Memorial Day: A Rejection of Peacenik Foolishness

Memorial Day puts the lie to the nonsense that violence never solves anything.

Those rows of white tombstones decorated with little flags are the reason Americans don’t walk downtown, past the ruins where the synagogue once stood, to grab a schnitzel und ein bier from that little imbiss next to der bahnhof.  They are why there isn’t a smoking pit in the heart of Los Angeles where the Library Tower used to be.

Violence never solves anything, war is not the answer, arms are for hugging….  It’s hard to believe that there are adults out there that actually buy into such foolishness.

Memorial Day is about men and women who didn’t orient their lives to the dictates of poorly thought-through bumper sticker clichés that belong on the rear of some NPR-listening public school administrator’s Prius.  It’s about men and women who understood that sometimes doing the right thing means doing the hardest thing. (more…)

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Posted May 25th 2009 at 4:53 pm in Military | 142590No Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/kschlichter/2009/05/25/memorial-day-is-a-rejection-of-peacenik-foolishness/Memorial+Day%3A+A+Rejection+of+Peacenik+Foolishness2009-05-25+23%3A53%3A38Kurt+Schlichter

Daily Gut: Did

So, like you, I enjoy the series “24,” which follows a man trying to save the United States from its enemies, using any means possible. And within one complete day, he succeeds.

Of course, in real life this is impossible – it’s what we call fantasy.

But, not anymore. Today if such actions occurred it real life, it would simply be called criminal.

Because it has… and it was.

Earlier today President Obama said charges might be brought against those evil Bush lawyers behind the just-released memos justifying the harsh interrogation techniques used against folks who wanted to blow up our country. Or more specifically, blow up Los Angeles. (more…)

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Posted Apr 21st 2009 at 6:14 pm in Daily Gut, Entertainment, Featured Story, News, Politics | 1128103 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/ggutfeld/2009/04/21/daily-gut-did-2/Daily+Gut%3A+Did2009-04-22+01%3A14%3A12Greg+Gutfeld