QPT

- The Quill Pen Ten -

November 9, 2007 - November 15, 2007

Welcome to another edition of the Quill Pen Ten. Veterans of the OpinionEditorials.com community know it as the QPT. The QPT is a collection of the ten most-interesting and most-popular op-eds of the preceding week.

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Presenting the Quill Pen Ten:

Chuck Muth: Troops Deserve More Than Bumper Sticker Support
For this Veterans Day weekend I decided to read “Lone Survivor: The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of SEAL Team 10.” The story is about four U.S. Navy SEALs whose June 2005 mission in northern Afghanistan “was to capture or kill a notorious al Qaeda leader known to be ensconced in a Taliban stronghold surrounded by a small but heavily armed force. Less than 24 hours later, only one of those Navy SEALs remained alive,” Marcus Luttrell...

Lee P. Butler: Moderate Giuliani Is Not Hillary To Liberal Media’s Chagrin
“So the most unlikely pairing of the presidential campaign is unveiled, with the Rev. Pat Robertson flashing a television-practiced smile at Rudolph W. Giuliani, the thrice-married, pro-abortion-rights former mayor of New York,” recently wrote Michael Powell in the New York Times...

Marsha West: A Family’s Rock-solid Faith in God
Not a day goes by that I don’t pray for 14-year-old Christian Barker. Eighteen months ago Christian was diagnosed with a rare form of leukemia that is unresponsive to chemotherapy. My daughter knows the Barker’s so when she heard Christian was sick she called and asked me to pray for God to heal him. She also suggested I visit Christian’s web page at CaringBridge to read his story and look at the photos. I took her suggestion and visited the site, sent him an email, and added my name to the mailing list...

Chris Adamo: Jindal Victory: A Strategic GOP Misstep?
The election of Congressman Bobby Jindal (R.-LA) as Governor of Louisiana should stand as the defining picture of the current political landscape, and how it must be navigated by aspiring Republican candidates if they are to have ay hope of victory. In a state where, despite going “red” in the past two presidential elections, the Democrat Party machine has dominated to the point of being a political monopoly for decades (only two other Republicans have held the governor’s office since Reconstruction), Jindal won an overwhelming victory against a field of eleven opponents...

Charlotte Laws: Stephen Colbert Smokes Out Political Ickiness
I’m no slacker when it comes to politics, but I almost fell off my balance ball when I saw Carol Fowler, the chair of the South Carolina Democratic party, tell Stephen Colbert that her little committee of 16 didn’t think he was “quite ready to be president.” I hate to be the Col-bearer of bad news, but in case you haven’t heard, they voted to keep him off the ballot...

Kevin Roeten: Prognostication: Hillary vs. Rudy for all the Marbles
It may be a bit early to make predictions. But if one looks at the polls today, and figuring no major gaffes, the final presidential election looks to be Hillary Clinton versus Rudy Giuliani. But there’s more to this election than meets the eye...

Joe Bell: Effort To Impeach Cheney A Pointless Political Gesture
Ohio Congressman Dennis Kucinich continues his quixotic campaign to be the Democrat’s presidential candidate by struggling to have Vice President Dick Cheney impeached. The effort will fail, as it should, but those who inhabit the fringe of the liberal landscape are excited by the possibility of a carnival spectacle. For liberals, politics is a playground where outrage is animatedly expressed, not a workshop where serious challenges are met...

Frank Salvato: A Nation Ignorant of Being at War
There can be little doubt that terrorist organizations have arrived on the shores of the United States of America. The thousands of lives lost on September 11, 2001 stand as testimony to this undeniable fact. The attacks signaled to the world that radical Islamofascists were serious in their declaration of war against the United States and her Western allies. An examination of Osama bin Laden’s 1996 fatwa – his declaration of war – indicates that this conflict is a generational conflict and a confrontation as we have never experienced before...

Mike Burleson: Terrorists get no Armistice in Iraq
Today I will celebrate Armistice and Veteran’s Day by concluding my comparison, started at the New Wars Blog in January, with the defeat of Kaiser Wilhelm’s Germany by the Allies in 1918, and our own impending triumph over Al Qaeda terrorists in Iraq in 2007...

Steve Yuhas: Veterans Day's Whole New Meaning for Me
There was a time in my life when Veterans Day meant little more than a day off of school, no mail and an inability to go to the bank. When I was serving in our military it was also a day that I took for granted since we would almost always have a 96 hour liberty and not have to work until Tuesday (somehow I usually ended up on duty - I think people were mad that I got Christmas off). Anyway, all of that began to change when people I knew began dying or were injured while defending freedom around the globe...

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