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Vindication for Gen. David Petraeus

It’s no secret by now – to the thinking classes, anyway – that Gen. David Petraeus has been vindicated by the successes we’ve seen take place in Iraq over the last year and a half. The General that the far left has for years loved to hate – even going so far as to take a nasty ad out on him in the NYT that strongly implied he was a “traitor” – has more than proved his worth to the US military, to coalition forces in Iraq, and to those of us here stateside who always believed that the war in Iraq was a worthy cause, and one worth winning......   [Read More]

Stuck on Stupid: Rep. Murtha says he’d house Gitmo prisoners in his district

Most of you have already heard today about the news articles that came out today about how tomorrow, President Obama is supposed to issue an executive order to shut down Gitmo Bay within the year. As if that’s not bad enough, today Rep. John Murtha, infamous for slandering our Marines over the Haditha controversy, offered to house the detainees in his district:.....   [Read More]

Rep. Murtha steps in it again

First, there was the without-merit accusation that “… it looks like it’s the policy of our troops to do something like this” he made in response to the allegations that several Marines deliberately shot and killed 24 innocent civilians in Haditha in November 2005. This is a position he hasn’t backed down on, even though the charges against all seven of the eight Marines charged have been dismissed (Marine Staff Sgt. Frank Wuterich is expected to be court martialed in the fall)......   [Read More]

The media’s dereliction of duty in the Jena 6 case

By now we are all familiar with the mainstream media’s penchant for sloppy, sometimes non-existent factchecking, in addition to their exaggerations and lies (some of them deliberate), which all lead to news reports that – instead of informing the people as they are supposed to, grossly misinform the reader which, in turn, leads to mininformation being spread across the country (and world) as “fact” – and at that point, a popular myth is born, a myth that rarely gets revisited by the very journalists who aided in creating it in the first place. And even in the rare cases they do revisit, it’s usually too late. The damage has already been done......   [Read More]