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Oath Keepers, vol. 4

March 24th, 2009 · Comments Off

Oath Keepers is a non-partisan association of currently serving military, reserves, National Guard, peace officers, and veterans who swore an oath to support and defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic … and meant it. Our oath is to the Constitution, not to the politicians, and that oath will be kept. We won’t [...]

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Tags: Crime/Law · Government · Guns · Military · Socialism · The Left · The Right · The US

Oath Keepers, vol. 3

March 23rd, 2009 · Comments Off

Principles of Our Republic Oath Keepers Are Sworn to Defend As defenders of the Republic and guardians of the rights of the people, we affirm the timeless, self-evident truths set forth in our Declaration of Independence, which are at the very heart of our Republic: All men are created equal and endowed by their creator [...]

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Tags: Crime/Law · Government · Guns · Military · Socialism · The Left · The Right · The US

Oath Keepers, vol. 2

March 22nd, 2009 · Comments Off

Quotes from some that have joined Oath Keepers: I am a retired U.S. Army Infantry NCO (SFC/E7) platoon sergeant and I have been stating for many months that I took an oath when I first enlisted back in 1975 and that no one told me I was no longer bound by that oath when I [...]

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Tags: Crime/Law · Government · Guns · Law Enforcement · Military · Socialism · The Left · The Right · The US

Oath Keepers, vol. 1

March 21st, 2009 · 1 Comment

Imagine that the Obama Administration fulfills their previous threats to disarm the civilian population, by force if necessary. Imagine that the Obama Administration federalized the nation’s banking industry. Imagine that the current crime sprees in many larger cities “forces” the Obama Administration to impose some level of martial law. And then imagine that four US [...]

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Tags: Crime/Law · Government · Guns · Military · Socialism · The Left · The Right · The US

Cynthia McKinney: Moonbat Extraordinaire

December 30th, 2008 · 1 Comment

First: The Free Gaza movement is sending another solidarity ship to the Strip, due this time to the major Israeli attacks. The four previous voyages have set sail in solidarity to the million and a half residents under siege. On board the ship expected to set sail on Monday are four physicians. Among them is [...]

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Tags: Hamas · Islamofascism · Israel · Media · Military · Terrorism · The EU · The Left · The UN · The US

Commander of the Alaska National Guard

September 26th, 2008 · Comments Off

Alaska is the first line of defense in our missile interceptor defense system. The 49th Missile Defense Battalion of the Alaska National Guard is the unit that protects the entire nation from ballistic missile attacks. It’s on permanent active duty, unlike other Guard units. As governor of Alaska, Sarah Palin is briefed on highly classified [...]

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Tags: Election · Military · Terrorism · The Right · The US

Anti-war Hypocrites

July 24th, 2008 · 1 Comment

By Ralph Peters at the New York Post: Am I the only one who’s noticed the silence? Mere months ago, left-wing bloggers and demonstrators were wailing Support our troops, bring them home! seven days a week. Now their presidential candidate has announced that he won’t bring all those troops home, but will simply transfer combat [...]

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Tags: Absurd · Election · Military · The Left · War

Change We Can Believe In

July 16th, 2008 · Comments Off

The New York Times has been long been documented to be one of the most Liberal newspapers in the country. Many of their “news” pieces are nothing more than Democrat talking points. So it comes as somewhat of a shock that in a recent 33-page poll, the new politics of Obama, the candidate of “change”, [...]

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Tags: Election · Military · Money · Taxes · The Left · The US

Stephen King Becomes A Terror Himself

May 13th, 2008 · Comments Off

Remember shortly before Election Day 2006 when Sen. John Kerry (D-MA) suggested that if you don’t get a good education, “you get stuck in Iraq”? Apparently to author Stephen King if you don’t know how to read your only choice is to join the Army and go to Iraq. According to published reports, last month [...]

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Tags: Absurd · Military · The Left

Our Media Elite

May 10th, 2008 · Comments Off

News anchor Dan Rather, The Reverend Jesse Jackson, National Public Radio reporter Cokie Roberts, and an American Marine were hiking through the jungle one day when they were captured by cannibals. They were tied up, led to the village and brought before the chief. The chief said, “I am familiar with your Western custom of [...]

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Tags: Guns · Media · Military · Strange/Funny · The Left

Jay Rockefeller Is A Liberal Hack Jerk

April 9th, 2008 · Comments Off

From the New York Times: In an interview in his home state, West Virginia, on Monday, Senator Jay Rockefeller, a Democrat, told The Charleston Gazette that Mr. McCain, the presumptive Republican nominee, could not relate to the everyday concerns of people on issues like health care. According to the article, Mr. Rockefeller said: “McCain was [...]

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Tags: Absurd · Election · Military · The Left

We’ve Never Asked For Anything

April 7th, 2008 · Comments Off

During an address to the World Economic Forum, the US Secretary of State, Colin Powell, was asked a somewhat long and involved question by the former Archbishop of Canterbury, George Carey, which ended with the following interrogative: And would you not agree, as a very significant political figure in the United States, Colin, that America, [...]

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Tags: Military · The UK · The US

Berkeley Gives Marines The Boot

February 3rd, 2008 · Comments Off

From InsideBayArea.com: Hey-hey, ho-ho, the Marines in Berkeley have got to go. That’s the message from the Berkeley City Council, which voted 6-3, with Gordon Wozniak, Betty Olds and Kriss Worthington dissenting, to tell the Marines that its Shattuck Avenue recruiting station “is not welcome in the city, and if recruiters choose to stay, they [...]

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Tags: Absurd · California · Government · Military · The Left

Go Jill Stevens!

January 26th, 2008 · Comments Off

Normally I detest beauty pageants. They are usually nothing more than thinly-veiled soft-core voyeurism. The women watch it and say, “Wow, I wish I could be hot like her,” while the men watch it and say, “Wow, I wish I could be inside of her.” But tonight’s Miss America Pageant contains a tiny slimmer of [...]

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Tags: Afghanistan · Media · Military · The US

December 7

December 7th, 2007 · Comments Off

Today is December 7th, the 66th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor. At dawn on Sunday, December 7, 1941, naval aviation forces of the Empire of Japan attacked the United States Pacific Fleet center at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii and other military targets. The goal of this attack was to sufficiently cripple the US Fleet [...]

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Tags: Dhimmitude · Government · Military · Terrorism · The Left · The US · War