Latin Liberty
Washington, D.C. – Oil-rich Venezuelan strongman Hugo Chavez has pulled out all the stops to protest the man he calls “the devil.” Well organized anti-American crowds are dogging President Bush at every stop during his week-long swing through Latin America. |
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 Scholarship Spotlight: Andrew Brooks
“My father was a great man - family oriented, patriotic and religious. I learned so much from him that I only wished he hadn’t passed away before I realized it, and I could thank him” says Freedom Alliance Scholarship recipient Andrew Brooks, of Elmendorf, who is a senior majoring in Agricultural Economics at Texas A&M University. <Read More> |
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The UN's Alliance of Anti-Americanism
Dulles, Virginia – Kofi Annan may have left the United Nations, but his legacy of America bashing lives on. More than a year before he stepped down as the international arbiter of right and wrong, Kofi Annan appropriated Rodney King’s plea of “can’t we all just get along,” and created a UN-sponsored initiative dubbed the “Alliance of Civilizations.” |
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Fraudulent News
Washington, D.C. – Thanks to the masters of the media, Americans now know more about how Anna Nicole Smith died than they do about terrorists dying to kill the rest of us. |
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Lions, Bears and Birds
Washington, D.C. – “The lion and the bear are hunting the eagle.” That’s how a refugee from Tehran’s reigning ayatollahs put it when he called me this week about recent developments in his homeland. |
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Diddling While Americans Die
Spotsylvania, Virginia – He was an American hero. On his second “tour of duty” in Iraq, he had already served in the Western Pacific and a prior combat tour in Afghanistan. On Friday afternoon, 16 February, when Sgt. Joshua Frazier, USMC, was laid to rest in the soil of his native Virginia, his comrades in arms from the 1st Battalion, 6th Marines were fighting terrorists on the mean streets of Ramadi, in Iraq’s bloody Al Anbar Province. |
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 "Colorado Technical University Pledges $1 Million in Full Tuition Scholarships for the Sons and Daughters of America's Military Heroes"
Colorado Springs, CO - The Freedom Alliance Scholarship Fund gratefully accepted a pledge of $1 million in full tuition scholarships made available by Colorado Technical University (CTU) for Freedom Alliance Scholarship recipients who wish to attend the university. A presentation ceremony was held at Fort Carson’s Kit Carson Memorial Statue and presided over by CTU’s President, Greg Mitchell, and Freedom Alliance President, Tom Kilgannon. <Read More>
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 Scholarship Spotlight: Christina Salter
“I admire my father so much and his dedication to his country has had a huge impact on my life” says Freedom Alliance Scholarship recipient Christina Salter, a freshman Biology and Pre-Veterinary Medicine major at the University of North Texas in Denton. “He showed me what it is to be proud of one’s country and he proved that in giving his life to protect his country. I am so proud of my Dad and what he has done.”<Read More> |
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Selling America's Heritage
Washington, DC – For more than 160 years the Smithsonian Institution made America’s remarkable history available to one and all... But not any more – and it’s an outrage that I’m taking personally. |
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Ki-moon to Ban Death Penalty
Dulles, Virginia – I suppose its still too early to put new UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in the same underclass as Kofi Annan. Kofi was as anti-American as they come, but the new UN boss is showing symptoms of AAD – American Appreciation Disorder – which afflicts most of the bureaucracy at Turtle Bay. |
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Purveyors of Pessimism
London, UK – Those who think that U.S. political and media elites have “exclusive rights” to negative perspectives on how the War on Terror is being fought need to visit this ancient capital of a once great empire. Here in London, the valor of 5,600 British troops in Afghanistan and roughly 7,000 in Iraq is rarely mentioned. |
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Mr. Bush's War
Dulles, Virginia – "We will hold the President accountable," Nancy Pelosi told ABC News in a recent interview about Iraq. Armed with poll numbers showing that 70 percent of the public disapproves of the way the President has managed the war effort, the new Speaker was only formalizing the position of her party for the past two years. |
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Who Cares?
Camp Lejeune, N.C. – The Marines and their families here at this sprawling base on the Carolina coast didn’t have much to say about the President’s State of the Union Address. For many of them, his address the week before had been more important. |
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Buy American
Washington, D.C. – It’s going to be one of the biggest “single buy” Air Force acquisitions since World War II – 179 aircraft – at a cost of $200 billion over a twenty year period. The plane – a “flying gas station” – will replace the half-century-old U.S. fleet of KC-135 and KC-10 refueling tankers. |
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Democrats and the Global Test
Dulles, Virginia – John Kerry may have been defeated in the 2004 presidential contest, but his "Global Test" doctrine – which states that America's national security must be administered by the United Nations – lives on. |
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Statement of Thomas P. Kilgannon on President Bush’s Iraq Speech
Dulles, Virginia – Last night President Bush committed America’s reputation and 20,000 additional servicemen to the outcome in Iraq. As numerous critics have pointed out, the President’s plan has its flaws, and it may not ultimately help the U.S. achieve a successful outcome. But the more those critics make that point, the more likely it is to become a self-fulfilling prophesy. |
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POTUS Gets Tough
Washington, D.C. – So he didn’t take my advice. Despite recommendations to the contrary in this column last week, President Bush announced on Wednesday night that he’s “committed more than 20,000 additional American troops to Iraq.” That’s the headline. But there’s a lot more to the story. |
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A Bad Ki-Moon Rising
Dulles, Virginia – "New U.N. chief defends death penalty for Hussein," read the headline in the Washington Post. Saying that the deposed and deceased Iraqi leader "was responsible for committing heinous crimes and unspeakable atrocities," Ban Ki-moon, the new Secretary-General of the United Nations, declared that the "issue of capital punishment is for each and every member state to decide."
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More Targets
Washington, D.C. – For months, advisors to President George W. Bush have been trying to convince the commander in chief that more U.S. troops in Iraq will improve prospects for victory. |
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Support Our Troops Christmas Project
 San Diego, C.A. – This Christmas, Freedom Alliance provided dinners at all the Naval base galleys throughout the San Diego metro-area, as well as gift cards to families at the local Marine Corps bases. The  pictures shown are Sailors enjoying Christmas dinner provided by Freedom Alliance at North Island air Station in Coronado, CA.
For more information about the Support Our Troops project, click here. |
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Notes from a War Diary
TQ Airbase, Iraq – Our FOX News Team is aboard a U.S. Marine C-130 aircraft, departing Iraq, headed for Kuwait – the eighth time we have left war-torn Mesopotamia this way. |
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Winning the War
Ramadi, Iraq – “We’re here to win.” That’s how a U.S. Marine corporal put it when I asked him what he was doing in Iraq. He spoke looking squarely into our TV camera – a more intimidating experience for him than the RPG fire he had just faced on the streets of this beleaguered city. |
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State of War
Ramadi, Iraq – “If everything went as planned, they wouldn’t call it ‘war.’” That was the tongue in cheek assessment of a U.S. Marine Major as to why our helicopter flight from Baghdad to Ramadi had been delayed for half a day. By the time we arrived on the LZ at this outpost of freedom it was the middle of an unusually cold, damp night. |
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Support Our Troops this Christmas 
As you read this email, I am on my eighth trip to Iraq. It is always an honor to live among America’s brave defenders of freedom – our soldiers, sailors, airmen, Guardsmen and Marines – who have left their families and are risking their lives to defeat the terrorists. |
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Back to Iraq
Washington, D.C. – It wasn’t supposed to be this way – packing up for an eighth trip to document the war in Iraq. The war I’m going back to was supposed to be over by now. I’ve said as much in this column and on the air in hundreds of broadcasts for FOX News Channel while embedded with U.S. and Iraqi troops. But it’s not over. |
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Feeling the Draft
Washington, D.C. – During the 2004 presidential campaign, the Democrat’s standard bearer, John “Study or Get Stuck in Iraq” Kerry, was fond of claiming that if President Bush got re-elected, he would reinstate the draft. |
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Hype and Hope
Washington, D.C. – It all sounded too good to be true – and now we know that it was. For a few days after the mid-term elections, leaders of the new Congressional majority talked like they really wanted to work with the Bush administration for the “common good.” But like so much in Washington, it’s now clear, that was just hype. |
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 Scholarship Spotlight: Valerie Sheffield
“My father, a brave man, gave the ultimate sacrifice, not only for our family, but for all other families,” says Valerie. “The sacrifice was both ultimate and painful to our hearts. It gave me the strength to further myself and push my limits,” she concluded. <Read More>
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Quo Vadis?
Washington, D.C. – “Where are you going?” According to the Apostle (John: 16:5), Christ urged his followers to ask that question shortly before the tumult of his arrest, trial, execution and resurrection. In the aftermath of this turbulent week, it’s a relevant line of inquiry for President Bush and the new leaders in Congress. |
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Flashback
Washington, D.C. – In my line of work – documenting the fortitude and perseverance of American soldiers, sailors, airmen, Guardsmen and Marines for FOX News – we often interrupt a story to inject a relevant earlier chronological event through the use of device called a “flashback.” |
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 Scholarship Spotlight: Sean Johnson
“I do not know how I can thank you enough for allowing me to benefit so dearly from this scholarship. But, I know that I will do my best by dedicating myself to schoolwork and continue to make not just my family proud, but also those who were instrumental in helping me achieve my goals, especially my step-father, Matt,” says Freedom Alliance Scholarship recipient Sean Johnson. <Read More>
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Vietnam & Iraq – Myth vs. Reality
Washington, D.C. – Much is being said and written these days about how the war in Iraq resembles the war in Vietnam. The theme began during the 2004 presidential campaign with Democrat presidential candidate John Kerry describing Iraq as a “quagmire” and demanding a “date certain” for a U.S. pull-out. |
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Back Door to Terror
Washington, D.C. – Since 9-11-01, Americans living along the U.S.-Mexican border have been warning that our porous frontier is a back door for terrorist entry into this country. Local, state and federal law enforcement officers, overwhelmed by the flow of human traffic across the border, have acknowledged the threat – and been widely ignored by the mainstream media and “official” Washington. |
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Insanity
Washington, D.C. – Albert Einstein is credited with defining insanity as “doing the same thing repeatedly and expecting a different outcome.” This Mr. Einstein is, of course, the Nobel physicist whose 1939 letter on atomic fission to President Franklin Roosevelt resulted in the Manhattan Project – and the development of the first A-bomb.
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