I expect that Obamessiah is going to act like the regular politician he is ("a new kind of politics"? No, just a better speaker and an "in the tank" MSM that refuses to ask the hard questions) when it comes to enforcing our present set of laws against illegal aliens. Yeah, I’m already getting that sinking feeling again with McCain now talking, AGAIN, about "comprehensive immigration reform". Sidebar - you know, I’d really like to see a debate where conservative bloggers are the questions askers to Obama and liberal one s for McCain. However, since I would predict that McCain would do alright but Obama, without his teleprompter, would fold faster than a cheap paper plate caught in a New England summer thunderstorm. Still, from USANumbers , I just saw this: The House Appropriations Committee now plans to consider on Tuesday (June 24) the DHS spending bill that will determine funding levels for immigration enforcement next year. Postponement of the...
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Sgt. Matt Maupin: The ultimate sacrifice.From: granitegrok.com
Post Date: 2008-03-30 19:58:43
Thanks to our friend Blue Star Mother Sue Peterson, who wore his POW/MIA bracelet, the story of missing soldier Matt Maupin was known to us. Last April 9th, we noted the third year of his capture with a short letter written by Sue asking readers to remember Matt and his parents in their anxious time of waiting. Sadly, Sue passed along a note this evening pointing us to this story reporting that Matt’s Dad Keith said at a news conference in suburban Cincinnati that an Army genera...
more Two things I learned today...From: granitegrok.com
Post Date: 2008-03-30 14:32:17
It is being reported by Reuters that Catholics are no longer the world’s number one religion. VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Islam has overtaken Roman Catholicism as the biggest single religious denomination in the world, the Vatican said on Sunday. Monsignor Vittorio Formenti, who compiled the Vatican’s newly-released 2008 yearbook of statistics, said Muslims made up 19.2 percent of the world’s population and Catholics 17.4 percent. "For the first time in history we ar...
more Gold Star Mothers’ Day in NHFrom: granitegrok.com
Post Date: 2008-03-30 07:27:35
Today is NH Gold Star Mothers’ Day. During the First World War, in May 1918, President Woodrow Wilson approved the suggestion of the Women’s Committee of National Defenses recommending that American women should wear a black band on the upper left arm adorned with a gold star. Each star representing a family member who had given his or her life for their country. President Woodrow Wilson first used the term "Gold Star Mother" in his Letter to the Women’s Committee. Grace ...
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