Victory in Iraq: Something to be Thankful For

Folks, our troops are coming home, and not with their tails between their legs as the lefties wanted, but with heads held high:
While Americans sat down for Thanksgiving dinner deciding what they were thankful for, the Iraqi parliament Thursday passed an agreement with the U.S. that set a date certain for American withdrawal, as war [...]

That’s a Navy SEAL, All The Way!

This almost speaks for itself, but it’s worth noting that this sign appears on the door of a hospital room (not sure where, probably due to OpSec). See below… SecDef Gates says this is at Bethesda National Naval Medical Center… good place for a wounded SEAL.

I’d say that SEAL has the right attitude.
And a tip [...]

Black Friday Takes On New Meaning

…and it’s not a good meaning.
Two people were gunned down and killed Friday inside a Toys R Us in Palm Desert, Calif., authorities said.
Riverside County sheriff’s Sgt. Dennis Gutierrez said Palm Desert police got a call saying shots had been fired inside the store around 11:35 a.m.
One juvenile is in custody, according to unconfirmed [...]

Getting Ready for Christmas

In honor of the holiday season, I’ve switched the blog to a more Christmas-y theme. Enjoy!

Prayer Request

Update and Epilogue (by PhyCon 11:45PM 11/27/08 – at the top so you don’t have to read everything below this):
At this time of year I have always looked forward to the constellation Orion being in the sky.  He and I have had some great conversations over the years, albeit, a bit one-sided.  As a child I [...]

Economy Not In a Depression; Not Even as Bad as Carter’s

The ever-readable Victor Davis Hanson has some sharp words for people panicking over the economy:
Get a grip. Much of our current panic is psychological, and hyped by instantaneous electronic communications and second-by-second 24-hour news blasts. There has not been a nationwide plague that felled our workers. No earthquake has destroyed American infrastructure. The material United [...]

Thanking God for America and Capitalism

Many people today will think back to the first Thanksgiving, with the Pilgrims at Plymouth, but what most won’t realize is that the Pilgrims at first tried a form of socialism as their government (though the term “socialism” hadn’t been coined at that time, so of course they didn’t call it that).
William Bradford, in his [...]

Osama’s Christmas Message to America

I just had to share:

A tip of Santa’s hat to My Pet Jawa.

More Ex-Democrats Are Coming

At least that’s the conclusion of Robert Stacy McCain:
Every Democratic president since Lyndon Johnson has driven millions of his erstwhile supporters into the GOP ranks, and there is no reason to expect that Obama will break this precedent. Indeed, the absurdly inflated hopes generated by Obama’s campaign [...]

Hannity and Colmes No Longer

Alan Colmes is leaving H&C at the end of the year.
Fox News announced that after 12 years, Alan Colmes will be leaving the top-rated “Hannity & Colmes” at the end of the year.
“I approached Bill Shine (FNC’s Senior Vice President of Programming) earlier this year about wanting to move on after 12 years to develop [...]

Obama Administration Shaping Up to be Clinton’s Third Term

Lotta former Clinton appointees being put forward by The One… as noted by The American Spectator’s Philip Klein:
I spent the election doing a lot of spectualting over whether Obama would merely be a center-left president in the Clinton mold — i.e., one who enjoys short-term political success while failing to [...]

Food For Thought

When one declares oneself to be a conservative, one is not, unfortunately, thereupon visited by tongues of fire that leave one omniscient. The acceptance of a series of premises is just the beginning. After that, we need constantly to inform ourselves, to analyze and to think through our premises and their ramifications. We need to [...]

NYT: Bush Should Resign So Pelosi Can Take Over

Talk about your stupid ideas:
Gail Collins of the NYT makes what she thinks is is a clever proposal: she wants President Bush and Dick Cheney to resign so that Barack Obama can take over right away. The Gateway Pundit has video of Chris Matthews proposing essentially the same thing.
Thanksgiving is next week, and President Bush [...]

Americans Clueless About Government

This is scary:
“Our study raises significant questions about whether citizens who voted in this year’s landmark presidential election really understand how our system of representative democracy works,” said Dr. Richard Brake, ISI’s Director of University Stewardship.
Lt. General Josiah Bunting III, the chairman of ISI’s National Civic Literacy Board, describes his initial reaction to these results [...]

VDH: Advice to Conservatives

The ever-readable Victor Davis Hanson has some very good advice for the GOP, and specifically the conservatives in the GOP, about how to bring home a victory in future elections. His summary gives a good hint of how the rest of the article goes:
The key is not to abandon conservative positions, but to explain them [...]

AG Mukasey Collapses; The Left Wishes Him Ill.

Last night Attorney General Michael Mukasey had stroke-like symptoms and collapsed during a speech before the Federalist Society. He appears to be doing well after being rushed to the hospital.
Of course, those bastions of tolerance, DailyKOS and the DemocraticUnderground, wasted no time in wishing him ill and denouncing those few among their number that were [...]

While You’re Giving Thanks, How About Giving to Those who Help Insure Your Freedom?

From now until Thanksgiving day the folks at Soldiers’ Angels are running a friendly competition between teams named for the various branches of the US Armed Forces. All the funds, regardless of which team gets credit for the donation, go to provide voice activated laptops and other assistive technology to our wounded service members.
In honor [...]

Sorry, GM. Reid Looks Like He Wasn’t Impressed

That’s the way I read this story, at least:
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said on Wednesday that they would try to work out a Thursday vote on a House measure that would extend unemployment insurance, a move that would signal the end of the week’s lame-duck session.
Reid filed [...]

Meet America’s New Attorney General: Eric Holder.

More Hope and Change from The One. For Attorney General, he picks a guy who tries to tell a baldfaced lie on national TV. Fortunately, Fox News’s Judge Andrew Napolitano calls him on it.

Al Franken is Contesting THIS Ballot

Any reasonably intelligent orangutan can see that this is meant to be a vote for Coleman. So why can’t Al Franken seem to grasp that?
h/t: Whistleblower.