Lorenc Peter Elfred Freuchen was a good (and bad ass) dude

 

Some people are bigger than life, and then there are guys like Lorenc Peter Elfred Freuchen.

I did not know about Freuchen, but he was a bad ass! He was like Sisu.

That coat is made from a polar bear he killed.

AoSHQ: Morning Report 07.17.24

Happy Birthday Milton Friedman

Instapundit: Happy 110th Birthday Milton Friedman and Remembering Friedman

Friedman on Donahue and Friedman Clips

We could use Milton now

Transterrestrial Musings: Milton Friedman

There is a big Supreme Court Case being argued today...👨🏾‍⚖️

 

Everyone is focused on Clarence Thomas today. Arguments are over. A decision will be months out. 

While waiting, watch Created Equal. Justice Clarence Thomas is a real conservative hero. 

Instapundit: Justice Thomas asks tough questions, 10 issues today during oral argument, Supreme Court determining the fate of Roe v. Wade, and Epoch Times: Clarence Thomas's moment arrives

Legal Insurrection: So is SCOTUS seeking middle ground?

SCOTUS Blog: Roe v. Wade hangs in the balance 

EBL: Clarence Thomas: In His Own Words 👨🏾‍⚖️

AoSHQ: Morning Report 12.01.21

Ideal Supreme Court pic.twitter.com/QCdL09YyAr

— Benny (@bennyjohnson) December 1, 2021

Angelo Codevilla, RIP 😢

Instapundit: Michael Walsh: Angelo Codevilla, RIP

A real loss to rational thinking. RIP.

AoSHQ: Angelo Codeville, RIP, Weak Cuckshed Pundits Need to STFU, and Morning Report 09.22.21

Newsmax: Angelo Codeville: 1943 - 2021, RIP

American Greatness: Our Indispensable Man

Powerline: Angelo Codeville, RIP

It is with heavy hearts that we share the news that our beloved friend, mentor, and senior fellow Angelo Codevilla passed away last night. We’ve lost another great soul at a time when we’re most needful of his wisdom and guidance. R.I.P. pic.twitter.com/Wuu105xe3L

— Claremont Institute (@ClaremontInst) September 21, 2021

Happy Birthday Rush Limbaugh 🎂

 

Happy Birthday Rush Limbaugh

Rush Limbaugh has been a solid conservative voice and leader for decades. I think back how he was with William F. Buckley (here is what he wrote on Buckley's passing).  Rush has been unwavering on conservatism.  Rush has also been a happy warrior for those principles.  

Our prayers to Rush and his family with his current battle with cancer. We wish him a full recovery. Happy 70th Birthday.  

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Rush Limbaugh: If Democrats Can Erase Us from Social Media, Can They Erase Our Votes?, What Trump Supposedly Said to Incite Violence, The Media Melted Down When I Deleted My Twitter Account, Rep. Hank Johnson, Without Evidence, Claims Trump Is Encouraging Violence on January 20th, Never Forget Donald Trump’s Accomplishments, Wake the Hell Up and Understand What We’re Up Against!, Communists Come Out in American Media, Democrats Want to Make Sure Trump Can’t Run Again, John Brennan Demands Republicans Renounce Trump, A Brief History of the Last Few Months, and Kristi Noem’s Warning for the GOP

EBL: Who is driving the Republican Party? 😬🙀🤯, Defiant MAGA Saturday☀️, Kipling said it best..., and Joan Jett: Fake Friends

Mark Steyn: Shaidle on Speech and the Unhappy Left

AoSHQ: Morning Report 01.12.21

Lou Gehrig: The Luckiest Man On The Face Of The Earth 😢⚾

He was a young man in his thirties, and he showed bravery, grace, and gratitude.

MLB: The Luckiest Man 😢⚾

July 4, 1939

AoSHQ: Morning Report 07.04.19

TOM: Happy Fourth of July, You Fascists!

Mark Steyn: July 4th: You're A Grand Old Flag

EBL: Bill Bowerman, RIP and Lee Iacocca, RIP

Proof Positive: Quote du jour and S.Sgt. David Bellavia, Medal of Honor

Bill Bowerman, Nike's Founder, RIP

Bill Bowerman, 10th Mountain Division, WWII Combat Veteran

One Silver Star, Four Bronze Stars, service in Italy

I am going to take a wild guess Bill Bowerman did not have a problem with the Betsy Ross flag. Claims that this flag is racist are ludicrous (Betsy Ross was a Quaker). This slander is deeply insulting to those who fought under the flag and both highly decisive and cynical. What is Nike thinking? It both saddens and infuriates me. The decisions makers at Nike behind this should be ashamed of themselves. It is not just a bad decision, but a profoundly wrong one.  

I am a huge supporter of free speech. People and think or say what they want. While they have that right, that does not make them right.  

Bill Bowerman was a hero, teacher, and innovator. Thank God for men like this when we needed them. May he rest in peace.  

Instapundit: Ted Cruz Reponds To Colin Kaepernick, Sarah Hoyt: And Our Flag Was Still There, PJ Media: The 1776 flag isn't the problem, anti-American leftists are, Why Nike's capitulation about the flag matters, What ever it is, I'm against it, and Red Skelton on the Pledge

TOM: Happy Fourth of July, You Fascists! and In The Mailbox 07.03.19

Mark Steyn: Song for the Season: You're A Grand Old Flag

Conservative Review: Betsy Ross was a great American

VC Reporter: What would Bill Bowerman do?

AoSHQ: Morning Report 07.04.19

Outside: Tenth Mountain Division

Proof Positive: Quote du jour

Bill Bowerman Biography

EBL: Betsy Ross

Lee Iacocca, RIP

Lee Iacocca: What I Believe

Lee Iacocca died today at 94. RIP. A great businessman, patriot, and philanthropist.

Car and Driver: Lee Iacocca dead at 94

NY Times: Lee Iacocca dead at 94

Blogmocracy: Lee Iacocca, RIP

Instapundit: Lee Iacocca, RIP

I will drive my Mustang with the top down in his honor tomorrow.
OK, I do that just about every day, but tomorrow is in his honor. https://t.co/CxUtOq1A9P

— Don Surber (@donsurber) July 3, 2019

Happy #4thofJuly 🇺🇸

Don't be disrespecting the USA on its birthday or you will be answering to this: pic.twitter.com/ipgcLfxlvj

— Evi L. Bloggerlady (@MsEBL) July 4, 2019

Charles Krauthammer, RIP

Charles Krauthammer...

Powerline: Charles Krauthammer, RIP

Don Surber : Charles Krauthammer, RIP

The Lid: The Most Essential Krauthammer Article

RIP Charles, I will miss your wisdom and commentary

Instapundit: Mark Tapscott: We will all miss Charles Krauthammer

Legal Insurrection Charles Krauthammer passes away, he will be sorely missed...

TOM: In The Mailbox 06.21.18: Twitchy: Tributes For Pulitzer Prize Winning Conservative Pundit Charles Krauthammer, Dead At 68

Charles Krauthammer: Goodbye

I like Charles Krauthammer a lot. This is very sad news.  

My prayers and best wishes to him and his family. I hope his doctors are wrong (and he is with us longer) 

Instapundit: He lived the life he intended

Legal Insurrection: Charles Krauthammer Shares Dire Prognosis

TOM: In The Mailbox 06.08.18: American Power: Things That Matter

Power Line: The Indispensable Pundit and Charles Krauthammer – My Fight Is Over

Happy Birthday Rush Limbaugh

Rush's show has done tremendous good in promoting conservatism. 

Bill Buckley recognized it. 

Happy Birthday

Look back

Aridog RIP

Aridog and his daughter Kim

Aridog was a long time commentator and a digital friend 

He was also a patriot and a stand up mensch 

RIP

Masculinity: Casablanca and Game of Thrones (spoilers) and Heroics

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TOM: The Myth of the Masculinity Crisis and some good advice from the Onion Knight

I also watched Casablanca the other night. I am also following Game of Thrones. I saw some similarities.  

Heroics are not gender specific. Both men and women can be (and are) heroes. But there are statistical differences between the genders (both good and bad) that cannot be denied.

The Art of Manliness

Last Man Heroics (what if there were no men)

Is Captain America Civil War about Freedom and Liberty?

Sometimes violence is justified...

Instapundit:  A civilized society does not punish those who intervene

Allahpundit has his take here 

Instapundit: It is a sad state in the world where you have to teach children to speak out to you, but not to the police, Obama releases a 9/11 highjacker from Gitmo, and let Obama veto a law giving college students due process.

EBL: Was Ahmed Mohammed's "Clock" A Media Hoax and what about #AliMohammedAlNimr?

Interview with Cody:

Robert Duvall on being a man

The Art of Manliness

Freedom is Never Free...

George Washington never gave up when things got tough, neither should you.

Instapundit: Klavan: Cowboy Up Conservatives and Driscoll: Go Enjoy Some Fireworks With the Kids and conservative candidates need to understand the media (some do, some don't)
Lem/Trooper York: Let them eat cake...oh wait
AoSHQ/Weirddave: Birthright

AmPowBlog: Vigilance is Patriotic (Michelle Malkin) and Let's Get This Party Started
Wombat: Louder with Crowder 

Mark Steyn: Live Free Or Die? New Hampshire's Spirit of Independence

Instapundit: Independence Day Links, Roger Simon's the Last Fourth, get in the spirit with song and dance, go home Barack, you're drunk, the State of Oregon takes on the roll of the British this 4th of July, how to talk to the non leftist the other 364 days of the year, Democracy-Whiskey-Sexy, practice free speech, and what the Declaration really claimed
Lem's Place: Condoleeza Rice and Jenny Oaks Baker play Amazing Grace to benefit Wounded Warriors and God Bless America

Remember Liberty and Independence!

A great scene from HBO's John Adams*

*While generally well done, HBO's show runners and writers did take some creative license and not all roads go to Braintree

Darlene Click: Happy 4th

AoSHQ: The Declaration read aloud
Camp of the Saints: Declaration Day
Mark Steyn: This is just sad...Henry Knox and Ethan Allen's Green Mountain Boys are weeping in their graves

There is a word for this sort of person…

Mensch | מענטש

Instapundit
Jazz Shaw
TOM

Truth Revolt: Al Arabiya Editor Says Bibi Right, Obama Wrong?
Mark Steyn: The enemy of my enemy is my…
Chip Ahoy: Pelosi and Friends (there is a different word for a person like Nancy Pelosi)
Instapundit: Stiffening spines with the Democrats? and Showing this is a "lose lose" and Obama's Middle East Advisor Dennis Ross agrees with Bibi

The world is full of guys…be a man

The Other McCain brings up an old but good story about how a grandfather saves his granddaughter from rapist thugs. Then Robert Stacy McCain explores the mental illness evidenced in the feminist community. The only good thing you can say about this is they are (hopefully) a small minority.

The Other McCain then reports on the story of a Teenage hooker who is claiming she was abused by a Democrat friend of Bill Clinton Jeffrey Epstein (and Prince Andrew). Did you know that alleged rapist Bill Clinton and alleged rapist Jeffrey Epstein were pals. Jeffrey Epstein was popular with lot of Democrats before his fall and disgrace. Ace has a feel good story of how to deal with rapists (which RSM liked a lot)

 So as a palate cleanser from all this madness, go watch this film and be a man… (or a woman looking for a man)

The best of The Art of Manliness 2014

Samwell Tarly Game of Thrones: "I made a promise and I have to keep it, because that's what men do…"

Well said

Finale (potential spoilers)

President Obama refuses to release information on the Benghazi attack: What did the President know and when did he know it?

President Obama is getting defensive and peevish.

Retired Admiral James Lyons demands full disclosure on Benghazi.

Father of slain SEAL Tyrone Woods, Charles Woods comments: 

“My question of the president would be this: Your Honor, I respect your office as president. But if this attack on American citizens, on American soil, happened 2,000 miles away from Washington, D.C. — say in Los Angeles or in Seattle — would you have waited seven hours before you sent the first airplane? Would you have waited seven hours until the attack was over? Would you have waited a couple of days until you had all of the videos and all the information before you responded in a responsible military way?” … “This is about honor, courage and about love for America. And remember this, Mr. President: My son and the others died heroes and it’s better to die the death of a hero than it is to live the life of a coward. If you are responsible for the death of my son, I forgive you, I love you. I also love America.”

I agree with Serr8d, this should be President Obama's Waterloo.
Jonah Goldberg explains why most of the Mainstream Media is not covering this story...
The Anchoress:  The lies by the Obama Administration and why is this not being questioned. 

Update:
Elizabeth Price Foley at Instapundit quotes Admiral Lyons calling this "un-American."
Protein Wisdom:  Obama is so offended you asked, he refuses to talk anymore.  

RT @bob_owens: "Your son's sacrifice saved my life."Charles Woods, revealing note from #Benghazi survivor.
— Melissa Clouthier (@MelissaTweets) October 30, 2012