Tonight we featured a local hero as part of Someone You Should Know, our weekly collaboration with the #1 milblog Blackfive. Each week we bring the inspirational true stories of the heroics of the men and women fighting for us around the world to the radio.
As is so often the case, we relied on a story from a local newspaper, this time the Salem News.
In the coming days, Marine Staff Sergeant Cyle Burton will receive the Bronze Star for leadership and bravery on the battlefield.
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It was our pleasure to interview Mr. Kieran Lalor, a candidate for congress in the 19th congressional district in upstate New York.
Kieran’s life has long been one of service to his community and his country. A Marine, veteran of the Iraq war, Kieran is a true, blue American hero and a Reagan Republican trying to unseat a one-term, ultra left-wing carpetbagger named John Hall.
There is something wrong about a guy supported by Jane Bleeping Fonda representing the district where West Point is. Kieran Lalor is going to change that.
To learn more about his campaign, check him out at kml2008.com. If you haven’t heard, it’s not cheap to run for congress, especially against a friend of such left wing celebrities. If you can, please support his campaign, we need more men like Kieran on Capitol Hill.
This interview is also available for download at iTunes and Podcast Alley, just search for 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. Hailed as “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.
Can you imagine Ronald Reagan doing this? Neither can I.
Powerline Forum had these shots of the military preparing for the inevitable budget cuts from Nancy and the Gang. Considering the embarrassing charade that took place on Capitol Hill this week, it is amazing these guys can have any sense of humor at all.
Democrats’ Message to the Jihadists : “Keep Fighting Until The Withdrawl Deadline and You Will Win!”
“Today is an historic day,” Ms. Pelosi said on the House floor. “The new Congress will vote to end the war in Iraq.”
That vote was not really “historic” Nancy. We’ve been down this road before Ms. Speaker. Democrats have been actively invested in America’s defeat for at least the last 50 years now (actually a compelling argument could be made for their being on the wrong side dating back to the Bolshevick Revolution but that is another post for another day). They were invested in our defeat and premature withdrawl in Viet Nam and just as our troops commence a new strategy to establish security in Bagdhad, are actively engaged in ensuring our defeat in Iraq- the “central front on the war on terror.” These people (Pelosi, Murtha, Conyers, etc…) are treacherous. You can’t be “for the troops” by deamanding retreat. But that is really all Democrats know, except of course when it comes to waging Jihad on conservatives and Republicans. When it comes to that ball of wax, “retreat” isn’t even in their vernacular.
Here is what the bill that the AP described as “A Triumph for Pelosi” will do:
It will be noted by our enemies in Iraq and will encourage them to inflict more casualties to further sour American support. It will make it harder for Iraq Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki to disarm Shiite militias, who can point to the vote and say the Americans will soon be leaving. And most disgraceful, it will send a message to U.S. troops that they can fight on — albeit without much chance of success and without Congressional support.
entire article here (subs req)
What this vote shows once again is that there are no more “Scoop” Jacksons, Trumans, or JFKs left in the Democrat Party. Lieberman was the last true Patriot in the parrty but he was shown the door once he committed the unforgivable sin of supporting the war in Iraq. This is the hard anti-war left party of George McGovern which has again demonstrated why they can’t be trusted with our national security.
President Bush should rightly veto the proposed legislation and let the world’s Jihadists including the domestic insurgent Democrats know that America never retreats and that we will leave Iraq only when our mission there is accomplished. Period!
What in the hell is going on with the Army public affairs office over in Iraq? Doesn’t the Army understand how precariously close we are to the tipping point in this country? The Domestic Insurgents are on the march, and what is needed is honest, clear reporting on what is happening. Lord knows, we don’t get that from the MSM huddled in Baghdad. Nobody is a more honest broker of information that Michael Yon. He reports the good, the bad and the ugly. That is why he is so widely admired. His reporting is needed now more than ever.
His latest Dispatch, titled RUBS, is simply infuriating,
But considering all the planning, organization, logistics and resources that went in to putting up what amounts to a food court in a surburban mall, how hard would it be, really, for there to be a clean, well-lit press trailer, open 24-7, with some desks, chairs and lockers, wired for the internet? Not on every base, but on enough of them so that stories from everywhere else could get out on a regular basis. For a military that is the first to gripe about not getting enough press–in a kind of war where the press can determine the outcome–it seems fairly obvious that the first step would be to at least make sure there is a place for the press to work. If this were a few months into this war, I could understand it, but to not even be at square one this far in?
A general emailed in the past 24 hours threatening to kick me out.
Read the whole thing, it is truly depressing.
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Dean Barnett, no stranger to serious illness, has a touching, thoughtful post on today’s announcement that I highly encourage everyone to read,
Thoughts on John and Elizabeth Edwards
I CAN’T TELL YOU HOW BAD I FEEL FOR ELIZABETH AND JOHN EDWARDS. I’m familiar with the body-blow of a sudden diagnosis that turns your world upside down. It’s incredible – you walk into a doctor’s office and within a span of minutes you find out your life will never be the same. In the back of your mind you nourish the hopes of miracle cures or that you might be like that guy in Dubuque who got the same diagnosis but oddly enough lived forever, but the reality of the situation sits there in your mind. You can’t shake it – it just won’t leave.
But you try to carry on. I think I may know some of what the Edwards are feeling. They’ve been running for the White House for seven years now. And make no mistake – as Hugh points out in his book, running for president is a family affair. It’s more than a dream and an ambition for them. It’s a big part of what defines their lives.
So they walked out of that doctor’s office refusing to let her disease take their lives away. Some people are calling their decision courageous; others find it puzzling. Having been in a situation analogous to theirs, I think I have some understanding and I know I have some sympathy. They’re working through all of this. Their first instinct is not to surrender. That’s good, and it’s what you would have expected. People who seek the presidency aren’t the types who give up or even compromise easily.
Read the whole thing.