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Tafoya told The Athletic’s Richard Deitsch that she will co-chair the campaign of Kendall Qualls, an Army veteran and businessman who is running for governor of Minnesota as a Republican candidate. “I got to a point in my life where I wanted to try other things, and there are some things that are really important to me,” Tafoya told The Athletic. “This is not to say that sports isn’t an important field, that my job isn’t an important job. But in my position, I was not as free to be as vocal about world events that I’m concerned about.

WASHINGTON, May 11 /U.S. Newswire/ -- A request on behalf of over 350 Gold Star families whose loved ones gave their lives in Operation Iraqi Freedom to not have the names of their fallen heroes used in the Eyes Wide Open anti-Iraq war display currently on exhibit at the National Mall in Washington, D.C., was refused today by the organizer, the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC.) The exhibit is cosponsored by several so-called antiwar groups, including one led by Cindy Sheehan, who herself has asked that her son's name not be used by President Bush. Kristinn Taylor, who has two...

CRAWFORD, Texas (AP) - Three months after the mother of a fallen soldier led a 26-day anti-war vigil near President Bush's ranch, peace activists and Bush supporters converged again Saturday for dueling rallies. Cindy Sheehan, whose 24-year-old Casey died in Iraq, called for anti-war activists to return to Crawford this week as Bush celebrated the Thanksgiving holiday. The war opponents' camp is at the same 1-acre private lot that a landowner let them use in August when Sheehan's original campsite became too crowded. The first demonstration attracted thousands from around the country and made the woman from Berkeley, Calif., a...

Those at “Camp Qualls” have their own unique version of the memorial crosses erected by the anti-Bush war protesters over at “Camp Casey” and “Camp Casey II.” Rather than presuming to speak for the families of the fallen, those at “Camp Qualls” are letting the families themselves give permission to erect memorials in honor of their fallen sons and daughters: Some parents themselves have personally arrived to plant the crosses

Brian Wilson just announced a story on Crawford coming right up after this break.

Below are a bunch of images I've put together to share with y'all as our hearts and prayers go with those traveling to Crawford in support of our troops and our President ~ these images, I think, really do say it all ~ I hope you enjoy them!

Anti-war protesters camped outside U.S. President George Bush's Texas ranch are being confronted by military families who claim they are disrespectful. The war's opponents are led by California activist Cindy Sheehan, who blames Bush for her son's death in Iraq. Since Aug. 6, a group called Veterans for Peace has begun placing crosses bearing the names of dead soldiers outside the ranch. But the crosses are being taken down by the dead soldiers' family members, the Washington Times said Thursday. Anti-war protesters "never asked for my permission to put up a cross for my son for their cause," said Gary...

    "The father of a slain Central Texas Marine appears in a new TV spot that began airing Thursday, challenging anti-war protester Cindy Sheehan to a debate."    

  Just listened to live interview of Gary Qualls on CNN. He calmly aired out Cindy S. and her "friends".   Wish I could have recorded audio/video, but it caught me by surprise during channel surfing.      

CRAWFORD - With singing and tears, protest mom Cindy Sheehan returned to her vigil near President Bush's ranch Wednesday, less than a week after leaving to care for her ailing mother. Alighting with an armful of flowers from a van that brought her from the airport, Sheehan's first act on returning was to find the cross with her son's name on it amid dozens set in the ground at her new campsite. "Does anybody know where Casey's cross is?" Sheehan said. She placed the flowers, then joined other mothers of fallen service members for a group hug. Rick Burnley, a...

(AP) A Utah television station is refusing to air an anti-war ad featuring Cindy Sheehan, whose son's death in Iraq prompted a vigil outside President George W. Bush's Texas ranch. Also, a patriotic camp with a "God Bless Our President!" banner sprung up in downtown Crawford, Texas Saturday, countering the anti-war demonstration started by Sheehan. The camp is named "Fort Qualls," in memory of Marine Lance Cpl. Louis Wayne Qualls, 20, who died in Iraq last fall. The anti-war ad began airing on other Salt Lake City-area stations Saturday, two days before Bush was scheduled to speak in Salt Lake...

A patriotic camp with a "God Bless Our President!" banner sprung up downtown Saturday, countering the anti-war demonstration started by a fallen soldier's mother two weeks ago near President Bush's ranch. The camp is named "Fort Qualls" in memory of Marine Lance Cpl. Louis Wayne Qualls, 20, killed in Fallujah, Iraq, last fall. His father, Gary Qualls of Temple, said his 16-year-old son also wants to enlist, and he supports that decision. "If I have to sacrifice my whole family for the sake of our country and world, other countries that want freedom, I'll do that," said Qualls, a friend...

Gary Qualls, 48, of Temple on Wednesday removed a cross bearing the name of his son, Louis Wayne Qualls, from the roadside memorial of the anti-war demonstrators near President Bush’s Crawford ranch. “They have the right to protest,” he said of the followers of Cindy Sheehan. “But they are not there for a just cause.” Sheehan has gained a lot of attention for saying that she wanted to speak to President Bush, even though published reports said Bush met with Sheehan two months after her son Casey was killed in Iraq. Qualls said he has given several media interviews, including...

A cursory examination of hard data on the ground makes it seem ludicrous to plant the axiom that the US could eventually lose our bid to democratic Iraq, Afghanistan and other authoritarian hellholes scattered throughout the Middle East. Our Marine Corps just finished demolishing the heart of the Al-Quaida-backed elements of the Iraqi resistance. The rapid and complete purging of Fallujah sent a message to our enemies. Unfortunately, other actions on our part send them a message as well. That message reads that our front line military troops may prove indominatable in open battle, but that in many cases, the...