patriotism
Posted at 7:11pm on Jul. 4, 2008 What Did You Do on Independence Day?
By streiff
GEN Dave Petraeus re-enlists 1,215 US soldiers at Al Faw Palace, Baghdad. July 4, 2008.
Sort of puts the typical fireworks display and barbecue to shame. If this brings neither a tear to your eye or causes a bit of a tingle to run up your spine you need to rethink what today is about.
(h/t to Bob Krumm from whom I pinched the headline)
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Posted at 9:01am on Jul. 3, 2008 "Aim small. Miss small."
By Feddie
To get y'all ready for the Fourth of July weekend, here's a classic scene from "The Patriot."
Posted at 12:57pm on Apr. 2, 2008 Pensees on Patriotism
By Paul J Cella
Unfortunately, I don’t have time enough right now to give these thoughts the treatment I think they deserve. The importunate urgency in our age is very strong: it militates against my inclination to let them marinate for awhile, in the hopes that a structured essay may issue from the marinade.
In short, I’m going to just throw these two thoughts out there, and affix a French word to the title to make them look grand and important.
Read on.
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Posted at 10:24am on Mar. 24, 2008 Bill Clinton is Right
though not in the way he might imagine
By streiff
More below the fold.
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Posted at 11:13am on Feb. 4, 2008 Against America the abstraction.
By Paul J Cella
I welcome absentee’s recent contribution to the immigration-and-American-culture debate. It’s a fine diary, well worth reading with care. In response to it I will present an observation, and upon it ground an argument.
I have been arguing about immigration on Redstate from essentially the same position for three and half years. My interlocutors have induced me to some adjustment and recapitulations, but I must confess that their arguments, even the most eloquent and emphatic of them, have more often than not reinforced the firmness of my opposition to our immigration regime.
Read on.
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