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• A rememberance from Thanksgiving Weekend

  From Michael Yon's site:
  
  
  Published: 27 November 2009
  
  By JOSEPH L. GALLOWAY
  McClatchy Newspapers
  
  Over the last 12 months, 1,042 soldiers, Marines, sailors and Air Force personnel have given their lives in the terrible duty that is war. Thousands more have come home on stretchers,' [...]
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  Posted: November 28, 2009, 2:03pm EST
  

• Because I have no words...

  
  
  To fallen soldiers let us sing.
  Where no rockets fly nor bullets wing.
  Our broken brothers let us bring.
  To the mansions of the Lord.
  
  No more bleeding, no more fight.
  No prayers pleading through the night.
  Just divine embrace, eternal light.
  In the mansions of the [...]
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  Posted: November 11, 2009, 10:25am EST
  

• A Sunday in Heron Lake

  I watched the film footage on TV of a soldier running concertina wire across a street. I was twelve but didn't appreciate what was happening, but my Grandmother said, as she listened to the reporter "This sounds like war." What I was witnessing was the very beginning of what was' [...]
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  Posted: November 09, 2009, 10:38am EST
  

• A must read that must be read now

  I just got through reading an excellent article on Hot Air called "The Momentum of History" by a fairly recent writer to Hot Air with the nom de plume Doctor Zero. He discusses the importance of the 2010 election (and the incredible relevance of the NY 23 election). I [...]
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  Posted: October 28, 2009, 11:38pm EDT
  

• A better way or why BHO is surrounded by idiots

  Yesterday I was coming back from a doctors appointment and was listening to Glenn Beck as he was describing "his accepting the prize","how this would have been a pinnacle moment if there had been any other significant achievements". It took me about two miles to realize "Obama's been awarded"(not won)"the'" [...]
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  Posted: October 10, 2009, 12:48pm EDT
  

• Irena Sendler and the Noble Peace Prize

  I thought that today, in light of the Noble Peace Prize being awarded to COC (Community Organizer in Chief) this You Tube clip is more than appropriate:
  
  
  
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  Posted: October 09, 2009, 12:11pm EDT
  

• My Profile Photo

  
  This is a picture of me last July as I was helping to run the Wings of Freedom Tour at Anoka Blaine Airport (Janes Field). I'm under the port wing of a B-17G named Nine-O-Nine owned by the Collings Foundation out of Stowe, MA.[...]
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  Posted: October 08, 2009, 2:43pm EDT
  

• How big WAS the crowd in D.C. ?

  Seems to be the question of the hour. Well, I happen to have a bit of experience with really, REALLY large crowds. Like over 1,000,000 men.
  I was at "Stand in the Gap" the Promise Keepers event 4 October 1997 in Washington D.C.
  
  
  
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  Posted: September 13, 2009, 2:10pm EDT
  

• No, Mr. President

  A powerful response to Obama's speech on "Women's Reproduction Freedom"
  
  
  
  And I recommend to others that we continue to pray for our President. [...]
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  Posted: July 07, 2009, 5:26pm EDT
  

• Obama in 774 words

  Sometimes it takes South Park to put the policies of the Community Organizer in Chief (COC) in perspective. As I've written before, the left is great for proclaiming something will happen because they SAY it will happen. The following is from a WSJ article:
  
  
  Sometimes it takes' [...]
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  Posted: May 27, 2009, 10:30am EDT
  

• "I pledge..."

  I pledge to give President Obama the same level of respect as the left gave President Bush for eight years.
  I pledge to give Sonia Sotomayor the same level of deference and critique as the left gave Sarah Palin, Robert Bork and Clarence Thomas.
  I really do!
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  Posted: May 26, 2009, 12:48pm EDT
  

• You're not broke enough, in debt enough, miserable enough or dead enough-yet

  Last night I was listening to the Community Organizer in Chief (COC),on the official Janet Napolitano certified radical right wing terrorists on Fox News, proclaim the virtues of new CAFE (Corporate Average Fuel Economy) standards. Afer hearing how the we should all be grateful to pay an average of $1300 [...]
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  Posted: May 20, 2009, 7:59am EDT
  

• "...where no President has gone before!"

  From "Day by Day" from "No Runny Eggs" from an article (you need to read this one. Basically "another canary drops dead" posting) from "Hot Air" (There. I think that covers it all).
  
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  Posted: May 10, 2009, 12:44pm EDT
  

• "Just a little more_ _ _ _ _ and WE'RE THERE!!!!"

  As I look over the decades (and now the century and a half of failure of socialism), there are always excuses as to why left wing programs always fail:
  
  "The program needs more time"
  "Not enough money has been spent"
  "The right people haven't been in charge""It needs just'" [...]
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  Posted: April 26, 2009, 8:27am EDT
  

• The ugly duckling

  I just caught the last of this on Glenn Beck. (here are the lyrics for the song).
  Watch Simon Cowell's expression as she starts to sing.
  
  Here are my comments from the Stribune story:
  
  My shame
  
  "Her story immediately transcends packaging as we are all'" [...]
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  Posted: April 16, 2009, 5:29pm EDT
  

• Uh, no, you don't-really

  From a WSJ headline "More States Look to Raise Taxes". As I read through the article, what impressed me, negatively, was how few states were going to balance their books by cutting spending. There are a few who will try to do it by cutting some spending and raising [...]
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  Posted: April 08, 2009, 10:25pm EDT
  

• I had no idea!

  His messiahness BHO is truly amazing.
  Here is what he's accomplished in just the first half of his first hundred days:
  
  
  
  Truly, truly stunning!!
  What more can this guy possibly in the next half?
  Well, we'll certainly know soon enough.
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  Posted: April 02, 2009, 11:49pm EDT
  

• I love the old ads....

  From Hot Air:
  
  The original:
  
  
  The recently updated:
  
  
  
  We so often hear (ad magna nauseum) the left's concern about"the children".
  Well, what say you now MoveOn.org? What say you now?
  
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  Posted: April 02, 2009, 11:30pm EDT
  

• Salient quote

  From the Patriot Post:
  
  "The ideal tyranny is that which is ignorantly self-administered by its victims. The most perfect slaves are, therefore, those which blissfully and unawaredly enslave themselves. A truth's initial commotion is directly proportional to how deeply the lie was believed. It wasn't the world being" [...]
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  Posted: March 30, 2009, 11:32am EDT
  

• If you don't hear the canary hit the bottom of the cage, how about an eagle?

  I've written many times about the looming financial disaster called Social Security and Medicare. The head of the Dallas Federal Reserve has calculated the amount of money we need to put aside today is $99,000,000,000,000 to meet future outlays.(BTW, that $99,000,000,000,000 figure increases $4,650,000,000,000 each year according to Dr.' [...]
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  Posted: March 29, 2009, 11:26am EDT
  

• Dear Mr. Hannan...

  Now, this is really speaking truth to power...
  
  
  
  Now, if he's over 35...but, he's not a natural born citizen of the United States. Drat!
  Well, maybe a run for Senate then... I'll be emailing Mr. Hannan and asking if he's ever considered Stateside residence and politics.
  
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  Posted: March 26, 2009, 9:41am EDT
  

• The rosy cheek hull thrusher v your children

  A Clinton era appointed federal judge (Colleen Kollar-Kotelly) issued an injunction prohibiting citizens with a valid permit to carry to carry firearms into National Parks and wildlife refuges. Pres. Bush issued a decision to allow firearms into the National Parks where a lawful permit would allow a citizen to [...]
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  Posted: March 24, 2009, 11:22am EDT
  

• A picture and a bunch of words plus trillions of dollars

  I joined Twitter a couple of months ago (www.twitter.com/AmendmentX). Two organizations I follow on Twitter are the Cato Institute (Cato Twitter link) and the Heritage Foundation- ( Heritage Twitter link). This morning I got a Tweet from Heritage that shows the Bush deficits v [...]
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  Posted: March 24, 2009, 11:03am EDT
  

• Bumper sticker politics

  Yesterday my Mom and I were coming back from the St. Joesph's Day celebration at Mama D's son John's restaurant Cafe Biaggio in St. Paul (see below). Traveling down 35W, there was a Ford Escape in the next lane with a number of bumper stickers on the back window:"Franken",' [...]
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  Posted: March 23, 2009, 10:12am EDT
  

• My Second Mother Passes Away

  
  I read with so much sadness this afternoon that Mama D passed away yesterday.
  Mama was a Minneapolis celebrity and restaurateur for four decades.
  When I was a student at the University of MN, I went to the first restaurant she was associated with, [...]
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  Posted: March 18, 2009, 5:29pm EDT
  

• What the Constitutuion was meant to stop

  In a little known story, it became apparent to me how freedom and liberty can be evidenced in small ways.
  North Korea has just opened its first pizzeria. Seems the Dear Leader, Kim Jong-il, thought that North Koreans should "also be allowed access to the world's famous dishes." Damn' [...]
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  Posted: March 17, 2009, 10:41am EDT
  

• What we always knew...

  The Radical Left Wing Drive By Media (Rush's term) Great Conspiracy.
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  Posted: March 17, 2009, 10:34am EDT
  

• An opportunity for leadership by example

  Senator Charles Grassley (R-IA) has suggested that the executives at AIG commit suicide over bonuses paid out. AIG has a loan, terms written by Congress (ha,ha,ha,ha,ha...). Total so far : $170,000,000,000. Congress has committed to spending of anywhere from $4,000,000,000,000-$7,000,000,000,000 (trillions, not mere billions). And Congress and the president are [...]
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  Posted: March 17, 2009, 9:39am EDT
  

• The wheels on the bus go "crunch, crunch, crunch..."

  From Drudge-"Bonus Mess Depeletes Obama Capital".
  OK, so the lefties at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave and under the great marble dome are in a huff and outrage over bonuses at AIG. Did the greatest minds ever assembled who worked out the loan to AIG , well, how did they [...]
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  Posted: March 17, 2009, 8:57am EDT
  

• Only because George Soros' money is not going to Air America

  And the reason "conservative" talk radio is on the wane is because there is no left wing talk radio to speak of...duh!
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  Posted: March 16, 2009, 3:59pm EDT
  

• It is because...

  Over at Hot Air, my friend Ed Morrissey has a post about the Speaker of the House Duplicitous Majority Nancy Pelosi pleading that she is NOT partisan.
  Oh. OK. Thanks for clearing that up for me San Fran Nan.
  One of the commenters posted this about San Fran Nan's' [...]
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  Posted: March 16, 2009, 11:39am EDT
  

• Moral equivalency

  "I support the President but not his policies."
  
  "I support the troops but not the mission."
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  Posted: March 16, 2009, 10:19am EDT
  

• We're all DOOMED!

  I caught a part of Fox News Sunday this morning. Chris Wallace was interviewing Austan Goolsbee from the White House Council of Economic Advisors. His take: Tax cuts caused the economic crisis. They produced a weak recovery.
  This man advises the President.
  We now see the danger of surrounding yourself [...]
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  Posted: March 15, 2009, 10:10am EDT
  

• Amendment X saillies forth on Amendment II

  This evening, 14 March, your intrepid warrior for liberty and freedom will be on The Sue Jeffers Show on KTLK FM 100.3 tonight 5-7 p.m. Central Daylight Time. My friend Tim Grant, VP of AACFI (the firearm instructor organization where I am accredited) and I will discuss [...]
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  Posted: March 13, 2009, 10:20pm EDT
  

• When Hell, or Lake Superior, freeze over!

  I've always been appreciative of the way the left puts a smiley language happy face on evil. They always have a nice sounding name for a bill or program that doesn't,has never, will never and can never do what the name of the bill or law or program implies. But, [...]
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  Posted: March 08, 2009, 1:39pm EDT
  

• Lightning strikes twice; Blind squirrel finds acorn-etc

  Steve Sack, the editorial cartoonist for Prairie Pravda is unapologetically way left of center.
  Today, however, he gets it right.
  I therefore present the Once in a Decade Correctly Drawn Steve Sack Political Cartoon:
  
  
  
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  Posted: March 05, 2009, 7:25pm EST
  

• Lest we forget

  This morning as I was sipping my fresh ground coffee (basically enjoyng some of my fast evaporating rights {more on that later}), reading an article about Rick Santelli from the People's Cube (an Amendment X highly recommended parody site), I came across a picture that I had seen' [...]
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  Posted: March 02, 2009, 10:28am EST
  

• Toilet paper worse than Hummers!

  When will these people finally be sent packing?
  
  "Future generations are going to look at the way we make toilet paper as one of the greatest excesses of our age. Making toilet paper from virgin wood is a lot worse than driving Hummers in terms of global warming" [...]
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  Posted: February 27, 2009, 10:28am EST
  

• Media Darwinism

  I came across the following clip from Hot Air. I remember the quote. As you watch the clip, watch how the MSM morphs it from the original statement by Joe Biden about BHO's first few months to a general statement about the " next administration". This is why we need' [...]
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  Posted: February 27, 2009, 8:35am EST
  

• Choose "A" or "A"

  From the AOL.com poll page after the BHO Olivet discourse. Any idea who the writer may have voted for (HT to my friend Mark)(click on picture to expand) :
  
  
  
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  Posted: February 10, 2009, 11:07pm EST
  

• And in case you missed it...

  And one part of the stimulus?:
  
  
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  Posted: February 05, 2009, 3:31pm EST
  

• Stimulus by any other name...

  From Reason via Weekly Standard via Hot Air:
  
  
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  Posted: February 05, 2009, 3:25pm EST
  

• Is nothing sacred anymore?

  This headline from Breitbart:" Massachusetts Couple Who Led Gay Marriage Fight to Divorce".
  What next, illegals eligible for Social Security? New York Democrat politicians changing their positions when they reach the Senate?
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  Posted: February 03, 2009, 5:34pm EST
  

• and when I see it ,well, it just gets better doesn't it?

  The people at Suitably Flip have extended their graphic analysis of what the Stimuless Bill will buy per American household:
  
  I've added comments at the site.
  
  
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  Posted: February 01, 2009, 9:46am EST
  

• TANSTAAFL

  Or, "I'll drink your milkshake!"
  Be sure to click and read the comments.
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  Posted: January 31, 2009, 5:55pm EST
  

• ...but I'll know it when I see it

  Everet Dirkson, Senator from Illinois, has been attributed to have said "A billion here and a billion there and pretty soon you're talking about real money!" (BTW, when I think "Senator" I think "Ev Dirkson!"). In the Spendapalooza (aka Wastepalooza) going on in Washington, I'm also reminded, in trying [...]
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  Posted: January 30, 2009, 4:03pm EST
  

• An ad that I really like

  My friend Ed Morrissey over at Hot Air has a pro-life ad that NBC and the Super Bowl rejected.
  It makes a very powerful statement.
  
  
  
  It raises a lot of thorny questions for the anti-life/limited pro-choice left.
  A lot.
  And that makes it even more enjoyable.
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  Posted: January 30, 2009, 11:12pm EST
  

• Another reason the Stribune is bankrupt

  From the Stribune editorial cartoonist Sack:
  
  I notice Mr. Sack conveniently did NOT include the President's tirade against Rush Limbaugh, not to mention that he "mentioned" in his all inclusive bi-partisan overture to the Republicans "I won". No reference to Speaker Pelosi's refusal to include [...]
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  Posted: January 29, 2009, 8:30pm EST
  

• Why I love the open, compassionate, diverse left

  I've written many times about my involvement with the 8th Air Force Historical Society. Every Wednesday 50-60 of us meet for lunch, usually seated at the same chairs at the same tables.
  I usually sit next to a retired Chief Master Sargent (CMSgt). I know he's a fairly strident [...]
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  Posted: January 28, 2009, 4:18pm EST
  

• Soon to be illegal near you

  And what might be next?
  
  
  
  
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  Posted: January 24, 2009, 6:39pm EST