On November 9, 1989, after weeks of pro-democracy demonstrations, the Soviet-controlled German Democratic Republic announced that its citizens would be free to visit West Berlin. After nearly three decades of forcing millions of East Germans to live behind a concrete wall (which was originally conceived
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Why Lindsey Graham Is Picking A Fight
"If you don't like it you can leave," U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham (RINO-S.C.) told an angry crowd at a town hall meeting in Greenville, S.C. earlier this week - also exhorting his audience at one point to "chill out." In addition to being a symptom of his "Beltway disease" (Graham has been in Washington
Read story »Memorialized, Gipper Style
A few years ago, we realized that there wasn't much we could say on the anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks that hadn't been said already ... So instead of trying to weave some overwrought, pretentious verbal tapestry, we decided that each year on that day we'd simply borrow the lyrics
Read story »The Incredible Shrinking American Navy
The Somali pirates currently wreaking havoc off the coast of Africa should be "dealt with," pure and simple. Which begs the question - why isn't that happening? After jacking a fully-loaded supertanker worth $100 million earlier this week (easily their biggest haul ever), yesterday they picked
Read story »Death Of A Legacy
In the wake of the GOP's second consecutive shellacking at the polls, thousands of articles and columns have been written about how the Republican Party has effectively killed the legacy of former President Ronald Reagan. Well, this picture released by the U.S. Department of Defense shows the Reagan's
Read story »The Republican Dichotomy
OLD-SCHOOL CONSERVATISM VERSUS MILLENNIAL REPUBLICANISM By Mande Wilkes FITSNews - May 28, 2008 - As social libertarians and fiscal conservatives, we always struggle a bit when it comes to political labeling. Certainly we're not Democrats, but alas, "Republican" doesn't seem right either - certainly
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