For our friends to the North
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For our friends to the North
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Share and Enjoy: soldiers-2%2F&title=This%20is%20for%20the%20Soldiers&annotation=For%20our%20friends%20to%20the%20North%0D%0A%0D" [...]Speaking Wednesday at the Abraham Lincoln National Military Cemetery, Democrat U.S. Rep. Debbie Halvorson seemed to compare the sacrifice of American soldiers to "rent". As quoted in the Morris Daily Herald, Halvorson said of the sacrifices made, "It's the rent we pay for the lives" [...]
Cook County Commissioner Deborah Sims has been all over the news lately. She betrayed her promise to her fellow County Commissioners and voted to save Todd Stroger's tax increase -- just another "Soldier for Stroger" -- giving Cook County "the highest sales tax rate in the" [...]
by Jim Kouri
Chicago Mayor Richard Daley, a loyal Democrat and liberal-left ideologue, blamed the Fort Hood massacre --perpetrated last Thursday by a radical Muslim soldier --on firearms.
"Mayor Daley is deplorably capitalizing on the outrage at Fort Hood to push his gun prohibition agenda," said Alan Gottlieb, chairman of the Citizens Committee [...]
Below are our daily picks from the Illinois blogosphere and media at large:
At What Cost?
Buzzflash's Meg White argues that if we can't afford to care for veterans, we can't afford to be at war.
A Soldier's Soldier
At Small Wars Journal, Robert Bateman reposts a [...]
It's a somber Veterans Day this time around--the Fort Hood terrorist's killings are or course the reason.
Harley Davidson and Marissa Miller are saluting the troops with a H-D giveaway to someone active in the military.
They also have calendars for soldiers and 14 postcards to choose to send to soldiers.
The bill went to the full House on a 16-10 [...]
It is almost Veterans Day and Xerox have the Let’s Say Thanks campaign. It is a good way to show the soldiers that we still think about them.
Here are just some of the designs. There are many and are designed by school [...]
Yesterday on Fox Friends, Brian Kilmeade and Gretchen Carlson were wondering if it was time for the military to start treating Muslim-American soldiers as potential terrorists simply because they are Muslims.
Kilmeade:Do you think it’s time for the military to have special debriefings of Muslim Army [...]by Mark Silva
President Barack Obama, who has ordered feeral flags lowered to half-staff until Veterams Day for the soldiers killed and wounded in an Army psychiatrist's rampage at Fort Hood, Texas, honors the fallen, their families and their comrades today in a weekly address that also honors the [...]
For those fallen in Fort Hood and all over the world. We must never forget that it is the soldier that gives us our freedom.
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Share and [...]It's hard to imagine how difficult it must have been for the Pearson family in Bolingbrook last night when they learned their son was one of the Ft. Hood soldiers slain. Sheryll and Jeff Pearson told the Chicago Tribune their 21 year old son was preparing to be sent to' [...]
by Mark Silva
President Barack Obama, lamenting "a horrific outburst of violence'' in the killings of a dozen soldiers and wounding of 31 more people at Fort Hood Army Base in Texas today, promised to "stay on this.''
"There has been a tragic shooting at the Fort Hood Army base... We" [...]
A very good video from No Sheeple here. Remember all the soldiers come from my home town and your hometown. And never forget they sacrifice so much for you and me, that we will never repay. So please help those soldiers that are in need at [...]
There is another candidate running for the Illinois General Assembly you should take a look at: Matt Burden, a great patriot, a milblogger at Blackfive, and the editor of The Blog of War: Front-Line Dispatches from Soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan.WASHINGTON--President Obama, pondering sending more troops to Afghanistan, helicoptered to Dover Air Force Base in Delaware near midnight on Wednesday to witness the return of the bodies of 18 soldiers. Obama returned to the White House a 4:45 a.m. Thursday morning.
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Pool report from Alex [...]
Again it is time for a fund raiser for the soldiers that protect our freedoms and way of life. Please give a little to help out some of those that have given more than to us than we will ever know.
Project Valour-IT
Every cent raised for Project [...]
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