US MARINE & WIFE Break Their Silence After Brutal Beating at Movie Theater (Video)

Teen THUGS Attack Marine, Wife At Movie Theater In Bradenton, Florida
Iraq War Veteran Federico Freire and wife, Kalyn, pictured above were attacked Saturday outside a movie theater in Bradenton, Fla., Couple attacked at movie theater Bradenton.com Marine and his wife were attacked outside a movie theatre Christmas night after asking a group of teens to be quiet during a movie. The attack escalated into an fracus attracting approximately 300 bystanders. As a result, four teens and an adult were arrested, according to Manatee County Sheriff’s Office reports. F...

Pajamas wanted for adult women
Iowans can donate pajamas that will go to Victims of Domestic Violence at many metro-area locations, including Dahl's and Younkers stores. This year's Helen's Pajama Party drive is being held in honor of TereseAnn Lynch Moore, organizers said. The Iraq War Veteran and mother was shot and murdered in November 2009 by her estranged husband, Randall Todd Moore, who kidnapped and sexually assaulted her before killing her. Moore was sentenced last month to three consecutive terms of life in Prison....

Note to Colman McCarthy: It wasnt a degree in Peace that helped this Marine and his wife [Darleen Click]
Addendum to prior post At the very end of the report, almost as a throw-away observation, the reporter notes: “To give you an idea of how intense this all got, Kayln [the wife] tells us the reason many of those teens backed off was because a witness at that theater, a Good Samaritan of sorts, had a gun in his car and he flashed that gun at that group to get them to leave this couple alone.” Heh. (more here) h/t Verum Serum ...

Outrage: Marine, Wife Attacked by Teenage Thugs at Theater
A group of unruly teenagers attacked a 27-year-old Marine on leave from Afghanistan and his wife who had asked them to be quiet during a Christmas night showing of "Little Fockers."...

WaPokeep ROTC out of our precious Ivies
Because, you know, its all about war and stuff. The Washington Post rolled out  what I consider an inevitable op/ed today about keeping ROTC off the campuses of Ivy League schools who banned it when DADT was in effect.  Colman McCarthy, a former Post columnist who directs the Center for Teaching Peace claims that ROTC is essentially an anti-intellectual endeavor which can be opposed on moral grounds: It should not be forgotten that schools have legitimate and moral reasons for keeping ...

And yet no one went to jail
By Edward Copeland Reliving the Valerie Plame affair in Fair Game, based on the books written by Plame herself and her husband Joe Wilson, if you didn't have any anger before over what the Bush White House did to a loyal CIA agent in the name of politics and a war they wanted no matter what the facts were, that old rage will well up once again. In Doug Liman's film, it comes up even more so because before we get to the events of the leak of Plame's covert status itself, we actually see what h...

From Publius Forum: The entertainment industrys PC year in review
The Tea Party movement as one of Captain America's villains? Batman assisting a Muslim superhero in France? More flop anti-Iraq War films? White sheriffs shooting innocent Mexicans? What is this mayhem? Why, it's our politically-correct Entertainment Industry and Publius Forum looks at 2010 in PC-land. By the way, what religion is Batman, anyway?...

Congress May Cut Funds for U.S. Mission in Iraq
At the Atlantic, Elise Jordan writes about the prospect that Congress may cut funding for the U.S. diplomatic mission in Iraq: U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Jim Jeffrey took office this August in the midst of two political crises. In the U.S., Republicans were poised to sweep the impending Elections and ultimately retake the House of Representatives over, among other things, public fury at the weak economy and Government Spending. Meanwhile, Iraq’s elections, held in March, were still unresolv...

If Only WikiLeaks Existed Before the Iraq War Began: Die Zeit, Germany
Here’s an interesting question: would the release of internal White House documents before the Iraq War began have prevented the Bush Administration from going ahead with it? According to columnist Ulrich Ladurner of Germany’s Die Zeit, not only is it likely that the war would have been prevented - but Julian Assange may well have won the Nobel Peace Prize. For Die Zeit, Ulrich Ladurner writes in part: Julian Assange has been much reviled for his dogma that everything should b...

PFC Corey Clagett a living casualty of the Iraq war
PFC Corey Clagett was trained by the United States Army to obey orders, fight for his country, and to obey Rules of Engagement. While in Iraq for no longer than three months, his squad was given orders to ”kill all males of Military age” in an operation called Iron Triangle. Instead of coming home an army hero, he rots in the United States Disciplinary Barracks (USDB) in solitary confinement at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.  Has the Military forgotten the My Lai massacre during th...

2010: The Entertainment Industry’s PC Year in Review
For the Entertainment Industry’s practitioners of Political Correctness, 2010 was another banner year. Even as Conservatives have made deserved headway in La La Land and other areas of the industry, there still aren't enough Conservatives to bring much needed Patriotism, logic, and common sense to the scene. Sadly, the industry is still filled with those slavishly dedicated to anti-American tropes, left-wing blather, and self-hatred. From comic books, to music, to radio, TV and movies, PCi...

Byron Williams: The Consequences of Speaking out
Is there a Paul Kattenburg within the Obama Administration? If there is (or was), the ship has mostly likely sailed on any potential influence he or she may have on shaping policy in Afghanistan. Kattenburg served 23 years in the United States' diplomatic corps. On Aug. 31, 1963, Kattenburg, then chairman of the Vietnam Working Group, attended a National Security Council meeting, which would dramatically alter his diplomatic career. Kattenburg was the lone dissenter at the meeting contemplatin...

Monitoring group: Iraq war deaths drop in 2010
BAGHDAD - A British group monitoring Iraqi Civilian Deaths said in its annual report that the number has dropped slightly since 2009 but warned of a lingering, low-level conflict in the years ahead. The organization called Iraq Body Count said in its year-end report released Thursday that 3,976 civilians have been killed this year as of Dec. 25, compared with 4,680 in 2009. While there was a drop from 2009 to 2010, the organization said the rate of decline was smaller than in previous year...

Monitoring group: Iraq war deaths drop in 2010
BAGHDAD -- A British group monitoring Iraqi Civilian Deaths said in its annual report that the number has dropped slightly since 2009 but warned of a lingering, low-level conflict in the years ahead. The organization called Iraq Body Count said in its year-end report released Thursday that 3,976 civilians have been killed this year as of Dec. 25, compared with 4,680 in 2009. While there was a drop from 2009 to 2010, the organization said the rate of decline was smaller than in previous years, i...

Liberal Economies and War
Tom, you’re right that Military Spending should not be based on GDP. Unfortunately, and somewhat paradoxically, as Hoppe has argued, countries (especially larger countries) that have relatively liberal internal economic policies tend to be richer, and thus their states tend to be more militarily powerful, and thus more aggressive, than states of developing or smaller countries. Only the US, with a $14 Trillion GDP that could only result from a large, relatively free internal market, coul...

Your pick for Most Intriguing Person of 2010 is ...
He's been called a criminal, a spy and a champion of the First Amendment. Some think he’s a villain. Some see him as a hero. The only thing that’s beyond debate: Julian Assange has more intrigue than the pulp section of a bookstore. Wikileaks' mastermind, the guy who everyone loved to hate or loved to defend, got the most first-place votes (25%) on CNN.com's “Most Intriguing Person” poll for 2010. Following Assange were: 10. Antoine Dodson, whose thoughts a...

Study: Just Under 4,000 Civilians Killed in 2010
Despite official US claims that the Iraq War is “over” massive numbers of civilians continue to be killed, with the latest study showing 3,976 civilians killed in 2010 alone. The number is a slight decline from the 2009 number (4,680) but seems to be leveling off, after significant drops in 2007 and 2008. Indeed, the study predicted that Iraq is in a “persistent low-level conflict” and that the civilian death toll will remain “at a similar rate for years to come.&...

2010: The Entertainment Industrys PC Year in Review
For the Entertainment Industry’s practitioners of Political Correctness, 2010 was another banner year. Even as Conservatives have made deserved headway in La La Land and other areas of the industry, there still aren’t enough Conservatives to bring much needed Patriotism, logic, and common sense to the scene. Sadly, the industry is still filled with those slavishly dedicated to anti-American tropes, left-wing blather, and self-hatred. From comic books, to music, to radio, TV and movie...

Determination is Part of Stopping Unjust Wars
We can't rely on Mainstream Media to relate our demands; we can't fail to challenge them to do so. We've got to use every outrage as a way of educating people to understand that these wars are fundamentally against the interests of the people living in this country, and of those who are occupied" and that your government is lying to you. All that said, World Can't Wait will continue to be in the streets with visible Protest, weekdays, weekends, and when it can make a difference. We're determi...

Man Killed In Same Place He Was Previously Shot
A man was shot and killed at a Queens barber shop yesterday early morning, in the same location where he was shot trying to fell a Robbery-turned-murder last summer. Gary Bowlin, 35, was shot execution-style in the Bathroom of the Rob NG Cutz barber shop on 135th St. in South Richmond Hill. The barber shop turns into a gambling den after hours; another man was shot during the melee, but is in stable condition. In July, Bowlin was one of two Good Samaritans who came to the aid of Barri Jahoor,...

Newborn dies in apartment lobby 9 hours after 911 called
A blizzard baby delivered inside the lobby of a snowbound Brooklyn building died after an emergency call of a woman in labor brought no help for nine excruciating hours. The baby's mother, a 22-year-old college senior, was recovering Tuesday night at Interfaith Medical Center, where her newborn was pronounced dead at 6:34 p.m. on Monday. That was 10 hours after the first 911 Call from the bloody vestibule on Brooklyn Ave. in Crown Heights. "No one could get to her. Crown Heights was not plow...

Dinner cruise boat runs aground off Maui
A boat carrying 60 people on a dinner cruise ran aground in an Hawaiian harbor, but passengers were rescued by another vessel and no one was injured, the Coast Guard said. The 65-foot Spirit of Lahaina was just leaving Maui's Lahaina Harbor at 5:30 p.m. Thursday when the catamaran ran aground, Coast Guard petty officer Anthony Soto said. The stricken vessel was very close to shore and a privately operated boat raced to its aid. "A Good Samaritan boat was able to quickly rescue all the passengers...

Removal of Mass. veterans affairs sec draws fire
The state Veterans of Foreign Wars group is criticizing Gov. Deval Patrick for removing state Secretary of Veterans Affairs Thomas Kelley. The VFW said in a statement Wednesday that the removal of the 71-year-old Vietnam War Veteran and Congressional Medal of Honor winner was a "unceremonious dismissal" and left "a very bad taste in our mouths." The group said Patrick owed Kelley an Apology for the way he handled the removal. The Patrick Adminstration announced Tuesday that Kelly would be repla...

Activists stunned by ouster of veterans' services boss
Veterans advocates yesterday reacted with shock to the sudden ouster of Veterans’ Services Secretary Tom Kelley, who was praised for his work on behalf of thousands of Bay Staters who have served in the Military. “His dismissal is a surprise to me,” said Thomas O. Paul, 62, of Chicopee, state commander of Veterans of Foreign Wars from 2009 to 2010. “Massachusetts is the leader in vets services and I count Kelley for that.” Kelley, 71, a Vietnam War veteran and Meda...

Of hope and change
Presidential Candidate Barack Obama told us, “…we are tired of business as usual in Washington. We are hungry for change and we are ready to believe again.”  Yet the only change his administration has brought is to rapidly speed up our nation’s long march into socialism and economic collapse.  President Obama and his worshippers must be utterly bewildered; the party he leads just suffered one of the most crushing defeats in the history of the republic.  How...