http://www.redstate.com/1sgintn Fri, 11 Sep 2009 16:40:25 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://www.redstate.com/1sgintn/2009/09/11/iran-and-the-terror-universe/ 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 ... http://www.redstate.com/1sgintn/2009/09/09/wapo-causes-tourettes-syndrome/ 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.  ... http://www.redstate.com/1sgintn/2009/09/08/theres-an-old-saying-about-where-to-find-sympathy/ 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 ... http://www.redstate.com/1sgintn/2009/09/07/perspective-on-afghanistan/ 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 ... http://www.redstate.com/1sgintn/2009/02/10/keep-your-foreign-trade-goods-just-send-us-your-terrorists/ 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 ... http://www.redstate.com/1sgintn/2009/01/31/a-big-tent-for-the-right-reasons/ (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 ... http://www.redstate.com/1sgintn/2009/01/23/im-sure-the-nfl-means-no-disrespect-to-the-military-open-thread/ 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 ... http://www.redstate.com/1sgintn/2009/01/21/went-in-under-george-bush-and-came-out-under-%e2%80%93-nothing/ 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 ... http://www.redstate.com/1sgintn/2009/01/06/today-is-bill-purcell%e2%80%99s-birthday/ 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 ... http://www.redstate.com/1sgintn/2008/12/29/supporting-a-candidate-for-rnc-chair/ 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 ... http://www.redstate.com/1sgintn/2008/11/21/homosexual-shakedown/ 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 ... http://www.redstate.com/1sgintn/2008/11/18/33-minutes/ 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 ... http://www.redstate.com/1sgintn/2008/11/17/we-are-the-problem-we-need-to-solve/ 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. http://www.redstate.com/1sgintn/2008/10/26/they-can-run-but-not-far-enough/ 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 ... http://www.redstate.com/1sgintn/2008/10/24/how-sarah-palin-makes-the-left-look-bad/ “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." ... http://www.redstate.com/1sgintn/2008/10/24/maintenance-of-the-republic/ 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 ... http://www.redstate.com/1sgintn/2008/10/23/one-democrat-i-support/ 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. ... http://www.redstate.com/1sgintn/2008/10/21/the-2nd-amendment-protects-the-1st/ Back when I was more idealistic than I am now; I would often say there ought to be a law mandating marriage to someone of a different race than your own, so that over time we would eliminate that difference in our society. Human nature being what it is, ... http://www.redstate.com/1sgintn/2008/10/20/this-racist-campaign/ As I said in an earlier post, although I realize the economy is the number one issue in the public eye at the moment, in light of Biden's statement I think Obama’s positions on National Defense Policy are worthy of discourse right now. Simply put, Obama ... http://www.redstate.com/1sgintn/2008/10/18/you-dont-want-to-discuss-it/