When you win a Medal of Honor, unfortunately, it usually means you’re dead - acts of bravery extreme enough to warrant one of them typically end up with the recipient dying.
Unfortunately, that was the case with Petty Officer Michael A. Monsoor.
Monsoor was part of a sniper security team in Ramadi with three other SEALs and […]
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Iraq on March 31st, 2008
I’ve already written that Mitt Romney would be a great choice for John McCain to pick as his vice presidential candidate. It looks like this is becoming a possibility.
Associated Press:
In a show of Republican unity, one-time bitter foes John McCain and Mitt Romney raised money and campaigned together Thursday for a single goal - getting […]
I’m no Thomas Aquinas, Duns Scotus, or St. Augustine, so part of me is saying “hey, you’re not intellectually qualified by any means to say anything of substance in a ‘Defense of God’ post.”
But I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night, so here goes.
Holy Bleep, the Universe Exists
I like to wonder how […]
The race for the Democratic nomination is much more interesting when there’s nothing for the candidates to do but make trouble.
It all seemed to start when footage Obama’s former (or current? I don’t know) pastor started getting played over and over again on Fox News.
[Note: That which appears in my normal “quotes” box here aren’t […]
According to Jane’s Country Risk, the United States isn’t the world’s most stable and prosperous nation - and it’s not even in the top twenty. We rank in at #22, behind countries like the United Kingdom, Sweden, and the Vatican.
How did they rate it? Observe:
under the rating system, which took into account each nation’s political […]
The same guy, James Thomson of University of Wisconsin-Madison who started the embryonic stem cell debate effectively ended it when he and Shinya Yamanaka of Japan announced that you can match cells from human skin, without using embryos.
A moral debate has collapsed under the weight of scientific progress. Says the New York Times:
Now with […]
Someone from a right-to-life organization at UCLA made some news recently when they called in to Planned Parenthood of Idaho, asking to make a donation specifically to aid in the killing of black infants.
What’s the crazy thing about this story (aside from the fact that killing babies is legal)? The representative at Planned Parenthood in Idaho was ready to […]
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Abortion on March 21st, 2008
Obama was supposed to give a speech on race, but instead we got the Communist Manifesto.
This speech had many failings, so let’s try to tackle them chronologically, in the order they appeared in his speech.
First,
What we have already achieved gives us hope – the audacity to hope – for what we can and must achieve […]
Yesterday the Supreme Court debated a longtime Washington D.C. ban on handguns as it pertains to the U.S. Constitution. Hippies and hicks alike protested outside the Supreme Court with opposing signs like “guns kill” and “guns are an American right.”
The day ended as hicks celebrated the delibrations by breaking whiskey bottles, shooting their guns into […]
Barack Obama gave a speech about race and Jeremiah Wright today, addressing it sort of in the same way Mitt Romney did about Mormonism.
If I was his speechwriter, here’s what I would have come up with.
Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for coming out today. I talk to you here today in the city of Philadelphia, […]