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Entries Tagged as 'War'

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 forces from [...]

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

Cousin Raila Odinga

April 5th, 2008 · Comments Off

Raila Odinga is married to Ida Odinga (born Ida Anyango Oyoo). They have four children - two sons and two daughters. His oldest son, Fidel, is named after Fidel Castro. Their youngest child, Winnie, is named after Winnie Mandela. Raila lives in Nairobi but has a second home in Bondo District.
Odinga claims to be [...]

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Tags: Election · Islamofascism · Muslim/Islam · Terrorism · The US · War

I’m Starting To Get Tired Of The Communist Chinese

March 25th, 2008 · Comments Off

Until 1949, Tibet was an independent Buddhist nation in the Himalayas which had little contact with the rest of the world. It existed as a rich cultural storehouse of the Mahayana and Vajrayana teachings of Buddhism. Religion was a unifying theme among the Tibetans — as was their own language, literature, art, and world view [...]

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Tags: Buddhism · Censorship · China · Crime/Law · Terrorism · War

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 so [...]

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

War Is Not The Ugliest Of Things

November 8th, 2007 · Comments Off

“War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a [...]

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Tags: Dhimmitude · Money · Terrorism · The Left · The Right · War · World

Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week

October 22nd, 2007 · Comments Off

From the website:

During the week of October 22-26, 2007, the nation will be rocked by the biggest conservative campus protest ever – Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week, a wake-up call for Americans on 200 university and college campuses.
The purpose of this protest is as simple as it is crucial: to confront the two Big Lies of the [...]

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Tags: Al Qaeda · Dhimmitude · Egypt · Hamas · Hezbollah · Iran · Iraq · Islamofascism · Israel · Muslim/Islam · Pakistan · Palestine · Saudi Arabia · Terrorism · The Left · The Right · The US · War

The US Senate On General David H. Petraeus

September 22nd, 2007 · 1 Comment

U.S. Sen. John Cornyn, a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, called on the Democratic leadership in Congress to condemn the full-page advertisement that appeared recently in the New York Times suggesting that General David Petraeus is a traitor.
“Every American, including a Washington special interest organization like MoveOn.org, has the right to voice their [...]

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

Another Leftist Hollywood Nitwit

September 21st, 2007 · 1 Comment

FROM THE LEFT:
Accepting her Emmy on Sunday night for lead actress in a drama series (”Brothers and Sisters”), Field stumbled halfway through, lost her train of thought, screeched at the audience to stop applauding so she could finish talking, and then was bleeped by Fox censors as she stammered through an anti-war rant. “And, [...]