Common Folk Using Common Sense

90 days. That’s how long it’s been since General McChrystal asked for 40,000 more troops in Afghanistan. That’s how long the Commander In Chief, voted on by the people, has been sitting on his butt and making no decision. That’s how long US sailors, soldiers, airmen, and Marines, have been dying without the support necessary [...]

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Lots of smart people are already covering this (on-the-rocks, Dr. Rusty Shackleford) but I’ll put in my two cents worth. Says Rusty: Associated Press photographer Rahmatullah Naikzad was a witness to a Taliban murder. The two women were alleged to have been prostitutes who served Western clientèle. A quick Yahoo News photo search of Rahmatullah [...]

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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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From news.au.com: A would-be suicide bomber fell down a flight of stairs and blew himself up as he headed out for an attack in Afghanistan, police say. It was the second such incident in two days, with another man killing himself and three others on Tuesday when his bomb-filled waistcoat exploded as he was putting [...]

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From the AP: Dozens of schoolchildren and five teachers were among those killed in a suicide attack in northern Afghanistan earlier this week — the country’s deadliest since the fall of the Taliban — the government said Friday. The 59 schoolchildren had lined up to greet a group of lawmakers visiting a sugar factory in [...]

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A Proclamation: Through the generations, America’s men and women in uniform have defeated tyrants, liberated continents, and set a standard of courage and idealism for the entire world. On Veterans Day, our Nation pays tribute to those who have proudly served in our Armed Forces. To protect the Nation they love, our veterans stepped forward [...]

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0759 EDT – American Airlines Flight 11, a Boeing 767, departs Logan Airport with 81 passengers and 11 crew. 0814 EDT – United Airlines Flight 175, a Boeing 767, departs Logan Airport with 56 passengers and 9 crew. 0820 EDT – American Airlines Flight 77 departs Dulles Airport. 0842 EDT – United Airlines Flight 93 [...]

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The Victory Caucus: We support victory in the war against radical Islamists.

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Today I want to honor a single veteran: my son Stephen.

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From CENTCOM: TERRORISTS MURDER AFGHAN WOMEN’S RIGHTS ADVOCATE Safia Ama Jan, one of Afghanistan’s most prominent women’s rights activists, was gunned down outside her home in Kandahar on September 25, 2006. A regional Taliban commander claimed responsibility for her murder. During Taliban rule, Ama Jan was known for her underground school for Afghan girls. In [...]

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