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By Art Cohan @ the HATPA

BREAKING NEWS!

I just received a call from Chuck Stewart, President of The McAllen Tea Party Association and he said he had just hung up the phone on a call from Tami.She informed him that the “Restoring Honor” event in Washington, DC, hosted by Glenn Beck, will be broadcast live on C-SPAN and will be shown on 2 large screens at the Convention Center in McAllen.

The doors will open at 8:00 AM Saturday morning, so come early for a good seat. The event in Washington is scheduled to take place from 9:00 AM to Noon (CDT), then we will break for lunch. The regularly scheduled program will resume at 2:00 PM (CDT) when we will hear from several speakers as they honor our local heroes.

Tami said the program is scheduled to end about 5:00. Bob Jones of Corpus Christi will MC the event. There will also be special live music! FREE admission! Bring the kids and spend the day.

The Convention Center is located at the Ware Rd exit of Expressway 83.

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When World War II ended, the United States had the only undamaged industrial power in the world. Our military might was at its peak, and we alone had the ultimate weapon, the nuclear weapon, with the unquestioned ability to deliver it anywhere in the world. If we had sought world domination then, who could have opposed us?

But the United States followed a different course, one unique in all the history of mankind. We used our power and wealth to rebuild the war-ravished economies of the world, including those of the nations who had been our enemies.

Ronald Reagan

“Brian WHO?”  you ask.

CHONTOSH

First Lieutenant, United States Marine Corps

For Services as Set Forth in the Following

Citation:

For extraordinary heroism as Combined Anti-Armor Platoon Commander, Weapons Company, 3rd Battalion, 5th Marines, 1st Marine Division, I Marine Expeditionary Force in support of Operation IRAQI FREEDOM on 25 March 2003.

While leading his platoon north on Highway I toward Ad Diwaniyah, First Lieutenant Chontosh’s platoon moved into a coordinated ambush of mortars, rocket propelled grenades, and automatic weapons fire. With coalition tanks blocking the road ahead, he realized his platoon was caught in a kill zone. He had his driver move the vehicle through a breach along his flank, where he was immediately taken under fire from an entrenched machine gun. Without hesitation, First Lieutenant Chontosh ordered the driver to advance directly at the enemy position enabling his .50 caliber machine gunner to silence the enemy. He then directed his driver into the enemy trench, where he exited his vehicle and began to clear the trench with an M16A2 service rifle and 9 millimeter pistol. His ammunition depleted, First Lieutenant Chontosh, with complete disregard for his safety, twice picked up discarded enemy rifles and continued his ferocious attack. When a Marine following him found an enemy rocket propelled grenade launcher, First Lieutenant Chontosh used it to destroy yet another group of enemy soldiers. When his audacious attack ended, he had cleared over 200 meters of the enemy trench, killing more than 20 enemy soldiers and wounding several others. By his outstanding display of decisive leadership, unlimited courage in the face of heavy enemy fire, and utmost devotion to duty, First Lieutenant Chontosh reflected great credit upon himself and upheld the highest traditions of the Marine Corps and the United States Naval Service.

Semper Fi

The New Liberalism and the end of American ascendancy.
by Charles Krauthammer
The Weekly Standard
10/19/2009, Volume 015, Issue 05

The weathervanes of conventional wisdom are registering another round of angst about America in decline. New theories, old slogans: Imperial overstretch. The Asian awakening. The post-American world. Inexorable forces beyond our control bringing the inevitable humbling of the world hegemon.

On the other side of this debate are a few–notably Josef Joffe in a recent essay in Foreign Affairs–who resist the current fashion and insist that America remains the indispensable power. They note that declinist predictions are cyclical, that the rise of China (and perhaps India) are just the current version of the Japan panic of the late 1980s or of the earlier pessimism best captured by Jean-François Revel’s How Democracies Perish.

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