from Hayes for Congress (2 CD) campaign:
CHICAGO - December 1, 2009: The following statement was released today by Rev. Isaac C. Hayes, the GOP nominee for Congress in IL-2, and opponent of Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. (D-Ill.) regarding President Obama’s announcement to send 30,000 more soldiers to Afghanistan:
“President [...]
WASHINGTON--President Obama on Tuesday night will announce that he will send 30,000 more soldiers to Afghanistan this summer--but with a focused mission and a goal of getting the soldiers out of the country where 9-11 terrorists trained starting in July, 2011. How long a pull-out will take will be [...]
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RUDY’S “COUNTRY STORE” AND BAR-B-Q® REMEMBERS ONE-MONTH ANNIVERSARY OF FORT HOOD TRAGEDY BY GIVING AWAY PORTION OF REVENUES OF THE DAY TO SOLDIERS’ ANGELS
Rudy’s to also donate 50 cents for every new Twitter follower or Facebook fan from November 30th to December 7th
WACO, TX, December 1, [...]
Away and in danger no word comes quite yet,
So Afghanistan soldiers are hedging their bets.
For GM and Chrysler, there was no delay.
But the little boy President dithers away.
The generals are calling, the boy he awakes,
But little Obama no decision he makes.
I love [...]
Rasmussen Reports this am that political correctness led to 13 American soldiers being shot to death at their home base.
Sixty-three percent (63%) of U.S. voters say political correctness prevented the military from responding to warning signs from Major Nidal Malik Hasan that could have prevented the Fort Hood shootings from [...]
For our friends to the North
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Share and Enjoy: soldiers-2%2F&title=This%20is%20for%20the%20Soldiers&annotation=For%20our%20friends%20to%20the%20North%0D%0A%0D" [...]Speaking Wednesday at the Abraham Lincoln National Military Cemetery, Democrat U.S. Rep. Debbie Halvorson seemed to compare the sacrifice of American soldiers to "rent". As quoted in the Morris Daily Herald, Halvorson said of the sacrifices made, "It's the rent we pay for the lives" [...]
Cook County Commissioner Deborah Sims has been all over the news lately. She betrayed her promise to her fellow County Commissioners and voted to save Todd Stroger's tax increase -- just another "Soldier for Stroger" -- giving Cook County "the highest sales tax rate in the" [...]
by Jim Kouri
Chicago Mayor Richard Daley, a loyal Democrat and liberal-left ideologue, blamed the Fort Hood massacre --perpetrated last Thursday by a radical Muslim soldier --on firearms.
"Mayor Daley is deplorably capitalizing on the outrage at Fort Hood to push his gun prohibition agenda," said Alan Gottlieb, chairman of the Citizens Committee [...]
Below are our daily picks from the Illinois blogosphere and media at large:
At What Cost?
Buzzflash's Meg White argues that if we can't afford to care for veterans, we can't afford to be at war.
A Soldier's Soldier
At Small Wars Journal, Robert Bateman reposts a [...]
It's a somber Veterans Day this time around--the Fort Hood terrorist's killings are or course the reason.
Harley Davidson and Marissa Miller are saluting the troops with a H-D giveaway to someone active in the military.
They also have calendars for soldiers and 14 postcards to choose to send to soldiers.
The bill went to the full House on a 16-10 [...]
It is almost Veterans Day and Xerox have the Let’s Say Thanks campaign. It is a good way to show the soldiers that we still think about them.
Here are just some of the designs. There are many and are designed by school [...]
Yesterday on Fox Friends, Brian Kilmeade and Gretchen Carlson were wondering if it was time for the military to start treating Muslim-American soldiers as potential terrorists simply because they are Muslims.
Kilmeade:Do you think it’s time for the military to have special debriefings of Muslim Army [...]by Mark Silva
President Barack Obama, who has ordered feeral flags lowered to half-staff until Veterams Day for the soldiers killed and wounded in an Army psychiatrist's rampage at Fort Hood, Texas, honors the fallen, their families and their comrades today in a weekly address that also honors the [...]
For those fallen in Fort Hood and all over the world. We must never forget that it is the soldier that gives us our freedom.
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Share and [...]It's hard to imagine how difficult it must have been for the Pearson family in Bolingbrook last night when they learned their son was one of the Ft. Hood soldiers slain. Sheryll and Jeff Pearson told the Chicago Tribune their 21 year old son was preparing to be sent to' [...]
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