
John McCrae: In Flanders Fields
General Douglas MacArthur: Duty, Honor, Country
Pat Conroy: My Heart's Content
Patrick Camunes: From the Other Side
Reveille: A short film starring David Huddleston and James McEachin
This is really not so much a blog as it is a place for me to store links and things. I'm not known for my originality or profundity. My friends know that there is more punster than pundit in me.
French composer Maurice Jarre, best known for his music for Hollywood films, has died in Los Angeles at 84, after suffering from cancer.
Jarre, father of the composer Jean-Michel Jarre, rose to prominence relatively late in life.

The historic journey of Barack and Michelle Obama to the White House is memorialized in this fun yet fashionable paper doll book featuring the Obama family. For the millions who can't get enough of this remarkable first family, here's a book containing perforated press-out dolls of each family member and over 30 mix-and-match coordinated outfits and accessories featuring the Obamas:
--on vacation in Hawaii
--golfing at Camp David
--on election night
--at the extraordinary inauguration and Inaugural Ball
--traveling the world on foreign affairs trip
--rolling up their sleeves for a day of service
--relaxing on a Fourth of July picnic
plus much more!
Highlighting Barack’s uniquely professional, yet down-to-earth wardrobe that reflects his popular persona and Michelle's outstanding taste in fashion, as well as some of the adorable outfits worn by Malia and Sasha, this book is a must for anyone wanting that special "yes we can" kind of day, every day.

[ed. note: a number of you have written requesting I invite T. Coddington Van Voorhees VII back for another analysis of the sad state of the conservative movement. After some cajoling and a bottle of VSOP, he agreed.]
T. Coddington Van Voorhees VII
Editor, the National Topsider
Membership Chairman, The Newport Club
Much has been written about the fate of the conservative movement in the months since last I corresponded with you. I won't belabor the barrels of ink expended in the printing of its obituary, nor will I bore you with further reading of its entrails. Suffice it to say the grand old ship is in the doldrums, adrift in the electoral currents, with nary a harbor on the horizon. But it is time we leave such map room mopery aside and navigate a bold new course for the conservative armada. One needn't have a 400-year old heirloom scrimshaw sextant for this task; but, fortunately, I do.

No, this speech has never been delivered at a college or a university. It was written to protest the fact that such an invitation has never been offered! It has only been delivered on my radio show, printed in my book "The Terrible Truth About Liberals" and produced on a limited edition CD. The irony is that this commencement speech has been more widely distributed, and has been the subject of more comment than any commencement speech that actually has been delivered at any college or university in the past 50 years. ©Copyright 2001, 2002, 2003 by Neal Boortz.
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