Lauer gets a lesson on troop morale
You will absolutely love this! Click below to see/hear what one Captain serving in Iraq had to say about Matt Lauer’s question on troop morale:
Air America scandal – the latest
While the MSM’s coverage of the Air America scandal has been, to put it mildly, tepid, Michelle Malkin and Brian Maloney from Radio Equalizer are all over this one. See this post and this one for more.
Extending thoughts and prayers
…. to blogger Kobayashi Maru and his family. Kobayashi found out yesterday that his brother’s leukemia is back – for the third time – and has been given a 5% chance to live. My prayers go out to his family at this time. If you get some time today, please visit KM’s blog and say hello.
“You’re a chickenhawk so you can’t comment!”
I run into this quite a bit and I’m sure many of you have as well. You start discussing the Iraq war, defending the President’s rationale for sending over 100K troops into harms way, and inevitably the argument breaks down to: “Well if you’re so gung ho, why don’t YOU sign up to serve?” Or “You don’t have family serving, so how dare you advocate this war!” Well, in a Townhall.com piece today, Ben Shapiro rips apart the arguments of those who claim that “chickenhawks” aren’t qualified to discuss national security issues: