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Brilliant documentary series that aired in the 1950s. Awesome musical score that was actually conducted by the NBC orchestra (I used to have the LP). For many Americans, this documentary served as the first extensive moving pictures of the war they'd seen. And as one person commented on one of the youtube pages, if you weren't sitting in front of your TV at the moment it aired, you missed it. How quaint. Good old days.

"beside a stream there was a dwelling. Blackened by time and rain, the hut was piled up on all sides with taiga rubbish—bark, poles, planks. If it hadn't been for a window the size of my backpack pocket, it would have been hard to believe that people lived there. But they did, no doubt about it.... Our arrival had been noticed, as we could see."

In an effort to cut defense spending, the Obama Administration plans to cut health benefits for active duty and retired military personnel and their families while not touching the benefits enjoyed by unionized civilian defense workers. The move, congressional aides suggested, is to force those individuals into Obamacare, Bill Gertz reported at the Washington Beacon.

Some time ago I read a funny satirical letter from a fictional father to his son in the military. The letter dragged on and on about how his sister or brother was in jail, his taxes were too high and he was losing his home, somebody else had run afoul of the law, etc. Then he closed the letter by thanking his son for helping the many freedoms he enjoyed. Does anyone else remember that? Do you have a link to it? Thanks!

Pelosi: Mass. Election Won’t Stop Health Bill By DAVID M. HERSZENHORN With Democrats increasingly anxious about the special election in Massachusetts on Tuesday and what it will mean for their big health care legislation, the House speaker, Nancy Pelosi, told reporters in California Monday that the legislation would move forward not matter what.

This has PROBABLY been posted here already. BUT, by God, this is worth posting again. We ought to do this to every single Cap-and-Trade voting, Obama-care-promoting "fedzillacrat" at every single town hall meeting until 2010. I am a southerner but these Yankees made me as proud as I can be. You gotta watch!!!

Tonight, President Obama weighed in to the recent news about a black professor being arrested for disturbing the peace after police responded to reports that someone was breaking into his house. Obama responded to a question that the police acted stupid in arresting the professor, and that, uh, well, black people get pulled over by the police disproportionately. I couldn't believe he chose to comment on this issue as President, first of all. It's way, way, way not in his lane. But secondly, it is highly premature to categorize the police's actions as right or wrong. He went further than...

PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad – President Barack Obama offered a spirit of cooperation to America's hemispheric neighbors at a summit Saturday, listening to complaints about past U.S. meddling and even reaching out to Venezuela's leftist leader.

Obama on stimulus: 'I know we did the right thing' By DARLENE SUPERVILLE, Associated Press Writer Darlene Superville, Associated Press Writer Fri Mar 6, 9:39 pm ET COLUMBUS, Ohio – While aknowledging an "astounding" number of job losses in February, President Barack Obama told critics of his $787 billion economic recovery plan Friday that it is saving jobs and said, "I know we did the right thing." He suggested that critics talk to 25 police recruits in Ohio's capital city who owe their jobs to stimulus spending and "talk to the teachers who are still able to teach our children...

Dick Armey was talking about economics and the stimulus package on Hardball just now, beside some Salon columnist named Joan (typical over the hill liberal woman). Armey interrupted her at one point and said something to the effect of "I am so glad you are not my wife and I have to listen to you every night". She was dumbstruck by his comment. Even I had to raise an eyebrow at it! Then the next guest, a NYT guy, said, "I just want to say before we get into this that Dick Armey was totally out of line with his...

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Bush did foresee the danger posed by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the government-sponsored mortgage finance giants. The president spent years pushing a recalcitrant Congress to toughen regulation of the companies, but was unwilling to compromise when his former Treasury secretary wanted to cut a deal. And the regulator Bush chose to oversee them — an old prep school buddy — pronounced the companies sound even as they headed toward insolvency. As early as 2006, top advisers to Bush dismissed warnings from people inside and outside the White House that housing prices were inflated and that a foreclosure crisis was...

WASHINGTON – People want the tax cuts promised during the presidential campaign, but may be willing to wait while President-elect Obama takes on the larger issue of fixing the economy.

I was noticing last night, as I studied the wasteland of the election map, that despite McCain losing the election and Ds gaining seats in the House and the Senate, that several key state questions passed. These were primarily regarding gay marriage or amending gay adoption laws. Therefore, I think we must look at each Obama state victory in states that were deciding key cultural issues or conservative issues and examine the differential. Conservatism is not dead. Obama APPARENTLY, AND WITH THE OVERWHELMING AID OF THE MEDIA, ran a good campaign and McCain was substantially hurt by the economic downturn....

This guy, whom I've never heard of before, pretty much lays out Obama and his supporters completely bare. I especially like his reference to "low life, paint-sniffin', Trench Coat Mafia, America-hating white trash." Very, very entertaining.

This morning the communist, Obama-loving "media" that reports the news to this country stated that two new polls show Obama with a 10 point statistical lead over a real American and a real leader, John McCain. Yet the other day we were within 2-4 points. What's the deal?

Ladies and Gentelmen, I'm writing in hopes that some of you could make a recommendation on books that deal with courage and adventure. Nonfiction books only please. I'm stationed out in the middle of nowhere and reading is my only real R&R. I'm especially interested in nautical adventures or adventures relating to the exploration of Africa or the Middle East. I've searched amazon for hours trying to find that sort of a book, but I have yet to find something worthwhile. By the way, I recently read In the Heart of the Sea, the story about the whaleship Essex, and...

NBC continues to upgrade its “Football Night in America” studio show, adding Keith Olbermann to co-host with Bob Costas. Olbermann should bring some fresh opinions to the show, which also includes analysts Cris Collinsworth, Jerome Bettis and Tiki Barber, the former New York Giants star running back. Olbermann teamed with Dan Patrick to turn ESPN’s “SportsCenter” into the “Big Show,” before leaving for MSNBC. In recent years, he has tiptoed back into the sports world, partnering an hour with Dan Patrick on Patrick’s daily ESPN Radio show. NBC Sports boss Dick Ebersol is counting on Olbermann to shake things up...

Las Vegas Review-Journal April 21, 2007 Pg. 1 GIs: We're Not Losing By Keith Rogers "We're not losing this war." That's how a Las Vegas Army Reserve sergeant and Iraq war veteran who is heading out again for Operation Iraqi Freedom reacted Friday to Nevada Sen. Harry Reid's assessment that the war in Iraq is "lost." "I don't believe the war is lost," Sgt. George Turkovich, 24, said as he stood with other soldiers near a shipping container that had been packed for their deployment to Kuwait. The soldiers leave today for a six-week training stint at Camp Atterbury, Ind.,...

In Court, Man turns out to be Woman! What a story from the Hamilton County courts building today; court records show a man charged with molesting a teen, is actually a woman! In court today, Prosecutors revealed that Alexander Cross is actually a woman. Her given name is Elaine Cross, she legally changed it to Alexander. How did prosecutors find out Cross was a woman? After she had been in the Hamilton County jail for 10 days in January, someone noticed she was actually a female while she was taking a shower. She was immediately moved to female isolation. According...