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  • Milbloggies voting has started

    As most of you know, the Milblog Conference is next weekend. TSO and I will be there to make sure that no free beer goes to waste. But here’s your opportunity to let the world know which are your favorite military blogs. Voting has begun in the various categories at Military(dot)com/Milblogging(dot)com.

    Yeah, we’re nominated again this year in the Veterans category – asking you guys to click something so we can win is just too much, I suppose, so please, PLEASE, don’t make us come in last place, OK?

  • Those Westboro fags (contribution link added)

    I know a bunch of you have already read this story about Albert Snyder, the father of a Marine who lost his life in Iraq and this legal battle against the Westboro Baptist Church of Fred Phelps. I know you’ve read it because you’ve been sending me links.

    Mr. Snyder won his case against the Westboro fags but was overturned on appeal. Then he decided to appeal to the Supreme Court and the Fourth District Court, which ruled against him, ordered Mr. Snyder to pay the Westboro fags’s legal expenses related to the Supreme Court case filing – about 16 grand while the USSC has agreed to hear the case.

    I didn’t write about this before now because I’d heard that Blackfive was working behind the scenes to get the complete story.

    But, while I was waiting for Blackfive, some guy named MOTHAX at The American Legion’s Burn Pit got into the fray this morning and convinced the Legion’s powers to help Mr. Snyder pay those unjust expenses.

    Stay tuned for a link to the fund.

    ADDED: Here’s the link for contributions.

  • Need more protest pictures?

    Our buddy Zombie sent a link to the latest from the anti-war protest in San Francisco last weekend. The best and brightest turned out to exercise their right to assemble and be as ritardit as possible;

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    You can see the rest at Zombie Classic or at Pajamas Media.

  • Maggie’s ironic post

    My buddy Boston Maggie reprints Patrick Henry’s speech in the Virginia House of Burgesses at Williamsburg on this day in 1775. It’s Ironic because of today’s events 235 years later.

  • No, just no.

    Ok this is just beyond stupid. The group Rethink Afghanistan trying to get people to send a pre-made message to the White House’s website that acts as a watchdog for Fraud Waste and Abuse.

    That’s why we’re asking you to report the Afghanistan War as an example of waste, fraud and abuse on the White House’s official economic recovery website, Recovery.gov, today. Simply scroll down to the field marked “What” and paste this message into the text box:

    “I’d like to report the waste of billions of dollars of our national wealth in Afghanistan on a war that doesn’t make us safer. It’s fraud to portray this as a war that increases our security, and it’s abusive of U.S. troops and local civilians to drag out this war any longer. End the war so we can have real economic recovery.”

    Really? I mean you really want people to take you seriously trying to pull stunts like this? What about the people that have real issues that need to be looked at. What your doing is encouraging the abuse of government resources wasting time looking at your political spam.

    Also some crazy to go out on.

    Americans only care about healthcare. They have ignored this abuse of power. If we didn’t spend so much on the wars, we’d have enough to pay for our OWN healthcare! We are taxed to death. Paying for these unconstitutional wars and other unconstitutional spending. People are just so stupid! Plus, the cost of caring for all … See Morethe vets with mental and physical repercussions from these illegal wars helps to bankrupt America. People just don’t get it! I’m so mad and frustrated with them!

    No, just…no.

  • Sniper out does himself

    I’ve always been a quiet fan of Sniper’s work, but this one really shines

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    I guess we’re the last blog on the internet to post this. Sorry, I’ve been playing Tinker Toys with new furniture all weekend.

  • The sun is shining, the birds are singing, it’s 65 degrees…

    And, oh, Right Wing News has named us to John Hawkins’ 40 Top Conservative Blogs of 2010. Sure we’re tied for 40th place, but it’s an honor to be among all of those names. Since about half of our ideas come from our readers, I credit y’all with getting us recognized.

    While I’m basking in the glow out here on my patio looking over to the Blue Ridge Mountains, go over and read Michelle Malkin who has linked to a slew of my Adam Kokesh posts today. She pulls them together nicely – much better than I could.

  • The Richard E. Owens saga in the Washington Post

    Brigid Schulte of the Washington Post sent us a link to her article about the search for a resting place for Purple Heart certificate of Richard E. Owens who died in a plane crash over Normandy more than a decade before any of us were born. I’m sure TSO, who is mentioned in the article a few times, will have something to say about it in the coming days, but I just wanted to mention the story, even though my roll in the unfolding story was minor (mostly I acted as a switchboard operator forwarding emails).

    I’m proud that TAH played a part in reuniting the parties and objects involved. This whole story adds an entirely new dimension to the Ranger’s Creed line “I will never leave a fallen comrade….”