The Philadelphia Eagles honored reserve quarterback and admitted dog-killer Michael Vick with an award for courage. Yes, you read that right. “Michael Vick” and “courage” are in the same sentence.
Each of the 32 NFL teams annually honors one of its own with an Ed Block award, named for the Baltimore Colts head trainer who was [...]
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Secretary Robert Gates made a statement in Washington DC about an extraordinary soldier who in a moment of emergency made a decision that he worried would cost him his job.
[Robert] Gates told an audience in New York about Specialist Zachary Boyd, routed from sleep by enemy fire on his post in eastern Afghanistan.
“He immediately grabbed [...]
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In The Washington Times today — and I feel dirty linking to it, and even dirtier for having been on its website — Newt Gingrich asks the following question: “Where does the conservative movement go from here?” My answer is a simple one: Down the toilet and into oblivion. Newt, however, claims that it “has [...]
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Some creepy statistics:
From Lusitania sinking
To Armistice Day =
1284 days.
= World War I
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From Pearl Harbor
To Japanese Surrender =
1365 days.
= World War II
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From Fort Sumter
To Appomattox courthouse =
1458 days.
= U.S. Civil War
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From Lexington and Concord
To British surrender at Yorktown =
2375 days.
= American Revolution
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World War I + World War II =
2649 days.
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From September 11, 2001 (bin Laden on [...]
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Two score and five years ago today.
Courage.
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Those gosh darned pirates!
They took advantage of the complete lack of meaningful governance by locating the easy pickings.
And, in so doing, they developed a new criminal tactic based on some very old criminal tactics.
They preyed on the weakest and most vulnerable, and then held them ransom for their extravagant demands.
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Joy tonight. Work tomorrow.
Courage.
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Senator John Kerry is reported to currently be at Massachusetts General Hospital with Senator Kennedy and members of the Kennedy family. Via my contact in Senator Kerry’s office, his press office has released the following statement in regards to Senator Edward Kennedy:
“Ted Kennedy is beloved and respected on both sides of the aisle in the Senate in [...]
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Filtered through various
Tags: Bush Vetoes, Child Health, Children Health, Courage, Extra, Health Bill, health care, Juvenile, Legislation, New York Post, New York Times, Pharma, Poor Kids, Roman Consuls, Roman Senate, Tobacco, Tribunes, Veto, Weekly Standard, Wikipedia
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I have tried for the past three days to say what Rick Perlstein says here brilliantly, and far better than I could have. If that doesn’t pique your interest, nothing else that I can say will.
Please read it.
Please?
Courage.
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