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Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances. -The First Constitutional Amendment The first amendment added to the United States’ Constitution, before anything else, declared freedom of speech and religion for every man, woman and child in this country. This fact automatically makes America the most tolerant nation in the world today. No one doubts the past decade has tested the spirit of...

By Erin Ricca Last Wednesday, President Obama awarded Staff Sgt. Robert Miller, a 24-year old Green Beret who heroically died in Afghanistan, the highest military decoration an American soldier can obtain. For his bravery in battle, President Obama bestowed the Congressional Medal of Honor to Miller’s proud parents. Upon being ambushed by over 150 insurgents, Miller commanded his small unit of about two dozen men to fall back. As they began to take cover, Sgt. Miller did the unthinkable. He ran in the direction of the insurgents. While running through debris and firing his weapon, Miller called out enemy positions...

I have a nominee for the Supreme Court vacancy; it’s a guy who lives down the street from me. His name is Mummbo Matumabumbo.

Wow, Janeane Garofalo really put me in my place. Man, so glad she’s here to point me in the right direction. I just have one question for her, why did I find myself not going along with all the liberal muckity mucks before Obama? I mean, she really set me straight that the only reason I think that mortgaging my country to the hilt with debt

I’ve decided that the gay community is right. You should be allowed to marry whomever or whatever you want. To hell with tradition and all that other crap, live and let live that’s my new motto.

Happy Thanksgiving: Baqubah Update Happy Thanksgiving from Iraq! I had the opportunity to spend Thanksgiving with General Petraeus. Very interesting series of helicopter flights to several bases. Bottom line is that progress is clear and real, but there are tough days ahead and al Qaeda, for instance, is far from dead. The mood is of cautious optimism, with a concern that some of the very positive media lately might set expectations too high. (That’s right: many military leaders are concerned that the media lately might be too positive.) Bottom line is that I am more optimistic than ever before, but...

“Al Qaeda in Iraq is defeated,” according to Sheik Omar Jabouri, spokesman for the Iraqi Islamic Party and a member of the widespread and influential Jabouri Tribe. Speaking through an interpreter at a 31 October meeting at the Iraqi Islamic Party headquarters in downtown Baghdad, Sheik Omar said that al Qaeda had been “defeated mentally, and therefore is defeated physically,” referring to how clear it has become that the terrorist group’s tactics have backfired. Operatives who could once disappear back into the crowd after committing an increasingly atrocious attack no longer find safe haven among the Iraqis who live in...

<p>President Bush is being tried for "crimes against civilian populations" and "inhumane treatment of prisoners" at Parsippany High School, with students arguing both sides before a five-teacher "international court of justice." The panel's verdict could come as soon as Friday.</p>

My Fellow Freepers, I just got the chance to download the pictures I took from last weekend. You can find them on this link: http://homepage.mac.com/charlesricca/PhotoAlbum3.html

My Son has been asked to comment on this article claiming that the Bush Administration is using government money to run commercials. He continually is challenged by his liberal professors. I'm not familiar with this. Any inputs would be greatly apprciated. Thanks RJS

I attended this past weekends support our troops rally. The protestors were disgusting anti American filth. Is there a way to get our Congress to dust off the Sedition Act? 16 May, 1918 The U.S. Sedition Act United States, Statutes at Large, Washington, D.C., 1918, Vol. XL, pp 553 ff. A portion of the amendment to Section 3 of the Espionage Act of June 15, 1917. The act was subsequently repealed in 1921. SECTION 3. Whoever, when the United States is at war, shall willfully make or convey false reports or false statements with intent to interfere with the operation...

CNSNews.com) - Iraqi intelligence documents, confiscated by U.S. forces and obtained by CNSNews.com, show numerous efforts by Saddam Hussein's regime to work with some of the world's most notorious terror organizations, including al Qaeda, to target Americans. They demonstrate that Saddam's government possessed mustard gas and anthrax, both considered weapons of mass destruction, in the summer of 2000, during the period in which United Nations weapons inspectors were not present in Iraq. And the papers show that Iraq trained dozens of terrorists inside its borders. One of the Iraqi memos contains an order from Saddam for his intelligence service to...

The case for new low-yield nukes. No one likes to consider the possibility of nuclear war. But somebody's got to do it, and that sober duty fell recently to a special task force of the Defense Science Board, which has just recommended useful changes to the U.S. strategic arsenal to fit our post-September 11 world. First we should note what the task force does not want to change--the high threshold for use of nuclear weapons. "It is, and will likely remain, American policy to keep the nuclear threshold high and to pursue non-nuclear attack options whenever possible. Nothing in our...

US Promises Overwhelming Response to Iraq Killings 1 hour, 2 minutes ago Add Top Stories - Reuters to My Yahoo! By Luke Baker and Khaled Yacoub Oweis BAGHDAD (Reuters) - U.S. troops Thursday promised an "overwhelming" response to brutal killings in the Iraqi town of Falluja and vowed to hunt down those who shot four American security contractors and mutilated their bodies. Latest headlines: · Newsview: Iraq a Big Test of U.S. Resolve AP - 9 minutes ago · Remains of four slain Americans recovered as officials vow forceful response AFP - 52 minutes ago · U.S. General Vows Reply...

If this is a repeat post ,then my apologies. I was sent this today by a friend and thought I would share it with everyone http://members.cox.net/classicweb/Heroes/heroes.htm

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Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein gave terror lord Osama bin Laden's thugs financial and logistical support, offering al Qaeda money, training and haven for more than a decade, it was reported yesterday. Their deadly collaboration - which may have included the bombing of the USS Cole and the 9/11 attacks - is revealed in a 16-page memo to the Senate Intelligence Committee that cites reports from a variety of domestic and foreign spy agencies compiled by multiple sources, The Weekly Standard reports. Saddam's willingness to help bin Laden plot against Americans began in 1990, shortly before the first Gulf War, and...

I believe that all the facist Democrats....Gephardt,Dean and company are just as bad or worse than Al Queda operatives. I now refer to the DNC as Al Queda west.

At Walter Reed Medical Center in Washington, DC recently, the Sergeant Major of the Army, Jack Tilley, was with a group of people visiting the wounded soldiers. He saw a Special Forces soldier who had lost his right hand and suffered severe wounds of his face and side of his body. The SMA wanted to honor him and show him respect without offending, but what can you say or do in such a situation that will encourage and uplift? How do you shake the right hand of a soldier who has none? He decided to act as though the hand...

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