Big Dogs Weblog

Memorial Day is more than just a three day holiday weekend or the beginning of the swimming season as pools open for the Summer. Memorial Day is a day we honor those members of the military who have died in the service of our country.
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Senator Tom Harkin of Iowa is a bonehead who has insulted John McCain because McCain served in the military. According to Harkin, McCain’s service and the generations of service from his family has wired him differently and renders him unfit to serve as president. Imagine that, Harkin thinks military service makes one unfit [...]

Code Pink has been outside a Marine recruiting station in Berkeley California for some time now. They have gotten special treatment from the town government and they have been allowed to protest the Marines. They have been loud and obnoxious and they are lucky that someone has not wiped the street up with [...]

At 3:45 this morning a bomb went off at a Times Square recruiting office shattering the glass front with an impact that was felt in surrounding buildings. No one was injured in the blast and police are looking into reports of a person on a bike who might have delivered the explosive.
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The Pentagon recently awarded a contract for air tankers, the huge aircraft that conduct in-flight refuel operations. The award went to a group with French connections and the airframe is the French Airbus. The group, Northrop Grumman/EADS, beat out Boeing for the contract. There are several lawmakers who are upset with the [...]