Mike Monsoor, Congressional Medal of Honor
On April 6, 2008 Navy SEAL Mike Monsoor was posthumously awarded The Congressional Medal Of Honor by President George W. Bush. Mike gave his life in Iraq in 2006. He jumped on, and covered with his body, a live hand grenade, saving the lives of a large group of his fellow Navy SEALs. During Mike [...]
You Stink at Photoshop – Take 2
chinaSMACK is a daily-updated collection of news and content from the Chinese-language internet. These latest stories, pictures, videos, and topics have become very popular, spreading across China’s major BBS forums, social networking websites, or through email forwards sent between normal Chinese people everyday. It appears to me that the Chinese papers are quick to use photoshop [...]
Things Republicans Do
Pennsylvania Republican, Representative Joe Pitts is on the House Foreign Affairs and Armed Services Committee. He and his committee are responsible for making truly momentous decisions about the major trouble spots in the world — such as the Middle East. It stands to reason that he is, or should be, expected to know something about [...]
National Health Care
We have heard so much from Republican candidates about health care and how bad “Romneycare” in Massachusetts is. Some of us (well, Republicans, anyway) probably believe it. WBUR the NPR station in Massachusetts took a poll to see how the people of Massachusetts liked “Romneycare”. It turns out that, in spite of what Republicans say, [...]
American Justice
I read an interesting article in the May 1 New York TImes. Well, it was interesting to me but, apparently not many others. I guess that I see why. It was simply an example of the government doing what it does — and doing it very well, as it does most of the time. That [...]
Republican Dick Lugar, an American Patriot
For the 99.999% of us in this world who are not Steve Jobs and have none of his DNA, we have learned from kindergarden onward that to get things done, you must be willing to compromise, to listen to the other side, and give serious consideration to what was said. I believe that there are [...]
