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Fred Smith is in an agitated state. He's just returned from a Washington Redskins game -- played in FedEx field in Washington -- and the team has been upset by the St. Louis Rams. 'It was just awful,' he grouses. 'My son's one of the coaches, and he was ready to jump off the ledge of the stadium.'
Larry Grathwohl recalled his experience in the 1982 documentary 'No Place to Hide,' noted the weblog Confederate Yankee.
Scarcely three months into that assignment, however, I was recalled to Washington and named the president’s national security adviser. Just after midnight on Friday, Oct. 21, I was awakened by a call from Vice President George H. W. Bush, who reported that several East Caribbean states had asked the United States to send forces to the Caribbean island of Grenada to prevent the Soviet Union and Cuba from establishing a base there. I called the president and Secretary of State George Shultz, who were on a golfing trip in Augusta, Ga., and received approval to have our forces prepare to land within 72 hours.
Several blogs, including Powerline, previously documented that while running for the Illinois state Senate in 1996 as a Democrat, Obama actively sought and received the endorsement of the socialist-oriented New Party, with some blogs claiming Obama was a member of the controversial party.
At last, someone takes up the issue of the nearly forgotten elephant in the living room. 'Candidates On Fighting Islamic Extremism,' from CBS, October 23 (thanks to Twostellas):
