Project Hero: SGT Willie Copeland III, Navy Cross

Today, McQ examines the story of SGT Willie Copeland III, a Navy Cross recipient. As Bruce says, you wonder how you’d react to such a situation. We can only hope we’d react with the level of bravery and smarts

The President, today, by way of the BitsBlog Newsroom:

Unfortunately, Congress recently sent me an intelligence authorization bill that would diminish these vital tools. So today, I vetoed it. And here is why:

The bill Congress sent me

(Chicago Sun-Times)-He was “the man behind the curtain” whose pervasive influence in the Blagojevich administration stacked state boards and lined his pockets, prosecutors charged Thursday as they opened their highly anticipated corruption case against Tony Rezko. But lawyers for

Rochester Rocks, 13-WHAM.

Obama’s Weak in Review, RCP

Man bites Dog, George McGovern, WSJ:

Nearly 16 years ago in these very pages, I wrote that “‘one-size-fits all’ rules for business ignore the reality of the market

• Snowing in Rochester at the moment. Nothing newsworthy about that, particularly, except that the line of snow as this is being written runs from north and east of here to the south southwest, all the way down to New Orleans.

• It strikes me as amusing indeed that the plan that Hillary Clinton is using to win the Democratic Party primary is the very same plan Al Gore used back in 2000, in his attempt to win the election.  Namely, challenge

The Business in Venezuela is getting worse. Chavez has closed the Columbian border. AFP is reporting:

A crisis between three Latin American nations worsened Tuesday when Venezuela said it was closing its border with Colombia, even as frantic diplomatic talks

Candidates is glass houses, the Obama campaign on the Clintons’  campaign, via MSNBC:

“As it relates to ethics and transparency,” Plouffe said, “we’re surprised that they would want to have an extended conversation about contributors and land deals and

Less than 48 hours ago, I posted a note from Bluto about the Lee Media Network.

Great news from Rusty…. They’re gone.

Keep up the fight, guys.  We’re with you.

• They’re waking up, sorta. Drum, today:

VITRIOL….Atrios:

The campaigns and candidates themselves may not get nasty, but I get the sense that supporters of the various candidates are getting angrier at the other camp. Sure a lot of

Michelle Obama, a.k.a. the Bitch, is an American woman of African descent.  JammieWearingFool reports that the Bitch thinks we, the United States, are ‘Just Downright Mean‘.   She  has, two Ivy League degrees, an executive job, a million dollar

[Barack] Obama has exposed himself as a seriously inexperienced and flawed candidate. He hasn’t really been tested until now, and the glass jaw he showed in the first few days of the real bout must have the party establishment worried

• Billy notes a comment at Wonkette, complaining about smoke stacks:
  

  “We should start bombing North Carolina.”

  … and notes:

  That’s exactly what all the false equivocations of the thing add up to.

  Exactly so. And I think I can

Piracy by another name, BBC:

Japan’s whaling fleet in the waters off Antarctica has been attacked again by protesters, Tokyo officials have said.

Activists from the Sea Shepherd group threw containers filled with a mild form of acid made

• Actually Billy, it likely WAS about that. … Allow an illustration: You know,there are a lot of people who figure that the right… IE: the power, to keep and bear arms is one that is directly connected to increased numbers