The Ia
Drang Valley campaign was a landmark for me, because it introduced me to the
most brilliant tactical commander I'd ever known.
Colonel Ngo
Quang Truong was General Dong's chief of staff. He did not look like my idea
of a military genius: only five feet seven, in his midforties, very skinny, with
hunched shoulders and a head that seemed too big for his body. His face was
pinched and intense, not at all handsome, and there was always a cigarette
hanging from his lips. Yet he was revered by his officers and troops-and feared
by those North Vietnamese commanders who knew of his ability. Any time a
particularly tricky combat operation came up, Dong put him in command.
It appears he is influenced by the $outhern Poverty Law Center from the
way his bill is written. Why would a New Yorker make it his annual
crusade to erase Confederate monuments that he admits are mostly in the
South?
H.R. 4994 Will Defile and Dishonor Sacred Battlefields
Called
the "No Federal Funding for Confederate Symbols Act," It Removes
Monuments to Southern War Dead in All National Parks and on All Federal
Public Land
This Is Nothing But the Shameful Use of Hatred for Political Gain
It's Based on the Sponsor's Extreme Ignorance of History
But
Despite How Vile This Legislation Is, Cowardly Stupid Republicans Have
Destroyed More Southern Memorials than Antifa, BLM and the SPLC
Combined, Times 100
U.S.
Representative Adraino Espaillat of New York's 13th District, who brags
everywhere online that he is the first formerly illegal immigrant
elected to the United Stated Congress,1 has once again
introduced an unconscionable and unhistorical piece of trash into the
United States House of Representatives as H.R. 4994.2
I know there is the temptation to look at the events in Afghanistan as some major failure of the Biden Administration, but it is not. This is who Biden has always been, what he ran on in the election, what everyone knew he would do, how he would sell out to the communist regime in China, do their bidding when he got into office. It was why they had to steal the election, because so many of us knew what a traitor, what a corrupt politician he was, that there was evidence of the bribes he took, verified by the courts in Ukraine. The fact of his mental incapacity only seemed to cement that he could not and should not be placed in control of the nation and its military forces. We now see why.
Media outlets love reporting the results
of polling on hot-button policy issues, but they rarely tell you if the
people supporting proposed legislation (especially when it's
restrictive) are the same people who would be affected by it. That
matters in several important ways, not least of which is that getting a
law passed is not the same thing as getting people to obey. Nowhere does
that matter more than in the heated debate over gun laws.
"The Leftist “select committee” has further exposed itself as a partisan sham and waste of taxpayer dollars with a request that’s timed to distract Americans from historic and global catastrophes brought on by the failures of Joe Biden and the Democrats. pic.twitter.com/syRSo6GQ8j
Donald Trump is overruling House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Democrats
regarding their January 6 Select Committee to investigate the incident
at the U.S. Capitol earlier this year.
In a scathing letter, Trump said he will invoke executive privilege
to block requests for access to executive branch communications.
Border Patrol in Tucson arrested a Valedictorian DACA smuggler who
basically cloned an official SUV, was wearing a fake uniform, and had 10
illegals in the vehicle.
For nearly a year, our Commonwealth has been tied in knots by
doubts surrounding recent elections. No matter whether you supported
Donald Trump or Joe Biden in the 2020 election, everyone should have
confidence in the results of that election. That is the only way our
system works.
Unfortunately, that is not the case in
Pennsylvania. The underhanded actions of our disgraced, now-former
Secretary of State cast doubt upon the fairness of the process, and our
new Acting Secretary has done everything in her power to shield that
process from transparency. This includes undercutting the Senate’s clear
legal authority to provide oversight of our elections in threatening to
de-certify equipment reviewed by “third-parties.”
Fox News Host Rachel Campos-Duffy just made a great point. She
claimed there is someone who is often overlooked that greatly hurt
America, Jill Biden. Campos-Duffy made a great argument for how Biden
being our president really is Jill Biden's fault, and she heard it and
was pissed. The First Lady's Office is now demanding an apology. But
Campos-Duffy is not wrong.
The argument Campos-Duffy made that has the first lady fuming:
To Americans who might be trapped in Afghanistan after August 31, the
Biden administration has two words for you: good luck. Oh, you can send
an email or something to let the Biden White House know you want to
leave post-deadline, but the overall message is clear. You’re on your
own. Biden is going to leave Americans behind. They’ve admitted it. Why?
Well, because they don’t want to anger…the Taliban. Oh, and they trust
them to behave. That’s the policy. We shouldn’t have expected much
because Democrats are terrible, but holy hell, guys.
As a personal note, I am deeply saddened by today’s contemporary music
industry trend of dividing listeners into exclusive categories, so that
people are loyal to one particular genre at the expense of all others.
It’s a Yankee thing, and I hope and pray that young Southerners will see
through this nonsense and continue the tradition of their ancestors by
embracing multiple directions in music, no matter the artificial
category.
In this fifth installment of the series “What Makes This Musician
Great,” we will travel back to the cultural hurricane in the early days
of Rockabilly music, and celebrate the innovative musical giant known as
Carl Perkins.
As our society moves further beyond those explosive, tumultuous days
of the mid-1950’s, it’s becoming easier to lose focus on everything that
was happening simultaneously in music back then. We have a habit of
organizing historical events into singlular timelines that don’t often
tell an accurate story because overlapping events just don’t fit. For
example, what is the difference between Rock ‘n Roll and Rockabilly?
Was Elvis considered to be Rockabilly or Rock ‘n’ Roll? Which was Carl
Perkins? Since they performed together, and they both recorded the same
songs in the same studio at the same time, what’s the difference? The
answer is that at first, not much. The word “Rockabilly” is obviously a
blend of the words “Rock” and “Hillbilly,” but it’s a lot more
complicated than that. Since Rock ‘n Roll was a blend of Country and
Rhythm & Blues, then those styles must be noted. However,
Rockabilly differs from Rock ‘n Roll by having a stronger Country and
Bluegrass influence in the sound. That’s why Elvis was Rockabilly, at
first and then more Rock ‘n Roll later. Carl Perkins did not change –
he was always Rockabilly to the very end. Rockabilly is not a spinoff
from Rock ‘n Roll. It was its own separate genre that simply didn’t go
as far as Rock ‘n Roll because it wasn’t as adaptable.
