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Posts Tagged VFW

When Does Carrying a Loaded Weapon to a Presidential Rally Become a Threat?

By | 08.18.09 | 9:03 am

We now know that there were two men who openly carried assault rifles — CNN reports they were AR-15s — outside the Veterans of Foreign Wars hall in Phoenix where President Obama spoke yesterday. According to The Associated Press, about eight more people were carrying More…

The Commander-in-Chief Hates the Troops, Part XXVII

By | 04.16.09 | 9:32 am

Republicans put some effort into painting presidential candidate Barack Obama as an insufficient friend of American soldiers, with Exhibit A being his decision not to visit wounded soldiers in Germany. Once Obama became commander-in-chief, it became harder to argue that he hated his own troops. But the Department of More…