Bruce McQuain from QandO joined us to “highlight a soldier who epitomizes the best in the contributions immigrants have made to the United States of America. Today we honor Master Sgt. Sarun Sar, a Cambodian immigrant, US citizen and Special Forces soldier who was awarded the Silver Star for action in Afghanistan.”
It is a much underappreciated fact that about half of the 60,000 immigrants serving in the military are noncitizens.
The Someone You Should Know radio collaboration began as an extension of Matt Burden’s series at Blackfive. Thanks to Matt, Bruce is now on board and we are lucky to have him as part of the show. All of our interviews are also available for download at iTunes and Podcast Alley via the Pundit Review Radio Podcast.
What is Pundit Review Radio?
Pundit Review Radio is where the old media meets the new. Each week Kevin and Gregg give voice to the work of the most influential leaders in the new media/citizen journalist revolution. Called “groundbreaking†by Talkers Magazine, this unique show brings the best of the blogs to your radio every Sunday evening from 7-10 pm EST on AM680 WRKO, Boston’s Talk Station.
It was our honor to welcome back to the show retired Staff Sgt. David Bellavia. Davis author of House to House: An Epic Memoir of War, co-founder of Vets for Freedom and now candidate for congress in the 26th district in New York.
What a breath of fresh air he would be in congress. As David told us, if he wasn’t afraid of terrorists in Fallujah, he won’t be afraid of Nancy Pelosi.
All of our interviews are also available for download at iTunes and Podcast Alley via the Pundit Review Radio Podcast.
What is Pundit Review Radio?
Pundit Review Radio is where the old media meets the new. Each week Kevin and Gregg give voice to the work of the most influential leaders in the new media/citizen journalist revolution. Called “groundbreaking†by Talkers Magazine, this unique show brings the best of the blogs to your radio every Sunday evening from 7-10 pm EST on AM680 WRKO, Boston’s Talk Station.
Last weekend we celebrated our third anniversary on WRKO. We started with a one night, one hour tryout, and have been here ever since. We replaced Newsweek International, which was ironic, a show by bloggers replacing a MSM giant. You can credit, or blame, Newsweek’s Koran flushing story.
All of our interviews are also available for download at iTunes and Podcast Alley via the Pundit Review Radio Podcast.
What is Pundit Review Radio?
Pundit Review Radio is where the old media meets the new. Each week Kevin and Gregg give voice to the work of the most influential leaders in the new media/citizen journalist revolution. Called “groundbreaking†by Talkers Magazine, this unique show brings the best of the blogs to your radio every Sunday evening from 7-10 pm EST on AM680 WRKO, Boston’s Talk Station.
A week late, but it’s worth the wait. Bruce McQuain from QandO joined us on Memorial Day with a special edition of Someone You Should Know.
The Someone You Should Know radio collaboration began as an extension of Matt Burden’s series at Blackfive. Thanks to Matt, Bruce is now on board and we are lucky to have him as part of the show. All of our interviews are also available for download at iTunes and Podcast Alley via the Pundit Review Radio Podcast.
What is Pundit Review Radio?
Pundit Review Radio is where the old media meets the new. Each week Kevin and Gregg give voice to the work of the most influential leaders in the new media/citizen journalist revolution. Called “groundbreaking†by Talkers Magazine, this unique show brings the best of the blogs to your radio every Sunday evening from 7-10 pm EST on AM680 WRKO, Boston’s Talk Station.
Both agree that Al Qaeda is getting their asses kicked, in Iraq and around the world. Where would we (the free world) be today if Bush had accepted the findings of James Baker and Lee Hamilton? Where would we be if he had listened to the democrats and redeployed? That would have been the politically expedient thing to do, but it would not have been the right thing. The list of mistakes this administration has made in Iraq is long and had tragic consequences. In the end however, it is their refusal to walk away and hand victory to Al Qaeda that will be their lasting legacy.
History will judge George W. Bush a lot better than we do today.
The “Washington Post
U.S. Cites Big Gains Against Al-Qaeda
Group Is Facing Setbacks Globally, CIA Chief Says
Less than a year after his agency warned of new threats from a resurgent al-Qaeda, CIA Director Michael V. Hayden now portrays the terrorist movement as essentially defeated in Iraq and Saudi Arabia and on the defensive throughout much of the rest of the world, including in its presumed haven along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border.
In a strikingly upbeat assessment, the CIA chief cited major gains against al-Qaeda’s allies in the Middle East and an increasingly successful campaign to destabilize the group’s core leadership.
While cautioning that al-Qaeda remains a serious threat, Hayden said Osama bin Laden is losing the battle for hearts and minds in the Islamic world and has largely forfeited his ability to exploit the Iraq war to recruit adherents. Two years ago, a CIA study concluded that the U.S.-led war had become a propaganda and marketing bonanza for al-Qaeda, generating cash donations and legions of volunteers.
Al Qaeda Discusses Losing Iraq
Al Qaeda web sites are making a lot of noise about “why we lost in Iraq.” Western intelligence agencies are fascinated by the statistics being posted in several of these Arab language sites. Not the kind of stuff you read about in the Western media. According to al Qaeda, their collapse in Iraq was steep and catastrophic. According to their stats, in late 2006, al Qaeda was responsible for 60 percent of the terrorist attacks, and nearly all the ones that involved killing a lot of civilians. The rest of the violence was carried out by Iraqi Sunni Arab groups, who were trying in vain to scare the Americans out of the country.
Today, al Qaeda has been shattered, with most of its leadership and foot soldiers dead, captured or moved from Iraq. As a result, al Qaeda attacks have declined more than 90 percent. Worse, most of their Iraqi Sunni Arab allies have turned on them, or simply quit. This “betrayal” is handled carefully on the terrorist web sites, for it is seen as both shameful, and perhaps recoverable.
And who do the democrats see as being responsible for this progress? The US military? The Iraqi Army? Nope. It is due to the “goodwill of the Iranians”. Seriously. That comment comes from the person third in line to the presidency, the leader of congressional Democrats, the dis-honorable Nancy Pelosi,
Whatever the military success, and progress that may have been made, the surge didn’t accomplish its goal. And some of the success of the surge is that the goodwill of the Iranians – they decided in Basra when the fighting would end, they negotiated that cessation of hostilities – the Iranians.
Let that sink in, “the goodwill of the Iranians”. Are Nancy Pelosi and Barack Obama the right people to take over the war on terror with Al Qaeda on the ropes? Uncle Jimbo, retired Special Operations Master Sergeant, sure doesn’t think so,
Obama- Wrong for a dangerous world
UPDATE: Obama bitterly clinging to an outdated storyline about the war. Heh.
My latest from Townhall.com
Questions for McCain
Gregg Jackson
Thursday, May 29, 2008Senator McCain, as an across-the-board conservative, I plan to vote for you in November—unless a more authentically conservative ticket emerges or you choose a liberal running mate, such as Mitt Romney. You would be superior to a President Barack Obama in protecting and defending America and promoting free market reforms and limited government. Like many other conservatives across America, however, I have some significant concerns with some of your positions, which I hope you can clarify here on Townhall.com.
Abortion: Senator McCain, you have stated that you would like to see Roe v. Wade overturned and the issue of abortion returned to the states. If you consider abortion murder, why should individual states have a right to legalize it? How is your position that abortion is a “states’ rights issue” any different from Stephen Douglas’ position on slavery-that it too was a “states’ rights issue?” Isn’t the right to life guaranteed in the Declaration of Independence (“life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness”) as well as our Constitution (under the 5th and 14th amendments)? You have stated that you believe individual states should determine the issue of abortion because of your belief in federalism. Doesn’t our federalist system give the federal government the right to amend its own constitution? Is there ever a justification in your mind for amending our federal constitution that wouldn’t violate the principle of federalism?
Marriage: You said of same-sex marriage: “I think that gay marriage should be allowed if there’s a ceremony kind of thing, if you wanna call it that, I don’t have any problem with that.” Do you stand by that statement, as you have also stated that you personally oppose same-sex “marriage?” You don’t offer a section on your website dedicated to this issue, which continues to make national headlines.
The California Supreme Court recently postulated that limiting marriage between one man and one woman was unconstitutional. Last week you appeared on the “Ellen DeGeneres Show” and didn’t respond to Ellen’s comment that she could “now legally get married.” You have said that issues such as abortion and marriage should be decided via the voters of the individual states. Since the voters in California already voted to define marriage in 2000 (by 61%) as the legal union of one man and one woman, and since that voter approved statute has not changed and can’t unless revoked by the people themselves, why did you not remind Ellen that “gay marriage” isn’t legal in California because the courts’ declaratory opinion, containing no court order, hasn’t changed the current marriage statute which does not include any provision for members of the same sex to marry ? Why have you also not called on Governor Schwarzenegger to uphold his sworn oath to only enforce the current marriage statute in California since he has stated that he will “honor the court’s decision and uphold its ruling” and authorize the issuance of marriage licences without a legally binding accompanying statute just as former Governor Mitt Romney did in Massachusetts? Why are you undermining California Supreme Court Justice Baxter’s dissent, in which he forcefully and compellingly defended constitutional separation of powers, by lending credence to the lie that a court can grant to a legislature powers denied them by the constitution and overturn the people’s definition of marriage?
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