A Man in the Arena

Vice President Jindal?

With the Republican National Convention just around the corner this summer, much talk has been floating around as to the Republican nominee for Vice President, to run alongside Senator McCain. Last Friday, May 23, 2008, Senator McCain held a dinner for many political personalities, business CEOs, and friends. Among the attendees were people such as [...]

Can We Ask?

The Republican National Committee recently launched the website CanWeAsk.com. This is a site where Americans can text or type in their questions for Senator Obama. While Sen. Obama does not truly read and respond to these questions, this is a place for Americans to air out their thoughts about Sen. Obama and raise some [...]

A Soldier’s Diary of Iraq

Major Joe Pullen over at Sand Box Adventures left me a comment on one of my posts and after reading through his site, I decided to add him to my blogroll and write a short post about him. I do not know him personally, nor does he know me. But I do know he is [...]

Flags of our Fathers-Part 2

As I said in my last post about Flags of our Fathers, I found this great story in the book so I thought I’d post about it. It reads:
And at his last stop on the island, at the high seawall the Marines had to surmount to get onto Tarawa, Howlin’ Mad (a Marine leader) saw [...]

Favorite Patriotic Song

God Bless the USA
by Lee Greenwood
 
If tomorrow all the things were gone,
I’d worked for all my life.
And I had to start again,
with just my children and my wife.
I’d thank my lucky stars,
to be livin here today.
‘Cause the flag still stands for freedom,
and they can’t take that away.
And I’m proud to be an American,
where [...]