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By: Quartermaster

Quartermaster — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 22:22:01 +0000

It’s always been thus, and can’t be attributed to PC. Men going into the military right after Pearl Harbor were shocked at the low quality of the NCOs that rose during the depression.

The problem with Hasan, OTH, was PC. With the paper following him, he should have been cashiered years ago. That he wasn’t is a demonstration of the cowardice of the Officer Corps.

By: virgil xenophon

virgil xenophon — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 17:17:54 +0000

Joe, don’t bother faxing and/or e-mailing those three quotes to Obama, lefties avoid historical reality like Dracula avoids the cross. Remember when Rush was playing those audio quotes of JFK about low taxes being the secret to economic growth? Dead Ted and much of the left went bezerk about the “improper” usage of his brother’s utterances–as if JFKs public statements were somehow exclusively the domain
of the left to do with as they, and they alone, saw fit. ANYTHING that challenges their version of the way the world works is forbidden territory.

By: SCOTTtheBADGER

SCOTTtheBADGER — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 14:51:09 +0000

How often does Rahm Immanuel check in with his Uncle Screwtape, anyway?

By: NavyHelo

NavyHelo — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 11:23:02 +0000

What part of the Army’s failure to discharge then-Captain Hasan or at least not promote him to Major may be ascribed to “politically correct” instruction from the Pentagon? The Army is woefully short of medical professionals. Almost everyone gets promoted; Christian, Muslim, White, Brown, Green.

After a recent tour counseling soldiers at West Point, I could not help but notice how little some things had changed since my last time there on exchange weekend from USNA, many decades before. When the Services are short of manpower, it becomes politically correct to promote the less deserving. When I was serving as an instructor pilot, the Maintenance Officer confided in me one day that the only reason he got promoted to O-5 was due to his combat tour in Vietnam.

By: Joe in N. Calif

Joe in N. Calif — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 02:17:48 +0000

Some comments on things done for our own good, or the general welfare:

I see…with the deepest affliction, the rapid strides with which the federal branch of our government is advancing towards the usurpation of all the rights reserved to the States, and the consolidation in itself of all powers, foreign and domestic…aided by a little sophistry on the words ‘general welfare,’ a right to do, not only the acts to effect that, which are specifically enumerated and permitted, but whatsoever they shall think, or pretend will be for the general welfare.

JEFFERSON, THOMAS, Letter to W. B. Giles, 1825

“With respect to the two words ‘general welfare,’ I have always regarded them as qualified by the detail of powers connected with them. To take them in a literal and unlimited sense would be a metamorphosis of the Constitution into a character which there is a host of proofs was not contemplated by its creators.” –James Madison

“Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good
of its victim may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live
under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies.
The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may
at some point be satiated, but those who torment us for our own good
will torment us without end for they do so with the approval
of their own conscience.” — C.S. Lewis

I think I got the C.S. Lewis quote here.

Also, check out: http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig4/ellis1.html

By: Joe in N. Calif

Joe in N. Calif — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 02:09:41 +0000

There are a few simple clues. If no race is mentioned, the thug is black or hispanic. Whites are almost always called white or caucasion.
If no weapon was mentioned, it was not a gun. Guns always get mentioned. And any semi-auto is an “assault weapon.” In some areas, any repeter is an assault weapon.