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All Blog Posts Tagged 'War' (6)

In Star Spangled Spirit Tea Parties Will Prevail.

I watched a History channel program about the War of 1812. Folks, I can not explain why, but the segment about the battle of Baltimore at Fort McHenry and the writing of our

national anthem, The Star-Spangled Banner moved me to tears.

The British had burned down our U.S. Capital and the White House. The next step on the agenda of the…

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Added by Lloyd Marcus on May 11, 2010 at 10:45pm — No Comments

In Star Spangled Spirit Tea Parties Will Prevail.

The British had burned down our U.S. Capital and the White House. The next step on the agenda of the…

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Added by Lloyd Marcus on May 11, 2010 at 10:45pm — No Comments

Afghanistan Marginalia

The MSM and the blogosphere are surfeited with comments on President Obama's Afghanistan policy described in his Tuesday night address at the U.S. Military academy. I have taken the liberty of including some marginal comments in italics to the full text below.

Remarks by the President in Address to the Nation on the Way Forward in Afghanistan and Pakistan

Eisenhower Hall Theatre, United States Military Academy at West Point, West Point, New York

8:01 P.M.… Continue

Added by Chuck Young on December 3, 2009 at 1:30am — No Comments

War World II Veterans Cheered at Reagan National Airport

Armed Forces Day video - Thanks to all those who choose to… Continue

Added by BowlMeOverVa on May 17, 2009 at 10:41am — No Comments

AG Holder Affirms 10th Amendment, War on Drugs Ends?

Establishing a new policy for the Federal Government, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder (shown in AP photo) announced that Federal Law Enforcement Officers would target marijuana distributors only when they are in violation of state laws. If they are only in… Continue

Added by Chuck Young on March 18, 2009 at 9:51pm — No Comments

Presentism in Virginia Politics

When our fellow Virginians recoil in horror, disgust, hatred or fear from a Southern symbol, like Lee-Jackson Day, just as a vampire shrieks at the Cross, they’re engaged in “presentism.” It’s an affliction of the mind that pollutes the spirit and poisons the body politic.

Presentism is the empty, false assumption that all former people thought as some present people feel.

It’s fundamental to the worldview of Liberal Human Secularists who worship the trinity… Continue

Added by James Atticus Bowden on January 14, 2009 at 3:47pm — 9 Comments