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Egypt and The Big Bad Wolf — By Alexandra Kinias —- Feeling betrayed by the president they voted for a year earlier, millions of Egyptians marched on the streets of Cairo and main cities across Egypt on June 30th, on the first anniversary of President Morsi in office, demanding his resignation. The swarms of demonstrators were described as the biggest in the history of mankind. This uprising by the Egyptian people against this theocratic tyrant was undermined, misrepresented and mislabeled by the western media. Instead of exposing the true image of Morsi’s regime that was ready to devour the country,...

Marines Prevailed in a Day of Battle December 03, 2008 Military.com|by Christian Lowe It started out just like any other patrol in a war-ravaged Afghan province. Hardened by months of combat, sneak attacks and roadside ambushes, the Marines were ready for a fight. Rolling through the hardscrabble village of Shewan in Afghanistan's Farah province on August 8, the leathernecks of the Twentynine Palms, Calif.-based 2nd Battalion, 7th Marine Regiment knew enemy eyes were upon them. It was a village they'd had on their radar for months. Taliban insurgents and their al Qaeda helpers were constantly harassing the Marines charged with...

Generals, Admirals, and Senior Executives, It is with deep regret that I announce the death this afternoon, 30 October 2008, of General Robert H. Barrow, U.S. Marine Corps, Retired, our 27th Commandant of the Marine Corps and a highly decorated veteran of three wars. In accordance with Article 1288 of Navy Regulations, when a former Commandant passes, all Marine Corps installations will half-mast the national ensign from the time of General Barrow's death through sunset on the day of internment. Funeral plans are not complete. Once available, this headquarters will announce details of funeral plans via All-Marine message. Per MCO...

An Unforgettable Reunion By Michael Vitez Inquirer Staff Writer CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C. - For 10 weeks, ever since Cpl. Raymond D. Hennagir was blown up, he had longed for this moment, this homecoming, when the rest of his platoon would return from Iraq. He missed them, his brothers. Hennagir, a 21-year-old Marine from Deptford, N.J., felt he had let them down by stepping on an improvised explosive device (IED), blowing off both legs and four fingers on his left hand - now, he said, in his darkest Marine humor, just "a pink mist and a memory." Hennagir desperately wanted to...

Marines and family members, I received this via forwarded email dated 6/15/07. This looks like a gotta have item. A large download, but it's free and should be worth the time. Semper Fi Subject: FW: OIF2 Campaign Book ~A Personal Library Collection~ : Official Announcement / You Are Invited To Visit the Official Website (please feel free to forward) http://www.oif2campaignbook.com ________________________________ YOU ARE INVITED TO VISIT AND DOWNLOAD (FREE) YOUR COPY OF Operation Iraqi Freedom 2 CAMPAIGN BOOK ~ A Personal Library Collection ~ ________________________________ â–º Please feel free to forward or pass this email on to fellow Marines and...

The Justice Teaches Civics By Suzanne Fields Thursday, May 31, 2007 Sandra Day O'Connor describes herself as a "product of the last century," but she's determined to be an up-to-date grandmother. She retired from the Supreme Court a little more than a year ago, and often watches her grandchildren playing on their computers. Inspired, she wants to harness this revolutionary instrument to teach kids the nuts and bolts of democracy. She's creating an interactive website for teaching civics. Remember civics? Civics was where the "products of the last century" learned how their government was supposed to work, and were taught...

At Peace with War (A short story) By Kyle-Anne Shiver Benjamin Able awakes before dawn to the nostalgic aroma of bread baking in his mother's kitchen. His uniform hangs on the closet door, neatly pressed and waiting for him, just as he knew it would be. He smiles. Homemade bread. Pressed uniform. Ah, the comforts of home. Indulging himself a few more minutes in the luxury of being spoiled, he lies in his boyhood bed and surveys his room, still unchanged from the day he left six years ago. His wrestling medals, numbering in the hundreds, are displayed in shadowbox...

Why I don't take feminists seriously, part II Jan 25, 2006 by Mike S. Adams After I published yesterday’s column (Why I don’t take feminists seriously), a feminist who works in my building really gave me the cold shoulder. In fact, she didn’t say a word to me all day. It was meant to be a form of punishment. But, actually, it was a reward. And it provides a good introduction to my next point about feminists. 5. Most feminists do not have a sense of humor. You’ve heard the one about the guy who asked a feminist “how many...

Worthless Reformers Written by Rudy Takala Monday, January 23, 2006 Talk about reforming the Republican Party has become all the rage these days, but the means to doing that are scarcely mentioned. No one wants to assign blame or risk his or her popularity by suggesting unpopular dissent. Many commentators will mention something about the need for a conservative revival, but in the end, their time is spent lamenting the infeasibility of third parties. They rarely mention how they plan on actually enacting the “revival,” doing nothing but emphasizing the need to keep supporting the Republican Party. Republicans will probably...

<p>Navy Lt. Bryan D. Black, a U.S. Naval Academy faculty member, thought he was just shooting the breeze when he told a midshipman that getting on a battleship turned him on.</p> <p>Such was the sentiment, at least, though the language was saltier than the Chesapeake Bay, where an inspired Black was serving as safety officer on an oceanographic cruise aboard a "yard patrol craft."</p>

I just wanted to wish all of you Devil Dogs, past and present, a happy Marine Corps Birthday. Check out the link for a little motivation. https://www.godaddy.com/gdshop/holiday/usmc/2005_playmovie.asp?isc=gdg1110&se=%2B Semper Fi kas2591

An Open Letter to RNC Chairman Ken Mehlman Written by Doc Farmer Thursday, October 27, 2005 Dear Mr. Mehlman, I’ve been getting a lot of mail from you lately. At least twice a week, I get some sort of impassioned plea by the Republican National Committee, the Republican National Congressional Committee, the Republican National Judicial Committee, the Republican National Left-Handed-Bald-Headed-Buck-Toothed-Anorexic-Sumo-Wrester Committee, etc. All asking for money. Now, as a political party, there’s nothing wrong with fundraising. You do it, the lib/dem/soc/commies do it, even my own party does it (although we don’t do a $1000 a plate dinner – more...

Negotiating With Our Murderers Written by Alan Caruba Thursday, October 27, 2005 Making the rounds of the opinion editorial pages of various U.S. dailies, Prof. Allen J. Zerkin, has been urging the United States to begin opening channels to al Qaeda for the purpose of seeking “a truce…no matter how much that galls us.” Prof. Zerkin is a research fellow at New York University’s Center for Catastrophic Preparedness and Response, and an adjunct professor at its Wagner Graduate School of Public Service. These would appear to be rather impressive credentials, but should we really listen to someone who thinks al...

Benedict to Muslims The press, especially in Europe, characterized Pope Benedict’s Saturday address to Muslim leaders in Germany, as blunt. By recent Vatican standards, it perhaps was; but by any worldly standards, or even those of the Papacy in, say, the 15th century, it was quite understated. One thinks of the remarks made by Pius II (the great humanist), shortly after ascending the throne of St. Peter, in 1458. In particular, the bull, in which he announced a new Crusade, to check the advance on Europe of ye Infidel Turk. Now, that was blunt. The question today is whether we...

Commies Secret files released by the FBI this last week supplied a trove of celebrity news, albeit somewhat dated. The Associated Press went shopping under the U.S. Freedom of Information Act for "every high-visibility memorandum" filed since 1974. Of course, they didn't get everything there was, or everything they wanted. There are rules, for instance, preventing the FBI release of scuttlebutt on people who happen to be alive. But the AP did get a stack of paper, six inches high, containing enough material to fill slack on their wire for a few days. We learned, to our amazement and titillation,...

Those Angry Liberals Tuesday, September 13, 2005 Editor: There have been far too many angry people on television, people who are angry about Hurricane Katrina, and who have very definite ideas about who is responsible for the pain and suffering. Unfortunately, they really aren’t doing anything constructive. We’ve got to divide up responsibilities in order to get some things done! Here are my suggestions. Jesse Jackson: Start raising money. No, I mean for others. Do it for The Red Cross, The Salvation Army, or some other organization that would get the money to the people that need it. You can...

Blogs from the Front By Bill Steigerwald FrontPageMagazine.com | September 12, 2005 Michael Yon is unknown to most Americans. But in the internet blogosphere, he is making a name for himself as one of the best combat reporters filing stories from Iraq. Yon doesn’t work for a news media outlet. As he declares on his remarkable website, michaelyon.blogspot.com, he is “an independent, informed observer chronicling the monumentally important events in the efforts to stabilize Iraq.” Yon, 41, does much more than observe, however. Armed with only a digital camera, the Special Forces vet from Florida is embedded with the U.S....

GEORGE BUSH'S 2ND TERM LEGISLATIVE AGENDA by William Grim, Iconoclast Contributing Editor And now back to the irreverent and ridiculous. According to confidential sources close to the Bush administration, the following bills will be submitted to Congress in the first 100 days of the second George W. Bush administration: 1. THE KICK-JACQUES-CHIRAC-WHERE-THE-SUN-DON'T-SHINE ACT OF 2005 This bill removes diplomatic immunity and Geneva Convention protection from French President Jacques Chirac and allows American tourists in Paris to arrest, to interrogate and, if necessary or so inclined, to torture M. Chirac. 2. THE CANADIAN EMIGRATION ACT OF 2006 This bill requires all...

Most people don’t know it, but there is a war currently being waged within the UNC system. The administrations of each of the sixteen campuses are trying to outdo one another when it comes to funding unmitigated idiocy and perversion in the name of “diversity.” Recently, UNC-Asheville showed a porn movie to 200 students in order to take the lead. That has administrators at UNC-Wilmington fighting mad and fighting back. In an effort to take the lead in this race (and become the most idiotic university in North Carolina), UNCW is helping to sponsor a showing of the film “Trans...

Can anyone provide some contact info for an organization that I can send paperback books to the troops in Iraq? I'm moving and have about 500 paperback books I'd like to send over. Thanks for your help Semper Fi