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Tweet I wonder whether any branch of the military has lost a larger proportion of people than the Navy SEAL in the years since 9/11.  Certainly they’ve done their bit and more to fight for American freedoms.  We now learn that, in Benghazi, former Navy SEALS Tyrone Woods, 41, and Glen Doherty, 42, gave their [...]

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Tweet Did Bill Clinton mean to paint Obama as so invested in himself that he is incapable of any finer feelings?  Bill’s a wily guy, so it’s entirely possible that, when he speak of dead SEALS being a bad outcome, not for the SEALS, but for Obama, he intended to make Obama look like the [...]

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Tweet You know that expression “Never pick a fight with someone who buys ink by the barrel”?  I think Obama might want to coin a new one, something along the lines of “Never pick a fight with the toughest, bravest, meanest, scariest-ass fighters in the world.” I like watching martial arts fighting.  I bet I’ll [...]

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Tweet The Navy SEALS’ job, pretty much, is to deal with Muslims who have an axe to grind.  For years in Afganistan and Iraq, they’ve used their strength and skills to face down Islamists in the battlefield.  Facing angry Islamists in the political field, though, is apparently more than the SEALS — or, more accurately, [...]

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Tweet Within the last two weeks, I’ve read two Navy SEAL books:  Marcus Luttrell’s Service: A Navy SEAL at War and Chris Kyle’s American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History. The books have a lot of similarities, separate from the fact that both are books about SEALS seeing service [...]

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Tweet Obama’s War on Women backfired when one of his operatives made a stupid attack against Ann Romney and Moms.  Obama’s Dog War against Romney backfired when it turned out that he’d dined on dogs.  Now, it looks as if Obama’s “I killed bin Laden” shtick is going to backfire too: Hat tip to all [...]

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Tweet Of the many, many things I do that irritate my husband, two are pertinent here.  First, I actually listen to what he says.  This can be frustrating for him, because he doesn’t always use his words with precision.  When we’re having a discussion and I say “But you said…” his return is usually “I [...]

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Tweet [UPDATE:  I received an email from someone who I have reason to believe is indeed close to the story, rebutting my charges.  I still think the film slipped up, but I am certain that the SEALS are not antisemites.  Read more here.] In my earlier post, I accused Act of Valor of including crude [...]

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Tweet [UPDATE: I received an email from someone who I have reason to believe is indeed close to the story, rebutting my charges. I still think the film slipped up, but I am certain that the SEALS are not antisemites. Read more here.] [I didn't want to clutter this post with endless updates, so I [...]

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Tweet Both the SEALS and Charlie Sheen have been in the news lately, the SEALS for an extraordinarily well-planned, brave and effective operation, and Charlie Sheen because he’s a drugged-out piece of human detritus.  Did you know, though, that the two — that is, the SEALS and Sheen — have something in common?  Yup, they [...]

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Tweet Argghhh! is running a caption contest for a photo showing Joe Biden speaking to a group enrolled in the Navy SEALS program.  When you see the picture, you’ll understand why so many of the proposed captions involve the size of a gun or some other, more personal weapon.  I’m no good at manufacturing quips, [...]

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Tweet The MSM has been very low key about this one (natch), but we in the blogosphere don’t have to abide by MSM constraints. I therefore wanted to make sure all of you knew the story of Michael Monsoor, the first Naval hero to be awarded a Medal of Honor in the Iraq War. As [...]

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