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Poor President Bush, so hated by "the world" and yet so incredibly popular at home. We all know why he's popular - he's a man of his word, he doesn't bend with political winds, he's willing to take the hard road and he means what he says. There's one other president in our hemisphere who resembles him, a man in the middle of another terror war whose inhumanly vicious enemies have tried to assassinate him two times in the past week, adding to a long string of other efforts. And his response has been like President Bush's - to defy...

The current war in Iraq and operations in Afghanistan, my personal recollections and the television interviews with veterans from wars past remind me of the adage that the more things change the more they remain the same. There is an incredible outpouring of support from the home front to our men and women under fire way over there. Bumper stickers, websites, and Herculean efforts from organizations and private citizens have all converged to send support, love, prayers and badly needed personal comfort items to our warriors. Don’t think for a minute that these efforts are not deeply and personally appreciated...

I am starting a new website dedicated to the Brave Heroes in our lives. The media is telling the negative stories from the front lines. Someone needs to make sure the great stories are told so our men and women come home to open arms. This site is not limited to war stories, or recent stories. It should include all rescue scenarios, with police, and fire-fighters. Please check out www.BraveHero.com send stories to the clickable e-mail. (Do not send me stories to publish through this thread.) Thank you, God bless you, and God bless America.

I am starting a new website dedicated to the Brave Heroes in our lives. The media is telling the negative stories from the front lines. Someone needs to make sure the great stories are told so our men and women come home to open arms. This site is not limited to war stories, or recent stories. It should include all rescue scenarios, with police, and fire-fighters. Please check out www.BraveHero.com send stories to the clickable e-mail. (Do not send me stories to publish through this thread.) Thank you, God bless you, and God bless America.

Voters in November leapt before they looked when approving Proposition 71, an initiative that creates a $3 billion California stem cell research institute headed by a 29-member oversight committee. In coming days, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and other elected officers will finish appointments to the committee. Those picks could determine whether this landmark research effort ends up financing medical breakthroughs or boondoggles. Called the Independent Citizens Oversight Committee, this panel will have tremendous power but little accountability. It will be the final grant maker on $3 billion in research and building funds over 10 years. The committee - which meets Dec....

Italy's Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has always been deeply valued as a friend to the us in the U.S. for his unwavering support in the war on terror. He's also Europe's staunchest defender of Israel, and seeks to help Israel not only on security matters but economic matters, too, insisting that Israel too be allowed to join the EU. And further still, Berlusconi's spirited defense of the Judeo-Christian values that created Western civilization signal he is a man of great intellectual depth. We admire him for his brilliant political skills, bringing out Italy's first stable postwar government by cobbling together...

<p>"Raymond's gun was the only one that was still working. He fought them to a bitter end," Henry White said.</p>

U.S. AIR FORCE Two of Four Quads Experience Life in Iraq By Master Sgt. Debbie Aragon 407th Air Expeditionary Group Public Affairs TALLIL AIR BASE, Iraq, July 30, 2004 — One is the older, “more mature” sister, freely giving advice and guiding her younger sibling -- even if she is only senior by about two minutes. The sisters, two of a set of quadruplets born to Joanne and Reginald L. Brown Sr., are deployed here together from their home units at Kadena Air Base, Japan. Airman 1st Class Lattrice Goldsby, a fire protection journeyman with the 407th Expeditionary Civil Engineer...

It was after that night, September 20, 2001, that I knew, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that I was in full support of President Bush. No question. And I continue to be.

There is a poster with a screen name of "timwhit" who posts daily martyr threads on our traditional Catholic forum. These posts highlight martyrs throughout history who were killed, tortured or are being celebrated on that particular day. Timwhit dutifully posts them every single day, without fail. What a wonderful person to pay hommage to these people who thanklessly gave their lives (sometimes in the most horrific of ways) for our Lord and our faith. I make it a point to read timwhit's martyr thread every day, I'm often touched by what these dedicated people who came before us went...

THEY came together for one last walk with old comrades and the ghosts of their brothers who stayed forever young. They're smaller now these survivors of the Longest Day. Frail, stooped, white-haired and wide-girthed are the great liberators today. They hobble more than march, deep breaths puff out their cheeks and many need a stick, an arm or a chair to fight the ravages of time. But they still have razor-sharp creases in their trousers and shoes they can see their lined faces in. Their barrel chests still fill with pride at the medals they bear. Medals which set them...

Bravely bold Sir Kerry Rode forth to VietNam. He was not afraid to die, Oh brave Sir Kerry. He was not at all afraid To be killed in nasty ways. Brave, brave, brave, brave Sir Kerry. He was not in the least bit scared To be mashed into a pulp. Or to have his eyes gouged out, And his elbows broken. To have his kneecaps split And his body burned away, And his limbs all hacked and mangled Brave Sir Kerry. His head smashed in And his heart cut out And his liver removed And his bowls unplugged And his...

God Bless these fine young ladies and those sons and daughters just like them. The world is a better place for having known Michelle Witmer.

I dont know if anybody here has seen the pictures of journalists counting bodies at the DrudgeReport, but it sure ticks me off. The Military ought to stop this right now and not allow civilian journalists to belittle our dead in such away, its creepy and disrespectful. The military has there own guys who do such work and if the civilian press does not like it thats to damn bad.

Newlywed Gays Brave Critics in Search of Security Fri Mar 12, 3:43 PM ET By Teresa Carson PORTLAND, Ore. (Reuters) - Daffodils line the walkway, a tricycle sits by the front door and family photos are proudly displayed on the shelves in the house where two-and-a-half year-old Avery is trying to finagle himself a cookie. This tranquil domestic scene belies the turmoil, including death threats, lawsuits, Bible thumping and a bitter national debate prompted by this family and others like it. Avery's parents, both women, just got married. Kelly Burke, 34, and Dolores Doyle, 38, have been together for 16...

Amazing Bush Secret Kept With Iraq Visit Nov 28, 6:30 AM (ET By TERENCE HUNT President Bush holds up turkey during a surprise visit to troops at Baghdad airport Thursday, Nov. 27, 2003. ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE (AP) - Three hours from landing on a high-risk visit to Baghdad, President Bush was most anxious about keeping it a secret. "I was fully prepared to turn this baby around, come home," Bush said later aboard Air Force One. To everyone's amazement the secrecy held. The world did not learn that Bush had spent 2 1/2 hours Thursday on a Thanksgiving Day...

SAT IN BUSH'S SEAT GUY: [Kathryn Jean Lopez] Another e-mail worth sharing: [from NRO's "The Corner" section] All these people accusing Bush of grandstanding are know-nothing schlubs. Most of what they know about the military they got from watching J.A.G. on TV. I was in the Navy and had occasion to land on the U.S.S. Kennedy once. It was one of the most frightening things I ever did. The pilot literally crashes the plane intentionally on the deck and at the point of impact jams the throttle to full power. A hook grabs a steel cable stretched across the deck...

HE WAS carried on the shoulders of weeping comrades, a band of brothers who were clearly desolated by his loss, but comforted in the knowledge that war inevitably claims the bravest and the best first. In that belief, there was great comfort to be found in Perth yesterday as the city gave its final salute to Lance Corporal Barry "Baz" Stephen, a soldier who wore the blue bonnet and red hackle with honour. L-Cpl Stephen, 31, of the 1st Battalion Black Watch, was, in the words of those he left behind, the bravest - the only Scottish soldier to die...

Last week a local wanted to have a support rally for the troops, Bush, and the war in general. They organized it in a smaller community area in Las Vegas and well over 2000 people showed up. On the local news I heard them talking that the organizers were planning what would be the largest US support rally in history, and it's to take place in 2 weeks, more info to come.Anyone know more info about this, please post a reply !

The average age of the military man is 19 years. He is a short haired, tight-muscled kid who, under normal circumstances is considered by society as half man, half boy. Not yet dry behind the ears, not old enough to buy a beer, but old enough to die for his country. He never really cared much for work and he would rather wax his own car than wash his father's; but he has never collected unemployment either. He's a recent High School graduate; he was probably an average student, pursued some form of sport activities, drives a ten year old...