Project Hero – SSG Jason Fetty, Silver Star

I wondered when these would come back again:

SSG Jason Fetty was assigned to a Provincial Reconstruction Team, which, as the name denotes, isn’t a combat unit. It is a civil affairs unit with a much different role. He was

OK, I know that by now a lot of you either saw or read though this speech of Obama’s, and so it’s old news. But I’ve seen nobody rip through this thing point by point. I can understand why… with

James at OTB:

Having initially been highly skeptical of Hillary Clinton’s appointment as Secretary of State, partly on the basis that she had neither diplomatic experience nor a diplomatic temperament, I feel obliged to pass on this observation from

Go tell the Spartans Marines,  Cpl. James M. Mercure, Marine Corps News: 

FARAH PROVINCE, Afghanistan — In the city of Shewan, approximately 250 insurgents ambushed 30 Marines and paid a heavy price for it.

The Few, the Proud, the

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A fairly quiet couple of day around these parts…. not unexpected, given the post election lull. Still, that doesn’t mean that all is

The supposedly peace loving liberals among us must feel blind sided as regards the middle east these days, as they are a great many things. Because of Bill Clinton’s bumbling in the middle east, we’re now closer to war than

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A busy Wednesday, and a new month. Let’s get to it.

• George Will questions the qualifications of Sarah Palin? That’s OK, I’ve long since started

Reposted from 9/13/01

It is recorded in our history books that when he looked down at the ship full of smiling, victorious faces… faces of his flyers, just having returned from Pearl Harbor, Japanese fleet Admiral Yamamoto was quiet, pensive,

Racism is simply making an assumption based on race.  Race hucksters like Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson practice a sophisticated form of raciall bigotry, false equality.  That is thay demand equal outcomes without evidence of equal ability

Barack Obama has

If there is one thing that Barack Obama has demonstrated it is that he can not handle “distractions.”    Well as Jim Gerhaghty, National Review, demonsrates, the real world is full of distractions:

We may be on the verge of

• A second place at the OTB Sheep Off caption contest.

• So, the Democrats are almost to a man, includng Obama, claiming that the Surge didn’t work. So why, then, is Obama proposing another surge, this time in Afghanistan?

• Oil is

• Yeah, I was out all weekend. So, we made the trip over the weekend, to Fair Haven State Park, which is one of the best in the state. There’s a problem, though with the state Reservation system for their campgrounds;

Timing is everything. Bruce posts a Project Hero post, and I’m out of town.

Oh, well.

This week, Bruce digs into the story of an attack in Afghanistan a few weeks ago, where 9 soldiers got killed. The story here,

Over at OTB, James notes a pattern I started taking note of last night:

The Outrage of the Day comes to us from Josh Marshall, a pretty even keeled fellow.   John McCain said this to reporters.

“I believe that

James at OTB:

Michael Yon says that we’ve won the war in Iraq and all that remains is clean-up.

I tell James:

Do not be fooled. There are a number of people who have been leaning toward this false hope