Conservative Thoughts

Back in September, Laughing Wolf spearheaded a wonderful event for our Wounded Warriors at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center. Originally, it was going to be “Cooking with Laughing Wolf”, but somewhere along the line, it became “Cooking with the Wounded”. Because of this first event’s success, the seed was planted to try doing it again. Cooking [...]

Give back to those who have shed their blood to give you the freedoms you enjoy. Make a direct donation. Or, check out the Valour-IT auction items at eBay. There is Nolan Ryan baseball memorabilia, military-themed counted cross-stitch, works of art, books and more. Last, but certainly not least, several online sellers are [...]

More than two years ago, I found out about LCPL Nicholas S. Perez. Since then, I had the honor of meeting his family – his mother and father, his sister, and the nephew I don’t think he ever met (I’m not sure how old little Nicholas is) – at an event for Wounded Warriors [...]

Okay, the rest of my items for the Valour-IT fundraiser auction are up on eBay…
One of my long-time hobbies is counted cross-stitch. I learned how to do it when I was about 13 years old. We’d just moved to El Paso, where my dad was the new First Sergeant in his unit. [...]

As I mentioned on Monday, I’ve found some creative ways to contribute to the fundraiser this year, since funds are a little tight, as I’m sure they are for lots of folks. Not having extra cash doesn’t have to stop us, though, from helping out a good cause.
I spend a fair amount of time out [...]

Today is Soldiers’ Angels’ Fourth Annual Day of the Deployed:
Proclamation Day of the Deployed October 26
WHEREAS, this nation is kept strong and free by the loyal citizens who preserve our precious heritage through their positives declaration and actions; and
WHEREAS, our deployed service members have courageously answered their nation’s call to service by defending our freedoms [...]

In my inbox Wednesday afternoon:
Hello everyone!
I hope that you are all doing well. I know it’s been a while since we’ve asked for help or support for our hero, but there has been a new flurry of activity in the Emery camp recently!
An incredible organization, “Homes for our Troops” is building an ADAPTIVE home [...]

Update 11/15/08, 2:39pm CDT:
Team Army is in second place with $11,037. Total raised overall, so far: $36,473. That’s not quite 15% of the $250,000 goal.
It’s that time again. Time for the annual Project Valour-IT Fundraiser. Yesterday, I joined Team Army and added the team donation button to the sidebar over at Miss Ladybug.
This [...]

From CJ @ A Soldier’s Perspective:
Just a reminder for those that have signed on to participate. The cutoff for sending me your images or ideas is November 4th! If you or a fellow milblogger want to participate, I just need three things: the name you’d like us to use, a “float” (basically an image associated [...]

I’ve been a little lax in posting about Any Soldier lately. This morning, I participated in a chat at Any Soldier with one of Any Soldier’s most popular and well know contacts, Major Gary Bourland. Since Gary was a pen pal of mine back in 2004 when he was in Afghanistan with 1/6 [...]

Updated with new link after attempted banning of original.
Want to know how we got into this mess? Watch this.
H/T: Instapundit

Originally posted at Miss Ladybug on June 14, 2008.

It seems somehow appropriate that I found So You Want to Be President? The Revised and Updated Edition, written by Judith St. George and illustrated by David Small, during a presidential election year. I’d seen it a few weeks ago and read it in the store, [...]

There are just no words to describe the depth of my disgust with this man who may be President:
This brings us to Amanda Carpenter’s excellent story about Barack Obama and the Born Alive Infants’ Protection Act (”BAIPA”). For those who may not know, abortion is not always a “successful” procedure, insofar as “success” is defined [...]

One year ago, on May 28, 2007, Memorial Day, Nanette West lost something precious. Her son was killed in Iraq.
On March 17, 2008, she was given a wonderful gift, to try to give her back a part of what she lost. She was presented with a portrait of her son, 1LT Kile G. [...]

Cross-posted at Miss Ladybug’s.
I subbed the other day for a special education teacher, which means I was in a classroom, but not specifically doing instruction – sometimes, you are just “supporting” one or more students. Anyhow, I was in the classroom for the social studies portion of the day, which was also the end of [...]