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Week #4: Ten Weeks To Testimony

Sign up Today to Show up on September 17/18 Pete Hegseth (left) GOT his time on the Hill in July…here, with McCain and Lieberman. The campaign to keep Washington’s head in the right place (and OUT [...]

America’s Biggest Lie: “We Support The Troops”

The most pathetic hyperbolic chamber of them all-Congress. Of the myriad fluff lines from our political heroes, paid well BY us to lie TO us, perhaps Hillary Clinton’s lie about how best to support the Troops [...]

Week #2: 10 Weeks To Testimony

A few days ago, I brought you the news of a nationwide initiative spearheaded by Vets For Freedom, and Executive Director Pete Hegseth. From the Vets For Freedom website: First Lieutenant Pete Hegseth served in Iraq [...]

10 Weeks To Testimony

An organization some of you may have heard of, Vets For Freedom has stepped up to the plate. This IS the MOST critical issue facing this Republic in my opinion, and I offer an opportunity for [...]

Thankless Service Goes Un-Thanked

Joint Chiefs Chairman, General Peter Pace is being retired. Were this because of an outstanding career which spans forty years, there would be some honorable mention in a handful of news stories, a retirement ceremony, and [...]

US War Propaganda Report: 9 May 2007

Assessing the Villages Near Mosul compliments: DVIDS Hub haystack’s pic of the week Back, with news of Iraq and Afghanistan, from that trilogy of US Propaganda – Dept. of Defense, Dept. of State, and of course [...]

US War Propaganda Report: 2 May 2007

Soccer Season compliments: DVIDS Hub haystack’s pic of the week Back, with news of Iraq and Afghanistan, from that trilogy of US Propaganda – Dept. of Defense, Dept. of State, and of course the White House [...]

Attention Democrats: Your Choice Is Clear

and Uncle Jimbo means to spell it out for you… [haystack's note: this video is not work friendly and should be considered PG-13 or so. THERE, my official job is done. Uncle Jimbo, with one of [...]

Dear Mr. Gates

[What follows is, in its entirety, the contents of a letter I PERSONALLY want to thank these 3 Senators for writing...and we should ALL want to see the rest of our Senators climb on board this [...]

US War Propaganda Report: 25 April 2007

Stryker Soldiers, Iraqi Army Clear Baquba Neighborhood compliments: DVIDS Hub haystack’s picture pic of the week Back, with 2 weeks of news from Iraq and Afghanistan, from that US Propaganda trilogy – Dept. of Defense, Dept. [...]

They Just Fade Away

Abizaid ends his run “Old Soldiers Never Die” is a passage once famously quoted during Douglas MacArthur’s Speech to Congress in April 1951. He closed that speech with this: I still remember the refrain of one [...]

American Government: Shame, Disgrace, and Dishonor

I haven’t figured out “how� just yet, but this insanity must stop. SSG Gregory Wilson ENLISTED in the Army in 1970. Selecting the 82nd Airborne (at the age of 17) he attended Basic training at Fort [...]

Sensationalism Abated

How sad that it took almost dying to get there. [update 1: I will write more later, but as promised I wanted to come right in and give a quick update. As promised in the pre-press, [...]

Iraq The Model: An Iraqi We Should ALL Know a Little Better

Omar, of Iraq The Model fame, is and has been a friend and invaluable resource to me and to this site for a very long time now. I had the distinct honor and privilege of “speaking” [...]

A Petition that I, at least, support

This may seem like a political thing, but it is (in my mind at least) a Soldier support issue and I want everyone to know about it. As you may know, the Senate Armed Services committee [...]