Fresh on the heels of publishing a piece about Army Ranger 1st Lt. Michael Behenna’s upcoming review by the Army Court of Appeals, I decided to share — with permission — the text of a letter written by Beverly Perlson — the spark plug behind pro-troops group, The Band of Mothers — to Secretary of [...]
Army Mom Pens Powerful Letter to Army Secretary
October 26th, 2010 · 4 Comments
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‘Rhetoric v. Reality’: Obama Fails to Deliver
October 14th, 2009 · No Comments
The video, “Rhetoric v. Reality” (below), highlights numerous campaign promises related to the War on Terror Overseas Contingency Operations upon which President Barack Obama has failed to deliver. The video above comes only one day after I published a post which included a video highlighting an average citizen’s calls (1) for Attorney General Eric Holder [...]
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Senator Inhofe Reviews Obama Defense Budget
April 21st, 2009 · No Comments
Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.), ranking Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee, spoke on the Senate floor Monday, delivered a detailed review of the Obama administration’s proposed cuts to the Department of Defense budget Monday. Below left is a video of his speech and, in italics below, is the text of the first three minutes [...]
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Inhofe: ‘President Obama is disarming America’
April 6th, 2009 · 2 Comments
In a You Tube video today from Afghanistan, Senator Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.) blasted an announcement by the Obama Administration that they propose to make deep, widespread cuts to the military budget. The announcement, made at the Pentagon this morning by Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, comes as more than 200,000 servicemen and women are deployed [...]
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Mainstream Media Betrays Americans with Bias
April 3rd, 2009 · 1 Comment
In a recent article published in Philadelphia’s Bulletin family newspaper, Herb Denenberg used nearly 2,700 words to opine about Janet Napolitano’s decision to refer to “terrorism” as “man-caused disasters.” The part of his commentary that caught my attention had less to do with the Homeland Security chief’s semantics policies than with media bias evident in [...]
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Barack Obama’s Al Arabiya Interview Transcript
January 27th, 2009 · 4 Comments
President Barack Obama gave his first sit-down media interview to Al Arabiya TV’s Hisham Melhem — much to the chagrin of U.S. media outlets — Monday evening. Due to the fact that Press Secretary Robert Gibbs opted to publish a six-paragraph snippet on The White House Blog instead of providing a full transcript, I had [...]
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Observations Offered on Six Morning Headlines
December 12th, 2008 · No Comments
Six news articles published today highlight the upside-down nature of politics and the world in which we live today. Below, I offer some observations: Wage issue kills Big 3 deal in Senate (Washington Times) — Senate leaders gave up Thursday night on a $14 billion automaker bailout, sunk by the refusal of the autoworkers union [...]
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