This Week’s Post Was Suggested By Beth Cpl. Benjamin S. Kopp 21 years old from Rosemont, Minnesota 3rd Battalion, 75th Ranger Regiment July 18, 2009 Ben Kopp has been a fighter since the day he was born. When he was born his mother was given morphine to stop her labor so the doctors could deliver [...]
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Reading the Wall Street Journal this morning, I couldn’t help remember a quote from Morton Blackwell that’s usually used in a political context: “You can’t make friends of your enemies by making enemies of your friends.” (1) Throw Israel under the bus to score points with Iran in the UN Security Council (2) Throw the [...]
A few news outlets carry the story that St. Norbert College and Wisconsin Public Radio have released a new poll of Wisconsin residents. I have previously observed that the SNC/WPR poll is notoriously unreliable, so Republicans should not rejoice and tout its number publicly simply because we like these results. That said, we can look [...]
Marquette University’s “Gathering Points” lectures are “to provide opportunities for Catholics of all perspectives and backgrounds to prayerfully enrich their understanding and engage in substantive dialogue about Church issues.” Unfortunately, it looks like the next two Gathering Points lectures will be an opportunity for leading liberal Catholics to expound on why they disagree with the [...]
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Senators Feingold and Kohl “announced the activation of an 11-member federal nominating commission responsible for making recommendations for the Federal Judgeship vacancy in the Western District of Wisconsin and the U.S. Attorney vacancy in the Eastern District of Wisconsin.” The commission is to render “fair and independent advice” to the senators, in Senator Kohl’s words. [...]
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I don’t think there is a better explination for the season.
I’m really getting sick of the mainstream media – much more than normal. First off, the veep vetting story is a total non-story. Talk about getting bogged down in a process story. And it’s a non-story at that: they knew about the DUI and the pregnancy. Vetting is very important, no doubt, but it’s not [...]
The Democrats are literally scared of a strong, female Republican Vice President. How do they respond? Send in the wolves… HT: Americans for Limited Government
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As we celebrate John McCain’s 72nd birthday this weekend, another observation from the closing pages of Richard Nixon’s LEADERS: Churchill, de Gaulle, and Adenauer all made their greatest contributions when they were past what we think of as the normal retirement age. Churchill was already sixty-six when he began his wartime leadership of Britain, de [...]
Greg Borowski of the Milw. Journal Sentinel reports: Credentials: Every day, once all the credentials for that evening have been distributed, there is a drawing for any extra passes to get on the floor and sit with the delegation. They are distributed each morning, with this sign meeting delegates: “Photo ID required.” Of course, photos [...]
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