

Monthly Archive for August, 2006

: August, 2006

Houston and Katrina, proud memories

I will always remember walking into the Astrodome last September 2nd. It was surreal. A sea of needy people. Here is what I wrote in my blog that evening: The whole thing was, of course,

Video blogging! Take a tour of the blogs

Eyes off the prize?

Juan Williams over at the Washington Post has an excellent article on why the black community still stuggles: “Have we taken our eyes off the prize? The civil rights movement continues, but the

I was wrong.

In a earlier post I said that if mothers ran wars there would be no wars. I was wrong because there are mother’s like this: Scotland Yard police are questioning a husband and wife who allegedly

Fighting the war on terror, what the left seems to have forgotten (or ignored)

I just saw Ned Lamont (who just defeated Joe Lieberman in the Democratic Connecticut primary) on the news saying “The war in Iraq has nothing to do with the war on terror.” Keep in mind this is the

Why we can’t afford for the Democrats to win.

Regarding the most recent terror plot The WSJ sums it up: “British antiterrorism chief Peter Clarke said at a news conference that the plot was foiled because “a large number of people” had been under


I heard Charles Rangel the other day on the news pretty much comparing our military to the henchmen that controlled the prisons under Saddam. He said that Gitmo was no different. I see this attitude

A graduation speech I had to share

The following is a excerpt from a ITB (Infantry Training Battalion) Graduation Speech by LTC Randolph C. White Jr. I apologize for the caps but that is how it was typed: (emphasis mine) THE BEST AND

Why is ok for the left to be racially insensitive?

Firedoglake is a very popular blog on the left side of the blogosphere. It is hosted by Jane Hamsher, who also blogs occasionally on another leftwing popular blog, She travels with