Colo. Sec. of State says not even soldiers can receive ballots under new voting rules

Pueblo County Clerk Gilbert Ortiz gave Colorado Secretary of State Scott Gessler until this morning to specifically and formally address another of the charged ramifications of his new interpretation of state election law. Gessler got in under the wire. Thursday evening, he sent Ortiz a letter ordering him not to More…

Tom Donnelly Thinks Obama Should Give Troops Pep Talks Instead of Healthcare

You know what Tom Donnelly, an American Enterprise Institute defense analyst, didn’t like about President Obama’s Iraq speech? Well, the substance of withdrawal, sure. But he really didn’t like all the stuff Obama said about caring for Iraq veterans:

No doubt there is a genuine tenderness in the

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Some Christmas Reading

My somewhat estranged blog-comrade LT Nixon points to a number of cool milblogs. My pick of his list: Fobbits Need Ice Cream Too, whose logo is LOLworthy. (A Fobbit, for the uninitiated, is a soldier/marine/airman/sailor who doesn’t go off his or her base. Forward Operating Base = FOB; More…

Five Convicted of Conspiracy in Fort Dix Terror Case

CNN reports that a jury has convicted five men for conspiring to bomb American soldiers at Fort Dix, N.J., but acquitted the men of attempted murder. The men, who each face life in prison, are slated for sentencing in April.

Fallen Comrades

BAGRAM AIR FIELD, Afghanistan – In the predawn chill of 4 a.m., in uniform, in silence interrupted only by the morning chirp of hungry birds and a distant muezzin’s call to prayer, the soldiers of Bagram lined up at attention along Disney Drive.

Behind the avenue, to the east, four More…