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Ken Blackwell: Monday Morning Quarterback
Ken Blackwell: Monday Morning Quarterback
I well remember from my days in college football how much we players did not like being second-guessed by Monday morning quarterbacks. Even so, we do have to go to the videotape to analyze how the home team is doing....
The Return
mudvillegazette.com — The remains of six of the eight servicemen killed in Saturday's firefight in Afghanistan have arrived at... Dover : Fort Carson's top general saluted the coffins of fallen soldiers from the post at a Delaware Air Force base Tuesday morning as details trickled out about some of the eight killed in ... (more) The Return
Tales of Mystery and Imagination
Tales of Mystery and Imagination
mudvillegazette.com — "Imagine that." Some years ago I was stationed with a guy who would use those two words... as a response to just about anything you might tell him. I thought it was a pointless statement, but obviously a good political animal could certainly us it to great advantage - a two-word expression ... (more) Tales of Mystery and Imagination
President Obama to Meet With National Security Team on Afghanistan
President Obama to Meet With National Security Team on Afghanistan
abcnews.go.com — Strategy review and troop increases are on the agenda for the Situation Room meeting this afternoon.... (more) President Obama to Meet With National Security Team on ...
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President Obama & The Olympics Trip: Misplaced Priorities?
Booker Rising — Two conservatives answer: yes. Javier David: "Olympic Bid Squanders Obama's Political Capital" Asserts the conservative blogger in New York, who argues that the trip to Denmark was ineffective at best and counterproductive at worst: "President Obama's willingness to expend personal capital on the Olympics can be viewed as a microcosm of his foreign policy. International organizations are motivated by interests that are parochial and difficult to discern and as the president discovered, personal charisma and soaring rhetoric have their limits, especially when dealing with world leaders who can't always be trusted to be ...

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McCain: Afghanistan Not as Tough as Iraq
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This Mission Is Not McChrystal Clear -- By: Andrew C. McCarthy
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Obama Decides To Make The Taliban Our Friend In Afghanistan
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