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“You will have a toothbrush and bucket with a placard saying you stole from veterans.”

Last month, talk show host extraordinaire Neal Boortz wrote about a Greensboro, Ga., middle school that refused to allow a Marine to come visit a class of sixth-graders that had written him letters while he served in Iraq. After getting pressure from Boortz’s listeners and others, the local superintendent apologized.
Boortz updated the story yesterday:
Next Monday, [...]

The New York Times reports today that the Bush Administration wants to raise veterans’ co-payments for prescription drugs to $15 from a ridiculously low $7 and impose an annual enrollment fee of $250. Does anyone doubt that Democrats are going to talk incessantly about these “cuts“? But here’s one thing I bet they won’t mention: [...]

Read SSG Daniel Felten’s declaration in response to anti-Bush, anti-war loudmouths who confront him at the gas station, his tax preparation office, etc.
Then read his moving follow-up post here.
Thank you, Daniel, for telling it like it is and thank you for your service to our country.

My latest column is about Lance Corporal Andres Raya of the U.S. Marines. If the name rings a distant bell, it’s because Raya was all over the TV news last week in surveillance videos and still pictures of his ambush on police officers at a Ceres, Calif., liquor store.
Before we go any further, let me [...]