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American Profiles of Valor / Mark Alexander / December 5, 2025

Profiles of Valor: SSgt William Pitsenbarger (USAF)

“There was only one man on the ground that day that would have turned down a ride out of that hellhole — and that man was Pitsenbarger.”

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Pollaganda — media polls as instruments of propaganda — May 12, 2006
What would a conservative Republican Party look like? — May 5, 2006
Memo to Beltway gasbags — it’s called supply and demand — April 28, 2006
General Discontent — April 21, 2006
Resurrection Day 2006: Hidden Liberty — April 13, 2006
Profiles of Valor: Farewell CPL Desmond Doss (USA) — April 7, 2006
E pluribus unum? A Nation No More — April 7, 2006
The unthinkable — perhaps the inevitable — March 31, 2006
Operation Iraqi Freedom — Just the facts, please — March 24, 2006
The Politics of Disparity — March 17, 2006
Entertainment as Indoctrination — March 10, 2006
Speaker of the House…Nancy Pelosi? — March 3, 2006
The Port of Public Opinion — February 24, 2006
The Lincoln Legacy Revisited — February 17, 2006
Some Republicans ARE Conservative — February 10, 2006
2006 SOTU: Defense and Democracy… — February 3, 2006
All the treason fit to print… — January 27, 2006
Civil liberties v. al-Qa’ida nukes — guess who wins? — January 20, 2006
Kennedy questions Alito’s integrity? — January 13, 2006
National Security Primer 1: Understanding ‘Jihadistan’ — January 10, 2006
National Security Primer 2: OEF and OIF — January 9, 2006
National Security Primer 3: The Long War — January 8, 2006
National Security Primer 4: The Nuke Threat — January 7, 2006
Bug ‘em and bag ‘em! — January 6, 2006
National Security Primer 5: The Real Islam — January 6, 2006
Christmas 2005: The Perfect Gift — December 22, 2005
The name ‘American’… — December 16, 2005
Neither flat nor fair… — December 9, 2005
Staying the course… — December 2, 2005
GIVING THANKS for HIS Signal and Manifold Mercies — November 22, 2005
Call them what they are — TRAITORS… — November 18, 2005
The TRUTH about Iraq’s WMD — November 11, 2005
Veterans Day — Duty, Honor, Country — November 11, 2005
Dear Mr. President — A letter from Teddy Kennedy… — November 4, 2005
An epic battle — PLEASE… — October 28, 2005
Pandemic kills ??? million worldwide… — October 21, 2005
Republican Revolution? — October 14, 2005
The epic battle that wasn’t… — October 7, 2005
The Tort Tax… — September 30, 2005
Disastrous politics… — September 23, 2005
A ‘Living Constitution’ for a Dying Republic — September 16, 2005
A Referendum on Post 9/11 Planning — September 9, 2005
Observations on the decent, the dire and the despicable — September 2, 2005
We are ALL ‘Anti-War’ — August 26, 2005
We should stay in Iraq — for decades — August 19, 2005
I will support and defend… So help me God — August 12, 2005
Spitting on The Few, The Proud… — August 5, 2005

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