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Flag Day in bitter West Chester, PA

| June 14, 2008
Flag Day in bitter West Chester, PA

My buddy Skye from the blogs Midnight Blue and Flopping Aces has been pestering me to come up to West Chester, Pennsylvania to cover her pet project, the Victory Group that counters the Chester County Peace Vigil, so I finally relented (I hate driving back into DC after the peace and tranquility of Real America) […]

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Edinboro “peace thugs” admit “They were wrong”

| May 3, 2008 | 5 Comments
Edinboro “peace thugs” admit “They were wrong”

Frequent commenter and good friend to This Ain’t Hell, Dan Maloney, NY State Coordinator, Gathering of Eagles, and a blogger in his own right, alerts us to the judgment in the Swartout case that has been the subject of much discussion here over the few weeks. GoErie.com reports; A peace group that meets in Edinboro […]

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Poor victimized IVAW member reinstated

| March 26, 2008 | 11 Comments
Poor victimized IVAW member reinstated

Evan Knappenberger is seen above during the Wednesday, March 19, event organized by Ferndale High School students to protest the fifth anniversary of the Iraq War, where Knappenberger was a guest speaker. Evan Knappenberger, the Iraq Veterans Against the War lunatic who threatened to blow up the Gathering of Eagles and issued a “fatwa” to […]

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Counterprotest in Berkeley

| March 23, 2008 | 7 Comments
Counterprotest in Berkeley

Eagles Up emailed me the link to pictures of yesterday’s counterprotest at the recruiting station in Berkeley at Protest Shooter. These are from Saturday, March 22nd, at the USMC Officer Selection Office in Berkeley. There was a massive pro-troop rally. Eagles Up paid for the permit (code pink has one for free from the city […]

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Eagles & Freepers rally for the troops

| March 15, 2008
Eagles & Freepers rally for the troops

While the IVAW, Veterans for Peace and all of the assorted anti-war groups were in Silver Spring, Maryland, Gathering of Eagles, Eagles UP, Move America Forward and other pro-troop organizations assembled on the National Mall in the shadow of the Washington Monument to support the troops – and to celebrate the first anniversary of their […]

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Eagles Up and GOE at Winter Soldiers II

| March 14, 2008
Eagles Up and GOE at Winter Soldiers II

TSO and I went up to the main road during our lunch break and talked with the GOE and Eagles Up folks who were at the entrance to the National Labor College. I thought that their presence is an integral part of this story, too. John Kerry’s Winter Soldier wasn’t protested until 36 years later, […]

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Busy week planned

| March 14, 2008
Busy week planned

If you don’t normally read this blog on weekends, you’re going to miss a lot of stuff this weekend. Today I’ll be attending Winter Soldier II with my buddy Thus Spake Ortner from The Sniper. We’ll be live-blogging today’s theater while sitting back-to-back starting at about 9 Am until the whole thing ends tonight. In […]

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Rally at Times Square Recruiting Station

| March 9, 2008
Rally at Times Square Recruiting Station

Last night I threw up a quick link about the Gathering of Eagles‘ rally at the Times Square Recruiting Station that had been targeted by some whacko bomber earlier in the week. The link was to Pamela Geller’s reportage at Atlas Shrugs (mostly because it included a treasured picture of Pamela herself). This morning I […]

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