landrieu in the Health Care shenanegans. Although politicians in general often entice support from one group or another with various forms of “incentives”, ranging from pork-barrel projects to social programs, Democrats are the champions at targeting racial, ethnic, and socio-economic groups with crumbs from the table of power. The latest example is the | Read More »
Later this month, the illegitimately re-elected Iranian president Ahmadinejad will be at the UN. While in New York, the meeting that President Obama has long begged for will likely occur. To prepare ourselves for this event, it would behoove us to review some facts about the Iran – U.S. relationship. Back in April, Michael Ledeen had an interesting way to describe Iran: …most every time you | Read More »
It was the first paragraph of Karen DeYoung’s article that did it for me this morning. Carried on page 2 of the middle Eastern Edition of Stars and Stripes http://estripes.osd.mil/#fragment-2 President Barack Obama must decide in coming weeks whether a greater investment of troops and resources in Afghanistan is worth the political risk if Americans do not soon perceive better results on the ground. Your | Read More »
We probably learned it from our squad leader as privates. He told us we could find it in the dictionary between sh*t and syphillis. I mention this because the media wants us to feel related emotions about the recent bombing incident near Kunduz, where civilians were killed in an air strike. Perhaps you have heard? In case your local news outlet has forgetten to inform you | Read More »
From the diaries by Erick . . . Here I am in Afghanistan; although I “ain’t skeered”, I’m plenty apprehensive. Not because of the Taliban, mind you – but because of what our own Democrat-controlled government, in concert with the media, may eventually do. The last time we had such a war-time equation, Congress reneged on our promises to support an ally. I predict the media | Read More »
Just to be clear, Federal government contracts have always (well, at least since I became a “certified acquisition professional”) contained clauses relating to the Buy American Act. The Act was passed in1933 (gee, I wonder what was going on in 1933 to cause that?). The infamous Smoot-Hawley Tariff was passed in June 1930 and the 1934 Trade Agreements Act essentially lowered those tariffs – but | Read More »
There is a lot of bandwidth being used lately in the discussion over the rebuilding of the Republican Party. The moderates and the folks on the further right (like me) seem to be talking past one another in heated discussions, but lets recognize some common ground and move forward. Having now elected a new party chairman, it’s best we do so quickly. I use the ‘big tent’ | Read More »
(I don’t know if I am authorized to institute an open thread, but here goes) The color guard for the Super Bowl opening ceremony will not be allowed to stay & watch the game as in times past. Just an easily-corrected oversight, I’m sure – completely unintentional. http://tank.nationalreview.com/post/?q=ZDRiNzYwYzcyYjQ2ZWYwYjhlNzY0OWJjNTU4MmFkZGI= Of course, if we contact Roger Goodell of the NFL and point that out, he can straighten | Read More »
I work in a large Federal Building, home to many different agencies and administered by the General Services Administration (GSA). I have daily arrived and departed through the entrance beneath the benevolent gaze of Vice President Cheney & President Bush, from their poster-sized portraits on the walls on each side of the doors. For a couple of months now, I had my desire to | Read More »
William Henry Purcell was born this day in 1920, delivered by a country doctor in rural North Georgia. The next-to-youngest sibling of three brothers and three sisters, he grew up on a farm learning what a day’s work was all about. He could raise corn, pick cotton, milk cows (but not ever as fast as his mother); and during the Great Depression when money was | Read More »
I support Ken Blackwell for chairman of the RNC. So what, you may ask. Well, I also question what benefit Mr. Blackwell may derive from my endorsement; since I am neither one of the 168 committee members who will choose a chairman, nor do I have influence with any of them. Will grass roots support for any of the candidates have any effect, or are | Read More »
Forgive me for posting this as a diary, but I don’t see an appropriate open thread for it. Many are familiar with the tactics of the social-engineering shakedown artists. Jesse Jackson, among others, has made a career of it. There are numerous examples of lawsuits brought before sympathetic courts to force a bending of wills to Progressive agendas. We see it most often in the | Read More »
When I saw this, I was reminded of an incident in my childhood. I was about five years old, and my Dad (a Combat Infantry veteran of the Pacific campaign in WWII) was a member of the local Civil Defense unit. It must have been during the height of the Cuban Missile Crisis. Dad and his peers had gathered at the church to watch a | Read More »
By ‘we’, I mean the collective populace of the country. The term ‘collective’ has a certain irony as we become a more socialistic nation, by the way, but I digress. The germ of this thought came about from two of my readings this morning concerning the issue of the potential Detroit bailout. The first was the transcript of the Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) appearance on | Read More »
If this story is true, this is more bad news for terrorists and their enablers. While we have been absorbed in politics, our warfighters continue to battle our enemies overseas. From the link, go to the main page and see it all.
I have been a fan of Victor David Hanson for quite some time. Few others can illuminate reality like he can. On the subject of Gov. Palin today, he skewers the media: First, there turns out to be no standard of objectivity in contemporary journalism. Palin’s career as a city councilwoman, mayor, and governor of Alaska was never seen as comparable to, or — indeed, | Read More »
“The people of the United States are the rightful masters of both Congress and the Courts, not to overthrow the Constitution, but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.” -Abraham Lincoln (17 September 1859, speech in Cincinnati, OH) “It is not the function of our government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the | Read More »
If you are in TN district 22 (or know someone who is), please use the write-in procedure to support Rosalind Kurita and pass the word. Oddly enough, by supporting this Democrat you will help our current Republican Lt. Gov. to keep his position and maintain the tenuous lead in the TN Senate. The details of this situation can be found here. Now go early vote | Read More »
One of the days I look forward to each month is the day the latest issue of American Rifleman Magazine arrives. Yesterday I received the November issue, with the election emphasis naturally prominent. There was comprehensive information regarding the record of Obama & Biden on 2nd Amendment issues. I had to feel somewhat ashamed that I was unaware or had forgotten the scope of anti-gun | Read More »
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