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In less than 3 minutes last night on CBS's 60 Minutes, commentator Andy Rooney essentially negated the enormous personal sacrifice of countless men and women who gave their lives for their country. Rooney's Memorial Day commentary was nothing more than a hit-piece that minimized the nature of the sacrifice of Patriots--the notion that freedom is not free, and that freedom is worth dying for if necessary. While giving a nod to those who died in war, Rooney stated that, 'They did not give their lives. Life was taken from them.' In a sense, of course, he is right. Soldiers do...

An anti-globalization group called “Anti-Marketing” defines globalization as “the process of exploiting economically weak countries by connecting the economies of the world, forcing dependence on (and ultimately servitude to) the western capitalist machine.” While this formulation may sound extreme, the same basic, perverted understanding of globalization has poisoned the minds of many. In a world of scarcity, the most advanced societies have the most internationally connected economies. This has always been true. In ancient northern African nations, the Greco-Roman world, and later in the Netherlands, Britain, Spain, and the United States, nations that traded widely were nations that prospered. Trading...

Even the bloodbath of Sept. 11 was, to America's critics, mere confirmation of America's guilt. What must it have done, they asked themselves, to provoke such an attack? Needless to say, they had no trouble answering. The same pattern has now repeated itself with regard to the war in Iraq. Months of patient effort having proved unable to persuade the Security Council to enforce its own resolutions, the fault, naturally, lay with the Americans. Even supporters of the war like to pair this with an evenhanded lament for the "failure of diplomacy" that left the United States "isolated," alone but...

"FRee Iraq!!" (To be sung to Bob Seger's "Like a Rock") Strength and Boldness...Whuppin' Lib'ral Scum!! Ignorance is Legion...DemRATS're Sleazy BUMS!! We fight fer FReedom...Right's never been this strong...FRee Iraq!! Left's like pre-teens...RATS don't have a CLUE!! Libs LOATHE our FReedoms...Ignorant Poltroons!! Folks, Right is Winning...Socialists Dispair!! FReepers ROCK!! These days're heady...our Fight's 'tween Wrong and Right!! Our Noble Purpose...the World we shall Enlight!! Right must hold firmly...'cuz FReedom's Worth the Fight!! FReedom ROCKS!! FReepers ROCK!! RightWing's Strong 'cuz we are FRee!! FReep Iraq!! Liberate the WHOLE MidEast!! FRee Iraq, Sheeple Blossom When FRee...FRee Iraq!! God is GOOD, God is...