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“You go into some of these small towns in Pennsylvania, and like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing’s replaced them. And it’s not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them [...]

Here is a very moving story about a soldier returning home after three tours of duty in the Middle East. Three tours, that is truly awe inspiring. Welcome home Neal O’Connor and thank you! Source: wspa.com

Yesterday, techRepublican twittered about David Frum’s, American Enterprise Institute’s (A.E.I.) resident fellow, article about why Republicans are losing the ‘youth vote.’ Meghann Parlett takes issue with Frum’s contention that the GOP’s issues are not aligning with youth priorities. She wonders if it is more a failure to communicate effectively with current fashionable applications. An anonymous [...]

Next week Operation Gratitude starts up it’s spring package drive.  Collecting donations and shipping them out to our troops overseas.  The Young Prince donates to every drive, using money from his own allowance to send support to those who are making a safer world for him.   If you don’t know what to send, Operation Gratitude has [...]

Last Autumn, our Rightwingsparkle asked me to join Facebook as one of her friends. Since 1991, I have been the Young Werther of the townhall network. Of course, with this in mind, I accepted herFacebook membership-offer. This joining led me toward an interest in these social media spreading around the Internet; in particular, how can [...]

That is the rumors running fromCarl Campanile and Daphne Retter of the New York Post. hat-tip to RedBlueAmerica UPDATE: I left a comment on this at Rightwingsparkle.

Yesterday, in the NY Times, Matt Richtel wrote about how on the Internet there are writers blogging twenty-four hours just to be to be the first “to get the story.” These bloggers are suffering stress: If a blogger is beaten by a millisecond, someone else’s post on the subject will bring in the audience, the [...]

The issues where Sens McCain and Obama differ significantly: a matrix, with commentary The attitude of many conservatives towards the candidacy of John McCain might – still – be best summed up by the comments of one recent participant in a conservative forum when he claimed that – “HillObamaCain are all one-in-the-same thing. Open borders, [...]

Petty Officer 2nd Class Michael A. Monsoor will receive the Congressional Medal of Honor posthumously for laying down his life for his comrades in arms. A good man and a great man his loss diminishes us all. Source: www.washingtonpost.com |h/t to Powerline

Over at Protein Wisdom  there is a discussion on the Dems free use of the race card in defense of President Obama.   http://proteinwisdom.com/?p=11655  This strikes at something I myself have been wondering about the upcoming Obama presidency.  We all know that there are things you just can’t say in the land of free speech.  A news [...]