From the Marine Corps Times: New medal for drone pilots outranks Bronze Star By Andrew Tilghman – Staff writer Posted : Wednesday Feb 13, 2013 17:47:27 EST The Pentagon is creating a new high-level military medal that will recognize drone pilots and, in a controversial twist, giving it added clout by placing it above some [...]
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Chuck Hagel and Iran
From The New York Times: Iran Said to Be Set to Hasten Uranium Enrichment By Alan Cowell | Published: January 31, 2013 LONDON — Iran has told the United Nations nuclear supervisory body that it plans to install more sophisticated equipment at its principal nuclear enrichment plant, a diplomat said on Thursday, enabling it to [...]
From around the blogroll
Karen noted one of President Obama’s jobs programs: Obama Kills Off Another Coal Plant Along With 3900 Jobs. Your Editor had thought that President Obama’s jobs proposals were supposed to help create more jobs, and not kill existing ones, but Karen pointed out that the President was keeping a promise. William Teach noted Senator Dianne [...]
Just a Marine
From the Allentown, Pennsylvania, Morning Call: NCAA to honor Kutztown U. grad who lost leg after Iraq War bombing David Borden, a Marine, lost a leg after Iraq bombing and went on to Afghanistan. By Jeff Schuler, Of The Morning Call | 10:06 p.m. EST, January 17, 2013 His right foot had been blown off. [...]
An insult to our servicemen
From The Washington Post: Obama considering John Kerry for job of defense secretary By Karen DeYoung and Greg Miller, Published: November 12 President Obama is considering asking Sen. John F. Kerry (D-Mass.) to serve as his next defense secretary, part of an extensive rearrangement of his national security team that will include a permanent replacement for former CIA director David [...]
Low Down Stinking Skunk SOB
Obama to Soldiers: Pay Up Threatens to veto bill unless it hikes health care fees for service members The Obama administration on Friday threatened to veto a defense appropriations bill in part because it does not include higher health care fees for members of the military. “The Administration is disappointed that the Congress did not [...]
The Huffington Post and political correctness
The Huffington Post had a story today comparing the homicide rate in Chicago to Kabul, which noted: The directive for police to cover the Jarrett wedding arrives at a time where Chicago is facing a surge in its homicide rate. The Daily pointed out in a Friday column that more Chicago residents — 228 — [...]
Democrisy: Naomi Wolf edition
I used Katy Perry’s video “Part of me” in the From around the blogroll post which went nuts over the Trayvon Martin/ George Zimmerman case. The ending picture was of Miss Perry, dressed as a Marine, in camouflage battle makeup, which inspired last week’s Rule 5 Blogging: Cover Girl Cosmetics Edition. Well, it seems that [...]
