https://redstate.com/moe_lane/2011/05/08/breaking-thinkprogress-pig-ignorant-about-military/feed/Conservative News & Politicsen-usTue, 09 Jun 2026 16:48:24 -0400<![CDATA[Legal Insurrection tipped me to this one: apparently, ThinkProgress (link available via Legal Insurrection) got itself in a bit of a tizzy over a story in the Mexican press that one of the Navy SEALs that killed Osama bin Laden was the son of Mexican immigrants, which apparently means (according to TP) that we need to pass the DREAM Act* and that the military is by the way keeping Latinos down.  Now, let&#8217;s establish something right off of the bat; I don&#8217;t know who was on that SEAL team, and it would not surprise me in the slightest to hear that one or more of them were of Latino ancestry.  Or any other ancestry, frankly.  That&#8217;s not the point: the point is that when you&#8217;re a hardcore partisan ideologue using a story for agitprop, you should probably check the story first to make sure that you don&#8217;t get burned.]]>Sun, 08 May 2011 17:00:05 -0400<![CDATA[Moe Lane]]>https://redstate.com/moe_lane/2011/05/08/breaking-thinkprogress-pig-ignorant-about-military-n38934