Tag Archives: Afghanistan

Coakley’s Top Ten

Posted on January 17th, 2010

TOWNHALL.COM By: Jillian Bandes Here are ten things you should know about Democrat Martha Coakley going into Tuesday’s Massachusetts Senate election. 1. She stated explicitly that pro-life Catholics shouldn’t work in the medical professions; in other words, Catholics have no right to act upon their conscience while performing their jobs. That’s a clear violation of [...]

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Cape Cod Times Endorses Scott Brown for U.S. Senate

Posted on January 16th, 2010

Impressed with his energy and with hopes for his independence, we support Scott Brown in the special election for U.S. Senate. Although we do not agree with Brown’s position on health care reform, voters should consider the whole package when they go to the polls Tuesday. And when we took a closer look at Brown [...]

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Mark Tapscott: What is Barack Obama doing?

Posted on December 31st, 2009

This is the kind of story that I don’t want to believe. It was first brought to my attention several days ago. When I first started to get up to speed on the issue, I was very skeptical. But now several respected news organizations, including the National Review, have weighed in with their articles and [...]

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Dave Barry’s year in review: 2009

Posted on December 29th, 2009

BY DAVE BARRY It was a year of Hope — at first in the sense of “I feel hopeful!” and later in the sense of “I hope this year ends soon!” It was also a year of Change, especially in Washington, where the tired old hacks of yesteryear finally yielded the reins of power to [...]

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Looking back on the president’s year of failure

Posted on December 28th, 2009

Either Craig and me and a good chunk of the conservative press think a lot alike, or we here at solid principles.com continue to perform “show prep” for other news organizations. Just last night we put up our new podcast “The Blunder Year” as we talked about Obama’s stunning lost opportunity to accomplish anything of [...]

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Elite U.S. Force Expanding Hunt in Afghanistan

Posted on December 27th, 2009

The New York Times By: Eric Schmitt BAGRAM AIR BASE, Afghanistan — Secretive branches of the military’s Special Operations forces have increased counterterrorism missions against some of the most lethal groups in Afghanistan and, because of their success, plan an even bigger expansion next year, according to American commanders. The commandos, from the Army’s Delta [...]

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Cheerleader in Chief

Posted on December 10th, 2009

http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=34763 By: Wayne Simmons At no time in recent American military history has a speech delivered by a President of the United States done so much to distance our nation from victory and put the men and woman of the military and intelligence agencies in harm’s way. President Obama’s big Afghanistan speech caused nary a [...]

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Obama’s Path to Victory?

Posted on December 9th, 2009

Below is a very brief excerpt from a NATIONAL REVIEW article that highlights what we have been saying for months. Obama is viewed around the world as a weak and naive President and his dangerous assumptions have put this country at great risk. The notion that other countries and especially dictatorships can be swayed from [...]

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6 Year Olds With Crayons

Posted on December 8th, 2009

Baghdad Bob Gibbs is advising us not to pay attention to silly old things like the Gallup Poll organization…….especially when their polls show your guy heading toward the desert floor at 600 knots with flames coming out of the cockpit. I get the distinct impression that this bunch of pretenders is through……Still dangerous because of [...]

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Alinsky Does Afghanistan

Posted on December 4th, 2009

The National Review’s Andrew McCarthy is rapidly becoming my new favorite writer. Click on NRO and read Mr. McCarthy’s analysis of Obama, Saul Alinsky and the war in Afghanistan. ~~John Cronin~~ Obama’s radical inspiration would have loved his speech on the war. By Andrew C. McCarthy If there is one word that captures President Obama’s [...]

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