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Even in Vietnam, we Marines could depend upon close air support which was miraculously accurate - shooting down individual buildings, people and vehicles from the skies. I cannot remember one time in Vietnam when my squadron would not respond to a call for help from fellow Marines and others, who were in a "hot zone," needing immediate firepower from the skies. Tip Of The Hat to those Marine, Air Force, Army, and Navy jet and helicopter pilots. jc From Various Sources. . .    Lt Colonel Dan Hampton  May 15 2013U.S. Air Force Lieutenant Colonel (Ret.) Dan Hampton flew...

At least, the Chechen President agrees with me,"Seek the roots of this evil in America," where the Tsnarnaevs were raised," said Ramzan Kadyrov. Islamic ideals, no doubt, were a driving force that drove the Brothers Tamerlan crazy, but there may be joint liability for their radical thoughts, then actions. I by no means am excusing the monsters. They made the decision to kill, no matter who inspired them to hate America. How did Tamerlan Tsarnaev slip by the FBI? Oh, wait a minute - that's President Obama's and Eric Holder's FBI, who have nearly affirmed that, "There is no such thing as...

These are very close to the words I have heard spoken by a number of  liberal white and especially black politicos, who refuse to seriously address the rampant violent crime problem experienced in our larger Democrat cities. Its as if anyone who shouts out about the carnage of black on black crime is immediately castigated as a racist.  The term "racist" has forever been associated with The Man, or The Power people, IOW whites, so that it is unthinkable that blacks can actually even be capable of hating whites. But, that is what many of us feel - hatred - from black...

How many Brits will freeze to death this year in the United Kingdom? Evidently, from my viewing the weekly Parliament Questions to the Prime Minister, shown on C-SPAN, it does not matter a heck of a lot who may die because of a lack of home heating energy. What matters, even in the UK under the leadership of a "conservative" is, "Will the the United Kingdom be closing down its coal, gas, nuclear, and oil plants fast enough to satisfy the carbon taxing which will be accelerated in the coming months and years?" In November 2012, this headline hit the United Kingsom' Daily Mail, 24,000 Freeze To Death Last...

Since Hispanics,as well as most Democrats, are for big government and big liberal media, Republicans can only regain the Presidency by waiting for President Barack Hussein Obama's mistakes to become as conspicuous as his Democrat presidential predecessors. President Obama has made too many mortal mistakes to mention, so far, but the Dems have hidden his disastrous decisions better than FDR's legs, Clinton's Lewinsky affair, and Jimmy Carter's high inflation. A recent survey, as mentioned by Rush Limbaugh, shows that American Hispanics desire big government, so that plants them firmly in the Democrat camp, although  Hispanic Americans escaped from a big government and crony...

Senator Rob Portman has made the same fatal mistake as many Neo Christians have, just as his fellow Methodists have by admitting: "I wrestled with how to reconcile my Christian faith with my desire for Will to have the same opportunities to pursue happiness and fulfillment as his brother and sister. Ultimately, it came down to the Bible’s overarching themes of love and compassion and my belief that we are all children of God...." Portman's  Methodist "faith" has been embracing homosexuality, for years, as part of God's "Overarching themes of love," which might have anyone believe that adultery, murder,...

All it takes is for one or two drones, which are easy to lose  control of, drop out of the sky and bonk a couple of people, or crash into a building, and then the drones program in U.S. will be kaput for all the law enforcement agencies. Below are a few examples of drones that go missing, just like the one spotted near JFK airport recently. It is easy for these drones, which come in various sizes and shapes, to get lost or comandeered by someone with a Radio Shack rc controller. And why does CONUS need drones?...

When I heard the inevitable, that Obama, Leon Panetta, and General Dempsey  finally caved into the ACLU, which sued to push women into hot combat zones, I thought back to my tour in Vietnam, when we would fly our Marine helicopters into Landing Zones which were north of the DMZ, and inhabited by Marine grunts - for months at a time. The guys were, quite remarkably, in good spirit, but hadn't bathed, of course, for weeks or more, and  many people  would say they were living like animals in an outpost far, far out there in the boonies of, literally, no...

Neither the media,nor prominent liberal whites, or African Americans will address the  actual problem with  those people responsible for the vast majority of  gun killings on the streets of our large Democrat cities.Nearly 500 street homicides has given Chicago murder capital status, and most of it is black on black murder, yet Chicago's Mayor Rahm Emanuel, and Chicago's Jesse Jackson turn deaf ears and blind eyes to the killings while traipsing off to Washington D.C. to lobby against easy access to guns and ammunition for the majority of America's  non killing firearm owners - outside of Chicago. We have not heard...

Sirs, You have turned the National Cathedral into a national disgrace. I am glad that most people, now, do not associate the National Cathedral with Christianity, just as most Episcopalians are also anathema to the faith. Someone at NC has said that "Gays are children of God." But what God? The Bible says that all humans are God's "offspring" via Adam, but that unless you are born again into the family of God, you are not a child of God as bought by His Only Begotten Son Jesus's shed blood. Your mockery of the things of God will surely end...

The Obama administration and the Secretary of State all blame the "fog of war" for their disastrous Ben Ghazi blunder. When Hillary Clinton gets sick, she goes AWOL. When its very obvious that American soldiers "go crazy," they are condemned to death. That's what the U.S. Army is seeking in the case of Staff Sgt Robert Bales. (CNN) -- A U.S. soldier accused of killing 16 Afghan villagers in a shooting rampage could face the death penalty if he is found guilty in a court-martial. Our DOD  (Department Of Defense) always wanting to prove how holier than thou they are by...

Adam Lanza (Connecticut School Kid Killer), Jared Loughner (Killed and wounded, including Gabby Giffords), T.J. Lane (Recently killed fellow classmates in Chardon Ohio) ,Brogan Rafferty (Teen conspired to kill Craigslist job applicants), James Holmes (Shot up theater dressed as orange haired Batman Joker), SeungHui Choi (Virginia Tech Massacre), Anders Brevik (2011 Norway Attacks) I cannot recall a time in U.S. history where there was such a proliferation of younger conscienceless males, who created so much death and destruction in one generation  in American society - outside of war. Even during the Vietnam Era, many of us returning vets were admittedly "not quite right," but we were...

The carton below is from Soviet Communist Russian times. You can see how the capitalist system is depicted as slavery - the opposite of how communism works, IE., free money, multiplied and returned to the worker - in the right frame. Tell me Obama does not think differently. And, as many Americans kill off Christmas as the celebration of the birth of Jesus, so the Soviets replaced Saint Nick with "Father Frost" - a man who gives out presents because he is a generous communist. From Wikipedia Ded Moroz "Following the Russian Revolution, Christmas traditions were actively discouraged because they...

Cleveland, Oh Black Dem Representative Marcia Fudge: "Questioning Susan Rice Is Racist and Sexist"  South Carolina, Black Dem Representative Jim Clyburn: "Criticism Of Susan Rice Is Racism" They are back. Fresh after the presidential election, Democrats are hardly the "good losers." Yes, they are the losers, they will find, for voting him back in. But in trying to gain some sort of moral superiority, libs are throwing out the race card and race baiting like never before. Race baiting has come back with a vengeance since many have questioned U.N. representative Susan Rice's competency. Anyone who questions the woman's...

Not certain if Chris Christie (notice the double Christian appellations)  was fully serious or half serious, but I think he has been listening to Someone. I have often joked about the extreme liberalness of the Eastern Seaboard folks - for its  academics, for its worship of money, for being the center of liberal media, and not least, for producing Jersey Shore. I don't think Governor Chris Christie is completely joking when comparing his state's devastation to Biblical scale plagues. No matter Who or what  the cause, we should never gloat in the misery/judgment of others.Can it be purely coincidental that Katrina, September...

St. Paul said, "If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable." 1 Cor 15:19. Of course, I was disappointed Romney lost, but it is not as if the Bolsheviks have toppled and killed the Czar and his family, yet. President Obama will not have an easy time this next four years, and it is very hard to foresee the nation's economy increasing, much less our morality - which is the engine of a prosperous nation as opposed to pure economic gain. China could be doing much better with its regimented society working for...

In New York City, lines can be miles long waiting for gasoline. Fights, muggings, and store lootings have risen dramatically as the racehorse complexed inhabitants in The City So Nice They Named It Twice are already rumbling. The  muted response of  Obama's Federal Emergency Management Agency is yet another problem plaguing those citizens, because of a seeming slowness to manage the many post hurricane problems, like power outages, flooded homes, water born diseases, raw sewage, industrial chemicals and only God-knows-what else. In the meantime, little Napoleon, NY Mayor Bloomberg, is diverting rehab resources toward setting up the New York Marathon. New Yorkers normally are...

I heard a radio host say this morning that "Huckabee is being quoted all over the internet that "If you vote for Obama, you are going to hell." Of course, the liberal host did not check out the quote but merely mimicked the Daily Kos, Slate, Democratic Underground,  and a host of  other lying liberal outlets.I had a chance to call the host and rebuke him - in a Biblical manner, of course. Huckabee did say, simply, ""Your vote will affect the future and be recorded in eternity." This benign, vanilla comment was taken badly by the left as some sort of...

Comrades, If President Obama is not reelected, we will not be able to enjoy a free trip to Mother Russia,  who will  supply us with  a beautiful place to live with plenty of sheep and abundant snow. And Not Be Able To Enjoy The Great Fellowship In Rustic Lodge With Broheims Nice Scenic Train Ride To Camp, Comrades Plenty Of Exercise For Fellow Travelers Cozy Resting Place  Free Uniforms For Communist Party Members Free Reading Material During Leisure Times Pinup Posters For Wall Decoration In Living Quarters And Worse Of All Comrades - We Will Not Get Free Education At Reeducation Camp To Learn...

When questioned about his role in the Benghazi fiasco by Bryan Williams of NBC News, President Obama answered  by reconfirming that he was going to defend women's rights by making available an unlimited lifetime supply of abortions and contraceptives.

Call it "postjudice,"or the making of a decision after examining gobs of evidence. I could not watch President Obama speak so peevishly and snarkily last night without also remembering so many of his cold and inhumane decisions, like voting as an Illinois  Senator to allow newborn babies, which escaped the abortionist's deadly scalpel, to lay until dead in the back room of a hospital's baby delivery room. I could not unremember him referring to the brutal rape and torture of ambassador Stevens as a "bump in the road," instigated by a "hateful anti Moslem video." Where were you, Mitt, on that one?  I could...

As we look forward, or not, to Monday's final Presidential debate focused on U.S. foreign policy, it should be a slam dunk for Romney to expose the incomprehensible diplomatic policies of President Obama, Hillary Clinton, D.O.S, Susan Rice, representative to the United Nations, and everyone else connected to United States foreign policy decisions, including the Pentagon, CIA, NSA etc. Obama has admitted that, "The Buck Stops Here," and Hillary Clinton has taken full responsibility for the Benghazi attacks with the reservation that there was bad decision making because of the Fog of War. Too bad they never gave W Bush the same tolerance when he...

We have several  generations of Americans now living who have never been exposed to such principles as "Do Not Covet Thy Neighbor's Goods (or wife, for that matter), nor have they been trained in the harm  evoked from not loving thy neighbor as themselves. A secular society can only breed selfishness, envy, and greed. And, God forbid that they have ever entertained the dangerous consequences of committing any or all of the Seven Deadly Sins: Wrath, Greed, Sloth, Pride, Lust, Envy, and Gluttony. The entire Democrat philosophy,platform, ideology can be summed up in their desire to take, redistribute, or otherwise steal their...

Now Is The Time For All Good Men To Come To The Aid Of Their Country by sending a   Facebook message to Joint Chief of Staff Chairman Army General Martin Dempsey at http://www.facebook.com/GENDempsey In the past few days, General Dempsey railed against an 18 year combat veteran, Lieutenant Colonel Matthew Dooley, for teaching a course Perspectives on Islam and Radical Islamization, which rightly portrays a segment of Islam as "radical." Who would guess? For all practical purposes, Lieutenant Colonel Dooley's decorated career is over, because of this dressing down from the highest military command.According to reports, 57 Islamic organizations petitioned President Obama to "severely discipline"...

Is it the way he jogs up to the Presidential podium, as his  fists bounce together  in perfect timing? Is it his slim figure decked out in high-end designer, Hart Schaffner Marx (Yes, Marx, no kidding) suits that gets the attention of  contraceptive hungry young ladies? Maybe, its Obama's hanging with the in crowd like the Limp Pimp, Jay Z/Beyonce, or George Clooney. Why does one of the Judd girls (Naomi?) fawn over him? Eva Longoria loves him, according to a recent commercial,  and she, if anyone, knows a good man, or should I say she has known a number of...

It must be laziness (no racialist intention here) that accompanied President Obama into the Denver auditorium to debate (or try to) Mitt Romney. The President has become so accustomed to speaking to his suckupophants, that he imagined it would be a breeze overwhelming Mitt with his now challenged charisma. For years, Obama has staged press conferences with the adoring press tossing him softees,except for some lone Fox wolves giving him a little jab here and there. Everywhere the President has traveled,  campaigning for the past 4 years, his devotees have filled his venues, exploding with rapturous cheer wherever his holiness appeared. Now...

Yes, the same Army General who has bent over frontwards to welcome gays into the military, and the same Army General who called Florida Pastor Terry Jones begging him not to air the video about Mohammad, has again put his 4 Star General hat in his hand, reciting the Obama apologist - to everything- view - that our Unites States troops abroad may need more sensitivity training. With these sort of people at the supreme head of our armed forces, have we lost our ability to identify enemies, much less ever again beat them? 4 Star Army General Chairman...

Wherever you see the American flag burning, you can guess that either the American Left or violent Islamists are nearby. There are thousands and thousands of anti Islamic and anti Mohammad videos and other compositions online and in books that have been easily accessible - for years in the United States and other Western countries, yet Hillary Clinton - Secretary of State, Susan Rice - Ambassador to the United Nations, and President Obama   have pleaded with the Moslem world that, "The United  States government has had nothing to do with the video." In fact, it is the has been the...

CEO/Economist Peter Schiff is the Mark Levin Of Economics. Few people can adequately resist what he pronounces about fiscal and economic matters. The Schiff Report is worth watching as well as The Peter Schiff Show. In the above video, Schiff masquerades as a stoner liberal who invites people "on the street" to say why "corporate profits should be banned." And,they do. I heard Schiff say once that, "The more stupid you act, the more liberals think you're brilliant - an Einstein." He's so right. Have a good laugh watching this one.

[As the anniversary of that horrifying holocaust on 9/11 approaches, I just witnessed the most riveting first hand account of Seal Tea 6's heroic raid on Bin Laden's compound on 60 Minutes. He revealed no top secret info, yet, at this time, he is under threat by enemies at home and abroad, including the Pentagon for telling the story every American should hear. An Obama spokesperson has already threatened the Seal author, so lets support him by buying his book "No Easy Day."] Joe Biden: " I'll give you two good reasons why we should reelect President Obama - General...

Former President Bill Clinton would be best used at Democratic National Convention to testify how that only the Dems have been successfully defending women from the Republicans' War On Women. Clinton has had much experience in fending for the females.

Joe Biden's gaffes are famous, not just for the self-inflicted foot swallowing that he is most known for, but also for the liberal media's obvious ignorance and non reporting of those said numerous gaffes. Its just the same as when Franklin Delano Roosevelt's crippling polio paralysis was hidden from the American public - as FDR's staff members would prop him up into a standing position - just to show how able-bodied he was. It was all a charade aided and abetted by the press, which had just as many communist sympathizers then as they do today. But Senator Biden's problem...

Morning radio show host extraordinaire Jim Quinn, who can be heard with his partner Rose online at WPGB FM radio Pittsburgh, rightly called the gay bullies, who stage "Kiss Ins" at Chick Fil As, and have raided Catholic services dressed as transvestite clowns - "Homo Nazis," and he is one of the few who is not homophobic. The real homophobes are those mayors, ministers, politicians, academics, press, and presidents of businesses like Home Depot and Amazon.Com, who will instantaneously bend over frontwards to appease the overbearing gay community. Tell the actual  homophobes, like the mayors of Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Boston, Chicago, San Francisco...

[Update; Several other big city mayors re: Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, and Chicago have also jumped on board the gay agenda band wagon, condemning Chick Fil A. I drove some miles yesterday to support CFA by buying gift certificates. Once I arrived in their parking lot - there was no room to park. Why should government officials be outing a private business as anti-gay? (The president of CFA simply answered, "Guilty as charged" when asked if he was opposed to gay marriage)] The Mayor of Boston, Mass, Tom Menino has prohibited a great American restaurant, Chick-Fil-A, from starting a franchise in Boston,...

So, its piling on time by the media trying to murder Mitt Romney for being responsible for outsourcing jobs to foreign countries. Business rags like Bloomberg and the Financial Times have been hammering the Mittster for things that have been, for years, ethical and permissible under U.S. law - just as countless other big Democrat donor companies have been doing for years - going oversease to invest and make product. The United States, as of President Obama's inauguration, has an accumulated investment of over 4.1 Trillion Dollars invested overseas. These investments include jobs, goods, taxes, and services, some of which...

[Pastor Michael Salman of Phoenix, Arizona has just been sentenced to 60 days in jail and fined over $10,000 for conducting home church services with about 20 people on weekends. He did refuse to apply for "dozens" of permits in order to hold such services. If you care to do anything proactive, send the Phoenix City Government a message that you are outraged. The email addresses for the Phoenix Mayor and City council are here. Just copy and paste them in your email bcc: mayor.stanton@phoenix.gov council.district.1@phoenix.gov; council.district.5@phoenix.gov; council.district.2@phoenix.gov; council.district.6@phoenix.gov; council.district.3@phoenix.gov; council.district.7@phoenix.gov; council.district.4@phoenix.gov; council.district.8@phoenix.gov] Sample Dear Honorable Member Of Phoenix Government,...

As many people fall down in the sweltering heat, because of the loss of power to air conditioners, there are others jumping up and down, because the excessively hot weather seems be to punishing those naughty Americans, known around the world to use more than their "fair share" of energy. Coupled with the severe storms knocking out power lines, to an environmentalist, it may, indeed, be a perfect storm. In the past several years, American power generating companies have been diverted from upgrading their existing equipment, including coal generating plants, transmission lines, substations, etc. on the Grid, by the incessant...

SOCIALIZED HEALTH CARE: THE COMMUNIST DREAM AND THE SOVIET REALITY 19 December 2008 The utopian ideal of equality of circumstances has captured people’s imagination since ancient times. If only everybody could have the same of everything the world would be different. There would be no envy, no crime, no poverty, no greed, and no unhappiness. From Plato to Karl Marx, many thinkers looked to the state for the creation of that heaven on earth. In our own times, this dream has remained alive in the form of the welfare state, and today it shows itself most distinctly in the appeal...

Charles Krauthammeer suggested that John Roberts is playing a sort of catch-up baseball since Roberts feels he needs to protect the image (among liberals, evidently) of the Supreme Court which got bad ratings (like CNN) since 2000, when the Supremes sided with W Bush over Al Gore. Maybe, Krauthammer, the psychiatrist, has gotten into the head of Roberts, but that remains to be seen. We have expected Roberts to act more honorably, as opposed to expecting Elena Kagan, who drafted Obamacare, to recuse herself from making any decision on the matter. I am convinced that most Democrats cannot experience...

Irony of Ironies. Known as the chief prophetess for the accelerating gay craze for marital rights, and against the "epidemic" of gay bullying, Lady Gaga has been a prime motivator for the Gaying of America, which seems to have even extended into the U.S Armed Forces under Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta, who recently had the Pentagon, of all places, celebrate Gay Pride Week. How about a Christian Humility week, Mr. Secretary, where the once staunch man-and-wife matrimony proponent, Barack Obama, can demote anyone in the military who still believes that gayness is against God's law? I'm sure the...

We, perhaps, will never be able to reckon the entire extent to which the Environmentally ill and the EPA have caused the loss of life, limb, and monetary resources due to their obsessive love for Gaia, their Mother Earth. Frankly, I think they have done more harm to their Ma, than we could ever guess.New Mexico, as well as other western states, have been the latest victims of an out of control environmental policy as directed by out of control Democrats, especially in the Obama administration as of late. As Spain goes broke from going solar, as Obama works toward...

A Senate panel investigation has sent out 7000 emails to active and former Secret Service agents asking for their input on the behavior of their brother Secret Service agents recently, and in times past, in various parts of the world. Other witnesses to the party-on attitude of the SS are also providing historical narratives, such as a Fort Worth Texas columnist, Ray Sanders, who recalls the drunken and riotous behavior of SS agents in Dallas way back in 1963 - the week JFK was assassinated. So, an agency's activities which have remained Top Secret for years, will now have to...

The short answer is absolutely. It is not Reverse Racism when Federal office holders demonstrate contempt for a race or group of people, and use invented laws to trample the rights of that group - it is stone cold Racism. Affirmative Action has been the rallying cry from the 1960's, as it was then offering minorities a "boost" since they had been so oppressed by Dead White Males for centuries. Blacks and Women were (and still are) the beneficiaries of this extra government "protection." But, it has been severely overplayed by the Dems. Gays have been added to the list,...

As usual, the Waynesville, Ohio public school had to back down against the powerful gay Lamda Legal organization which lawyered up for a gay student who wanted to wear a "Jesus Is Not A Homophobe" tee shirt in school. Well, the student, not knowing much about Jesus to begin with, should have understood that Jesus fears nothing, but he will judge many things, such as adultery, homosexuality, etc. if there is no repentance. I asked the Ohio judge, who made the decision, if a student could be allowed to wear a shirt saying, "God Judged Sodom and Gomorrah." The said...

No sooner had President Obama released a "Bain Capital Video" which highlights the hatcheting job Mitt Romney did to poor performing companies, that he attended a high roller fundraiser at Black Stone Investment which awarded the President with a cool million bucks at the $36,000 a plate dinner. Note: Black Stone Capital has been responsible for firing untold thousands of workers through various "investment" programs. Here is a record of 800+ who were placed on the chopping block via Black Stone: IN THE TRENCHES How a Blackstone Deal Shook Up a Work Force Layoffs at Travelport, Dividend for Investors; 'On...