JAB, over at Deo Vindice asks these questions:
My answer, and I’ll challenge anyone to find otherwise, is that the Federal government has usurped authority that it clearly does not have Constitutional mandate for. Education properly begins at home with the family and then into the public school systems where teachers and parents would be better served to have that authority returned to them.
This release issued by the Gun Owners of America details some of the victories achieved during “the budget skirmish.” This is going to come off as sounding weird, but I’ve always believed that the GOP is a more effective opposition party than a governing party. Look at the amendments put forth here.
Wow, I learn something new everyday. What a fitting tribute to the 1st Cav troopers who have paid it all in Iraq.
Guys and gals,
I need your help. I’m beginning a letter campaign on behalf of my father to get him the United Nations Korean Medal. The United Nations has repeatedly denied request after request from Korean Defense Veterans. From their website, I’ll post the following Key Points To This Award:
1) The Congress and the Defense Department of The United States of America have authorized the award of the new(then) KOREA DEFENSE SERVICE MEDAL (a campaign medal) to all who served in defense of the Republic of Korea from 28 July 1954 to a date to be determined.
2.) The Korea Defense Service Combat Recognition Act became Public Law allowing retroactive award of the CIB/CMB on the same basis as other regions/theaters/operations for Army Forces in Korea personally engaged with enemy forces from 28 July 1953 – TBD
3.) United States Armed Forces and UK Forces in Korea are in direct support of the United Nations as members of the U.S. led United Nations Forces Command supporting the unchanged UN Security Council Resolutions of 1950 as they continue negotiations seeking a permanent peace.
4.) U.S. Armed Forces Headquarters and DMZ Outposts (UN Guard Posts) continue to fly the United Nations flag.
5.) U.S. Armed Forces members, post armistice, have been given orientation in proper conduct as a representative of both the United States and the United Nations while completing the tour of duty in defense of the Republic of Korea.
6.) The United States Armed Forces in Korea are members of a containment operation of a viable enemy as well as assistance and defense to a nation resulting from the Armistice Agreement of 1953 (temporary halt to open hostilities with no surrender, peace treaty, or other agreement) negotiated with the assistance and support of the United Nations.
7.) U.S. and UK Armed Forces in Korea during patrol activity and guard duty at all times wear/wore combat attire including helmets, battle dress uniforms, carry loaded weapons and ammunition, communications devices, other required gear and they remain(ed) on a high alert status equal to that found in other UN Operations everywhere else in the world..
8.) Armed Forces from the ROK, United States, United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Greece, Turkey, Thailand, Philippines, Ethiopia, and France still have a military presence in South Korea.
Please, whatever advice you can give, would be appreciated. A letter would even be helpful, but that’s a bit much to ask for just one man.
This is despicable. Free press? Not in Barry’s America. Free exchange of ideas and thoughts? Not in Barry’s America. Conservatives? Not in Barry’s America. The lunatic, leftwing, whackjobs who dominate the main stream media apparently like the Constitution only when it suits their purpose. Check this out. Disgusting. I repeat the question that Greg asks over Black Velvet Bruce Li: “How Soon Before the Gulags are Built?”
For some reason, the embed is not working with Windows Live Writer. Please, follow this link to watch another example of government arrogance and hubris.
I am beginning to think a peaceful march on Washington is in order here.
UPDATE: Pay particular attention to the phrase “and fix the Standard of Weights and Measures;”. This phrase is intended for a system of money based upon a precious commodity, i.e. gold. We think of weights and measures as simply, gallons, feet, etc, but this was included in this particular clause for a reason. The Founders knew that gold was to be the standard by which the new nation to purchase items, etc. This clause not only grants power to coin money and to regulate its value, but to also determine the measure of the money by weight and its measure.
ARTICLE I, Section 8 provides that:
Section. 8. The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;
To borrow Money on the credit of the United States;
To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes;
To establish an uniform Rule of Naturalization, and uniform Laws on the subject of Bankruptcies throughout the United States;
To coin Money, regulate the Value thereof, and of foreign Coin, and fix the Standard of Weights and Measures;
The Federal Reserve is a PRIVATE institution. The Constitution clearly enumerates that Congress shall have the power to coin money, AND to regulate the value thereof. This Constitutional authority has been usurped by an unconstitutional institution. There is no Constitutional authority for the abdication of this duty by Congress. It is my assertion that the Federal Reserve be abolished and authority to regulate the monetary policies of the US be returned to the United States Congress.
Perhaps one of the most decorated military units in the United States armed forces, the 1st Marine Division has a long and storied history.
History of 1st Marine Division
The Old Breed
1st Marine Division
(Revised March 2006)
1st MarDiv Staff SecretaryThe 1st Marine Division was activated aboard the battleship Texas on 1 February 1941. It is the oldest, largest, and most decorated division in the United States Marine Corps, with nine Presidential Unit Citations (PUCs).
The 1st Marine Division is comprised of Headquarters Battalion, the 1st, 5th, 7th, and 11th Marine Regiments, 1st Reconnaissance Battalion, 1st and 3d Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalions, 1st Tank Battalion, and 3d Assault Amphibian Battalion. These units represent a combat-ready force of more than 22,000 Marines and Sailors.
Division regiments were in existence as early as March 8, 1911, when the 1st Marines were formed at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. It saw action in Haiti in 1915, in the Dominican Republic in 1916, and throughout the Caribbean during World War I. The 5th Marines was created in Vera Cruz, Mexico July 13, 1914. It served in Santo Domingo in 1925 and participated in 15 major engagements during World War I. These included Belleau Wood, Chateau and St. Mihiel. On Aug. 11, 1917, 7th Marines was activated in Philadelphia, Penn. It spent the duration of World War I in Cuba and was disbanded after the war. It was reactivated in 1941. The 11th Marines was formed in January 1918 at Quantico, Va., as a light artillery regiment. The regiment went to France as an infantry unit, providing a machine gun company and a guard company. Decommissioned and reactivated twice between world wars, the regiment again served as infantry in Nicaragua. Re-formed in 1940 as a full-fledged artillery unit, 11th Marines joined 1st Marine Division.
Medal of Honor winners for heroism on Guadalcanal at a formation on 21 May 1943 were, from left, MajGen Alexander A. Vandegrift, Col. Merritt A. Edson, 2ndLt. Mitchell Paige and Platoon Sergeant John Basilone.
The Guadalcanal campaign in 1942 was the first major American Pacific campaign in World War II and the first time the 1st Marine Division conducted combat operations as a division. The Division’s actions during this operation won it the first of three World War II PUCs. 1st Marine Division also won PUCs for the battles of Peleliu and Okinawa. Three weeks after Japan surrendered, the Division was dispatched to North China for occupation duty. While in China, the Division had numerous encounters with the Chinese Communists.
“The Old Breed,” as the Division became known, provided the Pusan Fire Brigade when war broke out in Korea and then was chosen to land at Inchon on 15 September 1950. The Division subsequently fought into the mountains around the Chosin Reservoir. The Chinese Communists suffered more than 37,500 casualties trying to stop the Marines’ march out of the “Frozen Chosin.” These battles, and those that followed between April and September, earned the Division its fourth, fifth, and sixth PUCs.
The 2d Battalion, 1st Marines deployed to Guantanamo Bay for two months in 1962 during the Cuban Missile Crisis. More than 11,000 Marines of the 5th Marine Expeditionary Brigade participated in the naval blockade which forced the withdrawal of the missiles from Cuba.
A landing zone is hastily prepared for a Marine helicopter and guarded by members of the 7th Marine Regiment during Operation Stockton near Da Nang, Vietnam in July 1967.
In 1965, 7th Marines participated in the first major engagements for American ground troops in South Vietnam. March 1966 saw 1st Marine Division Headquarters established at Chu Lai. By June, the entire Division was in South Vietnam; its zone of operation – the southern two provinces of I Corps – Quang Tin and Quang Ngai. Between March 1966 and May 1967, the Division conducted 44 named and unnamed operations. Major engagements included Operations HASTINGS and UNION I and II. In these operations, 1st Marine Division units decisively defeated the enemy. During the 1968 Tet Offensive, the Division was involved in fierce fighting with both Viet Cong and North Vietnamese Army elements. It successfully beat back and decimated every enemy assault in its area of operations, pursuing the enemy into his sanctuaries. It was during this period that the Division earned its seventh and eighth PUCs.
This is taken directly from the 1st Marine Division website and with thanks. This only includes up to the Vietnam War. For more information about the 1st MarDiv, go to their website above.
