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This article really hit me when I read:

Now, imagine the scenario flipped: What if a soldier had attempted to murder a peace activist over the holidays in order to “make a statement”?

Boom.  Just like those stories about Homosexuals being tortured and strung up on a fence to die…but then silence when the situation is flipped.

If there is such a thing as “hate crime” or “deranged military murder” (as evidenced by the blanket coverage of the Marines in Haditha and elsewhere in Iraq), there most certainly is “hate reporting” and yes, “deranged journalistic irresponsibility.”

In an article at CNN.com, Reid defended himself against comments made by Vice President Cheney regarding his position on the Iraq war by saying the following:

“I’m not going to get into a name calling match with the administration’s chief attack dog.”

I’m not sure if he meant to call Cheney a dog right at that moment.

I fail to fully comprehend the terrible events earlier this week at Virginia Tech and feel that I am perhaps too removed to fully explore the issue. Much like many of the deaths that occur tragically in America.

However, this event has expectedly prompted discussion of gun control. Counter argument articles at CNN.com caught my eye.

One by Tom Plate and another by Ted Nugent.

Ted Nugent basically lays the anti-gun lobby arguments bare.

Thirty-two people dead on a U.S. college campus pursuing their American Dream, mowed-down over an extended period of time by a lone, non-American gunman in illegal possession of a firearm on campus in defiance of a zero-tolerance gun law. Feel better yet? Didn’t think so.

He outlines several examples of how gun ownership or know-how helped to prevent shootings from becoming massacres.

As someone posted in the comments to Tom Plate’s article, they questioned the actual reality of being able to limit guns in the US when we can’t even limit illegal drugs. I remember reading an article about Bruce Willis years ago in which he flatly states, “If guns were made illegal, then only bad guys would have them.”

While Iran is often protrayed as terribly anti-American, it encourages hope to read articles like this one at msNBC.com

While their Government is defying the world and pursuing a course that could invite invasion and such, it seems like there may be a lot of younger people there that aren’t quite as crazy and perhaps actually respect the United States.

ABCnews seems to have missed this Washington Post article when they wrote this article today.

From the ABCnews article:

Some Republicans speculate that Romney, who trails his two rivals badly in national and key state polls, might down the road put in tens of millions of his own personal wealth for his campaign, but for now the competition is over raising money cheek-to-cheek-to-check against the other two.

The Washington Post says:

Former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney raised $6.5 million for his presidential exploratory committee yesterday, sending a powerful message to his potential opponents about the seriousness of his bid for the Republican nomination.

Granted, it was an isolated incident which was planned ahead…but no one has touched that one day total as far as I know. Romney not only has his own money, the man has serious fundraising power.

Leave!  (or so say the Democrats)

One would expect a decent plan or something when so heavily criticizing the President’s plan.  However, it appears the only plan is to leave because…it is hard.

ABCnews.com features a story with the title “Feeding Frenzy for a Fallen Star.”  They ask the question, “What explains the public’s obsession with every new development in the tragic tale of Anna Nicole Smith?”

What I want explained is why ABC is analyzing the analyzing which I am now analyzing.

So I’ll stop.

His website is full of some good stuff as well as a ton of videos. Check it out.

http://www.mittromney.com/ 

Ever since the beginning of “Reality Television”, I’ve been disinterested. However, with American Idol returning for its 6th Season, I can’t help but wonder, “Do people actually enjoy this?” Obviously, it is wildly popular with extremely high ratings recently. An article at Townhall.com highlights some of the interesting qualities of the show, particularly their excessive broadcast of poor auditions.

However, here is a television show that is obviously mocking and belittling those that either 1) really need to work on their singing or 2) are fake auditions that simulate the first possibility and pass as entertaining and condescending entertainment.

I’ve not watched American Idol for more than a few minutes at a time, but I recognize that the show seems to have some value when they actually show people that can sing near the end of the season. But at the beginning of this season, it is embarassing to see that this kind of programming is so popular among Americans.

Is this not the kind of behavior we are taught while young to avoid and overcome as we grow and mature? To belittle and ridicule those that cannot do something others or ourselves can? Most of all, like all reality TV, this simply insults my intelligence and I refuse to watch it. So should most Americans.

Reading the Wikipedia article on the National Anthem Project was interesting. It never ceases to amaze me to what extreme people will go to to attack a central or core element of patriotism.

Of the 3 sub-sections of the actual article, the final one, titled Controversy, dominates in length. The following sums up the core of the “controversy” apparent to the biased author(s) of the article:

Some even believe the National Anthem Project may qualify as a mild form of war-time propaganda (psychological operations), militarism, or at the very least, selling out within public education.

What a foolish accusation.

O say, can you see, by the dawn’s early light,
What so proudly we hailed at the twilight’s last gleaming?
Whose broad stripes and bright stars, through the perilous fight,
O’er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming?
And the rocket’s red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there.
O say does that star spangled banner yet wave
O’er the land of the free, and the home of the brave?

May the flag and anthem ever stand as symbols of this great Nation.