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Pink and the National Football League
I’m a fairly hard-core NFL football fan and I feel I must proclaim that there is something fundamentally wrong with professional football players wearing pink accessories with their team uniform colors. Don’t get me wrong, the Susan G. Komen Foundation … Continue reading
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Tagged boobies, breast cancer, cancer, colo-rectal, colon, football, NFL, pink, prostate, Susan G. Komen
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Stephen Colbert: The Congress and the jester
Stephen Colbert, the conservative comedic news commentary guy from the Comedy Channel’s Colbert Report made a mockery of the United States Congress. During contrived testimony before a House immigration subcommittee most people never knew existed, Colbert departed from his prepared … Continue reading
Perspectives and contrasts
“We all had that one moment in our lives,” David C. Dolby said about his fellow Medal of Honor awardees. Dolby got his medal for actions during one of his five tours of duty in Vietnam. He died in August. An American … Continue reading
Time to fight a smarter war on drugs
This Washington Post story points to one of the major flaws in the United States’ war on drugs—law enforcement agents deeply involved in the smuggling business, and the enforcement agencies’ inability or refusal to crackdown on corrupt agents. “La Estrella” … Continue reading
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Tagged airplanes, Arizona, border, border security, Congress, corruption, drugs, economy, guns, Immigration, Mexico, murder, smugglers, Texas, violence, war
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Some thoughts on 9-11
Pastor Terry Jones might just have well stayed in Florida and burned his stack of Qurans. The pastor’s New York trip seeking Imam Rauf’s pledge to move the Park51 Mosque from Ground Zero in Manhattan will be a failure. The … Continue reading
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Tagged 9-11, America, flag burning, Islam, Koran, memorial, Muslim, Quran, September 11 2001, war, World Trade Center attack
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NRA, don’t piss on my leg and tell me it’s raining
The National Rifle Association’s Executive Director Chris W. Cox begins September’s American Rifleman political report quoting Harry Truman who once said that politicians seeking a friend in Washington, D.C. should get a dog. I would suggest to Mr. … Continue reading
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Tagged DISCLOSE Act, gun rights, guns, Lobby, National Rifle Association, NRA, politics, Supreme Court
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No honor restored, no dream reclaimed
A number of acquaintances are heading to Washington, D.C., the last weekend of August and I would really like to be there too. It’s the 47th anniversary of the “I Have a Dream” speech by Martin Luther King, Jr., … Continue reading
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Tagged August 28. march, D.C., Glenn Beck, rally, Rev. Al Sharpton, Washington
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A soldier’s letter up at The Dakota Beacon
I wrote a shorter version of this letter last week, but Steve Cates published this longer piece at The Dakota Beacon, a website worth a look.
Outrageous photos from an anti-SB 1070 rally
These photos were sent to me by a good friend who served proudly under the American flag. These types of insults say more about the content of the perpetrators’ character than they do about the SB 1070 controversy. The commentary … Continue reading
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Tagged Arizona, border security, Brewer, flag desecration, illegal immigration, Immigration, Jan Brewer, Mexico, SB-1070, smugglers, U.S. flag
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