Home Grown Terrorism

Dr. Laura perfectly sums up the terror at Fort Hood.

9/11

We will never forget.

May all the victims of the terrorist attacks on this day rest in peace.

Danny Dietz

I need to re-read Marcus Luttrell's book Lone Survivor. It is an awesome depiction of how our Navy Seals fight abroad for our freedoms here in the United States.

Danny Dietz was one of his fellow Frogman who showed incredible bravery and gave the ultimate sacrifice for his fellow Seals and for our country. He was also raised here in Colorado and has a memorial in Littleton.

Dietz will soon have a highway named after him.

Read the book and thank God that there are men like him!

Independence Day Tea Party

We attended the Tea Party in Castle Rock. It was wonderfully planned and well attended.

Many thoughtful signs on display:

Tea Party or bust

We wanted to attend the last Tea Party on tax day but unfortunately Rooster started coughing the day before so we decided to skip it. We get another chance in July for Independence Day. What a great way to celebrate the Fourth of July!

Visit the site asap if you don't quite know what the Tea Party is about. Please look up where an event in your state is being held (chances are numerous places) and attend one on July 4. Bring your kids, a picnic lunch, create a neat sign and make a day of it.

We are better

A fantastic piece by Stephen Green today.

Already, the government runs our children’s education and our parents’ retirement. Now we’re allowing it to usurp our banks and nationalize what remains of our auto industries. Within weeks, Washington promises a plan to dictate our health care. To do all this, we’ve let Washington run up enough red ink to impoverish our grandchildren. As if all that weren’t enough, the president still found the time to kick our friends in London and Tel Aviv while courting a genocidal, election-stealing maniac in Tehran. He even gave a speech in Cairo — that oppressed, impoverished Old World megalopolis — in which he assured the world that America really is no better than anywhere else.

bold emphasis is mine

We live in a time were it is uncouth to proclaim one idea/thing/action/outcome/etc. is better than another. Baloney. Not everything is gray, there is black and white. America is better than every other country.

A short non-comprehensive list of why America is superior:

freedom
U.S. Constitution (or what is left of it)
military
history
access to education (or what is left of it)
healthcare
families
states
religion
guns
corporations
small businesses
responsibility (ditto)
self-reliance
innovation
economy (ditto)
individual ownership

Please add to my very, very short list in the comments.

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.
- Abraham Lincoln