If you watched the network news coverage, you would have heard Beck's clip calling-out the problems of the Republican Party and though that was the focus of his speech.   Funny isn't it how, when Beck goes after BO, he is a wacko that the media mocks with misquotes.   But when he critiques the GOP, it is worthy of national news coverage.

What the media didn't cover, of course, was the rest of the speech in which Beck detailed his perspective on the ills of this nation as only he can.   Chief among these issues:  the decline in personal responsibility that is being fed by the expansion of government -- a death spiral of failed progressive philosophy that is eroding our country.   Beck is thriving not just because he is entertaining, but because he articulates in plain-speak the core ills of this nation that run much deeper than party politics.

If the lame-stream media would ever realize this and cover him honestly, perhaps they could avoid their own steady decline into irrelevance.

Critics have had plenty of time to deride our presence here using vagaries and political rhetoric.  So, here's a quick reminder of what our troops are fighting against.   The Taliban, an ultra-extreme Islamic group, abused the people of Afghanistan, removing their freedoms, and inflicting their backward laws upon them.  The Taliban routinely executed people publicly for violating these laws -- including many women who had the audacity to show their faces or be seen with men in public.   And, the Taliban harbored Bin Laden and Al Queda for years while they planned and executed terrorist attacks all over the world, including 9/11.   The cynics who forget why we fight, or cannot clearly see the end objective, need to consider the consequences of millions of people being plunged back into the dark ages after they were so close to the light.  

For our Marines, there is even greater clarity.  For those in the hell storm and misery of war, discussions of politics and ideology are privileges they don't enjoy at the moment, but are gifts they bestow upon us and the people of Afghanistan.   As they brave bullets and bombs, they do so not only for their brothers in arms, but for strangers now alive as well as unborn generations.   And in that effort, they take their place in a long line of Marines over the years that have done the same.  To paraphrase the divinely-inspired quote: "There is no greater love than to lay down one's life for another."  

Thank you, Marines.  We love you, too. 

The truth is much different and needs to be heard.  The War on Terror is the most unconventional of wars, with enemies that are unique to no country, absolute in their resolve, and proven willing killers of innocent people.
Such a war simply cannot be won by soldiers on front lines because front lines are becoming less relevant.   This war needs the dedicated service men and women of the CIA.  They are the ones who do the hard and usually unknown work of intelligence gathering and sometimes the quick-strike force needed to dispatch killers to their supposed paradise.  According to this article, the CIA did just that last month -- a fitting response to the attack on their own by a Taliban double-agent.   So, to our brave agents in the field, please know there are people that know the truth of what you do everyday and are glad you do it so well.   Good luck sending more Al Qaeda employees to hell.

This whole incident has exposed the absurdity of modern race relations; a political game cloaked in a moral struggle.   The fact that the left for years has jumped on every real and perceived incident of racism coming from the right, grinding the careers and lives of many decent people into the ground, and now proclaims one of their own innocent in the face of similar comments, proves the existence of the racism business.   Pros like Rev Al and Jesse Jackson have profited and gained power for years by flaming the fires of hatred and division.   They have no interest in the true betterment of African Americans.  They want people to fear saying the wrong thing and being accused of racism.  The reaction of these guys and their political colleagues on the left shines the light of reason on the ridiculous games they continue to play to the detriment of this country.  Until then, there will be no honest dialogue on the topic of race in America.

Watch this interview today with DHS Secretary Napolitano and see if you feel, as do I, that she and the administration are trying to make excuses for an inexcusable incident.   First, she lauds the face that "everything went according to clockwork" after the incident happened -- AFTER being the critical word.  The BEFORE is the critical part, with the failure to spot and screen a person who was on a terrorist watch list.  So while Ms. Napolitano pats the responders on the back, she and the entire intelligence network should be screaming for answers as to why this KNOWN threat was only stopped from blowing hundreds of humans from the sky by a faulty detonator and the quick action of a heroic passenger.

To futher infuriate, she and Press Secretay Gibbs both went on to cite numerous times that the watch list is composed of over 500,000 names -- implying that somehow the very size of the list renders it too large to be of value.  I am no expert on terrorism or security technology, but I have a modicum of experience with business databases and lists.  As such, I know for a fact that modern computers used by commercial businesses can search through a list of this size and find an individual record in seconds, if not minutes.   To think that the DHS, TSA, and FBI cannot do the same to plane passengers is bunk that Gibbs and Napolitano should be ashamed for slinging.  Their obvious ignorance of facts and very real threats smacks of the same ineptitude displayed thus far by the BO administration.

With the first terrorist attack since 9/11 happening in Texas just weeks ago, one that could have been anticipated if available data on the suspect was recognized and acted upon, our collective patience for further pathetic repsonses to threats should be zero.   Once again, I feel the need to state the obvious gained from my experience over years in business and marketing:  Profiling works, whether you are trying to find customers or killers.  Stop searching grandmas and start searching young men of middle eastern and African descent or nationality, especially those already on TERROR WATCH LISTS!   Political correctness in American needs to be killed before it kills more Americans.

I just finished watching his "report" on the Castle Doctrine -- the recent law, passed now in most states in the union, that protects a citizens right to defend himself and his or her property with deadly force.  Dan's report essentially consisted of around 5 stories of extreme cases where the law was taken to the extreme and criminals were shot and killed while fleeing.   Such examples were used to support Dan's point that the law is leading to vigilante justice and anarchy in the streets.   Of course, there was plenty of commentary from smart folks at Harvard that attributed passage of such laws to our new paranoid ,post 9/11 culture.  The most comical comment:  "If you exercise the right to use deadly force in self-defense, you have to prove that your fear is reasonable."  I'll remember to stop and consider that the next timee a burglar is heading up the stairs to my bedroom. 

Let this non-Harvard educated correct them.  Yes, many of us are concerned for our safey after 9/11.  But we are even more concerned about being killed by local criminals that have no qualms about killing police offers.  And if we are lucky enough to turn the tables, we get to look forward to prosecution by twisted attorneys, and persecution by criminal-loving left-wingers in the media.   The only good comment on this program came from the female former head of the NRA responsible for the first Castle Law passing in Florida.   She reminded Dan that people thought that they already had the protections bestowed in the Castle Doctrine, when in fact they did not.  This new law is providing clarity, not adding to confusion.   Nobody wants to shoot shoplifters as Dan suggests.   What we do want is for the laws to protect the people who react to preserve their lives, rather than those who initiate the chain of events that brings danger to all.  

Not once in this program did Dan ever actually define what the law states in full.  And not once did Dan cite examples where citizens acted properly within the new law (I've read about many).   Selecting facts to fit your position is not news.  It is "advocacy journalism" at best, but more like propaganda.   Perhaps if Dan understood this, he'd still have his job at CBS. 

So, in light of today's critically important, Republican-sponsored bill to regulate the vital process of college football playoffs, I openly offer my scorn to Rep. Joe Barton (R) and all those of both parties (including BO) that supported this utter waste of taxpayers' time.  I understand many Americans are passionate about college football but, like steroids in baseball, we should not invite goverment expansion into a private enterprise -- especially one that has absolutely no bearing on the economic health or national security of this nation.   All of you "representatives" at all levels of government had better wake up fast:   stop wasting our time or we will make sure you have plenty of free time come next election.

His statement is so idiotic that it doesn't deserve the energy expenditure of my fingers to finish typing this.   But let me just add a little history lesson for Reid and his factually-challenged friends:  Lincoln was a Republican.   Most of the slave-supporting southerners were Democrats.  Mr. Reid has no shame and no brains either. 

But too often under the BO administration, the rights and well-being of our men and women in uniform rate lower than terrorists.  In what seems to be another unbelievable act of stupidity, Navy SEALs are being charged with assault after capturing a barbaric terrorist.   Do you recall the 4 US contractors that were ambushed, burned, mutilated, and hung from a bridge in Iraq in 2004?   The scumbag behind that incident is the guy they captured.   This "person" deserves a fate worse than his victims, but instead the SEALs spared him and took him alive to be prosecuted. So what was their "crime"?   Apparently somebody punched said scumbag terrorist in the mouth, and now they face a cour martial.  This is beyond sad.  It is dangerously absurd.  Not only are we emboldening terrorists by treating them softly at the demand of BO and his leftist DOJ cronies, but we are also killing the morale of our bravest, most well trained and well motivated soldiers -- those who have the best chance of winning this war.

So, to BO:  If you want to stop your approval ratings from their death spiral, why not take the time to step into this matter personally and deliver immediate executive clemency to these SEALs.  If you don't, be assured the many Americans watching will not forget.

To those in the service all over the world.: Our deepest thanks, our sincere apologies for putting such an idiot in office, and our heart-felt prayers for your safe return.  And oh yes - our advice in avoiding prosecution for doing your job:  put a bullet between their eyes before they call their lawyer. 

So what did this group of radicals do?   We said the Pledge of Allegiance (with God still in it).   We listened to members tell of their recent large yet largely unconvered protests in D.C. on 9/12.   We listened to lectures on Western Culture by columnists and recent college graduates.  We listened to each other vent our heartfelt concerns and we gathered strength from the experience.  

Those of you sitting home wondering what can you do... find or found a group like this in your area.   Take advantage of your freedom of speech and freedom of assembly before these rights are taken away.  

So, when the media and our elected officials finally decide to do their job, here are some questions that they might want to ask:

Why was Hasan a Major and a psychiatrist in the US Army if he was on record multiple times with anti-American / pro-terrorist remarks?   Why were the warnings of his colleagues and fellow soldiers ignored?   Why was Hasan simply transferred  and not booted from the Army?  Was anyone at all concerned that he studied at the same radical US-based mosque at the same time as some of the 9/11 hijackers?   Why are we admitting Muslims into the Armed Services without thorough background checks?   There are 13+ families that would like some honest answers.   

And...why have we still not learned the lesson of 9/11 that our enemies are exploiting political correctness against us?   They are counting on the fact that we ignore obvious information, refuse to jump to obvious conclusions, and fail to cast blame their way even in the face of obvious evidence.   And now, once again, the deadly results of our collective ignorance are all too obvious. 

It is astounding how many people think we need to restore our "moral standing" in the world?   Tell me exactly which countries we're trying to impress.   France?   Please.     Russia?   Does anyone recall the Cold War, the Iron Curtain, and the Berlin Wall where people were shot simply for trying to get out?    Did Russia ever apologize for that?    Over 100 million people were killed in the 20th century from political wars that started in Europe and Asia.   Have those continents apologized?  

Today's apologists are tomorrow's patsies.    Let's hope we free people can get them out of office before they completely sell out our soldiers and our country.

And to all our Veterans:  Thank you for your service.  We will never forget.  

The most alarming aspect of this story comes from the union head, Willie Brown.  How does he refute the point that SEPTA has no money?   To paraphrase an interview he gave, "Obama provided millions in stimulus money to the city and we want to be paid from that."  Oh really, Willie?   First - contrary to popular belief among BO's most indoctrinated supporters, it is taxpayer money, not Obama's money.   Second - the stimulus was supposed to create new jobs, not go to pay-off union extortions.   Democratic Party hypocrisy at its finest.

Keep this twisted logic in mind when you consider BO's more than strong ties to unions like SEIU -- otherwise known as the storm-troopers behind the many documented attacks against tea-party patriots.  Their head is the #1 visitor to the White House these days -- even more than Oprah.   

Again, another example of a high-ranking Democratic ignoring and discrediting a citizen of this country who dares question them.   Clearly, Ms. Pelosi, like her colleagues, is a power-hungry elitist who has nothing but contempt for her employers -- the American people.