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Rumor Doctor’s top ten diagnosis of 2010
Our newest fan, Jeff Schogol, known as the Rumor Doctor at Stars & Stripes sends us a link to his top ten rumor busters of 2010. It includes “Is Taylor Swift a Chinese spy”, the rumor that Air Force recruits get inoculations with square needles, and the real origin of that red “blood” stripe Marines […]
NYT: cut our military during this war
In the New York Times this weekend was an opinion piece written by a journalist Nicholas Kristof who advocates cutting military spending while we’re engaged in a war beyond our borders. Now I read Mr. Kristof’s biography and I don’t see a thing that qualifies him to make such a statement…well, other than the fact […]
IVAW in your hometown
Yesterday, a young soldier home on leave to his hometown for the holiday season found this article in his local newspaper; Iraq War veterans Aaron Hughes of Chicago, Scott Kimble of Champaign, and Brock McIntosh of Normal spoke about Operation Recovery, which opposes sending troops with PTSD, Traumatic Brain Injury, and Military Sexual Trauma back […]
Forget all of that other stuff you’ve done
All of that war-fighting you’ve done…all of that showing up when your country called and the rest of the men your age cowered in their Basket Weaving 101 class. When you volunteered and your peers scooted off to Canada. When your peers were spitting on you and you didn’t punch their stupid faces in. When […]
Bush tax rates become “Landmark tax bill”
Those extreme tax cuts of nearly a decade ago? Well, they’ve become a “Landmark Tax Bill” in the pages of the Washington Post when President Obama signs his name to them. As recently as August, Lori Montgomery of the Washington Post said; A Republican plan to extend tax cuts for the rich would add more […]
dicksmith and Wikileaks
Over at VetVoice, dicksmith uses the arrest of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange as an excuse to call former Lieutenant Colonel Allen West a war criminal again when West expresses a concern that certain US media releases classified documents to the public endangering our national security; It never ceases to amaze me how much these people, […]
US guns vacationing in Mexico
ROS sent us a link to a series in the Washington Post, “The Hidden Life of Guns” that I’ve been following the last few months about US guns purchased legally from gun shops ending up in the Mexican drug wars and nationwide crimes. I’ll admit that the Post did a lot of work uncovering the […]
Joe Klein: Empty vessel
ROS sent me a link to Joe Klein’s review of George W. Bush’s book “Decision Points” and it shows what an empty head sits on Joe Klein’s shoulders. First you must remember that Joe Klein was the “Anonymous” who wrote “Primary Colors”, the vacant worship of Bill Clinton during his 1992 campaign. The Clinton administration […]
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