“Our own Country’s Honor, all call upon us for a vigorous and manly exertion, and if we now shamefully fail, we shall become infamous to the whole world. Let us therefore rely upon the goodness of the Cause, and the aid of the supreme Being, in whose hands Victory is, to animate and encourage us [...]

May 31, 2010 – Memorial Day By Ed Hooper   The City of Yonkers, New York, has cancelled its Memorial Day Parade this year. What’s the news in this? The cause cited by city officials. It wasn’t lack of funds, of parade participants or of budget. It was simply that no one is showing up [...]

  Americans throughout the country pay their respects to the men and women who have risked their lives in the line of duty.    http://www.foxnews.com/slideshow/us/2010/05/29/honoring-fallen/#slide=1 Social Bookmarking

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May 31, 2010 By Steve McCann A soldier, a small American flag on the shoulder of his jacket, slowly walks through the streets of a once-bustling city now lying in rubble. The still-upright walls, their windows and doors blown out, appear as skeletons framed by the blue sky. He steps carefully around the broken bricks [...]

May 31, 2010 By Lance Fairchok Memorial Day is a day of remembrance and respect for those who have given their lives for the freedoms that bless this nation. Most Americans no longer visit memorials and cemeteries; our nation’s wars do not touch them except for quick sound bites on the news. Fewer still actually [...]

May 31, 2010 By T.J. Woodard When I was a young seven-year-old, I noticed my neighbor’s mother crying. I learned that her brother-in-law, a helicopter pilot, had been killed in Vietnam. I felt bad about it, but to me, it was just a story. When I was a high school student, my Uncle Bob, a [...]

May 31, 2010 – 4:48 AM | by: Rick Leventhal from the Marines Combat Outpost in Tahgaz, Afghanistan: There is much Fox News can’t report about the valor and heroism of the most recent casualty in Afghanistan, a U.S. Marine with the 1st Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion.  It’s just too soon. But after spending time [...]

May 31, 2010 Today’s Political Mandate – Become America Again by Star Parker With the first round of primaries behind us, pundits are trying to nail down the national mood. Anti-Democrat? Anti-liberal? Anti-incumbent?  Abraham Lincoln summed up American politics over 150 years ago that is as accurate and relevant today as it was then: “In [...]

May 31, 2010 BP and the Union Foot on Obama’s Neck by Lurita Doan Elizabeth Birnbaum, Director of Minerals Management (MMS) at the Department of the Interior, resigned over the BP spill, in a classic, sacrifice-a-pawn, let-the-heads-roll, political sacrificial lamb ploy that folks in DC have witnessed countless times.  Someone had to go.  Anger over [...]