ARMY MEETS RECRUITMENT GOALS: The United States Army has met recruitment goals for fiscal year 2007, but will be faced with the challenge of adding 80,000 soldiers again next year. Army leaders announced last week that they will increase the size of the Army by 65,000 troops in four years instead of five. SECDEF Gates is also pressing for the Army to raise enlistment standards. About eighty percent of current recruits are high school grads, and Gates is pushing to raise that figure to ninety percent.
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GOOD POINT, JERI: Presidential candidate former Senator Fred Thompson appeared on Hannity last night with his wife, Jeri, and young daughter. Mrs. Thompson made the best point of the day when she wondered about why women's rights in the Middle East aren't a bigger issue. It's funny how the left, usually gung ho supporters of all human and women's rights issues, is completely silent on this matter. The abuse of women that occurs as part of Muslim culture on a daily basis in Middle Eastern countries is nothing more than ignorant cruelty, and goes largely uncovered by the major media. The shocking video of a young girl being stoned to death Iran that emerged this week is a rare example of coverage. The reality is that liberals can't speak out in this issue because it would partially vindicate the foreign policy of one George W. Bush. Fred or Jeri Thompson should grab this issue and run with it.
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ENOUGH DIANA: New pictures emerged from yet another British inquest into the death of Princess Diana. This whole mess has been long ago beaten into the ground. She's dead. Ten years have passed. Let the poor woman rest. All the inquests and investigations in the world will not bring her back. One would imagine Princes Willam and Harry are about tired of all the scandal over their mother's death.
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BUSH WHIPS OUT VETO PEN: President Bush has delivered on a promised veto of a bill that would have expanded S-CHIP (State Children's Health Insurance Program) by $35B over five years. I'm actually shocked anyone even remembers the bedrock conservative principle of opposing the expansion of the size and scope of the federal government, especially this President. This bill went way too far and was a thinly veiled attempt to partially socialize healthcare in America. The members of Congress who call themselves Republican and are opposing the veto should be ashamed. Gee, the federal government does such a good job with their first priorities of defending us and securing our ports and borders, we should just turn our healthcare system over to them as well. Bravo to W for opposing the expansion of government, at least this time.
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SENATE WASTES TIME: The United States Senate, in the midst of war and other far more pressing matters, is wasting time attempting to pass resolutions condemning Rush Limbaugh. The Demrats have taken a few of his words out of context and attempted to put them on par with their dastardly attack on General Petraeus. It's not even close. In the past several years we've heard Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid say the war is lost, Rep. John Murtha accusing U.S. Marines of an attrocity they were later cleared of, and Senator John Kerry accusing U.S. troops of "terrorizing" Iraqi women and children, just to name a few. Every major figure in the Democrap party has made traitorous and defeatist statements over the war, yet they attempt to crucify Rush. The whole scandal is made up by the left, and the United States Senate is irresponsible for wasting a second of time on it. The Dems are trying to regain ground they have already lost, and it won't work. We all know the left is simply defeatist and anti-military.
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