I guess Virginia AG Ken Cuccinelli didn’t listen to Obama’s latest lecture on health care. |
The Washington Post: A spokesman for Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli II (R) said this afternoon that Virginia will file suit against the federal government if the Democratic health care reform bill is approved by the U.S. Congress. |
Cuccinelli has long said he was examining the legal issues and suggested he would likely file suit. Brian Gottstein, a spokesman for the office, said this afternoon that a lawsuit is now a definite. Gottstein would provide no details of the legal rationale for such a suit, indicating the process is “still being worked out.” |
Virginia last week became the first state in the country to pass a state bill declaring it illegal for the government to require individuals to purchase health insurance, a key part of bills under consideration on Capitol Hill. Read more at www.lonelyconservative.com |
| From 1776 to 1783 Thomas Paine published sixteen pamphlets known as The American Crisis. These pamphlets were crafted to inspire the colonists during the turbulent times of the American Revolution |
| The first was released on December 23, 1776. What makes this pamphlet so vital in our country’s history is that Thomas Paine crafted the right words for the right time during the early days of our struggle for independence |
| Those words inspired General Washington into action. The pamphlet, was read aloud to the Continental army on December 23, 1776, two days before the Battle of Trenton |
| The first paragraph from it was a call for courage and perseverance |
It was December 1776 and all appeared lost after the Continental Army met with defeat after defeat against a better trained and more organized enemy. The British felt the rebellion was crushed and George Washington was nothing more than an annoyance. Below is an excerpt from the New World Encyclopedia |
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and his wife, Virginia. Speaking at the Conservative Political Action Conference, she said: “I have felt called to the front lines with you, with my fellow citizens, to preserve what made America great.”
(Roger L. Wollenberg, UPI/Newscom / November 15, 2007)
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| In January, Virginia Thomas created Liberty Central Inc., a nonprofit lobbying group whose website will organize activism around a set of conservative “core principles,” she said. |
| The group plans to issue score cards for Congress members and be involved in the November election, although Thomas would not specify how. She said it would accept donations from various sources — including corporations — as allowed under campaign finance rules recently loosened by the Supreme Court. |
| Yesterday, an American involved in the war effort handed me a document. It was an email from a Lieutenant Colonel in the 82nd Airborne Division in Afghanistan. |
The email is about the abysmal, unsafe conditions which some of our most dedicated troops are living in, at a remote base run by the Spanish military in Afghanistan. All deletions [xxx] are by me. I have the entire email. The serious and disturbing allegations are found in the second and third paragraphs. |
Please note, that the failure to support permanent US troops at this Spanish base constitutes real negligence about their ultimate safety. And that comes on top of a degree of harassment that is shocking among allies. |
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I just finished spending a couple days with TF [xxx] at [xxx] and visiting all of our sites that we have troopers located at. Great progress continues to be made in the [xxx], but several items need some help ASAP: |
A soldier who married his Army sweetheart just six months ago has been seriously injured fighting in Afghanistan.
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Guardsman Davie McClellan, 25, was shot after risking his life to save a fallen comrade.
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His wife, Corporal Vicky Callard, 23, who is in the Military Police, was due to follow him out to Afghanistan this month.
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The couple met at Catterick Garrison in North Yorkshire and were married in the village church in Frosterley, Weardale, last September.
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Gdsman McClellan, of the 1st Battalion Scots Guards, was injured during Operation Moshtarak, the Allied offensive launched last month on Taliban strongholds in Helmand province.
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He had tried to protect his friend, Lance Sergeant David Walker, 36, from further gunfire in Nad-e-Ali.
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L/Sgt Walker later died in hospital and Gdsman McClellan received serious gunshot wounds to the chest.
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He was flown home from Afghanistan to be treated in the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham.
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It was one of the most complex military logistical and medical operations ever undertaken – and it saved the life of a young British soldier critically injured in Afghanistan.
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The respected American journalist Michael Yon, himself a former US special forces soldier, reported on his blog that he heard the shot and saw a flurry of activity and a medical evacuation helicopter taking Soldier X away.
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Then began a most incredible effort to save his life.
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Soldier X had been shot in the abdomen and chest, losing his right lung and damaging his liver, according to the US military Stars And Stripes newspaper. Another American military report said his blood supply was replaced more than ten times, and that he was transfused with 75 units of blood and another 75 units of platelets.
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Constant threat: British mortarmen fire at Taliban forces in Helmand |
Today we were sent your story of February 14, 2010. The “unknown” Canadian is our son Danny. He is a 23-year-old solider from Vancouver , Canada. |
| Your photographs were extraordinary and have impacted so many people here in Canada. There has been an outpouring of affection for the Americans who helped Danny in his moment of need. For that, we thank you for recording these acts of kindness into history.
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Danny’s injuries were the result of an explosion on February 12, 2010. Four Canadian soldiers were injured and tragically one Canadian solider was killed. Within 20 minutes of the explosion, Danny was airlifted by helicopter to Kandahar. Upon arrival he received emergency surgery that saved his life and prepared him for the flight to Bagram that you were on. |
| After landing in Bagram, Danny was again airlifted by a US transport aircraft to the US Army run Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany. There he underwent additional surgery that closed up his wounds.Read more at canadafreepress.com |
From the bottom of the North Atlantic, through blizzards high in the mountains of New England. (Through blizzards on the North Atlantic with mountainous 15-foot seas crashing on the bow, and scuba diving on the side of Mount Washington in mid-winter, now that I think of it.) Under fire from the terrifying cliff-hanging roads of Kashmir to burned-out Kosovar villages to the howling sands of ancient Uruq and the war-torn boulevards of Baghdad. Also, at the very Final Battleground of Good and Evil at Armageddon itself, on the eve of dread and terrible Millennium. |
Perhaps more dire, at the Palestinian celebration of said Millenium in Bethlehem, where I survived being pelted by a panicked flight of symbolic peace doves, narrowly dodged a faceful of fireworks and successfully negotiated a crush of 20,000 Palos all trying to get out through the same ancient alleys at the same time. |
Scott Brown on Kudlow & Company, 3/3/10
The SEALs — Special Warfare Operators 2nd Class Matthew McCabe and Jonathan Keefe and Special Warfare Operator 1st Class Julio Huertas — were part of a team that in September 2009 captured Ahmed Hashim Abed, the Al Qaeda terrorist behind the murder and mutilation of four Blackwater USA contractors in Fallujah in 2004. |
Two Republican lawmakers are seeking to have charges dropped against three Navy SEALs facing court-martial for accusations of abusing a terror suspect arrested for an ambush killing of U.S. contractors in Iraq. |
The contractors’ bodies were burned and left hanging from a bridge. The image came to symbolize the rise of Al Qaeda in Iraq and the brutality of the enemy Americans face there. |
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Virginia, Idaho Will Sue Federal Government Over ObamaCare
