Let’s start with a stop at The Anchoress where she ponders the meaning of the Left’s infatuation with George Bush’s trips to Crawford:

You have to really, really hate a man to begrudge him time in his own home. You have to be a very small, niggling sort of person to do that.

That’s what I love about this blogger — although she can post long, she often “nails it” in just a line or two, and did she ever nail it here. Just above this post, she highlights an insightful piece by Varifrank about out military drawdown in Germany.

Now that the cause is lost, America is pulling troops out of occupation duty. The foreign policy established by a President that many once considered being illegitimate and has inflamed many countries including former allies to break publicly against the nation, is finally at an end.

Of course, I’m talking of the US Army leaving Germany.
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And now, were going home. Not out of anger, not because we’ve been driven out by “German freedom fighters”, but because the war waged against Germany by the Soviet Union is over and our purpose there has been fulfilled. Our troops are needed elsewhere. We’ve kept our promise to the German people and they’ve renounced warfare as a method of policy.

There will be no reporter “know it all” touting our departure as a failure of the Truman Doctrine, because our departure shows that it worked. We bet on the German people to be able to overcome all that they had going against them, and the bet has paid off.

We are “pulling out” of Germany, but you won’t hear it described that way. The term “pulling out” is reserved for special uses in the mind of the press.

This is just a small excerpt of a wonderful whole, which finalizes with an analysis of why our “pullout” of Iraq starting as early as next year is not a “defeat”, but the logical end of a successful campaign. Most of the men and women of the Greatest Generation that fought in WWII are no longer with us, and we are now finally “pulling out”! Think that one over a few times! I highly recommend going and reading all of it!

Fellow SCBA blogger Lowell Brown at The Hedgehog Blog examines the MSM’s disdain for almost anything religious (make that anything pertaining to Christian religions — the MSM is in love with Islam, Buddhism, Atheism) with an analysis of the recent Atlantic Monthly article on Mitt Romney by Sridhar Pappu.

For me, the bottom line here is not about Mormons or Jews or Catholics or sacred symbols. It is about the deeply ingrained disdain certain journalistic elites in our country have toward anything that smacks of deep religious commitment, or of the aspirations many religious people have toward higher values and standards of personal behavior.

Well said, Lowell. And, BTW, I learned quite a bit from this post.

I’m now off to the weekend errands — will continue adding to this over the rest of the weekend. (db)

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