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Sharing a bit of good news about the JROTC program in San Francisco, which I’ve blogged about for the past several years.
The school board has voted to restore the program after an extraordinary public backlash and campaign by past and present cadets — many of them minority students — to bring it back:
A three-year battle [...]

My syndicated column today takes a close look at the documents obtained by the invaluable Judicial Watch pertaining to Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi’s military travel demands. There were some real gems buried in the FOIA records release. I zeroed in on Pelosi’s diva request in December 2008 to have the military reposition [...]

For the past two years, I’ve covered the war on JROTC in San Francisco (background here).
On Election Day, San Francisco did something right: City voters passed an initiative backed by JROTC cadets to save the program from anti-war zealots on the SF school board.
Unfortunately, it’s not a binding measure. But a majority of voters have [...]

Scenes from the counterinsurgency.

Counterinsurgency in the Bay Area public schools.

Reprieve.

San Francisco values at work.

Update: Cinnamon Stillwell reflects on Fleet Week and panicked SF peaceniks:
Getting to watch the Blue Angels practice throughout the week is another perk for patriots living in the vicinity. There’s nothing quite like the beauty of jets flying silently in formation, that sonic boom as they pass overhead, or the thrill of a jet zooming [...]

Marines not welcome.

The moonbats continue to bash the Blue Angels in San Francisco. Here’s video of one of the leaders trying to kick the Blue Angels out of the city for Fleet Week. The Examiner’s letters page shows that there are a few sane people left there. A sampling:
I find it interesting and somewhat amusing that Supevisor [...]

Anti-military loons in the Bay Area are working together to drive the Blue Angels out of San Francisco for Fleet Week:
The annual aerial show by the U.S. Navy’s Blue Angels — a San Francisco tradition dating back to 1981 that pumps millions into the local economy — is running into opposition from three local peace [...]

Finally, the military writes off the anti-JROTC, Molotov cocktail-throwing, pro-fragging, anti-battleship zealots in San Francisco:
Navy scuttles plan to commission warship here, citing local politics
Secretary of the Navy Donald C. Winter vetoed plans to commission the Makin Island, the Navy’s newest and most powerful warship, in San Francisco in 2008 because of a perception that [...]

Bay Area JROTC members: Casualties of San Francisco values
I’ve received tons of letters in response to my post yesterday on the San Francisco school board’s decision to kill its JROTC program. I’m reprinting a sample, plus one published in the San Francisco Chronicle this morning and another received by California Conservative, which is tracking the [...]

“San Francisco values” prevailed last night. Some 1,600 students of all backgrounds will now be robbed of a valuable training program that immunized them against the anti-military hatred that infests the Bay Area:
SAN FRANCISCO — High schools across the city soon will no longer have Junior Reserve Officers’Training Corps programs after officials decided to [...]

Caution: San Francisco values at work. Even the left-wing San Francisco Chronicle says the political leaders of Baghdad by the Bay have gone too far:
SAN FRANCISCO public schools have problems, but a popular military-themed program isn’t one of them.
Still, a four-vote majority of the seven-member Board of Education is likely this week to cancel the [...]

***update: the school backs down! Michael Graham reports: “As I’m about to report exclusively on my show in 20 minutes, King Philip High has backed down under pressure from angry supporters of the US military. They’re going to allow representatives of West Point and the ROTC at graduation on Sunday (not tonight’s awards event, alas) [...]