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Reviewing The King’s Speech, Nick Greenslade writes: In the United States, [Churchill’s] wartime leadership was regularly cited as an inspiration and example by those leading “The War on Terror”. George Bush, we were informed after 9/11, kept a bust of him in the Oval Office. It’s almost as if the film-makers have ticked off all [...]
MINT-AND-CORN COUNTRY, INDIANA — “… we will live in a complicated world, and that our nation’s military should not and cannot lay down its arms and leave the American people vulnerable to terrorist attack.” Controversial figure? Certainly. Unsavory and unseemly ties and skeletons in the closet? Definitely. Worthy of a national holiday? Maybe not (although [...]
MINT-AND-CORN COUNTRY, INDIANA — For numerous reasons with the details of which I shall not bore the intrepid reader who dares to work his way through this treasonously titled screed, I have been remiss in my obligations to PostRight, and thus am two weeks late in addressing this topic, about which I’ve continued to ruminate [...]
SOVIET ARLINGTON — Though I had heard his name mentioned a time or two, I keep myself sufficiently out of touch with the FOX News/Weekly Standard/National Review crowd not to have known much of anything about Lt. Col. Allen West (Ret.). My first inkling that I’d not think highly of him came as I stood [...]
For eight long years under George W. Bush, conservatives endorsed a don’t ask, don’t tell foreign policy–they did not really ask why their country was at war and Republican leaders did not tell, or bother, Americans with any of the gory details. Missions were accomplished, we fought them over there so we didn’t have to [...]
With his speech on our war in Afghanistan this week, the president who once preached “change” fully embraced his predecessor’s most dangerous idea: The Bush Doctrine. Describing this doctrine at West Point in 2001, said then President George W. Bush: “If we wait for threats to materialize, we will have waited too long. The war [...]
MINT-AND-CORN COUNTRY, INDIANA — Posted without comment: Bob Herbert is spot-on. After going through an extended period of highly ritualized consultations and deliberations, the president has arrived at a decision that never was much in doubt, and that will prove to be a tragic mistake. It was also, for the president, the easier option. It [...]
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From LouDobbs.com: We, the undersigned citizens of the United States of America, hereby petition the federal government to bring home all of our troops now deployed and stationed throughout the world. Sounds perfectly reasonable to me! I just signed the petition. Thanks to Karen Kwiatkowski at the LRC blog for posting.
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MINT-AND-CORN COUNTRY, INDIANA — For the past couple of years, on Memorial Day and Veterans Day, I have linked to a heart-wrenching, tear-eliciting piece by Chris Jones from Esquire. I did so again in the post below, but, lest it be lost to the reader amidst the content of that piece, I offer a separate [...]
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MINT-AND-CORN COUNTRY, INDIANA — I haven’t a plethora of family who have served: One grandfather, a handful of great-uncles, an aunt who was an Air Force nurse, and an uncle who was a reservist. I belong nominally to the Sons of the American Legion, but have never been active. This all being so, I have [...]
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