It will be worthy of a free, enlightened, and, at no distant period, a great Nation, to give to mankind the magnanimous and too novel example of a People always guided by an exalted justice and benevolence.
 
– George Washington
 
 
 
 
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November 2008
November 05, 2008
Army Spc. Adam M. Wenger, 27, of Waterford, Mich.; assigned to the 1st Battalion, 76th Field Artillery, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division, Fort Stewart, Ga.; died Nov. 5 in Tunnis, Iraq, of injuries sustained during a non-combat incident.
 
November 06, 2008
Army Pfc. Theron [...]

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September 2008

September 02, 2008
Army Pfc. Patrick W. May, 22, of Jamestown, N.Y.; assigned to the Division Special Troops Battalion, 10th Mountain Division (Light Infantry), Fort Drum, N.Y.; died Sept. 2 in Baghdad of injuries sustained from a non-combat related incident.
 
Army Sgt. 1st Class Gregory A. Rodriguez, 35, of Weidman, [...]

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July 2008
July 02, 2008
Army Spc. Estell L. Turner, 43, of Sioux Falls, S.D.; assigned to the 1st Battalion, 506th Infantry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), Fort Campbell, Ky.; died July 2 at the National Naval Medical Center, Bethesda, Md., of wounds sustained June 28 [...]

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May, 2008
May 01, 2008
Army Spc. Jeffrey F. Nichols, 21, of Granite Shoals, Texas; assigned to the 3rd Squadron, 89th Cavalry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division (Light Infantry), Fort Polk, La.; died May 1 in Baghdad from wounds sustained when his vehicle encountered an improvised explosive device.
 
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http://www.patriotpost.us/opinion/walter-e-williams/2008/12/31/teaching-economics.html
December 31, 2008
By Walter E. Williams
Many professors, mostly on the liberal side of the political spectrum, use their classrooms to proselytize students. I have taught economics for the past 40 years and challenge anyone to find even one student, among the thousands who went through my classes, who can say, “Professor Williams used his class [...]

http://www.patriotpost.us/opinion/thomas-sowell/2008/12/31/the-art-of-the-impossible.html
December 31, 2008
By Thomas Sowell
Whoever called politics “the art of the possible” must have had a strange idea of what is possible or a strange idea of politics, where the impossible is one of the biggest vote-getters.
People can get the possible on their own. Politicians have to be able to offer the voters something that [...]

http://www.patriotpost.us/opinion/terence-jeffrey/2008/12/31/how-many-government-workers-does-it-take-to-change-a-light-bulb.html
December 31, 2008
By Terence Jeffrey
While many ordinary Americans wondered last week what Santa Claus was going to leave for them under the Christmas tree, many American mayors were wondering how much money President-elect Barack Obama and a Democratic Congress will take from taxpayers to hand over to them.
“We’re not intending to spend money lightly,” Obama [...]

http://www.patriotpost.us/opinion/tony-blankley/2008/12/31/now-sits-expectation-in-the-air.html
December 31, 2008
By Tony Blankley
As President-elect Obama vacations with his family in Hawaii and publicly complains about the intrusiveness of the press pool and the intense scrutiny of his Secret Service team, I suspect about now Obama may be recalling George Bernard Shaw’s heartless observation that: “There are two tragedies in life. One is not [...]