News and Opinion from the Bug!
Yesterday, Sen. John Kerry said, “You know, education, if you make the most of it, you study hard, you do your homework and you make an effort to be smart, you can do well. If you don’t, you get stuck in Iraq.”
Today, Sen. John Kerry said, “… If anyone thinks that a veteran, someone like [...]
Air Force beauty Second Lieutenant Kelly George was selected October 28th to be Miss Arkansas USA. She is the deputy chief of Public Affairs for the 314th Airlift Wing. Congratulations Kelly and best wishes for you in the Miss USA contest this spring.
Source: USAF
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Image: Rhonda Garrett Gilliam
Seventeen-year-old Roger Holyfield died Sunday night after being tasered by police Saturday.
Witnesses spoke of seeing police banging Holyfield’s head against a squad car, of officers punching a handcuffed Holyfield, of officers striking Holyfield in the head, of seeing an officer with his foot on Holyfield’s chest, of seeing a pool of blood. KMOV reports [...]
Tom Del Beccaro sees trouble for the Middle East and Israel if Democrats regain control of the U.S. House of Representatives:
Political Vanguard—Quite often, the link between causes and their effects is somewhat hard to follow. If the Democrats take over the House next week such a link may become painfully obvious.
Waking up to [...]
Wonderful video from the U.S. Army this morning; it’s 12 minutes, but worth each one.
Be proud of our men and women in uniform. Be Proud.
Source: U.S. Army
Two NATO soldiers were killed in an IED attack near Afghanistan’s border with Pakistan:
Reuters—Two NATO soldiers were killed when a roadside bomb hit their patrol in Afghanistan’s eastern province of Nuristan on Tuesday, a forces official said, in an upsurge of violence ahead of the first winter snowfalls. …
Prime Minister al-Maliki has ordered Americans to shutdown checkpoints around Sadr City:
ABC News—Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki on Tuesday ordered the lifting of joint U.S.-Iraqi military checkpoints around the Shiite militant stronghold of Sadr City another apparent move to assert his authority with the Americans and appeal to his Shiite support base. …
The U.S. and the Mahdi army look set to clash Time’s Mark Kukis reports:
Time—The Mahdi Army and U.S. forces have clashed openly several times in the past three years, fighting sometimes for days in battles that end inconclusively with uneasy truces. Today, senior officials on both sides insist they hope to avoid another round of [...]
The Jawa Report is talking about more evidence that Osama Bin Laden is dead:
The Jawa Report—As long-time readers know, I’ve believed for some time now that bin Laden is somewhere in Africa, if still alive. Specifically, the Horn of Africa.
Why Africa? One little appreciated aspect of bin Laden is that he actually believes his own [...]
The family of a British man that died in Cuba are saying Cuba removed organs from his body:
ICLiverpool—THE father of a Merseyside man who died on holiday today demanded to know why his body was returned without several organs.
Wirral father-of-one Andrew Redfern’s body was missing his lungs, kidney and part of his brain, leaving British [...]
