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Comment by Rex on June 7, 2010 at 9:52pm

Jim did i earn a spanking ? time outs don't work any more at my age. LMAO !

Comment by Rex on June 7, 2010 at 9:23pm

Daddy did you plug the hole yet ?

Comment by Rex on June 7, 2010 at 9:21pm

Comment by Kirk Brooks on May 31, 2010 at 8:52am

Exactly Cora, that which we subsidize gets bigger, that which we subtract from gets smaller. Have a great day everyone and remember to say a prayer for the fallen, it's the least we can do for them.

Comment by Rex on May 31, 2010 at 8:39am

Have a GREAT DAY EVERY ONE.
May GOD BLESS them on this special day !

Comment by Rex on May 31, 2010 at 8:37am

Comment by Rex on May 29, 2010 at 8:26am

Have a good weekend every one lets all remember what the weekend is really for !

Comment by Rex on May 29, 2010 at 8:23am

Comment by Robert Hartman on May 23, 2010 at 8:35pm

If required by law is not a law being broken, that is why we were given a republic, a nation governed by law. What are the penalties for this infraction, the article doesn't go there.At least it is a bipartisan issue.

Comment by Mike Stark on May 22, 2010 at 9:22am

Another political caricature bites the dust

"In my opinion, Kagan's positions never affected the services' ability to recruit at Harvard. Behind the scenes, the dean ensured that our tiny HLS Veterans Association never lacked for funds or access to facilities. Recruiters simply could not use the school's Office of Career Services. Does this demonstrate an "activist" streak, as some have proclaimed? I don't think so. The school's policy against discrimination was akin to black-letter law. If anything, Kagan was an activist in ensuring that military recruiters had viable access to students and facilities despite the official ban. A Boston-area recruiter later told me that the biggest hurdle he faced recruiting at Harvard Law was trying to answer the students' strangely intellectual questions.

Kagan's Veterans Day dinners became a tradition. During my final year at Harvard, she treated the veterans to dinner at a restaurant in Cambridge. (Military service has its perks.) Again, there was no agenda other than to thank us for our service and to ask about our military experiences. Over wine and dinner, Kagan listened attentively to our war stories. I later told her that her blunt style of leadership would have served her well in the Marines. I took to calling her "Colonel Kagan" whenever we crossed paths on campus.

During nine years of service in the Marine Corps, I have received a fair number of thanks from friends and strangers alike. I received perhaps the most thoughtful thanks of all just before graduating from Harvard Law School: The supposedly "anti-military" Elena Kagan sent me a handwritten note thanking me for my military service and wishing me luck in my new life as a judge advocate."

Of course this Marine captain's opinion of Kagan the person has no bearing on her judicial philosophy. Judicial philosophy and experience or lack thereof are reasonable fodder for the confirmation process. But can we drop the caricature of Elena Kagan as an anti-military out of the mainstream dyke?

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