Just scanning through TV today, I came across a C-SPAN Weekend segment featuring Col. Timothy Reese, U.S. Army, Director of the Combat Studies Institute. He and Donald P. Wright recently wrote a report/book called “On Point II,” and the good Col. was answering questions from callers.

As many of you know, they have Democrat, Republican and Independent phone numbers on which to call in to the show, but today it was quite obvious the moonbats were out in full force. As soon as I heard the word “Neo-Con” (along with evil Joooos, the Israel lobby, neo-con zionists, Gen. Shinseki, evil contractors shooting reporters, etc.) from someone calling in on the “Republican” line, I just knew it was going to be challenging for the Colonel to stay stoic; but he did his very best. I’m sure he found them as tedious as did I.

From the Armed Forces Journal Forum about the book:

…(it is) a history of Operation IRAQI FREEDOM covering the 18 months following the invasion of Iraq. The book is titled, “ON POINT II: Transition to a New Campaign, The U.S. Army in Operation IRAQI FREEDOM, May 2003 to January 2005.” ON POINT II will follow where the previous book, ON POINT, left off at the end of April 2003.

The book is a comprehensive and honest account of the Army’s operations in Iraq during this period. It is not a primarily book about national strategy, for our charter is to publish tactical and operational histories…

Do these knuckleheads think that military members and the Administration are one in the same? Caller after caller asked about foreign policy, and he kept trying to remind them that was not the focus of what his division did; he’s a historian, not a politician. The first and last callers had some legitimate questions, and Col. Reese was able to give some decent answers (even if the answers weren’t what the callers wanted to hear), but for all the other callers, I only left their questions in. Col. Reese tried to answer them as best he could, but they really weren’t worth his time.

In case you missed it above, the whole 720-page report/book he wrote can be viewed in .pdf here. You can watch goofs on parade here.

None other than my favorite political cartoonist, Michael Ramirez, can put the Supreme Court of the United States’ recent decision on WOT detainees’ “habeus corpus rights” in proper perspective. Without further adiue:

My God, what is happening to my country?

Today’s premiere of Fox News‘ “Just In with Laura Ingraham” started out with a bang. Former Presidential candidate, Fred Thompson, was on to discuss the recent Supreme Court rulings on foreign enemy combatants among others. Pleased he was not.

I just wish that Fred would have been this enthusiastic during the early days of the primary season, because he’s truly someone who could have been a fantastic Commander in Chief for this country.

Watch the interview here.

Today on Special Report, Brit highlighted the story of one very courageous hero whose parents were awarded their son’s Medal of Honor today, posthumously, at a White House ceremony. What did soldier Ross McGinnis do? He laid his body down over a grenade that was pitched into his Humvee, and he knew if he didn’t do it, his buddies would probably die, too. But McGinnis showed courage and valor above all else. Blackfive has a couple of terrific posts about McGinnis:

CENTCOM sent an email that describes McGinnis on patrol, on December 4th, standing in the turret. McGinnis was manning his armored humvee’s machine gun. His Platoon Sergeant, SFC Thomas, was the vehicle commander.

From a position above the humvee, an insurgent lobbed a grenade that arced through McGinnis’ hatch and fell to the humvee console lodging in the radio at McGinnis’ feet.

McGinnis shouted, “GRENADE! IT’S IN THE TRUCK!”

In attendance at the ceremony were those buddies whose lives he saved that day: Sergeant First Class Cedric Thomas, Staff Sergeant Ian Newland, Sergeant Lyle Buehler, and Specialist Sean Lawson.

Brit noted that McGinnis’ father remarked that Ross probably simply relied on kindergarten math: ‘he realized four is greater than one,’ but it was that one that was greater than the whole.

You can watch Brit’s report here.

Wow! This is astounding! All I can say is check out these videos. Mark Steyn pillories islamofascism, and no one can deny the truths of which he speaks. He takes on Mohamed Elmasry’s Sock Puppet Three on TVO’s The Agenda.

What an astounding patriot! A lot of video, but all worth watching; in fact, I’d call all parts as “must-see” video.

For those weak, lame peace-at-any-price freaks who are not ready to make nice, here’s your answer. Click the pic to watch the video.

h/t to Jamie Colby’s blog post commenter, Beverly Perlson of The Band Of Mothers.

Can you believe this? While people try to enter the Marine Recruitment Center in Berkeley, they are physically prevented from doing so. And when they ask the police for help? ‘Well, we’re just trying to remain neutral.’ MY ASS!

Click the image to watch the video.

Not only are they disallowing people from entering, but they’re trying to not let folks out. After much cajoling, you can hear a couple of the Pinkos yell “LET ‘EM OUT, BUT NOT IN!” What a bunch of pukes. And I’m personally embarrassed about the lack of action by the BPD. Shame on you all. You should all hide your badges in shame.

Fred Thompson was on H&C tonight, and I thought this was one of his best performances ever. Perhaps it was because it was off-the-cuff and not scripted. Whichever it is, I liked it. I’m leaning more towards Fred than I was comfortable doing so before. In this case, Fred is not at a loss for immediate answers, and that’s what we need in a leader in these consequential times.

He’s a plain-spoken man, and I like that. There’s something to be said for laid-back genuineness.

You can either watch the flash video above, or download the .wmv video here. (My apologies, the flash video I had above wasn’t working.)