A conservative blog written by a U.S. Marine which focuses on protecting the Constitution and our liberty.
Saturday, May 7, 2011
The Best Summation of The Republican Debate!!
Tuesday, May 3, 2011
"Religion of Peace" Week In Review= 111 Dead, 193 Injured

| Date | Country | City | Killed | Injured | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011.05.01 | Afghanistan | Paktika | 4 | 12 | At least four people are killed when a 12-year-old suicide bomber detonates at a crowded market. |
| 2011.05.01 | Pakistan | Punjab | 4 | 0 | Four guards are killed when Islamists attack a NATO supply convoy. |
| 2011.04.30 | India | Baramulla | 1 | 0 | Mujahideen shoot a vendor to death. |
| 2011.04.30 | Iraq | Mosual | 8 | 19 | A brutal Fedayeen bombing at a marketplace entrance leaves at least eight dead. |
| 2011.04.30 | Iraq | Qadiriya | 2 | 2 | A man and his daughter are shot to death in their home by Islamic militants. |
| 2011.04.30 | Iraq | Kadhimiya | 4 | 0 | A village defense volunteer and three family members are murdered in their home by suspected al-Qaeda. |
| 2011.04.30 | Iraq | Taji | 3 | 1 | A child and woman are among three killed when Islamists bomb a judge's home. |
| 2011.04.29 | Pakistan | Karachi | 1 | 0 | An imam is assassinated by Religion of Peace rivals. |
| 2011.04.29 | Iraq | Diyala | 3 | 0 | A family of three, including a girl, is exterminated in their home by terrorists. |
| 2011.04.29 | Iraq | Buhriz | 4 | 0 | Four Sunni brothers are shot to death in cold blood by sectarian rivals. |
| 2011.04.28 | Pakistan | Lakki Marwat | 2 | 0 | Two villagers are abducted and executed by religious militants. |
| 2011.04.28 | Pakistan | Karachi | 6 | 7 | Six innocents bleed out following an Islamist bombing attack on a bus. |
| 2011.04.28 | Algeria | Oued Djemaa | 5 | 4 | Islamic extremists murder five security personnel with a bomb. |
| 2011.04.28 | Iraq | Balad Ruz | 12 | 40 | A Sunni straps explosives to his body and walks into a Shia mosque. A dozen are killed in the ensuing blast. |
| 2011.04.28 | Morocco | Marrakesh | 16 | 23 | A Holy Warrior walks into a cafe and detonates. Five women are among the sixteen massacred. |
| 2011.04.27 | Afghanistan | Kabul | 9 | 0 | A 'very religious' Afghan pilot suddenly turns on his American trainers, gunning down nine in an attack claimed by the Taliban. |
| 2011.04.27 | Algeria | Boumelih | 2 | 1 | Fundamentalists cut two local cops to shreds with a shrapnel bomb. |
| 2011.04.27 | Thailand | Yala | 1 | 0 | Muslim 'insurgents' shoot a Buddhist hunter and his dog to death. |
| 2011.04.27 | Iraq | Falluajh | 3 | 0 | Three Iraqis are kidnapped and brutally tortured to death by suspected al-Qaeda. |
| 2011.04.26 | Pakistan | Karachi | 4 | 56 | A female doctor is among four people dismantled during two separate bus bombings. |
| 2011.04.26 | Iraq | Hawija | 2 | 6 | Two innocents are leveled in the rubble of their house by Jihadi bombers. |
| 2011.04.26 | Somalia | Luuq | 8 | 13 | A well-placed al-Shabaab landmine catches a civilian bus and sends at least eight passengers to Allah. |
| 2011.04.25 | Nigeria | Maiduguri | 3 | 8 | Boko Haram members bomb a bus stop and a hotel, killing three people. |
| 2011.04.25 | India | Srinagar | 2 | 1 | Two cops are gunned down along a city street by Muslim terrorists. |
Saturday, April 30, 2011
Saturday Jokes...A Cowboy Named Bud
A cowboy named Bud was overseeing his herd in a remote pasture when
suddenly a brand-new BMW advanced toward him out of a cloud of dust .
The driver, a young man in a Brioni suit, Gucci shoes , Ray Ban
sunglasses and YSL tie, leaned out the window and asked the cowboy,
"If I tell you exactly how many cows and calves you have in your herd,
Will you give me a calf?"
Bud looks at the man, obviously a yuppie, then looks at his
peacefully grazing herd and calmly answers, "Sure, Why not?"
The yuppie parks his car, whips out his Dell notebook computer,
connects it to his Cingular RAZR V3 cell phone , and surfs to a
NASA page on the Internet, where he calls up a GPS satellite to get an
exact fix on his location which he then feeds to another NASA
satellite that scans the area in an ultra-high-resolution photo.
The young man then opens the digital photo in Adobe Photo shop and
exports it to an image processing facility in Hamburg , Germany .
Within seconds, he receives an email on his Palm Pilot that the
image has been processed and the data stored. He then accesses an
MS-SQL database through an ODBC connected Excel spreadsheet with email
on his Blackberry and, after a few minutes, receives a response.
Finally, he prints out a full-color, 150-page report on his hi-tech,
miniaturized HP LaserJet printer, turns to the cowboy and says, "You
have exactly 1,586 cows and calves."
"That's right. Well, I guess you can take one of my calves," says Bud.
He watches the young man select one of the animals and looks on with
amusement as the young man stuffs it into the trunk of his car.
Then Bud says to the young man, "Hey, if I can tell you exactly what
your business is, will you give me back my calf?"
The young man thinks about it for a second and then says, "Okay, why not?"
"You're an aide in the Obama Administration", says Bud.
"Wow! That's correct," says the yuppie, "but how did you guess that?"
"No guessing required." answered the cowboy. "You showed up here
even though nobody called you; you want to get paid for an answer I
already knew, to a question I never asked. You used millions of
dollars worth of equipment trying to show me how much smarter than me
you are; and you don't know a thing about how working people make a
living - or about cows, for that matter. This is a herd of sheep. ...
Now give me back my dog."
America Needs A Warrior, Politicians Need Not Apply

Early Republican polling each day continues to show Mitt Romney as the leader for the 2012 nomination, followed closely by Mike Huckabee. It appears thus far that Republicans are playing it safe. That's as nicely as I can put it. Are the Republicans truly going to continue the mistakes of the past, i.e. John McCain and Bob Dole?? It's almost as if they have a meeting and determine who's turn it is, based on seniority of times run.
Tuesday, April 26, 2011
The Welfare State and The Selfish Society

The Welfare State and the Selfish Society
In the contemporary world, where left-wing attitudes are regarded as normative, it is a given that capitalism, with its free market and profit motive, emanates from and creates selfishness, while socialism, the welfare state and the "social compact," as it is increasingly referred to, emanate from and produce selflessness.
The opposite is the truth.
Whatever its intentions, the entitlement state produces far more selfish people -- and therefore, a far more selfish society -- than a free-market economy. And once this widespread selfishness catches on, we have little evidence that it can be undone.
Here's an illustration: Last year, President Obama addressed a large audience of college students on the subject of health care. At one point in his speech, he announced that the students will now be able to remain on their parents' health insurance plan until age 26. I do not ever recall hearing a louder, more thunderous and sustained applause than I did then. I do not believe that if the president had announced that a cure for cancer had been discovered that the applause would have been louder or longer.
It is depressing to listen to that applause. To be told that one can be dependent on one's parents until age 26 should strike a young person who wants to grow up as demeaning, not as something to celebrate.
Throughout American history, the natural -- or at least hoped for -- inclination of a young person was to become a mature adult, independent of Mom and Dad, and to become a grown up. But in the welfare state, this is no longer the case.
In various European countries, it is increasingly common for young men to live with their parents into their 30s and even longer. Why not? In the welfare state, there is no shame in doing so.
The welfare state enables -- and thereby produces -- people whose preoccupations become more and more self-centered as time goes on:
How many benefits will I receive from the state?
How much will the state pay for my education?
How much will the state pay for my health care and when I retire?
What is the youngest age at which I can retire?
How much vacation time can I get each year?
How many days can I call in sick and get paid?
How many months can I claim paternity or maternity care money?
The list gets longer with each election of a left-wing party. And each entitlement becomes a "right" as the left transforms entitlements into the language of "rights" as quickly as possible.
What entitlements do, and what the transformation of entitlements into rights does, is create a citizenry that increasingly lacks the most important character trait -- gratitude. Of all the characteristics needed for both a happy and morally decent life, none surpasses gratitude. Grateful people are happier, and grateful people are more morally decent. That is why we teach our children to say "thank you." But the welfare state undoes that. One does not express thanks for a right. So, instead of "thank you," the citizen of the welfare state is taught to say, "What more can I get?"
Yet, while producing increasingly selfish people, the mantra of the left, and therefore of the universities and the media, has been for generations that capitalism and the free market, not the welfare state, produces selfish people.
They succeed in part because demonizing conservatives and their values is a left-wing art. But the truth is that capitalism and the free market produce less selfish people. Teaching people to work hard and take care of themselves (and others) produces a less, not a more, selfish citizen.
Capitalism teaches people to work harder; the welfare state teaches people to want harder. Which is better?
Monday, April 25, 2011
"Religion of Peace" Week In Review= 201 Dead, 480 Injured
With last week being arguably the holiest week of the year for Christians, Islam was in rare form, increasing murders by 128%!! Yet, our news media spends more time each day villainizing and condemning one man for burning a Koran than on the beasts who are committing these horrific murders.
| Date | Country | City | Killed | Injured | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011.04.24 | Iraq | Baghdad | 0 | 7 | Seven people are injured when Muslim activists detonate a bomb outside a church. |
| 2011.04.23 | Pakistan | Hangu | 1 | 1 | An 8-year-old boy dies from shrapnel injuries suffered during a Mujahid bombing of his home. |
| 2011.04.23 | Afghanistan | Kunduz | 3 | 1 | Three civilians are disassembled by Taliban bombers. |
| 2011.04.23 | Pakistan | Salarzai | 5 | 0 | A Shahid suicide bomber sends five souls to Allah. |
| 2011.04.23 | Iraq | Kirkuk | 1 | 2 | A brutal attack on an off-duty copy leaves him dead, his wife injured and his son without legs. |
| 2011.04.22 | Thailand | Yala | 1 | 4 | One person is killed when Muslim 'insurgents' detonate a bomb hidden in a drainage pipe. |
| 2011.04.22 | Pakistan | Sindh | 2 | 0 | Two men are shot to death in separate militant attacks. |
| 2011.04.22 | Iraq | Ramadi | 3 | 3 | Mujahideen bombers take down three Iraqis. |
| 2011.04.21 | Afghanistan | Jalalabad | 3 | 6 | Sunni fundamentalists plant a bomb that kills three local cops. |
| 2011.04.21 | Thailand | Pattani | 1 | 2 | Muslim 'insurgents' murder a Buddhist in his home. |
| 2011.04.21 | Afghanistan | Ghazni | 3 | 5 | The Taliban take down three civilians with a roadside bomb. |
| 2011.04.21 | Pakistan | Peshawar | 1 | 0 | A man is beheaded by Muslim terrorists. |
| 2011.04.21 | Iraq | Samarrah | 1 | 4 | A child bleeds out following a Jihadi bomb blast. |
| 2011.04.20 | Nigeria | Bauchi | 10 | 17 | Women are among a group of young Christians murdered by a Muslim mob. |
| 2011.04.20 | Nigeria | Maiduguri | 1 | 0 | Islamists gun down a rival cleric. |
| 2011.04.20 | Dagestan | Makhachkala | 1 | 0 | A cleric is murdered outside his home by Religion of Peace rivals. |
| 2011.04.20 | Pakistan | Mohmand | 2 | 0 | A rancher and his assistant are brutally murdered at a Taliban roadblock. |
| 2011.04.20 | Pakistan | Karachi | 3 | 0 | Three Shia civilians are gunned down in cold blood by Sunni assassins. |
| 2011.04.20 | Pakistan | Kurram | 7 | 0 | Seven villagers are executed in captivity by the Taliban. |
| 2011.04.19 | Afghanistan | Kabul | 2 | 0 | A Taliban gunmen goes on a shooting spree inside a government building, killing two guards. |
| 2011.04.19 | Pakistan | Khyber | 1 | 0 | Religion of Peace hardliners slit the throat of a tribesman. |
| 2011.04.19 | Iraq | Kirkuk | 3 | 0 | A teacher and her two Shia daughters shot to death by Sunni terrorists in their own home. |
| 2011.04.19 | Nigeria | Kaduna | 121 | 375 | Angry Muslims go on a two-day bender, torching over forty churches and hacking and burning over one hundred Christians to death. |
| 2011.04.19 | Thailand | Pattani | 5 | 0 | Two teens are among five people who die from splinter injuries following an Islamist grenade attack. |
| 2011.04.18 | Thailand | Yala | 1 | 23 | Muslim 'insurgents' set off a car bomb, killing a passerby in a pickup truck. |
| 2011.04.18 | Afghanistan | Kabul | 2 | 7 | A Fedayeen bomber attacks a defense ministry building, killing two. |
| 2011.04.18 | Afghanistan | Ghazni | 6 | 0 | No one survives a brutal roadside ambush by fundamentalists on a vehicle carrying six. |
| 2011.04.18 | Somalia | Shalambod | 1 | 0 | A 21-year-old convert to Christianity is pulled from his home and shot 10 times by Islamists yelling 'Allah Akbar'. |
| 2011.04.18 | Iraq | Baghdad | 10 | 23 | A pair of suicide bombers send ten other souls to Allah. |