Daily Archives: November 13th, 2007 «

 

Project Valour-IT update

Posted by: ST on November 13, 2007 at 10:10 pm » 1 Comment

Yesterday was the official “end” of the friendly Project Valour-IT fundraising competiton between military service branches, but as you can see from the graphic on the left, Soldiers Angels’ fell well short of their goals (it was like that for all branches, not just the Marines). Holly Aho, the team leader for the Marine branch, [...]

 

Can we question their patriotism yet?

Posted by: ST on November 13, 2007 at 9:13 pm » 4 Comments

Time magazine reports on what happened on Veterans Day to one Missouri couple’s display of flags for each of our fallen soldieres in Iraq: Almost as soon as Ann and Don Bender marked the 4th of July by planting a field of more than 3,500 flags — one for each of the American troops killed [...]

 

Bush vetoing pork bills like he should have been vetoing all along

Posted by: ST on November 13, 2007 at 8:46 pm » 1 Comment

His vetoing of the health and education bill Democrats sent to him, which supposedly had “strong bipartisan support,” is obviously welcome from conservatives, considering the significant amount of pork ($10 bil) attached to it. Sure would have been nice to see him rein in spending from the Republican Congresses he had just as much as [...]

 

The endurance of love in the face of Alzheimer’s disease

Posted by: ST on November 13, 2007 at 8:16 pm » 1 Comment

Many of us learned a lot more about Alzheimer’s through the great President Reagan, after it was announced via a handwritten letter he wrote in 1994, at the age of 83, that he had been diagnosed with the disease. The more we have learned over the years and continue to learn about the disease, whether [...]

 

Debunking media/Dem myths: Revisiting the controversial 2002 Max Cleland ad

Posted by: ST on November 13, 2007 at 12:48 pm » 4 Comments

Back in 2002, Senator Max Cleland’s Republican opponent Saxby Chambliss ran a critical ad which criticized Cleland’s dismal record on the Homeland Security bill. Democrats have relentlessly criticized that ad, and used it as a call to arms of sorts – as they have the Swift Boat Vet ads – against the alleged “smear tactics” [...]

 

The 0 for 40 Congressional Democrats

Posted by: ST on November 13, 2007 at 9:01 am » 23 Comments

Jim VandeHei and John F. Harris at The Politico write this morning about the Democratic Congress’ track record on legislation they’ve attempted to pass which would limit the president’s ability to command the war in Iraq: As the congressional session lurches toward a close, Democrats are confronting some demoralizing arithmetic on Iraq. The numbers tell [...]