This Tuesday, 4 December the Congress will return to “work” after a 14-day Thanksgiving vacation. Further, they intend final adjournment on 21 December. That leaves 17 calendar days for them to enact major money legislation to keep the...
“One who loves his country and zealously supports its authority and interests” is the definition of “Patriot” in Webster’s New Collegiate Dictionary. If this definition is valid, and I believe that it is, then many politicians can no longer wave the...
All countries have their holidays and seasons to celebrate their uniqueness, when their citizens take justifiable pride in their country’s achievements. Thanksgiving is America’s Day, the time when all Americans get to celebrate the...
I truly can not believe that our Congress is deliberately refusing to fund our troops while they are in combat!!! Does anyone think that this fails to encourage our enemies? Can this fail to discourage our troops? Having lead soldiers in combat in...
Every report I can get from the folks on the ground in Iraq indicates that there has been a sudden shift in the environment of the battlefield.While many of the native Iraqi are uneducated, they’re not stupid. They do know who it is that is trying...
Oh, my gosh! There’s good news from the battlefield! Almost all reports from the folks in Iraq state that there has been a sudden shift in the pulse of battlefield. Sometimes without much warning thousands of once disgruntled Sunni have turned on al...
Friends: The horrible way the Cut-and-Run part of Congress and the Hit-and-Run media have treated GEN Petreaus is literally unforgiveable. After some thought I have concluded that the wild-eyed liberals can accuse that honorable general of lying...
Twenty-eight thousand of our troops have been wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan. But many got home only to be neglected by the veterans care system. The Scty of Vets Affairs has, correctly, resigned. Now a presidential blue-ribbon panel has made...
I teach American Government at Grand Rapids Community College. Lately, as I drive to the campus, there are often a group of, well, foolish sheep, who stand near one of the main intersections in town holding up signs that protest the war in Iraq and...
An AP story entitled, Guantanamo detainee kills self, appeared a month ago. The final part of the article said that the defense attorneys working there felt that “the death likely was an act of desperation at a prison camp where detainees are denied...