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Just an observation here, now, and then I’ll move on — also, I raise no point about the commentators’ support from this. But have you noticed that it’s hip to support the Troops? The Fox guys are in Afghanistan today. They’ve been running tributes all day — and that’s great, really. I just question the […]

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Flight 93 Memorial
The USMC Drum and Bugle Corps play the National Anthem.

The US Army Chorus sing the Battle Hymn of the Republic on the White House lawn for Pope Benedict XVI.

Michael Yon, Eight Years after 9/11

From the Washington Examiner.
Opposing the war was really about opposing George W. Bush. When Bush disappeared, so did their anti-war passion.

Dan Riehl points to this hi-frikkin-lar-i-ous letter from a Gitmo terrorist.
Dear Mr. Prime Minister,
Please allow me to introduce myself. My name is Ahmed al Beijing and I am a Chinese Uighur and hopeful graduate of the Guantanamo Bay Detention Facility. I would very much like to take up residence in your wonderful country. During my […]

Baghdad today. And Iran.
My, my, deposing Saddam and setting Iraq on the road from barbarism to civilization was an awful thing, wasn’t it?

Via RS, this interesting tidbit from the LA Times.
Reporting from Washington — Harvard Law Dean Elena Kagan, President Obama’s choice to represent his administration before the Supreme Court, told a key Republican senator Tuesday that she believed the government could hold suspected terrorists without trial as war prisoners.
She echoed comments by Atty. Gen. Eric H. […]

Slideshow, season three of Future Weapons.

Long, but well worth the time, at Big Hollywood: The Awakening of a Dumb Gay American.

From Kate in the Great White North.
When the Nazis show up to march with jihadists, you’re supposed to pray for an asteroid, not provide a police escort.
Zing!

“All Iraqis today are Christians.” -Iraqi Interior Department spokesman.

It seems a journalism degree is roughly analogous to an education degree — or maybe it’s living in the city, which seems to turn people into drooling idiots:
File this one under “Deluded Expectations.” During MSNBC’s coverage of the terrorist attacks in Mumbai, India, on Thursday, daytime anchor Alex Witt seemed frustrated that the election of […]

Military Times:
In the city of Shewan, approximately 250 insurgents ambushed 30 Marines and paid a heavy price for it.
[ . . . ]
During the battle, the designated marksman single handedly thwarted a company-sized enemy RPG and machinegun ambush by reportedly killing 20 enemy fighters with his devastatingly accurate precision fire. He selflessly exposed himself time […]

Hard Times For Lefty Peaceniks.

With all the problems getting online, I missed Victory in Iraq Day.

MOGS:
FORT CAMPBELL, KY– On Thursday, October 30, a military family member reported two men pretending to be a casualty notification officer and chaplain visited her home and falsely notified her that her deployed Soldier had been killed.
I’m pretty cynical, but this . . . I can’t begin to wrap my head around why anyone […]

Military Times:
McCain, R-Ariz., handily defeated Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., 68 percent to 23 percent in a voluntary survey of 4,293 active-duty, National Guard and reserve subscribers and former subscribers to Army Times, Navy Times, Marine Corps Times and Air Force Times.
Look for Obama to pull an Al Gore, and try to have the courts discount […]

Sing it, sister!
ABC News’ Teddy Davis, Rigel Anderson, and Arnab Datta Report: Speaking to Fox News on Friday, Sarah Palin indicated for the first time that she does not consider Barack Obama qualified to be commander in chief and sharply criticized him for saying last year that U.S. troops in Afghanistan are “just air raiding […]

The first post-debate debate ad.

This just makes me shake my head.
According to a Senate staffer working for Sen. Joseph Biden, Biden himself got involved in the shaping of the statement. “The whole reason he’s on the ticket is the foreign policy insight,” explained the staffer.
How’s that “foreign policy insight” workin’ for ya?

Contact the veteran who made this video, and ask him if you can run it on TV. Powerful stuff.

Jeffrey didn’t like the title, so I changed it. I’m hoping he didn’t think that’s what I meant (see comment).
The commentary:

Sarah Palin:

John McCain this morning in Shanksville, Pennsylvania.
“No American living then should ever forget the heroism that occurred in the skies above this field on September 11, 2001. It is believed that the terrorists on United Flight 93 may have intended to crash the airplane into the United States Capitol. Hundreds if not thousands of people […]

It’s 2004 all over again. The election is the whiny children vs. the adults. Last night’s speeches made that clear. But more than 2004, this election is about the weak candidate vs. the strong candidates. If you didn’t see Palin last night, you don’t know what strong is.
But I’m getting ahead of myself — and […]

McCain on Fox News Sunday:

Excerpts:
“What this brings is a spirit of reform and change that is vital now in our nation’s capital. Eighty four percent of the American people think the country’s on the wrong track. In our Party, we have corruption. We have former members of Congress residing in federal prison, so it’s not […]

That’s what “troopergate” (which really shouldn’t be called that, since that was the Clinton scandal from Arkansas) is. See here.
Video: McCain and Palin visit the troops.

WTC meets Flight 93:
At 7:00 a.m. yesterday morning, the Fire Family Transport Foundation launched from Floyd Bennett Field on Long Island to escort a cross of steel from the destroyed World Trade Center to the Shanksville Volunteer Fire Company. The foundation provides medical transport to firefighters, family members, and wounded warriors.
NEW YORK - The roar […]

Son of one of Obama’s buddies leaves the plantation.

Biden, on 9/11:
At the Tuesday-morning meeting with committee staffers, Biden launches into a stream-of-consciousness monologue about what his committee should be doing, before he finally admits the obvious: “I’m groping here.” Then he hits on an idea: America needs to show the Arab world that we’re not bent on its destruction. “Seems to me this […]

Hmmmmm:
The last major remnant of Saddam Hussein’s nuclear program _ a huge stockpile of concentrated natural uranium _ reached a Canadian port Saturday to complete a secret U.S. operation that included a two-week airlift from Baghdad and a ship voyage crossing two oceans.
The removal of 550 metric tons of “yellowcake” _ the seed material for […]

More from Bob Krumm:
As you get away for a long Independence Day weekend this evening, you might want to give a little thought to an event taking place in Baghdad tomorrow. Eleven hundred Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen, and Marines–the equivalent of two entire battalions–are celebrating the 4th of July by re-enlisting in the midst of […]

How about this?
BAGHDAD, June 27 (UPI) — Iraq plans to file suit in a U.S. court against the United Nations for alleged corruption in the oil-for-food program, Iraqi legal sources said Friday.
The United Nations established the program in 1995 to allow Iraq to sell oil to global markets in exchange for food and humanitarian supplies […]

From my state senator:
(HARRISBURG) - The State House today unanimously approved legislation sponsored by Sen. Jake Corman (R-Benner Twp.) designating a portion of State Route 26 in Centre County as the Marine Sergeant David “DJ” Emery Highway.
Senator Jake Corman introduced Senate Bill 999 as a fitting tribute to a true American hero who was wounded […]

First, the context. Georgfelis said:
In the event Air Force One’s pilot is incapacitated, McCain has at least a chance of landing without plowing into something important.
Heh. But that’s not the right line. This is:
The Democrat candidates believe we should fight Al-Qaeda everywhere in the world, unless we are already there, in which case we should […]

In addition, of course, to the big Boalsburg festival. See here (you’ll have to copy and paste links, some of which wrap to the next line).
Julian is a small burg (pop. 152) over on the other side of Skytop in Bald Eagle Valley. There’s a small cemetery on the side of a hill there, until […]

If you want to win in November, you need to produce a lot more of these “he’s too old” ads. It’s a great idea; keep them coming.
But this is your key to victory. Seriously. You really need to beat us over the head with this meme:
Jim Geraghty has this right, although he left one out: […]

Sorry about the pun. It was intentional. All too rare, Bush gives the Arabs a good chewing out:
Too often in the Middle East, politics has consisted of one leader in power and the opposition in jail.
In our democracy, we would never punish a person for owning a Koran. We would never issue a death sentence […]

McCain on Obama’s latest panty-waisted idiocy:
Before I begin my prepared remarks, I want to respond briefly to a comment Senator Obama made yesterday about the threat posed to the United States by the Government of Iran. Senator Obama claimed that the threat Iran poses to our security is “tiny” compared to the threat once […]

At the Pennsylvania Military Museum yesterday, the Pennsylvania National Guard held the 28th Infantry memorial.

Story and pictures here.