Hugh Hewitt: www.MCYM.org
May 2, 2008
Military Community Youth Ministries is devoted to serving the needs of high school and junior high students whose mom or dad is in the military. Supporting it is a great way for civilians to support the military and…
Moment of Truth In Iraq
May 1, 2008
Michael Yon’s new book should be required reading for every Member of Congress who votes on continued support for the war,and for every journalist who comments on the war. Very, very few reporters –if any– have been in Iraq in places like Mosul more than Yon, and the details he provides of the battles, the ups and downs, and now the turning of the tide are indispensable to understanding the stakes there. Get the book and read it. Send a copy to any influencer you know and check back to make sure they have read it. The United States military is prevailing and needs only the time and support of the American people to secure a crucial victory with far-reaching implications for the region’s and our own future.From Hugh Hewitt
From the Publisher: Michael–who is as close to totally non-political as anyone I know–showed me two things. First, because I judged by Vietnam, the war of my youth, I had radically underestimated what American soldiers could do. I knew they could blow away any regular opponent on any battlefield. But wage a counterinsurgency against an enemy with broad support in the population? Win the “hearts and minds,” to use the Vietnam era phrase that now can be used only ironically? That was asking too much, I thought.
I was 100 percent wrong. Today’s American soldiers excel at counterinsurgency, because they excel at the most important thing: winning over the people by inspiring them with their own courage and compassion, discipline and determination. Reading this book is like watching the movie Apocalypse Now, but in an alternate universe in which the opposite always happens. Every time our soldiers get into an incredibly tense situation with some Iraqis who might be friends or might be enemies or murderers, some situation in which what’s needed is amazing calm and courage to keep things from blowing up and ending in a blood bath, our guys pull it off!
Just wait until you read the Chapter “High Noon” (my favorite), the story of the American soldiers who have to arrest a corrupt but politically popular Iraqi police chief we had put in office in the first place because he had been a real hero in fighting the terrorists. He had to be removed by Americans to show the Iraqis we really did believe in the rule of law. The whole thing could have blown up into a one-town civil war with hundreds dead on both sides. Won’t tell you how it ends, but you will be amazed and very proud.
The other thing Michael helped me understand is the difference between terrorists we just have to kill (often foreigners, or local criminals) and local insurgents we should have been working with all along. For almost five years I could not tell from watching the news–and certainly not from listening to the Administration–who the enemy was, what they wanted or why they were fighting. Not surprisingly it turns out that understanding the various people we were fighting–some of whom have since become great allies–was the key to winning the war, which we are now clearly doing.
I am convinced that everything I once thought about the war was wrong. The truth is we are doing a great thing in Iraq, most of the Iraqi people really do want to be a united democratic nation and already consider America their greatest friend and ally. It would be a crime to turn tail now and abandon them now.
Our Countries Most Serious Threat
April 30, 2008
David Walker, Comptroller General
Walker has given up on our elected officials. He says we cannot maintain our current level of spending. Our life style is unsustainable. Nothing less than the survival of the country is at stake. We have gone from surpluses to huge deficits. He call it a fiscal cancer. Massive entitlements are simply unaffordable. The next twenty years will put the baby boomers onthe nipple of the U.S. Tax payer. This spending can sink the ship. In thiry years if the Government keep sits promises our Federal Government will only pay interest on mounting debt.
You can eliminate all waste and fraud and National Security and it barely makes a diferrence. The Medicare problem is 5 x more a problem. The recent Prescription drug bill was the most irresponsible legislation since the 60’s.
Political Correctness
April 26, 2008
Author Unknown:
Political Correctness
“Political Correctness is a doctrine, fostered by a delusional, illogical, liberal minority and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end.”
Global Warming
April 25, 2008
My two new favorite website spoofs:
Get more at:
http://evilconservatives.com/After that you can check all the horrible things caused by global warming:
http://www.numberwatch.co.uk/warmlist.htm
LA is an Immigrant Land
April 22, 2008
Los Angeles has half of its workforce as imigrant, mostly unskilled and non English speaking.
This will only trend worst as baby boomers retire, and will be repeated across the country. Demographers estimate that by 2025 most of the growth in the workforce will be from immigrants.
Ernesto Cortes Jr., Southwest regional director of the Industrial Areas Foundation, said Los Angeles is at a crossroads.
“The question is: Are we going to be a 21st century city with shared prosperity, or a Third World city with an elite group on top and the majority at poverty or near poverty wages?” he asked. “Right now we’re headed toward becoming a Third World city. But we can change that.”
1/3 of immigrants have not graduated from high school and 60% do not speak English fluently according to Migration Policy Institute. This means 60% of LA’s residents cannot fill out a job application.
Are we on our way to becoming a third world country?
Pelosi Declares Iraq IS About Oil
April 3, 2008
As Congress gets ready to grill Gen. Petraeus , Leader Pelosi wants to know why Iraquis are getting oil cheaper than us.
Well, I thought Iraq was’t supposed to be about oil Madam Speaker.
“Our troops in Iraq are paying about $3.25 a gallon for gas in Iraq, comparable to what we pay here, while the Iraqis are paying $1.36 a gallon,” Pelosi said. “This is a raw deal for the American taxpayer.”
Vote For Change
March 27, 2008
AMERICA ASKED FOR A CHANGE and voted in a new Congress over a year ago.
A little over one year ago:
1) Consumer confidence stood at a 2 1/2 year high;
2) Regular gasoline sold for $2.19 a gallon;
3) The unemployment rate was 4.5%.
Since voting in a Democratic Congress in 2006 we’re seen:
1) Consumer confidence plummet;
2) the cost of regular gasoline has gone to well over $3 a gallon;
3) Unemployment is up to 5% (a 10% increase);
4) American households have seen $2.3 trillion in equity value evaporate (stock and mutual fund losses!
5) Americans have seen their home equity drop by $1.2 trillion dollars;
6) 1% of American homes are in foreclosure.
7) Congress has the lowest approval rating ever.
America voted for change in 2006, and we got it!
The most significant accomplishment by the Democratic
controlled Congress in 2007:
THEY VOTED TO INCREASE THEIR PAY !!!!
Hillary Say it isn’t True
March 27, 2008
When a Clinton can tell a small lie, they tell a whopper, and when they tell a small one, the truth would have been just fine. A laundry list of mistakes?
- Chelsea was jogging around the Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001. (She was in bed watching it on TV.)
- • Hillary was named after Sir Edmund Hillary. (She admitted she was wrong. He climbed Mt. Everest five years after her birth.)
- • She was under sniper fire in Bosnia. (A girl presented her with flowers at the foot of the ramp.)
- • She learned in The Wall Street Journal how to make a killing in the futures market. (It didn’t cover the market back then.)
- She didn’t know about the FALN pardons.
- She didn’t know that her brothers were being paid to get pardons that Clinton granted.
- Taking the White House gifts was a clerical error.
- She didn’t know that her staff would fire the travel office staff after she told them to do so.
- She didn’t know that the Peter Paul fundraiser in Hollywood in 2000 cost $700,000 more than she reported it had.
- She opposed NAFTA at the time.
- She was instrumental in the Irish peace process.
- She urged Bill to intervene in Rwanda.
- She played a role in the ’90s economic recovery.
- The billing records showed up on their own.
- She thought Bill was innocent when the Monica scandal broke.
- She was always a Yankees fan.
- She had nothing to do with the New Square Hasidic pardons (after they voted for her 1,400-12 and she attended a meeting at the White House about the pardons).
- She negotiated for the release of refugees in Macedonia (who were released the day before she got there).
- With a record like that, is it any wonder that we suspect her of being less than honest and straightforward?
(thanks to Dick Morris letter for this list)
TREASON
March 27, 2008
Saddam Hussein’s intelligence agency secretly financed a trip to Iraq for what appears to be Democratic Reps. Jim McDermott of Washington, David Bonior of Michigan and Mike Thompson of California. This during the run-up to the U.S.-led invasion, federal prosecutors said Wednesday.
The three anti-war Democrats made the trip in October 2002, while the Bush administration was trying to persuade Congress to authorize military action against Iraq. While traveling, they called for a diplomatic solution.
Iraqi intelligence officials allegedly paid for the trip through an intermediary and rewarded Al-Hanooti with 2 million barrels of Iraqi oil.
The lawmakers are not named in the indictment but the dates correspond to a trip they took to Iraq.
The Democratic leaders have famously taken on diplomacy beyond their authority. With Pelosi in Syria and anywhere else a guy with a turben will listen. I wonder if Sean Penn got paid, or if he went on his own!