FOX: Decorated WWII Veteran, 90, Fights HOA to Raise Flag in His Yard

A veteran of three wars who was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor is now facing an unlikely enemy — his neighbors.

Col. Van T. Barfoot, 90, has raised the Stars and Stripes every day at sunrise and lowered them every day at sunset since he served in the U.S. Army. But on Tuesday he received a letter from the law firm that represents his homeowners’ association, ordering him to remove the flagpole from his Richmond, Va. yard by 5 p.m. on Friday or face “legal action.”

SLIDESHOW: Medal of Honor Winner Col. Van Barfoot

The homoeowners’ association at Sussex Square community told Barfoot that the freestanding, 21-foot flagpole that he put up in September violates the neighborhood’s aesthetic guidelines.

Barfoot had sought permission to install the pole shortly after he moved into the community — a complex of townhouses where the grounds are community property — last June. The board denied his request in July.

But Barfoot and his family say there is no provision in Sussex Square’s rules that forbids erecting flagpoles. And for Barfoot, that’s a cause worth fighting for. more…..

I was going to post the phone number for the HOA, but they apparently had it disconnected this afternoon. Instead, here is the phone number for the President and director of the HOA, Glenn and Evelyn Wilson: 804-741-9160

Please, be respectful, but do let them know in no uncertain terms that their treatment of Col. Barfoot is unacceptable.

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Human Events: Media Ignores Navy SEALs for Tiger Woods

The Mainstream Media can’t get enough of Tiger Woods’ marital woes, the fallout from Adam Lambert’s sexually suggestive act at the American Music Awards and those publicity hungry White House party crashers.  Those same outlets can’t be bothered to tell the story of charges filed against three Navy SEALs who captured the supposed mastermind behind the slaughter of four Blackwater security guards in Fallujah five years ago.

The SEALs in question who captured Ahmed Hashim Abed — Matthew McCabe, Petty Officer Jonathan Keefe and Petty Officer Julio Huertas — are accused of bloodying his lip after apprehending him. Instead of being held up as an example of military heroism, the men will face a court martial proceeding.more…..

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Washington Examiner: Who’s who on climate fraud

In 1912, a respected paleontologist at the British Museum confirmed that bones found in a Piltdown quarry came from the “missing link” between apes and humans. Forty years later, the so-called Piltdown Man was proved to be a hoax. Thanks to purloined e-mails from the University of East Anglia’s Climate Research Unit (CRU), global warming is turning out to be the 21st-century equivalent of Piltdown Man.

E-mails between a small group of highly influential climate scientists at the center of the worldwide panic over global warming exposed multiple discussions among them concerning their manipulation of data and using various evasive tactics to avoid releasing the facts behind their ginned-up numbers to the public via Freedom of Information Act requests.

Here’s a rogue’s gallery of five major perpetrators of what’s turning out to be the biggest scientific hoax in modern history: more…..

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WRAL.com (AP) : Senate Democrats vote to keep over $400 billion Medicare cuts in health bill

WASHINGTON — Casting its first votes on revamping the nation’s health care system, the Senate rejected a Republican bid Thursday to stave off Medicare cuts and approved safeguards for coverage of mammograms and other preventive tests for women. The first round of votes ended with a fragile Democratic coalition hanging together.

Senators voted 58-42 to reject an amendment by Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., that would have stripped more than $400 billion in Medicare cuts from the nearly $1 trillion measure. It would have sent the entire 2,074-page bill back to the Senate Finance Committee for a redo.

Republicans said the proposed cuts to health insurance plans and medical providers mean seniors in the popular Medicare Advantage program will lose benefits. And they predicted lawmakers will ultimately back away from the cuts, once seniors start feeling the brunt.

“Medicare is already in trouble. The program needs to be fixed, not raided to create another new government program,” said Republican leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky. more…..

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NRO: Somebody at Fort Hood Should Be Walking the Plank

“What on earth is this government doing, and will Congress please do something about it?”

It’s been brought to my attention by several reliable sources that the Defense Department has brought Louay Safi to Fort Hood as an instructor, and that he has been lecturing on Islam to our troops in Fort Hood who are about to deploy to Afghanistan. Safi is a top official of the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), and served as research director at the International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT).

Worse, last evening, Safi was apparently permitted to present a check (evidently on behalf of ISNA) to the families of the victims of last month’s Fort Hood massacre. A military source told the blogger Barbarossa at the Jawa Report: “This is nothing short of blood money. This is criminal and the Ft. Hood base commander should be fired right now.” more…..

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Hot Air: Video: Obama ready to talk this economy back to life, baby; Update: Speech on the economy coming next week

In fairness, today wasn’t totally useless. The One finally admitted that his “shovel-ready” talking point is itself, shall we say, shovel-ready. And more importantly, he got out in front of tomorrow’s big news, which, if JP Morgan is correct, will show unemployment up another two ticks in November to 10.4 percent. Between that and the “stunning” report tonight that consumer sales declined slightly last month after being expected to grow between five and eight percent, he simply can’t afford not to be seen as proactive anymore. Even if his “proactivity” consists of gabbing with Paul Krugman in front of a pair of mikes and a couple of cans of Shasta. more…..

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Joy Bahar is a classless, intellectually bankrupt and embarrassingly stupid woman.

No link, just stating the obvious.

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AP: Gore Cancels Climate Lecture in Copenhagen

COPENHAGEN — Climate campaigner Al Gore has canceled a lecture he was supposed to deliver in Copenhagen.

The former vice president and Nobel Peace Prize winner had been scheduled to speak to more than 3,000 people at a Dec. 16 event hosted by the Berlingske Tidende newspaper group.

The group says Gore canceled the lecture Thursday, citing unforeseen changes in his schedule. more…..

Yeah, ‘unforseen changes’  like the climategate scandal further exposing this dirty son of a bitch as the out-and-out fraud many of us already knew he was. Can you say ‘busted’?

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Dana Loesch: Rep. Russ Carnahan’s Brother to Get $90 Million of Stimulus Cash

Wind Capital Group, the company of Tom Carnahan, brother of Democrat Rep. Russ Carnahan, is getting $90 million dollars of the stimulus package that Russ voted for – and it’s not creating a single job in Carnahan’s 3rd District. more…..

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-Cnation