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Stunner: Military Deaths During Clinton’s First 5 Years Were Higher than First 5 Years in Iraq
From Gateway Pundit: The US military lost more soldiers in the first 5 years of the Clinton Presidency than the US military lost in the first 5 years in Iraq.
(Source: CRS Report for Congress.)
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Putting Iraq into Perspective With the Battles of WWII
From Gateway Pundit: Sizing Up Sacrifice
Iraq War (5 years)-- 3,990
Batan Death March (one week)-- 10,000
Battle of Guadalcanal (186 days)-- 7,099
Battle of Guam (20 Days)-- 3,000
Operation Market Garden (9 days)-- 3,664
Battle of the Bulge (41 days)-- 19,276
Battle of Iwo Jima (39 days)-- 6,821
Battle of Pusan Perimeter (61 days-Korea)-- 6,706
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Superior, Nebraska: A Defense of, and Love Letter to, a Red State
The divide between Red and Blue America is, in fact, a great one.
In Superior, Nebraska, author Denis Boyles uses personal reflections, current reporting, and deft touches of humor to drive home the point that the Red States are not populated with cardboard cut-outs who voted overwhelmingly for George W. Bush.
They are populated with thoughtful, three-dimensional people . . . who voted overwhelmingly for George W. Bush. And some who didn't.
Part of the reason blue staters can only imagine what red staters are like is because they mostly just fly over this part of America. The same cannot be said for red staters.
We only have to turn the ...
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Superior, Nebraska Book Review: “A Superior Read”
While stopping in to the local Barnes and Noble to pick up a copy of Jonah Goldberg's "Liberal Fascism", I had to do a double take when I saw a new hardback, non-fiction release bearing the name of my home town: "Superior, Nebraska." The sub-title made me a bit suspicious: "The Common Sense Values of America's Heartland." Whose values, exactly, would the book be highlighting: Chuck Hagel's or the average Nebraskan's?
I didn't have time to peruse the book then, but later that evening did a Google search of the author, Denis Boyles. I was tickled to find that Mr. Boyles is a contributor ...
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Sarkozy–An Unlikely Advocate of Europe’s Christian Past and its Need for God in the Present
Chuck Colson praises Nicolas Sarkozy's outspokenness on the necessity of Europe to recall--and embrace--its Christian roots. To deny the Christian founding of Europe is like trying to deny that the sky is blue.
Europe's rejection of God has resulted in its decline--both figuratively (in the moral sense) and literally (in the birthrate sense):
Sarkozy and European Secularism
by Chuck Colson
French President Nicholas Sarkozy is an unlikely scourge of European secularism: He is on his third marriage and has been called the “playboy president” by his critics.
But it is what Sarkozy has just said about the role of religion in French life that has really got his critics up-in-arms.
For more than a century, what the French call ...
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“Above all . . . he was a good and faithful servant of the Lord.”
Of course, NRO is filled with wonderful tributes to its founder William F. Buckley. Here is one that stood out to me:
Farewell WFB
by Peter Wehner
There will be many people who knew Bill Buckley far better than I who will attest to his personal kindness and grace over the years. And many people will pour forth with testimonies about Mr. Buckley's monumental role in the history of modern conservatism. I simply want to recount his role in my own pilgrimage of faith.
When I was a young Christian, I happened to come across a re-broadcast of a Firing Line episode in ...
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R.I.P., W.F.B.
Today marks the passing of the father of the modern conservative movement. William F. Buckley died at his desk while, presumably, penning another chapter in his life's work of standing athwart history and yelling "Stop!"
While Mr. Buckley and I never met, I was honored to have him call one of my cases a "speck of a precedent" while commenting on the changing times, sexual mores, and his alma mater, Yale University.
Shock time at Yale.
National Review
Date: 10/13/1997
Author: Buckley, William F., Jr.
We note the strange situation at Yale. The background: freshman student Elisha Dov Hack enrolls and is reminded (he knew about such arrangements beforehand) that ...
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Kissinger Gets It; Europe Does Not
In an interview with the online version of Der Spiegel, Henry Kissinger nails Europe for not wanting to understand the threat of Radical Islam. He also paints an accurate picture of what would happen in Iraq if we withdraw: (H/T The Tank)
There would be a high possibility of killing fields. Radical Islam won't stop because we withdraw. A rapid withdrawal would be a demonstration in the region of the impotence of Western power. Hamas, Hezbollah, and al-Qaida would achieve a more dominant role, and the ability of Western nations to shape events would be sharply reduced. The virus would have huge consequences for all countries with large ...
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Obama: JFK’s Rhetoric; LBJ’s Policies
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Saddam Wanted to Reconstitute all WMD’s
The 60 Minutes interview of FBI interrogator, George Piro, separates some fact from fiction. Like this one:
FICTION: Saddam never had any Weapons of Mass Destruction nor did he intend to use them in the future.
FACT: Saddam intended to completely rebuild his arsenal of chemical, biological and nuclear WMD, reconstituting the entire program.
(From Amy Proctor)
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