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Unsurprisingly, Democrats don’t want you to “stand your ground”

| April 2, 2012 | 14 Comments
Unsurprisingly, Democrats don’t want you to “stand your ground”

Old Trooper sends a link to the Fox News article which tells us that, in the wake of the public trial being held in the media everyday over the Trayvon Martin shooting, Democrats in the Congressional Black Caucus are ignoring the Tenth Amendment and they’re prepared to present legislation that forbid the “stand your ground” […]

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NYTimes article portend end times

| April 1, 2012 | 15 Comments
NYTimes article portend end times

PintoNag sends a tip to a New York Times article that actually praises the troops. The article by Rod Nordland is entitled “Good Deeds in Afghanistan Interrupt the Grim Narrative” and mentions several instances in which the troops saves lives, instead of taking lives. After months of what has seemed like a relentless series of […]

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TAH in Politico

| March 27, 2012 | 12 Comments
TAH in Politico

Sunday night I did an interview with Austin Wright of Politico. For some reason, he’s a lurker at TAH he says. Austin writes an daily early morning column at Politico called “Morning Defense“, which he explains is his work reporting on soldier- and defense-related issues. Today’s column includes portions of our chat on Sunday night, […]

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MSNBC: Cheney “too old” for life saving transplant

| March 25, 2012 | 26 Comments
MSNBC: Cheney “too old” for life saving transplant

MSNBC has commissioned bioethicist Arthur Caplan Ph.D. to write an opinion piece contending that, considering his politics age, it was unethical for former Vice President Dick Cheney to have received a heart transplant. Dick Cheney has just joined a list of high-profile people, including Steve Jobs, Mickey Mantle, Evil Knievel and David Crosby who, received […]

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Witness the unfolding campaign to strip your rights

| March 23, 2012 | 205 Comments
Witness the unfolding campaign to strip your rights

There’s a new angle in the campaign to strip you of your rights to defend your self with the Constitutional tools afforded to you. In the wake of the Martin shooting in Florida comes a recent op-ed piece by Tom Brown for Reuters masquerading as reporting the “case” being built for the deconstruction of so […]

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ABC News finds a nut

| March 22, 2012 | 8 Comments
ABC News finds a nut

Seriously, it must be the early Spring weather or something, but ABC News isn’t going along with the PTSD meme now; [T]here’s no evidence to indicate that people afflicted with [PTSD] are more likely than anyone else to commit crimes and acts of mass violence. They are more inclined, instead, to turn their aggression on […]

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Some things just aren’t news

| March 20, 2012 | 42 Comments
Some things just aren’t news

I guess I should say this publicly so some of you don’t think I’m ignoring you or your tips. This is my blog, that’s my real name at the bottom of this post, so I get to set policy here. All of that bullshit that you’ve been reading in that entity which calls itself our […]

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F!F!F!F!F!

| March 19, 2012 | 37 Comments
F!F!F!F!F!

USAToday link; “I hear that in World War II they only did 11-month tours of duty and then they rotated out,” says Fred LaMotte, 63, who teaches soldiers at Central Texas College. “That’s nothing compared to what these people are doing. Four tours of duty. That erodes the soul. For most soldiers, it’s just too […]

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