There has been quite a bit of reporting and editorializing on the subject of the video of U.S. Marines urinating on the corpses of Taliban terrorists a few days ago. I was told that upon hearing of the incident the President was relieved to hear that it was not our Navy Corpsemen that were pee’d on. The act itself has not intrigued me as much as the reaction to it has, and I don’t mean fro...
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I’ve got a confession to make: I was an initial supporter of the Patriot Act. For those who are warming up their Neo-Con branding iron as they’re reading this, I’ll add the qualifier that I was too young for a driver’s license at the time, so you can’t really hold it against me that I wasn’t well-versed on slippery-slope erosions of Constitutional rights. Anyhow, America was finall...
Somebody dial whine-one-one and call Nancy Pelosi a waaaaahmbulance, she thinks it was “completely inappropriate” that Bill O’RINO asked Obama what it’s like to be hated. Compared to what I would have asked him, that question was downright softball. What I want to know is whether it’s a coincidence that he so often sounds like the collectivist caricatures from Atlas Shrugged, or if a...
On a sultry August afternoon in 1787, some half a hundred representatives filled a room in a building in Philadelphia where they pooled their talents toward an unprecedented goal. They discussed, debated, argued, and deliberated over the construction of a most singular document: a written enumeration of governing tenets that every man present hoped would be impressed upon the history of civilizati...
“He’s been out in these countries for decades, building schools, building roads, building infrastructure, building day-care facilities, building health-care facilities, and the people are extremely grateful. He’s made their lives better.” Yes he has, that cuddly old teddy bear. The Democratic senator from Washington who said that about Osama Bin Laden way too soon after the September 11 at...
The following is a letter that has been forwarded to me as it is being sent to President Obama from inside the Iranian democracy movement. As to whether the president will see it, and more importantly, whether he will give a damn if he does, we can only make our own individual judgments. The words evince a respectful and temperate tone, even as those involved are being arrested, imprisoned, raped,...
The examples are legion: Senator Dick Durbin compares our soldiers to the most infamous mass murderers of the 20th century; Congressman Jack Murtha calls American battle heroes murderers; Democratic congressional caucuses pay homage to Fidel Castro; liberal politicians insist that a mosque at Ground Zero is a wonderful thing and you’re a racist; and on and on and on—including the actions and w...
Growing up the daughter of two veterans and having later married one, I have heard my fair share of VA horror stories. If we don’t fight back in November and fight back hard, we’ll have a chance to see one of the struggles that our men and women in uniform face: trying to receive adequate treatment from a government-run healthcare system. I interviewed veterans and VA workers from across the...
If you watched the recent CNN interview of Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, the public face of the infamous Ground Zero Mosque, what you saw depended on how closely you watched. A surface glance (or a view through the prism of innocent liberalism) would have favored you with the image of a peaceable bridge builder whose only concern was why we can’t just all get along. All the man wants to do is inspire ...
One of the most dreaded moments in parenthood is that one where you find out your child is being bullied in school. Ryan was my stepson, but I’d raised him since he was a little guy, and by his sophomore year in high school when his situation grew so unbearable that he had to tell me about it, we were blood. His misery was my misery. He’s a buff army staff sergeant now, but back then, no one w...
