War

AFP – Remembering Andrew Breitbart.

March 1, 2013

March 01, 2013 A year ago today we were stunned by the loss of the prolific, insightful and passionate new-media general Andrew Breitbart. Breitbart’s persona was larger than life and his impact far greater than any circumstance. It is fitting then that his zany style and online ferocity effectively converted an army of thousands, each [ Read more ]

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Ignoring Threats Invites Aggression and Raises the Death Toll

December 12, 2012

Without warning, Japan attacked the United States at Pearl Harbor seventy-one years ago.  Because of this sneak attack, President Roosevelt said that December 7, 1941 would be remembered as a “day of infamy”.      December 7th revealed our naivety and our lack of preparedness that unnecessarily caused many tens of thousands of American war [ Read more ]

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Okay everybody, let’s just “give peace a chance….”

June 25, 2012

“Those who cling to the untrue doctrine that ‘violence never settles anything’ would be advised to conjure up the ghosts of Napoleon Bonaparte and of the Duke of Wellington and let them debate it. The ghost of Hitler could referee, and the jury might well be the Dodo, the Great Auk, and the Passenger Pigeon. [ Read more ]

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The Coming War…Blood for Nothing.

May 6, 2012

No, I am not talking about the presidential campaign, though that will be similar to a war.  I am referring to what Mr. Obama will do if he feels he has to to get re-elected. Hold on to your peacenik badges lefties, because that hope and change you’ve been clinging to will take another hit [ Read more ]

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The War on Women Is Not Over

April 13, 2012

How do you know when a Democrat is lying?  Their lips are moving.  And Rosengate, the shooting star calamity set off by Hilary Rosen’s orchestrated  remarks about Ann Romney and how stay at home mom’s don’t work, provides that much more proof that the adage is true. Brad Woodhouse from the Democrat National Committee, from [ Read more ]

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Prepare For The Barakaclypse

November 17, 2011

Every one of these was or is a left wing campaign to make leftist dogma look like centrist mantra. They exist to streamline progressive/socialsit thought into mainstream thinking. But they failed and so the latter iterations have become more destructive. Each “movement” has gotten progressively more unruly, progressively more violent.

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Historical Perspective: The Atom Bombs Dropped on Japan

October 2, 2011

I have had many discussions with libertarians who say "dropping the atom bombs in World War II on Japan was a war crime!" Such foolishness partakes of a certain lack of historical perspective, as do many "pure" libertartian positions (not to mention those of the political Left, which are always wrong). So here’s a little [ Read more ]

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BIN LADEN’S DEMISE IN FOCUS

May 3, 2011

The news of Bin Laden’s demise was barely minutes old before the politicizing began in earnest. In the hours that followed, Barbara Walters on the view retorts, “I would hate now to be a Republican candidate thinking of running,” Like this somehow cancels out the high gas prices, the economy being in the toilet and [ Read more ]

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Picture of the Day 4-6-11

April 6, 2011

From Patriot Post, (a few years back) this graphic was created for a T-Shirt commemorating another Clinton lie, this one from Hillary, about coming under fire in Bosnia. No one could corroborate the story, and at least one reporter contradicted it completely, as does the historical record outside the Clinton Library. At least she didn’t claim to be a veteran afterward

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Muslim Brotherhood Declares War on US

October 12, 2010

Michael Totten at PJM points us to an article by Barry Rubin at Global Research in International Affairs in which Rubin alerts us that the newly elected leader of the Muslim Brotherhood has just endorsed a full blown Anti-American Jihad. Rubin explains the serious business that this is, with all the relevant consideration, but sums [ Read more ]

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Obama v. Obama

August 11, 2010

This will be making the rounds.  It’s a video from HuffPo pitting Obama against himself on Afghanistan.  I’m not posting it to take a position or make a point, I just happen to think it was fun to watch Obama interviewing himslef (more or less) on the issue.     (H/T RedState and Examiner.com)

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“Hell With Icicles”

December 18, 2008

This week marks the sixtieth-fourth anniversary of the beginning of the Battle of the Bulge. That battle, known to the Germans as the “Ardennes Offensive,” started in December 1944 and was the last major German offensive on the Western Front during World War II. The German army sought to cut the Allied line in two, [ Read more ]

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Dragon Soup Blog: Get yourself connected

October 24, 2008

Major Kirk Luedeke [Ed. note: It's been a while, but we are pleased to welcome our milblogger, Major Kirk, back to the pages of GraniteGrok. See his prior dispatches from Iraq here...] I just reached a small personal milestone- my 180th day home since the 4th Brigade of the 1st Infantry Division- Task Force Dragon- redeployed to Fort [ Read more ]

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‘Grok Flashback: Our thoughts on PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE Joe Biden in April 2007

August 23, 2008

In the leadup to the NH primary, we got to see almost every candidate on both sides of the aisle, Joe Biden being no exception. As we cull through hours of videotape shot during the event for something that might be newsworthy given his selection as Barack Obama’s running mate, we figured some readers might be [ Read more ]

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Lieberman: Lone voice in the Democratic wilderness…

May 20, 2008

Alone in the wilderness? (GG file photo) What more can be said about Joe Lieberman and his recent speech that hasn’t been already said by our friends over at the Contentions blog? Writes frequent MTNP radio guest Jennifer Rubin, Senator Joseph Lieberman spoke last night at the annual Commentary Fund dinner at New York’s University [ Read more ]

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Good points worth maintaining…

May 16, 2008

.  Sen. McCain in Wolfeboro; President Bush in Stratham. (GG file photos) When it comes to the mantra of John McCain being the third term of President Bush, beyond the obvious lack of proof that McCain and Bush march lockstep in all matters, there are some positive points about the president that are worth emulating [ Read more ]

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Notable Quote: Machiavelli

May 5, 2008

Saturday was Machiavelli’s birthday (May 3rd, 1469). While much reviled by some as a ruthless political animal, there are many that believe him to be the master of political observation and strategy– based on the realities of human nature as it exists, not fanciful utopian wishes. His best known work, The Prince, is a book about the attainment and preservation [ Read more ]

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“Complete Disregard”

April 7, 2008

WASHINGTON – Today the RNC released a new Web video, titled “Politics vs. Petraeus.”  The video highlights Senators Clinton and Obama’s politicization of the War on Terror and complete disregard for the facts and the warnings made by General David Petraeus during his last congressional hearing on September 11, 2007.   After consistently promising to “always [ Read more ]

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Who will join Congressman McCotter in telling President Bush to stay home?

April 5, 2008

Earlier today on our radio program, Michigan Congressman Thadeus McCotter discussed why he doesn’t think President Bush should go to the Beijing Olympics, stating We don’t think that the president, for the first time in US history should attend a foreign hosted Olympics because… his presence at the Games has deviated from the norm and set a [ Read more ]

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News to make your day: GO Navy!!

February 21, 2008

Photos of Lake Erie test firing SM3 missile I have been among those eagerly awaiting the shoot down of the errant satellite while still in orbit around the Earth. Today we got the good news, courtesy of the NavyTimes: The Navy cruiser Lake Erie successfully shot down a malfunctioning spy satellite Wednesday night over the Pacific [ Read more ]

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Dragon Soup: Front page of USA Today reports: 75% of Baghdad Secure

January 26, 2008

Colonel Ricky Gibbs, commander of the 4th Infantry Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division, talks to Iraqi children in the Masafee neighborhood of East Rashid, Baghdad during a recent visit there. (U.S. Army photo by Maj. Kirk Luedeke, 4IBCT Public Affairs)   Kudos to USA Today reporter Jim Michaels, whose front page story in the [ Read more ]

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Days of Infamy. What a difference sixty six years makes…

December 7, 2007

Planes of second wave ready for takeoff on carrier Shokaku . The Wikipedia on Pearl Harbor: “On the morning of December 7, 1941, that Fleet’s planes bombed all the US military air bases on the island (the biggest was the US Army air base at Hickam Field), and the ships anchored at Pearl, including ‘Battleship [ Read more ]

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“Gotta run- but get the word out- things are turning around and that’s no lie!”

December 1, 2007

Our friend, Blue Star Mother Sue Peterson sent the following note from her friend with an update directly from the major front in the war via her son, currently serving in Iraq. . Writes Sue: "The following is from my friend and mother to Kirk…" It was exciting to get this message from Kirk and hear [ Read more ]

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VLog– Question for McCain: Was Truman right?

August 12, 2007

John McCain meets the press in Wolfeboro, NH . As Skip has noted in his previous postings, we got to ask Senator McCain several questions following Friday’s "town hall" style campaign event at the Wright Museum. Given that we were in a World War II museum, and it is the 62nd anniversary of Truman’s decision to [ Read more ]

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END THE WAR!

August 9, 2007

I’ve recently seen a few signs around with this disturbing slogan: “Support the Troops, End the War!” In fact, I just returned from Town and saw a few along my way home.   Would someone please, please explain to me how stating “End the War” is in reality supporting our VOLUNTEER troops? Explain how ending [ Read more ]

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