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• mxnwilson

  11/15/2010 11:39 PM

  

  Thanks so much Brian Futch for sharing your song. I would encourage all to click on the link and listen to

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8r6TP4ulUvU

• Futch, Brian

  11/15/2010 01:00 PM

  Thanks Mike for standing up for our heroes. I am a veteran, having served from 1986-1995. I am honored to have served this great nation. I wrote a song in honor of those who've given their lives or have been willing to give their lives for the sake of others. It's called "When A Hero Dies". It's already brought comfort to many who've heard it and I hope others can hear this and get the same. Here's the link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8r6TP4ulUvU

  God Bless America,
  Brian Futch

• Los Angeles, Mike

  11/15/2010 03:48 AM

  Re: Decision Points by G.W. Bush

  President Bush's memoir "Decision Points" is a must read. The title is well chosen. This should be required reading for any leadership course or for an American/ World History course.

  It also should be required reading for young folks(and their parents) who are thinking of going into the service. President Bush really shares how he and his own father decided to serve in the military in their youth, and also shares how he decided to deal with military actions as a last resort.

  May our troops and future service people be as blessed to have a deep thinking, decisive, and principled American C-in-C who has the mind, heart and courage to deal with a wide variety of people in this world yearning to be free.

• Los Angeles, Mike

  11/14/2010 08:58 AM

  Re: Veteran's Day Week- A Football Perspective

  Congratulations on Army's football victory this weekend. This victory will enable Army to join Navy and Air Force in playing in a post-season bowl game, first time that all three service academies will play in bowl games in the same season.

  May this phenomenon bring some joy to the troops throughout all the ranks as their future comrades-in-arms get a chance to show their skills on television over the holidays.

• Sylwester, Steven

  11/12/2010 12:14 AM

  On this Veteran's Day, it is good to recall the inaugural address of John F. Kennedy, the World War Two veteran who became the 35th President of the United States. On January 20, 1961, President Kennedy said the following:
  http://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/kennedy.asp

  Vice President Johnson, Mr. Speaker, Mr. Chief Justice, President Eisenhower, Vice President Nixon, President Truman, reverend clergy, fellow citizens, we observe today not a victory of party, but a celebration of freedom--symbolizing an end, as well as a beginning--signifying renewal, as well as change. For I have sworn before you and Almighty God the same solemn oath our forebears prescribed nearly a century and three quarters ago.

  The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty and all forms of human life. And yet the same revolutionary beliefs for which our forebears fought are still at issue around the globe--the belief that the rights of man come not from the generosity of the state, but from the hand of God.

  We dare not forget today that we are the heirs of that first revolution. Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans--born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace, proud of our ancient heritage--and unwilling to witness or permit the slow undoing of those human rights to which this Nation has always been committed, and to which we are committed today at home and around the world.

  Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, in order to assure the survival and the success of liberty.

  This much we pledge--and more.

  To those old allies whose cultural and spiritual origins we share, we pledge the loyalty of faithful friends. United, there is little we cannot do in a host of cooperative ventures. Divided, there is little we can do--for we dare not meet a powerful challenge at odds and split asunder.

  To those new States whom we welcome to the ranks of the free, we pledge our word that one form of colonial control shall not have passed away merely to be replaced by a far more iron tyranny. We shall not always expect to find them supporting our view. But we shall always hope to find them strongly supporting their own freedom--and to remember that, in the past, those who foolishly sought power by riding the back of the tiger ended up inside.

  To those peoples in the huts and villages across the globe struggling to break the bonds of mass misery, we pledge our best efforts to help them help themselves, for whatever period is required--not because the Communists may be doing it, not because we seek their votes, but because it is right. If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.

  To our sister republics south of our border, we offer a special pledge--to convert our good words into good deeds--in a new alliance for progress--to assist free men and free governments in casting off the chains of poverty. But this peaceful revolution of hope cannot become the prey of hostile powers. Let all our neighbors know that we shall join with them to oppose aggression or subversion anywhere in the Americas. And let every other power know that this Hemisphere intends to remain the master of its own house.

  To that world assembly of sovereign states, the United Nations, our last best hope in an age where the instruments of war have far outpaced the instruments of peace, we renew our pledge of support--to prevent it from becoming merely a forum for invective--to strengthen its shield of the new and the weak--and to enlarge the area in which its writ may run.

  Finally, to those nations who would make themselves our adversary, we offer not a pledge but a request: that both sides begin anew the quest for peace, before the dark powers of destruction unleashed by science engulf all humanity in planned or accidental self-destruction.

  We dare not tempt them with weakness. For only when our arms are sufficient beyond doubt can we be certain beyond doubt that they will never be employed.

  But neither can two great and powerful groups of nations take comfort from our present course--both sides overburdened by the cost of modern weapons, both rightly alarmed by the steady spread of the deadly atom, yet both racing to alter that uncertain balance of terror that stays the hand of mankind's final war.

  So let us begin anew--remembering on both sides that civility is not a sign of weakness, and sincerity is always subject to proof. Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.

  Let both sides explore what problems unite us instead of belaboring those problems which divide us.

  Let both sides, for the first time, formulate serious and precise proposals for the inspection and control of arms--and bring the absolute power to destroy other nations under the absolute control of all nations.

  Let both sides seek to invoke the wonders of science instead of its terrors. Together let us explore the stars, conquer the deserts, eradicate disease, tap the ocean depths, and encourage the arts and commerce.

  Let both sides unite to heed in all corners of the earth the command of Isaiah--to "undo the heavy burdens ... and to let the oppressed go free."

  And if a beachhead of cooperation may push back the jungle of suspicion, let both sides join in creating a new endeavor, not a new balance of power, but a new world of law, where the strong are just and the weak secure and the peace preserved.

  All this will not be finished in the first 100 days. Nor will it be finished in the first 1,000 days, nor in the life of this Administration, nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet. But let us begin.

  In your hands, my fellow citizens, more than in mine, will rest the final success or failure of our course. Since this country was founded, each generation of Americans has been summoned to give testimony to its national loyalty. The graves of young Americans who answered the call to service surround the globe.

  Now the trumpet summons us again--not as a call to bear arms, though arms we need; not as a call to battle, though embattled we are--but a call to bear the burden of a long twilight struggle, year in and year out, "rejoicing in hope, patient in tribulation"--a struggle against the common enemies of man: tyranny, poverty, disease, and war itself.

  Can we forge against these enemies a grand and global alliance, North and South, East and West, that can assure a more fruitful life for all mankind? Will you join in that historic effort?

  In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility--I welcome it. I do not believe that any of us would exchange places with any other people or any other generation. The energy, the faith, the devotion which we bring to this endeavor will light our country and all who serve it--and the glow from that fire can truly light the world.

  And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you--ask what you can do for your country.

  My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man.

  Finally, whether you are citizens of America or citizens of the world, ask of us the same high standards of strength and sacrifice which we ask of you. With a good conscience our only sure reward, with history the final judge of our deeds, let us go forth to lead the land we love, asking His blessing and His help, but knowing that here on earth God's work must truly be our own.

  * * *

  And so here we are now almost 50 years after President John F. Kennedy spoke those words to the nation and to the world. By the grace of God, we have survived, but so many old challenges remain and so many new challenges that were unheard of 50 years ago keep popping up. Now is not a time to grow weary. Rather, it is a time for Americans to again "ask what you can do for your country" — and to then step up and do it.

  It is too easy in the tumult of today's U.S. political environment to choose up sides as if we were all playing a game of us against them. My God, we are all Americans! I support Mike Huckabee because I see in him the possibility that a Common Ground can be found. But a Common Ground in America is a place where angels might fear to tread if leadership is lacking. Old fears wrapped in wrong thinking cannot be allowed to be our weapons of destruction against each other. We must strive to trust Jesus when he said, “If you hold to my teaching, you are really my disciples. Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.” (John 8:31-32)

  And so I offer the following four suggestions on this Veteran's Day.

  1. On the Fourth of July every year, the President of the United States should pardon fifty federal prisoners (one for every State in the Union) who are U.S. military combat veterans, and should grant each of the pardoned veterans the resources necessary to again become productive citizens. Why do it? Contemplate Mark 15:1-15 and then ask yourself this: If the Roman rulers in Jerusalem in Jesus' time were willing to release one prisoner every year at the Feast, even someone guilty of insurrection and murder such as Barabbas, then why cannot the U.S. president pardon and release select federal prisoners who at an earlier time in their lives served honorably to preserve our nation's liberty as American troops in combat? Many veterans have suffered their whole lives after leaving the military because of the horrors they endured in combat, and too often that suffering has led to crime and prison. What I propose would force us as a nation to own our responsibility for the aftermath of war, and it would also create hope for many veterans who now deserve a second chance at becoming productive citizens.

  2. I have proposed a national public high school for the most brilliant young people in our nation who excel academically in mathematics and the physical sciences. I call my proposed school "NASA Academy of the Physical Sciences" (NAPS), and I describe it in detail at: http://nasa-academy-of-the-physical-sciences.blogspot.com/
  I participate in an online forum regarding NAPS at:
  http://giftedissues.davidsongifted.org/BB/ubbthreads.php/topics/77811/Proposal_NASA_Academy_of_the_P.html
  Why do it? Read the following linked section from my NAPS proposal:
  http://nasa-academy-of-the-physical-sciences.blogspot.com/2009/11/making-it-happen-nasa-and-naps.html
  The simple fact is this: the U.S. is in peril because the national resources that are the most brilliant young minds in our nation's public schools are now being squandered and wasted year after year. It is a disgrace, but — worse than that — it is an attack against America's long-term national security interests. We MUST reverse the course, but liberal Democrats refuse to do it because to them it is unacceptably elitist. In their thinking, tax dollars should be spent on bottom-end Special Education, even if the law that requires such expenditures stunts educational opportunities for the most brilliant young people in our nation. It is an outrage. I believe the future of America depends on NAPS being implemented, or something very much like it. If the Republican Party wants an Education Reform policy to reestablish America's greatness, they cannot do better than using my NAPS proposal as a starting point.

  3. ObamaCare is a mistake. It is wrong-headed in almost every way, and it is probably unconstitutional. However, health care insurance processes in the U.S. today are evil at their core. Also, the processes are outdated and obsolete because of advances in computer technologies, including the Internet. But the greater concern is this: the U.S. is now engaged in an Economic World War that we are losing, and we are losing the war primarily because of collusion in our nation's health care insurance industry, a collusion that includes the pharmaceutical industry, the medical malpractice insurance industry, and the medical lawsuit industry. I use the word "industry" because every player in the collusion is profit-driven on a personal gain basis. And, yes, it is criminal, but U.S. citizens are being duped into thinking otherwise. My solution is drastic, but it is a solution that fixes the problem. Please read my solution from start to finish BEFORE passing judgment on it. My solution can be read at:
  http://steven-a-sylwester.blogspot.com/2009/12/nationalize-us-private-health-insurance.html
  Why do it? On this Veteran's Day, ponder the lives of the many troops who died in our nation's wars to preserve and protect America. We MUST acknowledge the Economic World War that we are now fighting in, and we MUST do what is necessary to preserve and protect America for future generations. Again, read my proposal from start to finish, and then make your judgment.

  4. God bless the women in the Republican Party! I have recently concluded that Far Left feminist ultra-liberal Democratic women have painted themselves into a corner in which they now sit forlorn and confused. Because political correctness requires them to lump themselves with every possible deviation from the norm, including the whole panoply of transgendered people, being simply a woman has now become a temporary and ever changing act of will and choice rather than a matter of permanent biological status. It is crazy, but the consequence is that the simple decency and good thinking in my proposed amendment to the U.S. Constitution guaranteeing Supreme Court Gender Equality escapes ultra-liberal feminists because they cannot process it through their many-layered political correctness filters. Read my proposal at:
  http://supreme-court-gender-equality-pac.blogspot.com/
  Why do it? Veteran's Day needs to also honor the contributions of women, both those who served in U.S. military duty and those who stayed home to serve our nation in other ways. It is time to give American women an equal say in the decisions being made in our nation's highest courts. I believe the Republican Party would gain a tremendous number of moderate voters in future elections if it embraced my Supreme Court Gender Equality proposal, including not just independent voters, but also defections of conservative and moderate Democrats. I expect the homosexual agenda of the Far Left would be exposed in the public debate. No Exaggeration: Several times already, the Far Left response to my proposal has been to suggest that I should be seeking Supreme Court Sexual Orientation Equality, not Supreme Court Gender Equality, and that the greater need is to have outed homosexuals on the Court rather than an equal number of male and female Associate Justices.

  * * *

  In the end, the veterans I have known are people who love America, and who were willing to fight and die if necessary to preserve and protect our nation's future. Therefore, Veteran's Day should be a day to look back in remembrance, but also a day to look forward with resolve. The greatest honor that the living can give to those who have died is a sacred commitment to both preserve America and to make it even better and better for future generations.

  God bless America!

  Steven A. Sylwester

• Hunter, Megan

  11/11/2010 01:47 PM

  In honor to all our veterans today, we should all donate to extend their care. No vets would be homeless or hungry in this great country!

  Please go to this URL and donate today!

  Http://www.nchv.org/veterans.cfm

  God bless you all!
  Megan Hunter