Kevin on January 4th, 2008

From the blog Obsidian Wings, Andrew Olmsted, who also posted here as G’Kar, was killed yesterday in Iraq. Andy gave me a post to publish in the event of his death; the last revisions to it were made in July. Andy was a wonderful person: decent, honorable, generous, principled, courageous, sweet, and very funny. The […]

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Newsbusters shows the surest way to get a letter published in the prestigious New York Times, claim to be a “lifelong Republican” and then proceed to criticize Republicans. Henry A. Lowenstein, who has managed to get 20 different letters published in the New York Times since 2003, a remarkable feat when you consider that the […]

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I helped author and was a signatory to the following letter entitled, “A Stern Warning to the ‘Conservative Elites ‘about Mitt Romney” that is a World Net Daily Exclusive today: ELECTION 2008 Family leaders call Romney ‘disaster’ Letter criticizes ‘deceptive rhetoric’ around candidate ——————————————————————————– Posted: January 3, 2008 © 2008 WorldNetDaily.com Mitt Romney A coalition […]

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Kevin on January 2nd, 2008

So Fred goes on Fox News today, and Mrs. Roger Goodell asks if he has the fire in the belly, a typical MSM template question. Fred responds well the first time. When she presses him a second time, well, it’s pure Fred magic. Ok, I’ll confess. I’ve got Fred Fever and the only thing that […]

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Kevin on January 2nd, 2008

Blackfive and the wonderful people of Soldiers Angels have been working on a special, unique project, Operation Puppy Love. Here’s how this all got rolling, To whom it may concern, I am a platoon leader for an infantry battalion. On May 19th of this year six of my soldiers were killed during combat operations. One […]

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Kevin on January 2nd, 2008

A number of my favorite bloggers came out in the past few days with posts speculating why Fred Thompson’s campaign has failed to take off as many people had hoped, myself included. Here’s a review, what do you think? Billy Hollis at QandO Fred decided very early that he would not play by other people’s […]

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