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As always on Veteran’s Day, we take a few moments to thank all the veterans of our armed forces for their contributions and sacrifices. (Google does have a very nice special logo for this Veteran’s Day, for which we thank them.)
Death Book for Veterans! It’s another “death” boogeyman from a party that should be asking real questions about the health care legislation, but can only seem to muster up cheap alarmist scare tactics intended to confuse and mislead. Here’s the VA planning document they’re calling a “death book:” Your Life, ...
Sarah Palin, Death Panel, Death Book, WSJ, Health Care, Veterans, Alarmism
After weeks of political grandstanding and misguided ranting from bloggers and talk show hosts over the DHS report on “right wing extremism,” Janet Napolitano announced yesterday that the DHS has removed the report from their websites: Napolitano defends security budget, extremism report. Napolitano, testifying before the House appropriations sub-committee ...
DHS, Right-Wing, Extremism, Militias, Neo-Nazis, Veterans, napolitano
All you folks seething and yelling about the DHS report on “right wing extremism,” make sure to save some of your anger for the FBI, the U.S. Army Criminal Investigative Division, the U.S. Air Force Office of Special Investigations, and the Naval Criminal Investigative Service, because they’re in on the ...
DHS, Right-Wing, Extremism, Militias, Neo-Nazis, Veterans, FBI
An editorial in the Washington Times is a perfect example of what I’ve been calling the “distortions” about the DHS report on right wing extremism: Smearing veterans. The whole piece is full of overheated accusations like this: Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano has defended her department’s outrageous claim that ...
DHS, Right-Wing, Extremism, Militias, Neo-Nazis, Posse Comitatus, Veterans, FBI, Washington Times
The revelation that the FBI’s investigation of white supremacists and militia groups included a focus on veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan has prompted another round of outrage from the right wing blogosphere and talk radio—who seem completely unwilling to admit there could be a point to the investigation, and ...
DHS, Right-Wing, Extremism, Militias, Neo-Nazis, Posse Comitatus, Veterans, FBI
As we noted last Thursday, Barack Obama is proposing to make wounded veterans pay for their own health care with private insurance; the American Legion is outraged: Legion to White House: Don’t Bill Our Heroes. WASHINGTON, DC (March 16, 2009) – The leader of the nation’s largest veterans organization ...
Barack Obama, Military, Veterans, Health Care, American Legion
The Obama administration has to make cuts somewhere to push out this immense spending bill, so guess where they’re looking to save some money? Senators slam plan for wounded vets to use private insurance. WASHINGTON (CNN) — Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki confirmed Tuesday that the Obama administration is ...
The left-wing veterans’ group called Vets for Peace has been occupying the National Archives in Washington DC. What, you didn’t hear that? Well, they’re occupying a scaffold outside the National Archives anyway. Well, sort of milling around on one level of a scaffold, to be precise. Nobody seems too anxious ...
The Obama campaign is releasing a “scorecard” on the candidates, from the Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America (IAVA), as proof that veterans should be supporting Obama. John Lilyea has discovered some interesting things about IAVA—including the fact that a founding member is now the Barack Obama campaign’s Veterans Director: ...
Rand Simberg points out that Obama’s “Auschwitz” story is nothing new. He was telling similar stories about his grandfather back in 2002, in his now-famous Iraq speech, which I’d never previously read: My grandfather signed up for a war the day after Pearl Harbor was bombed, fought in Patton’s ...
LGF, Election 2008, Barack Obama, Foreign Policy, History, Veterans, Opportunism, Auschwitz
Is there a point at which the media will start calling Barack Obama out for his absolutely stunning lack of historical knowledge, and his willingness to lie at the drop of a hat? Obama Talks of Family’s Military Service. Obama also spoke about his uncle, who was part of ...
Opportunism, Veterans, History, Foreign Policy, Barack Obama, Election 2008, LGF
Democrats on the House Veterans’ Affairs Committee are trying to give full veterans’ status to World War II era Filipino soldiers and their survivors; not Americans of Filipino descent, but citizens of the Philippines. And they’re planning to pay for it by taking away benefits from US veterans. The ...
Project Valour-IT, the group that supplies voice-activated laptop computers to injured and disabled veterans, has begun their annual fundraising competition. This is a terrific cause, and LGF is happy to throw our support behind it. More information at Blackfive: It’s Time to Give Back to Our Wounded - Valour-IT Kick ...
Remember that photo at the top of The Democratic Party’s page, of a crowd of people cheering and pumping their fists? The theme is that only the Democrats really support the troops, and this is the page where they previously featured an altered stock image of a Canadian soldier. Well, ...
An interesting look back at the Fauxtoshopping of military images, at Blog P.I.: Photoshop: Still Harder Than You Think. (And to the moonbats in the audience: yes, the Bush-Cheney crowd multiplication image is included.)
Amazingly, the Photoshopped picture of a Canadian soldier is still posted at The Democratic Party web site this morning. They’re probably all busy Googling for more dirt on Mark Foley.
I guess The Democratic Party couldn’t find a photograph of a US veteran that had the right attitude for their web site’s page slamming the Bush administration for not supporting the troops enough. So they found a picture of a Canadian soldier, digitally removed the badge from his beret, and ...