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79th Anniversary of the best response to a demand to surrender demand... ever.

Upcoming event at my kid's school. 6th grade

So I received this from my kid's school superintendent...

The clash of civilizations is as old as history, and equally as old is the blindness of those who wish such clashes away; but they are the hinges, the turning points of history. In the latter half of the 16th century, Muslim war drums sounded and the mufti of the Ottoman sultan proclaimed jihad, but only the pope fully appreciated the threat. As Brandon Rogers notes in the Ignatius Press edition of G. K. Chesterton's poem "Lepanto": Pope Pius V "understood the tremendous importance of resisting the aggressive expansion of the Turks better than any of his contemporaries appear to...

I could not figure out how to post this photo (sorry), but my wife dropped my kid off at his summer school yesterday and there was a bulletin board full of posters that read "Ramadan Mubarak." She took a picture of it today and sent it to me. She knew Ramadan was a religious holiday and asked me for it's meaning. It essentially means "Blessed month" and is also used as a greeting. She called the administrative office for the district first thing this morning and she said the woman she spoke to was horrified and very adamantly stated they...

(This is from a pilot friend in Prescott, Az that was there last week, early June 2010, & what he saw first hand.....Very informative) Good Morning All: Last Thursday I was asked to fly Brady Beauchamp, a Republican candidate for US Congress (CD1 AZ) to Sierra Vista, AZ for a tour of the Arizona/Mexican border. I was invited to go on the tour and eagerly accepted. We spent 5 hours on the border fence. This tour was given by Border Patrol personnel at the "rubber meets the road" level, not higher headquarter staff or Public Information Officers level. There were...

Okay, this is a relatively small thing, but I think it is revealing. A friend of mine gave me a gift from D.C. A coffee mug which said on the side "FRIENDS DON'T LET FRIENDS VOTE DEMOCRAT" I had left the mug on the counter in the break room, went back to make my coffee. Mug was gone. I can't tell you where I work, but I am surrounded by libs. Sent an email around, greeted by nothing but silence. I don't know about you, but I find this small and utterly revealing about their mind set. God forbid anyone...