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Antis the German shepherd was discovered as a puppy in No Man's Land RAF gunner Robert Bozdech adopted him as a member of 311 Squadron Dog saved lives and could hear Luftwaffe planes before they arrived Eventually he stowed away aboard Robert's aircraft, risking death and injury He was awarded the Dickin medal for 'outstanding devotion to duty'

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Most of the talk about the Affordable Care Act has focused on website glitches and skyrocketing premiums but there are other issues looming on the horizon for the healthcare overhaul. Hospital coverage. If consumers expect to have (or continue to have) access to the best medical services at the nations top hospitals, they are in for a rude awakening. "Most of the top hospitals will accept insurance from just one or two companies operating under Obamacare." Because the ACA caps premiums, insurers will be have to offer less money to the nations best doctors and hospitals. In return, the hospitals...

The part of Obamacare that’s supposed to deliver services, as opposed to, say, the IRS portion, the punitive portion, which is supposed to enforce Obamacare, isn’t faring very well. “After emergency repairs over the weekend,” reports the Associated Press, “consumers in different parts of the country Monday continued to report delays on healthcare.gov, as well as problems setting up security questions for their accounts. The administration says the site’s crowded electronic ‘waiting room’’ is thinning out. Still, officials said it will be down again for a few hours starting at 1 a.m. Tuesday for more upgrades and fixes.” Not so...

Ever notice how no cabinet members in the Obama Administration are ever fired (the names Holder, Rice, Sibelius spring to mind), but in the last year nine senior generals have been fired? I wonder why that is? According to a report from The Blaze: Retired U.S. Army Maj. Gen. Paul Vallely, an outspoken critic of the Obama administration, said the White House fails to take action or investigate its own, but finds it easy to fire military commanders “who have given their lives for their country.” “Obama will not purge a civilian or political appointee because they have bought into...

I close my eyes and imagine the coming days. The American public growing skeptical and then outright dismissive of Obamacare. A growing revulsion over the administration's Benghazi deception. A national awakening to the crises we face in spending, especially on entitlements. But then I open my eyes, and I have to look at the real world. Sure, "Saturday Night Live" and late-night comics are poking fun at the disastrous healthcare.gov rollout. But does anyone doubt that these pop-culture jokesters would still vote for Obama by 90 percent margins in the next five elections if they could? Do not fool yourselves....

Guest: Fred Burton, author, Under Fire: The Untold Story of the Attack in Benghazi by Fred Burton and Samuel M. Katz. This is an audio file, about 40 minutes long, and harrowing as Fred Burton discusses his experiences at the Benghazi compound during the attack.

How long has it been since Obamacare was shoved down our throats? I believe it's been around three years since the liberal Democrats in Congress (remember that for later) passed the Affordable Care Act without a single Republican vote. During the debate over the bill, as well as since that time, we have warned America about what is coming down the road. We have had to fight an onslaught in the media, as President Obama and the rest of the liberal Democrats have done their best to pass their lies off to America as the truth. That seemed to have...

Two years after pushing out the last American troops, Iraq’s flailing Government has returned to beg Washington for help in taking on a resurgent al-Qaeda. Amid fears that the terror network is edging closer to establishing its own mini-state in the heart of the Middle East, the Iraqi Prime minister, Nouri al-Maliki, is to ask President Obama for military equipment, ranging from attack helicopters to missiles.

Passengers in the airport must have been worried when they saw our plane pull into gate 69A, as we had a full police and fire escort, front and back. I was on the left side of the plane and later realized that the family could be seen off to the right, standing with the United States Army Honor Guard.... When the jet door opened, another military officer addressed the escort who was standing at attention. He then stepped on the plane and told us passengers “I just addressed the escort. It’s a sworn oath to bring home the family...

"Medicare for all" isn't perfect, but it does what the ACA can't: Guarantee better healthcare and a simpler system Whenever scandal arises in Washington, D.C., the fight between the two parties typically ends up being a competition to identify a concise message in the chaos — or, as scientists might say, a signal in all the noise. This week confirms that truism, as glitches plagued the new Obamacare website and as insurance companies canceled policies for many customers on the individual market. Amid the subsequent noise of congressional debate and cable TV outrage, Republicans argued that the signal is about...

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It seemed a novel, relatively simple way for Virginia political candidates to engage with high school students across the state — and one that has been done for four years now. In April, the gubernatorial campaigns of Democrat Terry McAuliffe and Republican Kenneth T. Cuccinelli II were asked if they would provide videotaped responses to five questions culled from 5,300 queries submitted by high school students across Virginia. The candidates agreed and confirmed when reminded of the project four weeks ago. But two weeks ago, Mr. McAuliffe abruptly backed out — angering administrators and fitting an emerging pattern of evading...

Vance McAlliser, one of two candidates in a runoff for Congressman from Louisiana’s Fifth District, said yesterday that he supported a “path to citizenship” for aliens that are in the United States illegally. Path to Citizenship is considered by most conservatives to be a politically correct term for amnesty for illegals. From the News Star: And on immigration reform, McAllister said he would support a path to citizenship for those immigrants already here illegally. “We have to secure the borders, but (citizenship) has to be attainable for those people already here,” he said. “It has to be a tough path,...

WASHINGTON DC – Singer Bonjean Strategies today announced the addition of veteran Republican strategist Brian Walsh as partner in their bipartisan public affairs and strategic communications firm. Founded by top Democratic and Republican strategists Phil Singer and Ron Bonjean in 2008, the firm has successfully helped dozens of clients achieve their communications and government relations objectives. “There are few strategists in either party that can compare to Brian Walsh,” Singer said. “Brian’s work ethic and creativity pack a potent one-two punch and we are very lucky that he is our new partner.” “Brian Walsh is one of the best communication...

Often in error but never in doubt, Barack Obama could walk into the Rose Garden and step on a half-dozen rakes like Foghorn Leghorn in an old Looney Tunes cartoon, and the official line would be, “He meant to do that.”And the amazing thing is that so many people believe it. “Mr. Obama is like a championship chess player, always several moves ahead of friend and foe alike. He’s smart, deft, elegant and subtle,” proclaimed then–New York Times columnist Bob Herbert in 2009. It’s an image of the president that his biggest fans, in and out of the press, have...

Union bosses and other out-of-state liberals–from Hollywood to New York–are pouring millions into the Virginia governor’s race. They are, without a doubt, hell-bent on defeating Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli and putting long-time Democratic party boss and fund-raiser Terry McAuliffe into the governor’s seat. More than that, however, the Left (just as they are targeting Texas and other Southern states) may be using the governor’s race to put the final nail in the coffin for Republicans in a state that has swung from reliably red to almost-but-not-quite blue. While the polls in the seem to be tightening from a McAuliffe shoe-in...

Baptists 1297. I am a Baptist, and I believe that St. John the Baptist himself was the founder of our Church. You are mistaken in that; and in any case such an origin would be of no real value for one who professes to be a Christian. The New Testament insists that we must follow Christ, not St. John the Baptist. For the preaching of John the Baptist was essentially a preparation for Christ. He himself told his followers not to remain his disciples, but to become disciples of Christ. "He must increase," he said, "and I must decrease." To...

...........Fisher Ames said, "Society is the substratum of government."By that he meant that culture, in many ways, steers the ship of state. As the values of the culture change, voters will elect people who embody and represent those changing values. It doesn't matter if those changes in morals were brought on by the media, the church, a partisan and biased educational system, or all of the above; the people eventually get what they want. If their wants shift in a certain direction, regardless of the cause, in a representative republic the government will eventually change with it.The establishment Republicans --...

<p>Outrage drove Captain Ahab relentlessly after that great white whale, and apparently, it drives Sen. Dick Durbin too.</p> <p>Durbin, the unctuous Democrat running for re-election in President Barack Obama's political home state, is consumed by outrage. This time Durbin is outraged by an unidentified Republican who may have disrespected the face of the president, even if the White House says the insult that Durbin is outraged about didn't happen.</p>