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).
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:
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 he has the Dem Congress, tho.
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 it be through reading about it or watching a loved one suffer from it, the more it was and is understood what a truly devastating disease Alzheimer’s is.
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” used by Republicans in order to win an election. The claim (scroll) has always been some variation of Cleland’s face supposedly being morphed into Osama’s or Saddam’s, or both.
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:
