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President Donald Trump says he does not think it’s appropriate for a co-captain of the U.S. women’s soccer team to protest during the national anthem. ... Trump told The Hill in an interview Monday that he disagrees with her actions, but loves watching women’s soccer and thinks the players are very talented.

A massive demonstration Sunday at Hampshire College called for the school to reverse a decision to stop flying the American flag. Veterans groups organized the protest after the school decided to stop flying all flags on the main campus flagpole, including the U.S. flag, following several high-profile controversies. The flag was lowered by students to half-staff before Veterans Day and in response to the presidential election, and someone burned the flag the night before Veterans Day. The college flew a new flag at full-staff on Veterans Day. The college said it would stop flying the flag in order to allow...

Texas Gov. Rick Perry, whom some pundits had written off as the GOP's nominee, may find a second coming in Iowa, if new poll data holds up. As Mitt Romney's campaign has suffered a startling decline in recent weeks, only to see Newt Gingrich eclipse the former Massachusetts governor's front-runner status, the battle for the Iowa caucuses set for Jan. 3 has become a wide-open race. New survey data prepared for the Perry campaign and shared by a source close within the campaign shows that the Texas governor may be poised to do much better in next month’s Iowa caucuses...

Roman Catholic, Anti-Communist Republican classic movie director Leo McCarey's "Once Upon A Honeymoon"(1942) with Republican movie superstars Ginger Rogers & Cary Grant. is airing on TCM on Monday morning. From its title, stars & director one might think it's a light romantic comedy like Grant's "The Awful Truth" and Miss Rogers' "It Had to Be You." And while it's partly in that genre, it's also a WII spy adveture. It's loads of fun to watch if you're a fan of Ginger, Cary, Walter Slezak(as Ginger's villainous Nazi husband), McCarey or 1940s WWII propaganda films. It also provides evidence that there...

Conservatives Must Step Up to the Plate Jerry McConnell I just read a blog, written by Eric Florack of PajamasMedia.com, in which he details a lot of the mixed feelings on the Republican Party that surfaced at the CPAC conference held last weekend. [...]I believe and understand as they do that conservatism is just about everything a socialist, liberal Democrat is not, such as: Pro-life; Pro-freedom; Pro-USA; Pro-Christian; Pro-Israel; Pro-family; Pro-traditional marriage; Pro-free market capitalism; Pro-war-on-terror and war on Islamofascism and terror in the Middle East and everywhere; Pro-military and Pro providing the necessary equipment to monitor our known enemies...

‘Foreign films which promote secular, feminist, liberal or nihilist ideas .. degrade oriental culture’. Iran's Islamic regime has slapped a ban on foreign films deemed to be "feminist", "secular" or pro-American, with hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad also pushing his vision of a Koranic society. A ruling by the Supreme Cultural Revolution Council, a watchdog headed by Ahmadinejad, bans "the distribution and screening of foreign films which promote secular, feminist, liberal or nihilist ideas and degrade oriental culture." Also forbidden are movies that feature "violence, narcotics consumption and propaganda for the world oppression", a term reserved for arch-enemy the United States,...

Voting began in Germany's closely fought election today with millions of undecided voters holding the key to a result that will have major implications for economic reform in Europe. Angela Merkel, a Christian Democrat (CDU) chancellor, is expected to emerge as Germany's first woman chancellor, displacing Gerhard Schroeder who has led Germany for the past seven years at the head of a centre-left government of Social Democrats and Greens. A provisional result is expected to be announced in the early hours of Monday morning. The final opinion polls published on Friday gave Merkel's centre-right coalition with the liberal Free Democrats...

Floridians could shoot anyone who invades their homes or cars with the intention of harming them, under a bill that got preliminary approval today in the Senate. The bill by Sen. Durrell Peaden, R-Crestview, basically says that you don't have to back away from a confrontation. Under existing law, people can be prosecuted if they don't first try to find a way to escape from a confrontation. Sen. Steve Geller, D-Hallendale, unsuccessfully tried to amend the bill so that it would only apply to homes, cars and other private locations - not confrontations on the street. Geller said he supported...

ONE year ago, the world witnessed a unique kind of broadcasting - the mass murder of thousands, live on television. As a lesson in the pitiless cruelty of the human race, September 11 was up there with Pol Pot's mountain of skulls in Cambodia, or the skeletal bodies stacked like garbage in the Nazi concentration camps. An unspeakable act so cruel, so calculated and so utterly merciless that surely the world could agree on one thing - nobody deserves this fate. Surely there could be consensus: the victims were truly innocent, the perpetrators truly evil. But to the world's eternal...

Pics From The Syracuse, NY "Pro-USA Rally" 14 strangers came together to show their support for the troops. It was a great day. 75% of drivers-by honked or gave the thumbs up in support. One "peace" protester did drive by, roll down her window, and spat at the feet of an older couple holding a "God Bless Our Troops" sign.

Any CNY'ers out there? I'm organizing a counter-protest vs the Syracuse Peace Council on March 20th. They are organizing a protest rally to spit on the USA and our brave troops serving in Iraq. Their demonstration will be from 12-1PM at Clinton Square here in Syracuse. Would any of you be willing to come out? Maybe you can bring others, too. I will be down there, along with my daughter and a few friends, to show my support for the US of A and our brave troops. 11AM-1Pm Saturday, March 20th. God Bless America! Jon Alvarez Baldwinsville, NY 315-638-7007 jonalvy44@hotmail.com

(Translated into English from Original Arabic, by "MEMRI")Text: Editor of Kuwaiti Daily: 'The U.S. Is Not Going to Quit... It Will Convert Poles of Jihadi Flags Into Arrows to Pierce the Hearts of Terrorists' On November 23, 2003, Ahmad Al-Jarallah, the Editor-in-Chief of the Kuwaiti dailies Al-Siyassa and Arab Times, praised the U.S. fight against Jihad fighters The following are excerpts from the article: [1] "Any resistance that depends on suicide bombers to destroy its target is a desperate and futile movement. Such a resistance hasn't succeeded in evicting Jews from Palestine or ending the misery of Palestinians. It...

If you get Food Network on cable, a very nice tribute. Emeril cooking for the troops! Special guest Shoshana Johnson... God Bless The USA!

Let's put our hands together for Hollywood!! They are FINALLY giving Americans what they want... A pro-USA film!! "Miracle" starring Kurt Russell Release Date: February 6, 2004

Demonstrations against Communist North Korea and Kim Jong-il are increasing in S. Korea by patriotic and pro-Bush/pro-America S. Koreans. This is despite a crackdown by the liberal, appeasing government of Roh Mu Hyon, the leftist Minjudang Party.One such tactic of recent has been very public displays of hatred toward the North Korea regime, such as the burning of the DPRK national flag.Here is a short streaming video at 200k (through the conservative Chosun Ilbo newsite) showing a N. Korean flag burning and arrest today near the S. Korean "White House" in downtown Seoul.Cut and paste this URL and view:Video:...

A rally held today in Seoul, South Korea, by strong friends of the USA and strong opponents of brutal North Korea/Kim Jong-il. Joining were: defectors from communist North Korea, S. Korean conservatives, a German doctor who had worked in North Korea, S. Korean veterans of the Vietnam War, and others friends. They fastidiously burned the communist North Korean flag and sang in support of President Bush and a strong policy against tyrany. Enjoy.

Title: "US Soldier Brings Heart to Korean Children" By Byun Duk-kun Staff Reporter (KOREA TIMES, SEOUL, KOREA)Michael Schardinger, 28, 2nd Lt., U.S. Army 168 Medical Battalion stationed in Taegu, S. Korea, has an interesting resume. Two years ago when he left Korea after a four-year tour, he was a noncommissioned officer and military nurse. In April, he came back for his second Korean tour as an Army officer. This time, he is not a nurse, but a hospital manager at the same unit he served on his previous stint here. But what’s unique about him is that he is...

East County Support Our Troops Rally! (El Cajon) April 13th 11a.m-2 p.m. Join us for food, patriotic music and classic cars! Live music from Smith and Western, appearances by official representatives and even an Astro Jump for the kids! Prescott Promenade 180 E. Main Street - Between Magnolia Ave. & Ballantyne St. El Cajon Parking at Civic Center, 200 E. Main Street

Thought on this historic day, (9 April 2003) I would share a little of what some Japanese are saying in Japanese over on the Yahoo! Japan message boards.Without a doubt, there have been anti-USA messages over there, but there has also been a good uptick, IMHO, of Japanese supporting the USA and who now feel vindicated based on what the world is clearly witnessing in Baghdad.One of my favorite posts today is from a Japanese poster called "Iraq Specialist", just now (again in Japanese):"The Japanese news media, particularly Asahi Shimbun and TV Asahi, were filled with anti-American comments and reporting...

Hi all. We're looking at a firm date of Saturday April 12th at 2:00PM. US Military Recruiters and Public Liason Officers will be there as well as Bob Goodlatte, Virgil Goode and possible George Allen. Lynchburg City Council as well as the Mayors Office and various Veterans Groups. Sponsored by 105.9 WLNI FM talk Radio. Anyone who wants to participate or bring items for the troops then contact me [Brian] at 434.610.3015. We're gonna set up a digital camera and let people record messages for the troops that will then be sent over to Iraq and Afghanistan via US military...