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... "Right now, the burden is all on the American soldiers. Right now, hope rides alone. But it can change, it must change. Because there is only failure and darkness ahead for us as a country, as a people, if it doesn’t. Let’s stop all the political nonsense, let’s stop all the bickering, let’s stop all the bad news, and let’s stand and fight! Isn’t that what America is about anyway?" ... It would seem to me that these words from fallen hero Sgt. Jeffers ought to be heard by every man, woman, and child in America. He and his family have paid the ultimate price so that people may one day live free from terror both in Iraq and here at home. Read Kit Lange's awesome article (" Hope Rides Alone ") about this hero and his final words home. (Thanks for all you do, Kit!) Here's just a snippet to get you started: ... "Eddie Jeffers was killed in Iraq this week, and though the only part of him I will ever know are the words he wrote to his countrymen, I feel as...

... "Our union members deserve steady employment for life as much as the autoworkers of Europe do,” said Mr. Gettelfinger." ... Read the full story by Scott Ott here: Union Plan: Cut GM Profits to Boost Job Security (Warning: do not attempt to drink during the reading of this story!)

A recent study found the average American walks about 900 miles a year. Another study found Americans drink, on average, 22 gallons of beer a year. That means, on average, Americans get about 41 miles to the gallon. ...kind of makes you proud to be an American, doesn't it? (Thanks for the chuckle, Cindy!)

As if Lee Bollinger hadn't already embarrassed his school enough, I was stunned to find that the collegiate audience at Ahmadinejad's maniacal rantings yesterday saw fit to boo him only once. Why? Well, not because he denies the Holocaust. No. Because he denies the existence of gays in his country. " In Iran we don't have homosexuals like in your country. We don't have that like in your country. ... In Iran we do not have this phenomenon. I don't know who's told you that we have this. " Yes, persecution of gays is wrong . As Americans, as human beings, we know that. Just as we know that persecution of Jews is wrong; and just as we know that denying historic fact is ludicrous. Where were the catcalls and boos from the learned audience on those topics? What the hell are they teaching at Columbia? Obviously there are no courses on logic, civility, and ethics.

Call me silly but I expected Barbra Streisand herself to open for Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on stage at Columbia. Unfortunately, Ahmadinejad's opening act, Columbia's president Lee Bollinger, was less gracious toward his guest than Babs might have been. The lack of manners on display by Mr. Bollinger in his opening remarks was startling not only to his guest speaker but to me. Not only has he performed a service for the Iranian propaganda machine but he's made Americans look like uncivil, graceless buffoons. Look, I'm no fan of Islamofascist thugs; however, I didn't see fit to invite one to speak, did I? Mr. Bollinger might as well have invited Conservatives to the school again and armed the audience with pies for the reception. Mr. Bollinger is receiving some kudos today for delivering a scathing introduction that some felt was Ahmadinejad's due. I will NOT applaud Bollinger's idiocy. Apparently, he only realized his massive mistake early enou...

I have to wonder why Columbia University would invite the man who is waging a proxy war against our troops and killing Americans on a regular basis to speak... The same militantly religious zealot who ships IEDs into Iraq... what might Columbia's students learn from his speech? This is the same school which denies American military recruiters access to its student body, which (I believe) bans the American ROTC from having a chapter on its campus, yet INVITES AN ISLAMOFACIST to speak to its student body. What type of recruiting might Columbia be endorsing?! Hypocrites. (Congrats to our troops for pulling Iranian Qud in for questioning! Nice work, guys!)

I am so very proud to announce that one of Kentucky's two Senators is officially a champion of fighting amnesty for illegal aliens -- Bravo, Senator Bunning!! Thank you for representing this Kentuckian so well. For those of you who don't follow the illegal immigration issue as closely, be advised that many Republican senators who backed down when it came time to take action on the McCain/Kennedy "comprehensive reform" this summer are now quietly backing piecemeal amendments instead. Sneaky and very un-Conservative of you, Senators! Senator McConnell has yet to declare his intention. I would assume, based on his track record , that he will back these smaller amendments unless he hears from his Kentucky constituency. He will certainly be hearing from me tonight. One of those aforementioned piecemeal amendments is coming up for a vote this week attached to a DoD funding bill. It's called the " DREAM Act " (Development Relief and Education for Alien Minors)...

Mark and I couldn't be in DC this weekend to be a part of the Gathering of Eagles III but we were with them in spirit. Apparently, the coverage of the Eagles' rally was a little broader and more fair-minded than the coverage that pro-victory rallies traditionally receive. What a refreshing change! Way to go, Eagles! I was surprised to find this paragraph in a piece on the WashingtonPost.com site: [...] Another speaker, Joe Johnson, described how his son was killed by an IED after only 10 days in Baghdad. "I'm so very proud of him," Johnson said. "I just wish I had the chance to tell him."Shouts from all across the crowd told Johnson, "He knows." [...] Watch Chris Hill's speech from the Gathering of Eagles rally on September 15th -- he says it all so well and with such passion. He certainly speaks for me here. Here are links to the 3-part video of the event from YouTube: Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Notice all the mass-produced yellow signs carrie...

There are times when most of us should just let a disgraceful and disgusting event speak for itself because the less ruckus that is made about it, the sooner it's lost to the public psyche. I was livid about the attack MoveOn.org launched against General Petraeus. You didn't see that anger vented here because I felt the slander they committed against a patriot spoke for itself. I have many friends and relatives who are registered Democrats; some may disagree with our presence in Iraq as part of our war against Islamofascism but none of them would have attacked a patriot like General Petraeus the way MoveOn attacked him. It's a shocking disgrace. The National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) has released a video on YouTube that asks a very good question: Democrats, is *this* what you voted for?! So, just who did Democrat voters elect? Good question. I wonder how many Democrats are actually aware of the answer... I know of a few right here in Kentucky who don't have...

When Germany and France elected Conservatives to power, they knew what they were doing, eh? Although praise for the United States occurs very seldom in anti-American Western Europe, it was different in Germany last week. Unreported by most media outlets, the largest potential terrorist attack on German soil since the Second World War that saw three men arrested, two of them German converts to Islam, was thwarted with considerable American help. As it turns out, according to a report in the German magazine, Der Spiegel , CIA officials had been working in close co-operation with German intelligence on this case for months, right up until the arrest of three suspects last week in an inconspicuous village in the state of North Rhineland-Westphalia. A joint team of American and German investigators had already been working in Berlin for some time on “Operation Alberich”, the name of a king in German mythology given to the project. US Secretary of Homeland Security, Michael Chertoff, told De...

Imagine the info we could have gotten had we only employed THIS particular torture device...

At this hour on 9/11/2001, I recall sitting at my computer at home engaged in an online group therapy session (chat room that employed text, audio, and video) with "cyberfriends" from around the world. In an hour when we were normally running "name that tune" type of music quizzes and trivia games, spouting nonsense and teasing the other team, we were instead keeping vigil with one of our group whose husband is a policeman on the NYPD. She hadn't heard from him all day since he was called to the World Trade Center after the first plane hit. At 2 AM the next morning, after being online all night with her, we were relieved to hear her exclaim, "I hear the door! That's got to be him!" She dropped the microphone and we chatted in text a while and waited. She never returned to the microphone. We all appreciated why. We were grateful that she was spared the agony that so many others faced that night and in the months afterward. Some, to this very day, st...

No doubt, this was courtesy of the Lemming Leftists who want to "bring our troops home." SCUMBAGS. (That was not the first label that came to mind, by the way.) Join the Gathering of Eagles this Saturday (9/15/07) in DC to express your outrage at the vandalism and your support for victory in our mission overseas. Support your troops!

Sign an online petition to Stand by the Mission in Iraq. Here is the full story and additional information on how to assist in getting the word out about this petition from an email I received earlier today due to my membership in a pro-victory group: WASHINGTON DC (September 10, 2007) – The debate over whether the Iraq mission led by General David Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan Crocker deserves continued support is raging not only in Washington but also in the blogosphere. Now, a grassroots petition supporting General Petraeus and his troops is making its way around the Internet. The petition was started by a group of leading veteran and military family organizations including Vets for Freedom, Families United for Our Troops and Their Mission, Military Families Voice of Victory, and Gathering of Eagles. Now, such leading Internet bloggers as Instapundit, LittleGreenFootballs and Captain's Quarters (respectively the third, fourth and sixth most popular Internet Blogs) have begun pro...

After the sham political theatre to which General David Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan Crocker were subjected in a Congressional "hearing" today, I was relieved to find Brit Hume doing a thoughtful and thorough interview with these two gentlemen this evening (" Briefing for America "). How refreshing to be able to hear them both fully without the windy grandstanding from politicians! Thank you, thank you, thank you Fox News, Brit Hume, General Petraeus and Ambassador Crocker! I feel more informed and less harrassed tonight after watching this special broadcast. For those of you who would like a glimpse at how General Petraeus portrays the current state of affairs in Iraq to his troops, click here . (Thank you for publishing this, StrategyPage.com !) Frank, respectful, and honorable. I think those words are probably ones you would hear from troops serving with General Petraeus too. Here's the good news as far as I could tell: The surge is working; because of the...

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take something out of context and put it in a TV ad. Well, at least if you're a Liberal anti-war relic. Thank God Republicans are finally fighting back against this sort of propaganda! Anti-McConnell Ad Pulled Down Public Campaign Action Fund ad was deceptive WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, the NRSC successfully challenged the legality of a Public Campaign Action Fund ad that was set to air tonight against U.S. Senator Mitch McConnell in Kentucky. According to the Lexington Herald-Leader, "[a] national group that favors public financing of elections will air ads starting today that criticize Republican U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell by accusing him of using his influence to help a firm with connections. But McConnell's camp responded that several charges are 'patently false' in the 30-second spot..." (Herald-Leader, 9/6/07) Under challenge from the NRSC General Counsel's office, at least one local Kentucky television station has refused to air the ad. Several more...

I'm betting on the little girl because, no matter what you call it, she's gonna kick it! (Warning: Don't watch this with little kids in the room unless you want to undo this language lesson later.) Enjoy!

... "And speaking at a forum organized by Lance Armstrong on cancer research, Hillary Clinton told Chris Matthews if she is elected president, she will declare war on cancer, and then she will support the war on cancer for two years, and then she will be against it for a year, and then she will back out of it all together." -- Jay Leno, host of NBC's "Tonight Show." (This was sent my way by one of the last Conservatives left in New England. Yep, our friend Joe (aka "VentryBay"). Thanks for the laugh, Joe!)

Sent to me by an unnamed source: The University of Kentucky football practice was delayed nearly two hours yesterday after a player reported finding an unknown white powdery substance on the practice field. The head coach immediately suspended practice while Lexington police and federal investigators were called to investigate. After a complete analysis, FBI forensic experts determined that the white substance unknown to the players was the goal line. Practice was resumed after special agents decided the team was unlikely to encounter the substance again. Okay, now I'll reveal my source: Thanks to Tammy for sending an oldie but a goodie my way! hehehe ;-) GO CARDS!!