Inbox Roundup ~
Here are some items that have landed in my email inbox:
The Captain’s AMERICA Radio Show
Today’s first guest calls in from Camp Taji, Iraq. We start off
speaking to Command Sergeant Major Michael Mosier, a 24 year Army
veteran, who hails from Sebring, FL. Sergeant Major Mosier lets us
know what things are like on this 3rd tour in Iraq and how his Troops
are doing…Then we speak with Major Anthony McGinthy, PDHRA Program Manager, who
calls us from the Army National Guard Readiness Center in Arlington,
VA. The Major addresses the mental and physical problems being faced
by today’s Military and the help that’s available for them and the
Civilian sector who has served Overseas as well…This is an important program for all of our Military families to
listen to and see whether or not the PDHRA Program is something that
could help out any Soldier who is qualified to participate in it…
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From CJ:
You may or may not be familiar with the DOD’s new administrative leave policy for deployed troops. I’ve recently had to process a few of these and thought I’d share my knowledge with others. This is an important program that MOST Soldiers (and probably other service troops) don’t even know exists! Please help me spread the word.
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“Every measure which establishes legal charity on a permanent basis and gives to it an administrative form creates thereby a class unproductive and idle, living at the expense of the class which is industrious and given to work.” –French political thinker and historian Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859)
On June 25th, Move America Forward will be holding our 2nd annual “Troop-a-thon” titled “Honor their Service.”
This cutting edge live webcast event brings together talk radio hosts, megastars of film and television, musical guests, journalists, military and Gold-star families, pro-troop groups and many more.
The goal of this charity fundraiser is to send the largest ever shipment of care packages to our brave men and women of the armed forces serving in Iraq, and Guantanamo Bay.
Viewers are encouraged to sponsor care packages (donations are tax deductible) for the troops and each one includes a personalized message and items that our troops have requested that make their life a little easier while they are far from home, such as sun-screen, Gatorade, deodorant, coffee, cookies and much more.
Tell your friends and join our mailing list or just check in often for the latest updates on this developing project.
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“Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of government. The history of liberty is the history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of the limitation of governmental power, not the increase of it.” –President Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924)
Warning: Reality
The Greatest Threats to World Stability
Protecting America in the New Missile Age
Wrong Place for Budget Cuts
Slashing our air-defense capabilities will hobble our military in future conflicts.National Review Online
By Bentley Rayburn
May 20, 2009 4:00 AMPresident Obama’s 2010 budget amounts to an eye-popping $3.7 trillion, and opens the floodgates to a projected $42 trillion in the next decade. This is the largest domestic-spending increase in history. The interest on the national debt will be $800 billion in 2014 — more than we currently spend on national defense.
Meanwhile, Obama is cutting our military’s budget to the bone and marrow. Funding for land-based missile defense, the F-22 Raptor, and the Air Force’s refueling tankers will be reduced, eliminated, or delayed — even though these programs are vital to our national defense.
Read the rest here.
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Speaking of terrorism: “I believe sometimes the war on terror is really a euphemism for the wars for oil and natural gas. Maybe if it were the Hindus who had oil under their feet there would be Hindu fundamentalists and extremists. … America has the opportunity once again to lead — to lead the world against the new terror: climate change.”
–Imam Johari Abdul-Malik, director of outreach
at the Dar Al-Hijrah Islamic Center in Virginia
(all quotes from The Patriot Post)
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