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Sorry for being a day late with the column. I had computer problems requiring tech support on Wednesday, but like a really bad old movie once proclaimed…I’m baaaaaaaack!

If the conservatives in the GOP really want to hammer the left with some campaign ads, I’d suggest that the theme be: “Democrats believe the Constitution to be an extreeeeeeme right wing document. We believe in supporting and defending the Constitution of the United States. Which side are you on?” There will be more on this later in the column.

One of the absolute best local talk radio guys, who happens to be one of the regular guest hosts for both Limbaugh and Hannity, is WBAP’s Mark Davis. He is also a very good op-ed columnist. His response to the GOP’s 45-page long “Pledge to America” is a simple 12-point statement that would show that the GOP really has learned a lesson or 12 in the past decade, and especially in the past 4 years. The Crawfish cannot find a single sentence in Mark’s 12 points that I disagree with.

The now-convicted Times Square Bomber stated at his sentencing hearing, “the war with Muslims has just begun.” Well, the American media and our political class want you to believe such nonsense. Of course, it is a big lie, as Islam has been at war with the rest of the world for over 1300 years.

Which side is our President and his party on in that war? Their policy of bringing illegal combatants captured on foreign battlefields into American civilian courts and giving them Constitutional rights that they do not deserve has borne fruit for the enemies of America, including the President and his party. They wanted these illegal combatants set free, and the judge in the first case is helping them by not allowing witness testimony because of possible harsh interrogation techniques. Illegal combatants do not get P.O.W. status or any other rights according to the Geneva Accords. They can be interrogated however the capturing military force deems necessary, and they can be summarily executed. Since they were not within our nation, they get no rights according to our Constitution.

The White House showed its utter contempt for our military and military families last Saturday. The family of a Medal of Honor recipient was invited to tour the White House the day after they laid Vernon Baker to rest at Arlington National Cemetery. When they got to the White House, they were turned away because Baker’s grandson, at all of 10 years old, was wearing shorts and a t-shirt with his grandfather’s photo on it. For the family of a Medal of Honor recipient, President Crawfish would have attended the funeral and lead the tour personally.

We called it! The socialists and other union schmucks who attended the “One Nation” rally in DC not only had pitiful numbers (they are still claiming almost as good attendance numbers as the Beck/Palin rally, despite photographic evidence to the contrary), but they also left the place a wreck. The last two conservative rallies on the National Mall (Beck/Palin and Gathering of Eagles III) saw the place being left with nary a piece of trash. The past two anti-Constitution rallies (“One Nation” and the Kenyan Coronation) have left trash everywhere. What do you expect from a bunch of people who want everybody ELSE to do the work while THEY get the benefits? Leeches have no respect for our nation or our national monuments.

So…Rahm “Ballerina” Emanuel has decided to leave his post as White House Chief of Staff in order to run for the position of Mayor in Chicago. First of all, it is obvious that he wants to desert the sinking ship before the lifeboats fill up. Secondly, how can he run for Mayor of Chicago if he doesn’t have a residence in that city? Oh, that’s right. He’s just going along with the Democrat tradition of getting elected in places that you don’t live. Let’s see, there’s one of the Kennedy family who held a House seat from Rhode Island when the family all lived in Taxachusetts. The junior Senator from Noo Yawk is originally from Corruptionois, but had residency in Arkansas for about 30 years before running for the Senate. Residency? We don’t need no stinkin’ residency! Lastly, Rahmbo was the intermediary between The Chosen One and Governor Blago during the Senate Seat Sweepstakes, and that retrial will be held just a month before the mayoral election.

While we’re in the Chicago area, we might as well check in on Representative Jan Schakowsky. Poor Jan is caught up in the liberal talking points, saying that believing in the principles of the Constitution are “some sort of revolutionary plan” and calling people who actually know what the Constitution says “EXTREEEEEME” and “Tenthers!” Yes, they have come up with a new derogatory term for folks who have read the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States. The Tenth is the enemy of the liberals, because it says, “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.” In other words…if the Constitution doesn’t SPECIFICALLY give the feds power, then they can’t have it. That is in direct opposition to everything the Democrats have put forth since Woodrow Wilson.

Michelle (***sigh***) Malkin’s column this past Wednesday was a dagger to the heart of Big Labor if any of the union thugs could be bothered to read something other than “The Audacity of a Dope”. Notice how the SEIU has spent fortunes in political activity while the pension funds of the workers have been drying up. Notice as well that the pension funds of the union bosses are still completely funded and healthy. Just like at my current employer, unions do nothing but screw over the workers while making the organizers rich.

California has uncovered evidence that over $69,000,000.00 of state WELFARE money has been spent out of state over the past 3 years. Lots of that money has been spent in Las Vegas, Hawaii, Florida, and aboard cruise ships. Defenders of the state’s leeches say that it is less than 1% of the welfare money handed out over that time period. The Crawfish’s response is that you hand out waaaaayyyyy too much money to the lazy leeches. The defenders also say that the leeches have spent that money out of state while visiting sick relatives…on cruise ships? In Vegas casinos? On Hawaiian beaches? I’m sorry, but that is pure bovine excrement.

In the category of What Do You Really Expect From Liberal Congresscritters, we have Judiciary Chairman, Rep. John Conyers writing a check on an account that has no money to pay for his driver’s license renewal. That’s kinda like spending a trillion on Obamacare when there’s no money in the Treasury, ain’t it? This is the same John Conyers whose wife was recently sentenced to 3+ years in prison on bribery and corruption charges in Detroit.

I don’t care who you are, this is funny! Is the cereal as over-hyped as the man?

The House, showing their cowardice and contempt for the people who hired them, voted to adjourn this week instead of doing their job and passing a budget and voting on whether or not to raise taxes dramatically on all taxpayers, including some folks who currently pay ZERO income tax. The Senate couldn’t discuss those issues either, but they found the time for this bit of extremely important legislation. The Democrats know that if they raise taxes now, they will all lose in November, so they will do that in the lame duck session. Meanwhile, they will go home and campaign on…well, not on their record. That’s for sure!

HA HA HA HA!!!!!!!! The Democrats are dumber than we thought. It seems that a bunch of them are pushing for The Arrogant Imbecile to be named Chairman of the DNC. Gibbs is the biggest idiot to hold the White House Press Secretary position in decades, but they think he needs a promotion? PLEASE make that happen, Dims!

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“The precept of the Koran is perpetual war against all who deny that Mohamed is the prophet of God. The vanquished may purchase their lives, by the payment of tribute; the victorious may be appeased by a false and delusive promise of peace; and the faithful follower of the prophet may submit to the imperious necessities of defeat: but the command to propagate the Moslem creed by the sword is always obligatory, when it can be made effective. The commands of the prophet may be performed alike, by fraud, or by force.” John Quincy Adams

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Over the weekend, we remembered the events of September 11, 2001. Dan Calabrese of North Star National has a solid suggestion for how we should have properly commemorated the day. And for those of you who haven’t been readers of mine for long, here’s what The Crawfish had to say three years ago about my memories of that day. Tina Trimble Belliston takes a look at what has happened in the succeeding 9 years, and she doesn’t like it very much. I like her style!

For the absolute knee-slapping funny quote of the week, we look to our esteemed Dear Leader who bleated ““I believe government should be lean; government should be efficient. I believe government should leave people free to make the choices they think are best for themselves and their families, so long as those choices don’t hurt others.” Does he actually expect us to believe that line of bovine excrement? Does he believe it himself? The story has another crazy point buried deep within. It seems that 15% of polled Americans believe that Obama wants a smaller government. How much crack and LSD have those 15% consumed in the past 19 months?

This really is getting ridiculous. We all thought that it was crazy to confirm a tax cheat as Treasury Secretary. Then Hilda Solis and her husband had to pay thousands in back taxes before she could get confirmed as Labor Secretary, and personnel from her department currently owe upwards of $7,400,000.00. Members of Homeland Security Ditz Napolitano’s department owe over $37,000,000.00 in back taxes. House and Senate staff members owe well over $9,000,000.00. Members of the Federal Reserve owe over a million. The Affirmative Action Attorney General’s Injustice Department folks owe $14,300,000.00+ in back taxes, but since they are the ones who enforce the laws, they don’t care what the laws actually say. The fish, though, does rot from the head, and 41 members of Barack Obama’s staff owe $831,055.00 in back taxes. You see, if we could reign in a bit of spending and manage to get Democrats to pay their damned taxes, we’d have a budget surplus!

“Now the U.N. remains the single most important global institution. We are constantly reminded of its value.” Those words came out of the mouth of Her Thighness this week. The Crawfish wonders what Hillary! sees as value in the Useless Nations. Could it be the propping up of dictators? Maybe it is the support of militant Islam. Possibly it is the constant America bashing. Then again, there is always the possibility that it is the anti-Israel stances of the UN, which mirror the desires of most of the Democratic Party. Meanwhile, over the Labor Day weekend, the UN Secretary General and 60 of his top minions met in Austria to go over their plans to take charge of the whole world’s agenda. The sooner we can get rid of that organization, the better.

The Crawfish wholeheartedly agrees with this family. Seventeen years is far too long for a murderer to sit on death row. At least they finally got closure. Maureen Faulkner’s police officer husband, Danny, was murdered by Black Panther Party activist Mumia Abu Jamal (real name: Wesley Cook) on December 9, 1981, and his case is STILL in the courts thanks to a federal judge who had no business interfering with the death sentence. If the crime was adjudicated in state courts, then why does the federal court system have any jurisdiction? They DON’T! For a state capital murder case, the penalty phase should start the day after the conviction phase. Once the sentence is pronounced, the state court of criminal appeals should have 180 days to hear and decide their phase of the case. If it goes to the state supremes, they should have 180 days to act. One year from the date that the sentence was pronounced, the sentence should be carried out.

Pennsylvania’s Governor, incidentally…the D.A. in the Mumia Abu Jamal case, is losing what’s left of his leftist mind. He says that “wackos” are taking over the Republican Party in Congress. So Ed Rendell’s definition of a “wacko” is someone who believes in the Constitutional limitations on the federal government. That’s nice.

Don’t you DARE criticize King Barack I or the Obamacare bill (have the Dems finally read that thing yet?), especially if you are an insurance company. And don’t even THINK about raising your rates to compensate for all of the extra costs incurred because of this bill. If you violate these commandments, HHS Secretary Sebelius will cut your company off from future customers and future programs under Obamacare! Where does this power freak get such authority? It sure as heck ain’t in the Constitution of the United States. The sooner we can get this and all of the other bills passed by Queen of the House Red Nanny P-Lousy and Prince Dingy Harry Reid revoked, the better.

Lemme see if I’ve got this right. The Administration of King Barack I opposes all efforts of energy companies to drill for oil in the US, and has tried to stop offshore drilling, but it gives over $1,000,000,000.00 to MEXICO for them to drill? Am I missing something here? Oh, maybe it is a “jobs program” for Americans who want to be illegal aliens in Mexico.

On a related issue, the Obama Administration is now BRAGGING that they have caught and released over 506,000 illegal aliens who are now fugitives within our borders. This is why you release them on the shores of El Salvador instead of within our country, ya morons. When are we going to put some adults in control of our government?

Now I get it! The Democrats in the House and Senate get their brilliant ideas after having dope smoking parties in their offices! “Munchie attacks cause 2,000 page bill in Congress. Film at eleven!”

The Congressional Racist Caucus is back in the news. It seems that Charlie Rangel and Eddie Bernice Johnson ain’t the only members to have serious ethics problems. Johnson was busted giving scholarship money, intended for blacks in her district, to her own family and the family of one of her staffers. Now Jawja congresscritter Sanford Bishop has been nailed doin’ the exact same thing. Of course, this is all to be blamed on Fox News, George W. Bush, and the eeeeevilll racist Republicans.

I’ve been sayin’ it for the past two years to anybody who would listen, but the only people who would agree with me were conservatives who actually pay attention to politics and economics. Now Thomas Sowell points out that the main cause of the economic downturn of 2008-2010 was the collapse of the credit market. The credit market was crunched by the problems of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, which were shielded in Congress by Chris “Countrywide” Dodd and Bawney Fwank, while notable liberals such as Jamie “I caused 9-11” Gorelick and Franklin Raines made millions (while falsifying the books to show Freddie and Fannie to be fiscally healthy, but that’s another story). The Community Reinvestment Act, another disastrous product of Jimmuh Cahtuh that was bolstered by Billy Jeff Clinton, helped immensely. Of course, all good liberals and the media, but I repeat myself, know that Jorge Boosh is to blame for all of it anyway.

The Incredibly Arrogant Imbecile is at it again. Our esteemed White House Press Secretary is doing his best to make ol’ Baghdad Bob look intelligent and truthful. I mean, does he really expect anybody who is actually paying attention to believe him when he says, “By virtually any measure, our economy is in a better place than it was two years ago”? That ranks right up there with “I did not have sexual relations with that woman…Miss Lewinsky.”

Do liberals really care about the American worker or American industry? Uh, no. In the name of “green”, they have cost hundreds of American jobs and forced dangerous, mercury-filled light bulbs into American homes. Did y’all know that if one of those bulbs breaks, it is recommended to bring a hazardous materials cleanup team in to clean up the mercury? If one of the bulbs dies, you can’t even toss it in the trash, since it is considered hazardous waste!

If the Obamites were so in favor of building the economy and small business, wouldn’t they have the support of the US Chamber of Commerce? Well, since the Chamber is vehemently opposing the socialists, The Crawfish is left to believe that the Unholy Troika of Obama-Reid-Pelosi might be bad for American businesses. Do y’all agree?

A Congressional race in South Carolina gives us a story worth pondering for a moment. Longtime Representative John Spratt has agreed to debate his Republican challenger, but he demanded that there be no cameras or audio recording devices in the auditorium. Might that be so that he can lie about whatever he says in the debate, like a typical liberal, and there will be no evidence?

The Affirmative Action Attorney General’s Injustice Department and the Feingold campaign in Wisconsin have teamed up to violate federal election law (nothing new for Holder’s bunch) and screw over American military personnel who are Wisconsin voters. Federal law requires military absentee ballots to be sent out 45 days ahead of an election in order to give the military personnel enough time to fill out their ballots and send them home in the military mail. The State of Wisconsin, knowing that military personnel are likely to support Russ Feingold’s opponent, reached a deal with Big Brother and the Holder Company to slash 2 weeks from that time, meaning many military voters will be “disenfranchised”.

The Followers of the Pedophilic False Prophet gave The Crawfish a good chuckle this week. Reacting to the possibility that a single copy of the Quran could be burned by a nutcase preacher looking for publicity, a major muslim group called for the Useless Nations “to issue an international law criminalizing all forms of offense against religions under any circumstances.” This coming from a religion that routinely burns or otherwise destroys Christian materials, imprisons or executes anyone who preached Christianity in muslim nations, and builds mosques upon the destroyed houses of worship of the locals whenever they score a major military victory. Heck, there were attacks on Christians trying to worship in Indonesia just this week! The muslims also have a tendency to violently riot whenever there is some outrage, real or just perceived, committed against Islam (like now or when a Danish newspaper published a CARTOON showing Muhammed with a bomb in his head diaper), and dance in the streets when innocent civilians are murdered by Islamic terrorists. For more on the Religion of Perpetual Outrage, check out this column by Michelle (***sigh***) Malkin. As per usual, it has lots of embedded links.

The Religion of Peace struck again in Filthadelphia on Friday. Wait…should it be the Religion of Pieces?

Somebody seems to have a rather highly inflated opinion of herself and her status among Americans. The Crawfish, along with probably 98% of the American public, didn’t even know they had split up…nor did I even care!

If y’all come across any weird/stoooopid/strange news stories that might be fodder for The Weekly Claw or The Weekend Claw, e-mail them to me at CrawfishsClaw@yahoo.com and I’ll consider ‘em. Yes, I will give you newshounds credit.

“The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion; and on Application of the Legislature, or of the Executive (when the Legislature cannot be convened) against domestic violence.
-Constitution of the United States, Article IV, Section 4.
Quote suggested by Peppermint2 in response to the Obama-Holder-Judge Bolden opposition of Arizona’s anti-illegal immigrant law

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Another nutty week has passed, and we’ve got a lot to discuss. Ya know it was one of those weeks when The Crawfish isn’t even getting into the ludicrous decision by a judge saying that California’s constitution is unConstitutional because it now bans queer marriage. I could do a whole series of columns on that decision, but (grits teeth) I shall refrain.

Well, I’m glad to see that some of the Republicans have finally awakened and started doing some research on what the socialists are doing with OUR tax dollars. A report was released this week detailing some of the expenditures from the so-called “stimulus” bill. The report is over 70 pages long, but you can get a good idea from scanning the table of contents. Let’s see….$54,000,000.00 to the Mohegan Tribe (which is swimming in money from their mega-casino and resort) for a tribal government center that will also include a practice facility for the WNBA’s Connecticut Sun (which plays in the Mohegan Sun Arena, part of the Mohegan Sun Resort), $1,200,000.00 for research into marketing video games to seniors, $193,956.00 to “estimate the impact of stimulus funds on the perceptions of citizens and the choices of local community decision makers” (here’s a hint: if the people knew what you were spending it on, they’d be even MORE PISSED OFF!), $554,763.00 to replace the windows in a Forest Service Visitor Center near Mount St. Helens (the center was closed in 2007 and boarded up, with no plans to ever re-open). Do ya get the point? Outrage after outrage.

I found it to be quite telling when the front page photos in most major newspapers on Thursday showed people celebrating the fact that a judge had ruled in favor of unfettered illegal immigration. Yes, let’s CELEBRATE the breaking of our federal laws. Once upon a time, America’s newspapers were in favor of the United States. Too bad for them that the judge just ruled on her liberal beliefs and not the law. The basis of the Arizona law was already upheld by the Supreme Court with the 2005 Muehler v. Mena case, which happened to be a unanimous decision! Besides, if local and state enforcement of federal laws causes sooooo many problems for the feds, then let’s just tell all local and state cops to stop enforcing federal laws such as kidnapping, bank robbery, illegal drug possession/distribution/manufacturing/growing…ya see where I’m goin’?

The US newspapers don’t mention a word about it, but Canada Free Press points out that the judge in the case has no say in the matter. Only the Supreme Court can rule on it. The Constitution’s Article III, Sec. 2, clause 2 says: “In all Cases affecting Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, and those in which a State shall be Party, the Supreme Court shall have original Jurisdiction.” Bobbie of the Band of Bloggers gets credit for that one!

I guess even Lindsey Graham has an occasional good day. He must have read The Crawfish’s American Tradition Party Platform 2008 and decided that the ending of birthright citizenship for babies born to non-drybacks might be a good idea, although regular Claw reader and blogger BrianR has pointed out repeatedly that the 14th Amendment’s language does not give birthright citizenship to persons born here who are not subject to the jurisdiction of the United States (meaning citizens of other nations).

As we have expected, the Administration is exploring ways to stop enforcing our immigration laws and give amnesty, but they know the Democrats would lose their majority in Congress PERMANENTLY if they voted for amnesty. Well, there are some memos have surfaced detailing steps that the Administration can take to circumvent Congress and the American people. Yes, Obama and his minions will do whatever it takes to give blanket amnesty to non-drybacks and to open our borders for all. Do they really want blood running freely in the streets? Do they want the people to revolt? Well…..that WOULD allow them to throw away the 2nd Amendment and declare martial law.

WANTED FOR ACCESSORY TO MURDER: Barack Obama, Eric Holder, and Janet Napolitano. A Catholic nun was murdered over the weekend by an illegal alien with multiple DUI arrests. Federal authorities had released him into the population again, even though they claim he was eventually going to be deported.

The Mexican drug cartels have placed a bounty of $1,000,000.00 on the head of Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Maricopa County, AZ. This is a direct threat from foreign adversaries against American authorities. Will the Administration do anything about it? Yeah, right…figger the odds. They WANT Sheriff Joe gone!

Back during the 2008 Pennsylvania Primaries, The Crawfish downloaded the Obama campaign manifesto, “The Blueprint for Change”. I ran a 16-part series tearing it apart line by line as a warning to all who were buying into the hype of “HOPEANDCHANGE! (but don’t ask any real questions)”. Now that we’ve had 18 months of The Chosen One, are my warnings proving to be true?

HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! Tax Cheat Timmy admitted on ABC that the “Recovery Summer” is nothing more than bovine excrement! He said that some jobs will soon be available, which will cause people who have quit searching for jobs (and are therefore not counted now in the unemployment numbers) to start searching for jobs again, and the unemployment percentage will go back up as a result. That is going to precipitate the numbers going back down if the jobs really do reappear, which he is guessing that they will eventually do. This does mean that the real numbers are probably much higher than the official 9+%.

The “No Shi’ite, Sherlock!” moment of the week comes from Israeli President Shimon Peres. In an interview, he noted that there are now millions of muslim voters (WHY???) in Britainistan, and the Brit Members of Parliament are pandering to them with pro-arab and pro-“Palestinian” bias that dates back to the partitioning of the middle east.

Over the years, and especially since the 2008 primaries, the liberals of America have repeatedly called conservatives “fascists”. Well, our good friend GunnyG has a new column up that examines fascism by its definition and compares it to everything the left in America has been doing. Guess who the fascists are!

Every once in a while, the courts in California do something that is completely shocking. Most of the time, it is not a good shock. This time, it is a very good shock!

The Dim-ocrats’ poster boy for the lack of good mental health care in our country is at it again. Representative Grayson of Florida has used over $73,000.00 of YOUR tax dollars to produce a DVD of his greatest accomplishments during his term in office and mail them to all of his constituents. Since this was not done by his campaign staff, it does not count as a campaign mailing, so all expenses are paid for by us. So what are his accomplishments? Making the rest of the Dim-ocrats look positively smart?

The people of Taxachusetts are seeing the fruits of unfettered rule of Democrats yet again. This time, the Dims in the legislature are trying to take away the citizens’ right to petition for ballot initiatives. In other words, they are going to completely shut the people out of the legislative process, with the sole exception of who they get to vote for. Since they have conditioned the majority of the people to vote for Dims no matter how screwed up they are, the legislators have no fear of the people. Do those people need a new Lexington and Concord?

Uh oh. The Dims are showing their racism and anti-Semitism again. For the millionth time The Crawfish must ask why Jews mostly vote for these people.

Ya know, I thought the Democrats were the ones going absolutely bat guano about companies that received bailout funds giving their executives huge bonuses that were essentially paid for by the taxpayers. As ESPN’s Lee Corso would say, “Not so fast, my friend!” His Eminence Sultan Bu’raq al Obama has appointed Jacob Lew to be the new head of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). Mr. Lew was paid $1,100,000.00 by Citigroup, one of the big Wall Street firms that received billions in bailout money, in 2008 and received a bonus of $900,000.00 before leaving to join the Hillary! State Department. Hold on a moment. Aren’t those big bonuses supposedly made to keep the top notch people at their companies? Why did he leave Citi to join Hillary! if he had just gotten such a bonus?

Daniel Flynn has a very timely column that examines the NAACP and their history of racism, which nobody in our government or media will call them on. Thanx to RJ of “Paul Revere’s Riders” for the link.

Okay, here’s a hint for those who want to avoid dying earlier than necessary. If two families want to enjoy themselves on a summer day, but not a single member of either family knows how to swim, the families should NOT go play in a river. This tragedy was caused by sheer stoooopidity, which the families had been stuck on for at least 18 years, as evidenced by the names of the adolescents in the water: DeKendrix Warner (first one in trouble but was saved by someone who jumped in after him), Takeitha Warner, JaMarcus Warner, JaTavious Warner, Litrelle Stewart, LaDairus Stewart, and Latevin Stewart. I don’t know about you, but I didn’t see any of those names in the baby name books when we were starting our family 13 years ago.

If y’all come across any weird/stoooopid/strange news stories that might be fodder for The Weekly Claw or The Weekend Claw, e-mail them to me at CrawfishsClaw@yahoo.com and I’ll consider ‘em. Yes, I will give you newshounds credit.

“The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion; and on Application of the Legislature, or of the Executive (when the Legislature cannot be convened) against domestic violence.”
-Constitution of the United States, Article IV, Section 4.
Quote suggested by Peppermint2 in response to the Obama-Holder-Judge Bolden opposition of Arizona’s anti-illegal immigrant law

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May 3: Michael Dung Nguyen, a graduate of West Point, was sentenced to 30 months in prison for stealing nearly $700,000 from the U.S. government while serving as an Army captain in Iraq. In December he plead guilty to stealing money entrusted to him for Iraqi humanitarian relief, rebuilding projects and security services.

May 4: The House voted to rename the Department of the Navy as the Department of the Navy and Marine Corps, officially recognizing marines as part of the fighting team.

May 4: Faisal Shahzad was arrested on terrorism and weapons of mass destruction charges for an attempt to blow up an SUV in Times Square on Saturday, May 1. He is a naturalized U.S. citizen who recently spent five months in Pakistan. As investigations proceeded throughout the month, officials discovered Shahzad had direct ties to Pakistani Taliban.

May 5: Officials announced that a group of Army Special Forces Soldiers will take its high-tech “counter defilade” weapon with them to Afghanistan sometime this summer, which will be the first real-world use of the highly anticipated XM-25 Individual Airburst Weapon.

May 5: “President Obama signed a bill that aims to keep severely wounded Iraq and Afghanistan veterans in their homes by providing billions of dollars in support to family members who care for them.” (Associated Press)

May 5: Unknown vandals stole a memorial cross that had been erected by the Veterans of Foreign Wars in the Mojave Desert during the Great Depression. The cross was placed atop Sunrise Rock in the Mojave National Preserve in 1934 as a memorial to World War I veterans.

May 11: Up to 18 American missiles struck a Taliban sanctuary in Pakistan close to the Afghan border, killing 14 alleged insurgents who may have assisted in the failed SUV bombing in Times Square. Bombings of the area have increased since the failed attack.

May 11-16: The Fourth Annual GI Film Festival in Washington, DC featured 38 screenings, including 22 world premiers. The event honored “the heroic stories of the American Armed Forces and the worldwide struggle for freedom and liberty,” by showcasing real stories of real heroes.

May 12: “The House Armed Services personnel subcommittee announced plans for a 1.9 percent pay raise next January. Even with the extra boost, a 1.9 percent pay raise in 2011 would be the lowest since the start of the all-volunteer military in 1973.” (Associated Press)

May 12: The Army recalled 44,000 advanced composite helmets after recent tests revealed that they fail to provide the required level of protection. The exact location of thousands of the helmets is unknown, as they were distributed to troops serving in different branches of the military throughout the world.

May 18: “A Taliban suicide car bomber struck a NATO convoy in Kabul Tuesday, killing six of its servicemembers, five of them American, officials said. Twelve Afghan civilians also died – many of them in a public bus in rush hour traffic.” (Associated Press)

May 22: Figures collected revealed that more U.S. forces are deployed in Afghanistan than in Iraq, a first since America’s 2003 invasion of Iraq. Pentagon officials said that 94,000 troops are in Afghanistan and 92,000 in Iraq. “The numbers are expected to rise in Afghanistan and fall in Iraq as the Obama administration shifts focus to what it has called the more important conflict.” (Associated Press)

May 27: By a vote of 234-194, the House ruled to overturn the military’s longstanding “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy, which currently bans those who are openly gay or bisexual from serving. Gay or bisexual troops are allowed to serve so long as they do not disclose their sexual orientation. The Senate must pass its version of the bill, which will then have to be reconciled with that of the House, before President Obama could sign the new policy into law.

May 27: The oldest World War II Medal of Honor recipient, retired navy Lt. John Finn, passed away at the age of 100 in Chula Vista, Califronia. He received his Medal of Honor for defending sailors under a cascade of gunfire during the Japanese assault on Pearl Harbor.

May 31: Al-Qaida announced that its third-highest ranking official, Mustafa al-Yazid, had been killed along with members of his family. A U.S. official said al-Yazid was believed to have died in a U.S. missile strike, resulting in what was perhaps one of the most severe blows to the terror movement since the U.S. campaign against al-Qaida began. (Associated Press)

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We (hopefully) all know the basic composition of Old Glory–the iconic 13 alternating red and white stripes representing the original colonies paired with a sea of 50 stars representing the states of our union. But here are 10 details you might not now about our flag.

1. Much insight has been made in regard to the colors chosen for the flag. Generally speaking, the red stands for valor, zeal and fervency. The white symbolizes hope, purity, cleanliness of life and rectitude of conduct. The blue represents the color of heaven, reverence to God, loyalty, sincerity, justice and truth.

2. George Washington thus explained our flag’s significance: “We take the stars from heaven, the red from our mother country, separating it by white stripes, thus showing that we have separated from her, and the white stripes shall go down to posterity representing liberty.”

3. Congress approved the first American flag on June 14, 1777, which is the date we celebrate as Flag Day throughout America.

4. The flag made its flying debut on August 3, 1777 at Fort Stanwix, near where Rome, New York, stands today. This same flag then flew under fire for three days in the Battle of Oriskany, which started a few days later.

5. The flag was first carried into battle by “rebel” patriots at the Brandywine on September 11, 1777. The British marched away with a definitive victory that day.

6. The flag first flew over foreign territory January 28, 1778, at Nassau in the Bahama Islands after Americans captured Fort Nassau during the Revolutionary War.

7. Admiral LaMotte Piquet of France gave the first foreign salute to the American flag at Quiberon Bay on February 13, 1778.

8. In 1818 Congress declared that the number of stripes would henceforth be reduced and restricted to 13 representing the original states while a star would be added for each subsequent state. This law still stands today.

9. Captain William Driver gave the name “Old Glory” to the flag on August 10, 1831, after the ladies of Salem presented him with a 24 star American flag they had made for his next voyage aboard the “Charles Doggett.” As he saw it swell in the lofty winds above his ship, he declared, “Old Glory!”

10. Francis Bellamy wrote the original Pledge of Allegiance in September of 1892 for a magazine in Boston: “I pledge allegiance to my flag and the republic for which it stands, one nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.” In 1923 the first National Flag Conference in Washington, DC voted to change the words “my flag” to “the flag of the United States of America.”

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1. Memorial Day-type observances were originally made to honor the Union Civil War soldiers that were killed in the war, but today we spend Memorial Day celebrating fallen soldiers from all wars.

2. Many similar observances were held nationwide in varying fashions under differing names. “Decoration Day” was a popular name used for the observances and celebrations.

3. The citizens of Waterloo, New York, held the first Memorial Day observance on May 5, 1866.

4. Henry C. Welles, a pharmacist living in Waterloo, suggested veterans’ organizations honor their fallen comrades by decorating their graves.

5. A group of Civil War Army veterans sponsored the first nationwide Memorial Day parade on May 30, 1869.

6. Florida established Confederate Memorial Day in 1891, which was celebrated on the birthday of Confederate President Jefferson Davis.

7. Following World War I the American Legion worked to unify the country’s celebration of Memorial Day. The American Legion is also credited for giving the observance its official name.

8. Memorial Day is also known as “Poppy Day” because red poppies are a symbol of war dead internationally, as poppies traditionally bloomed throughout grave sites in France. The VFW sells their paper red poppies each around this time each year to raise money for disabled and destitute veterans.

9. A federal law passed in 1971 moved the day Memorial Day was celebrated on from its traditional May 30 date to the last Monday in May.

10. The running of the Indianapolis 500 has been held in conjunction with Memorial Day since 1911 and is thus one of the longest-standing traditions that celebrates the day.

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April 7: The Taliban release a videotape of U.S. soldier Pfc. Bowe Bergdahl who was captured in Afghanistan almost a year ago. In the video Bergdahl pleads for his release, which requires the U.S. to free selected Taliban prisoners.

April 8: Smoking banned on submarines after medical testing showed that the secondhand smoke on submarines was affecting nonsmokers. According to navy officials, the policy will take effect by the end of the year.

April 9: According to the Associated Press, “A U.S. Air Force tilt-rotor aircraft crashed in southeastern Afghanistan, killing three servicemembers and one government contractor.” Other military personnel were injured and treated at a military base.

April 16: As a result of the shooting deaths of 13 people last year at Fort Hood, Texas, “the military will adopt a broad policy governing how privately owned guns can be carried or stored at military installations.” –Associated Press

April 17: Black Hawk helicopter crash in northern Iraq kills American soldier, wounds three. The cause of the crash is under investigation, however military officials do not believe it to be a result of enemy fire.

April 18: Abu Omar al-Baghdadi and Abu Ayyub al-Masri killed in a joint operation between U.S. and Iraqi forces. The deaths could result in a “potentially devastating blow” to al-Qaida in Iraq.

April 21: More than 6,000 troops due to join coalition forces fighting Afghanistan’s insurgency delayed by the aviation shutdown in Europe caused by the volcanic ash cloud resulting from Icelandic volcano. –Associated Press

April 26: Pentagon official in charge of the wounded warrior program, Noel Koch, announces he has been forced to resign. Following his resignation the military will continue to determine how to best care for troops that have been injured in combat.

April 26: Chavez refutes the Pentagon’s report that an elite Iranian unit is well-established and increasing its presence in Latin America, particularly Venezuela. –Associated Press

April 26: CIA announces plans to spend millions of dollars over the next five years to “improve intelligence gathering, upgrade technologies and enable analysts to work more closely with spies in the field.” The changes aim to help the agency battle emerging national security dangers more effectively. –Associated Press

April 29: Navy provides equipment to the Gulfport, Mississippi base to assist in cleaning up the recent oil spill. Pentagon press secretary Geoff Morrell says the main focus of the military there is to help contain the spill at sea.

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A short summary of some notable military events that occurred in March…you know, in case you were living under a rock.

March 4: A cluster of bombings upset an early election in Baghdad, killing 17 people and once again drawing attention to the country’s delicate state of security.

March 8: The top U.S. general in Iraq, Ray Odierno, appeared on CBS’s “The Early Show,” claiming that progress is on track in the country. He also reaffirmed that U.S. troops in Iraq will be decreased to 50,000 noncombat troops by Obama’s September 1st deadline.

March 9: The Associated Press reported that North Korea has established a new medium-range missile division within its army that is “in charge of newly developed intermediate-range missiles capable of striking U.S. forces in Japan and Guam.”

March 10: About 200 women received the Congressional Gold Medal for their service as Women Airforce Service Pilots, or WASPs, during World War II. WASPs received veteran status in 1977, granting them access to the G.I. Bill.

March 10: The House rejected a resolution by anti-war lawmakers that would withdraw all U.S. troops from Afghanistan by the end of the year with an overwhelming majority vote of 356 to 65. Many of the members, especially Republicans, expressed support for Obama’s plan to increase U.S. troops in Afghanistan from 70,000 to 100,000.

March 14: An airstrike by the Yemeni Air Force killed at least two senior al-Qaida members. A second strike nearby attempted to keep suspected al-Qaida members who escaped the first attack from fleeing the area.

March 15: Two U.S. Navy pilots survived a collision of their two fighter jets during a training mission in Nevada. Both of the jets hailed from Strike Fighter Squadron 137, which is based at Naval Air Station in Lemoore, California.

March 17: The Associated Press reported that five Muslim Americans from Virginia were charged with “planning terrorist attacks and conspiring to wage war against nations allied with Pakistan.” They plead not guilty to five charges, one of which could result in life in prison if convicted.

March 19-21: VA and other military officials refuted allegations that the passing of the healthcare reform bill will harm TRICARE programs or VA health benefits. Officials continue to insist that servicemembers and veterans will see no change in their healthcare coverage as a result of the reform.

March 23: A new policy from the Defense Department permits troops who have served a minimum of 9 months in Iraq and Afghanistan to take 15 days off without using up any of their allocated leave time. This new option gives troops who are deployed for longer durations more time to spend with their families at home.

March 25: Osama bin Laden released a new message warning Americans not to execute al-Qaida suspects or else future Americans captured by the Taliban will face the consequences. “The White House has expressed its desire to execute them. The day America makes that decision will be the day it has issued a death sentence for any one of you that is taken captive,” he said.

March 25-26: In Pakistan 82 suspected militants were killed close to the Afghan border as Pakistan works to eliminate Taliban fighters attempting to overthrow the state. Nearby areas have experienced numerous airstrikes recently as the country tries to capture evasive militants. (Pakistan continues to experience unstable conditions with frequent outbursts of attacks via shootings and bombings.)

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April is the month of the military child. The children of military servicemembers sacrifice quality time with their parents for the benefit of America’s security. Here are 10 great ways to show your appreciation for these little troopers. Be sure to explain to the child why you are celebrating them while participating in any of the following activities.

1. Celebrate by planning a special day for a military child in your life. Let him or her choose a movie to see, a special place to visit or a restaurant to eat at.
2. Share stories with them from when their parents were younger. If you have some old pictures to go along with the stories, be sure to let them see a side of their parents they may have not seen before (as long as it’s an appropriate side, of course!)
3. Help them create arts and crafts that they can give to their parents, whether they are deployed or still at home. For some great craft ideas, check out our spouse and family section.
4. Spend a day with a child making a unique scrapbook about his or her parent in the service. Include old photos and momentoes that will help remind the child of favorite memories.
5. Print a “Month of the Military Child” poster and proudly display it in your house or office.
6. Take the child to a local military office or war memorial and explain to them the importance of America’s military. Be sure to discuss how their parent’s service in the military benefits America.
7. If you know a child whose parent is in training or deployed, help him or her write a special letter to send. Bring along some red, white and blue paper and patriotic stickers!
8. If you have some extra money to spend, take a child whose parent is in training or deployed shopping to put together a specialized care package. Ask the child what sort of things most remind him or her of the parent. Include a letter that explains to the parent why the child chose each item.
9. If you live in close proximity to a military child whose parent is in training or deployed, spend 10-15 minutes each day helping the child write in a journal. Keep track of daily activities, as well as the child’s feelings about the absent parent. Give the journal to the parent when he or she returns.
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Six military servicemembers donned regulation uniforms to represent America–but these uniforms were a bit tighter than their normal attire. These servicemembers also compete worldwide in professional sports against some of the greatest athletes of our time.

The following is a brief summary of their respective performances during the 2010 Winter Olympic Games.

First Lieutenant Christopher Fogt–Bobsled Team: His bobsled team flipped upside down on the icy track during a race, eventually sliding to a stop, but all survived the event.
Sergeant Michael Kohn–Bobsled Team: Placed 12th in the two-man event with a time of 3:29.78.
Sergeant John Napier–Bobsled Team: Placed 10th in the two-man event with a time of 3:29.40.
Sergeant Shauna Rohbock–Bobsled Team: 6th place with partner Michelle Rzepka
Sergeant William Tavares–Assistant Bobsled Team Coach
Sergeant Jeremy Teela–Biathlon: Men’s 12.5 km Pursuit: 24th – Men’s 10 km Sprint: 9th – Men’s 15km Mass Start: 29th – Men’s 4×7.5 km Relay: 13th (4th leg)

For more information on the individuals and their performances during the 2010 Winter Olympic games, check out U.S. Army Olympians or Olympic Team USA.

Here’s a toast to these fine athletes and fine defenders of freedom!

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