Project Hero: SSG Timothy Nein, Distinguished Service Cross

Heh.

I no sooner make comment on how Bruce hasn’t been doing any of these of late at Q&O, and viola’, one shows up.

This time, the story related is of one Timothy Nein, A Staff Sgt with the 617th

If John Hawkins’ latest polling on the matter is anything like accurate, McCain still has a lot of work to do to gain the trust of the base.

For the benefit of those who are new to this blog, I’ll say up front I don’t like John McCain. DOnot mistake this string of comments, therefore as a defense of him. But it will be useful for us to

McQ makes an excellent point about the Democrat debate the other night, and a line that Obama offered up:

In last night’s debate, Barack Obama, apparently wanting to get in the swing of sounding like the Commander-in-Chief, threw this little

• I’m going to have to post a really good quip someday. Meanwhile, your humble webmaster got himself another Honorable Mention at the OTB Caption Contest.
• I said it last night; I had my doubts that Sadr was going to break

Heh… Check out Bob Geldoff…. Here”s Hume last night:

Rock singer and noted social activist Bob Geldof is praising President Bush for his work in delivering bills of dollars to fight disease and poverty in Africa – and ripping the

Ironic story of the day, Allah Pundit, Hot Air:

Helicopters carrying three senior U.S. senators made emergency landings Thursday in the mountains of Afghanistan because of a snowstorm.

Sens. John Kerry, Joseph Biden and Chuck Hagel were aboard

“Xerox” isn’t a noun.

Addendum: (David L)

How can do many media sources get a one line quote so wrong?  Lots of practice I quess, via CNN:

And, you know, lifting whole passages from someone else’s speeches is not

• Billy
  

  “I’ve always believed that he’s the easier candidate to beat in the Fall.”

  (McPhillips: “Are The Clintons Over?”)

  I think his general position is correct: these people won’t be “over” until we see their boxes getting dropped into the

Alter is saying Obama is going to win because Hillary Clinton ran the worst campaign in history. Which of course, ignores that what was being sold was simply unsellable. I suspect she ran the best campaign she could.  People know

Mrs. Clinton’s last stand, via Byron York, National Review:

On a conference call, top strategist Mark Penn just told reporters that in the next two weeks Hillary Clinton will go after Barack Obama on the issue of who is

• Honorable Mention in the OTB Caption Contest.
• No, folks… Now is not the time for The Cuban embargo to be removed. Not until Fidel Casto‘s POLICIES are. This is not about one man, however infamous. This is about the

Noted at the Babalu Blog this morning:

Michael Graham, blogging at The Natural Truth, brings us this disgusting but not surprising story about how CNN coached its anchors to treat the subject of fidel castro in an early morning email

Mark Steyn puts up a bit in McCleans, this norning, under tyhe header: “So what would it take to alarm you?”

Since Maclean’s got into a spot of bother with Canada’s “human rights” pseudo-courts, I’ve been pleasantly surprised by the

Anyone want proof there’s a God?

Looks like one more scrap of proof just showed up to play: Roger Simon says he’s losing in his bid for his congressional seat to an unknown.