Today marks the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Boy Scouts of America. Happy Birthday, Scouts!

He is remembered as the "Lion of Fallujah," a leader who took many risks in order to save the lives of others. Then-Marine Capt. Douglas Zembiec, a Naval Academy graduate born in Hawaii, served with Echo Company in war-torn Fallujah, where he and his men helped quell violence that rocked the city for some time.

Possible topic: The Obama budget.

There was a time when Americans had the right stuff and boldly led the world in going where no man had gone before. Apparently, that time has passed. Barack Obama's 2011 NASA budget request will effectively terminate America's manned space flight program, leaving space exploration leadership to the Chinese and the Russians.

At the National Prayer Breakfast Thursday, the commander in chief not only got a sailor's name wrong, but couldn't figure out how to pronounce "corpsman." Yes, he said "corpse-man." Twice.

Four Apache helicopter pilots from Company B, 1st Battalion, 149th Aviation Regiment (Attack), 36th Combat Aviation Brigade (CAB), were providing air support for Marine and Iraqi soldiers in Ramadi as the ground forces searched for insurgents in the heavily populated town.

Possible topic: The State of the Union Address.

James O'Keefe, mastermind of the series of videos exposing ACORN, and three other men were arrested for posing as telephone company employees and gaining access to the telephone closet serving the New Orleans district office of Louisiana Democrat Sen. Mary Landrieu.

Each year, the Super Bowl features the best of the best squaring off to determine a champion. We're talking about the ads, of course.

Beer companies and stock traders usually dominate, but this year, it's Focus on the Family that's generating the pre-game buzz.

Early one morning at Shkin Fire Base in Afghanistan, four miles from Pakistan's border, a platoon of American forces encountered heavy enemy fire from the surrounding mountains. While the base took random gunfire almost daily, this attack was well-planned and relentless; it would last 12 hours, with insurgents using AK-47s, RPGs and mortars.

While on patrol to clear insurgent areas near the Syrian border as part of Operation Matador, then-Lance Cpl. Mark Camp, serving with Company L, 3rd Battalion, 25th Marines, stood in the hatch of an amphibious assault vehicle closely surveying his surroundings. Children had been playing in the area, but as the convoy rolled further along, Camp noticed the sudden, strange silence.

The Transportation Security Administration has been without a chief since Barack Obama's inauguration, but it took the undi-bomber's attempted Christmas Day massacre to bring this to the attention of Senate Democrats.

But, surprise, Barack Obama's nominee, Erroll Southers, is unfit for command.

Lance Cpl. Christopher Adlesperger of Albuquerque, New Mexico, was on a "clearing mission" in Fallujah with Kilo Company, 3rd Battalion, 5th Marines, when he and his team encountered heavy enemy fire. His point man was killed and two other Marines were injured. Despite shrapnel wounds, Adlesperger advanced the attack against the jihadis, while single-handedly clearing the stairs and moving the wounded to safety.

Soon after the launch of Operation Iraqi Freedom, the 1st Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment overtook an Iraqi stronghold in Baghdad. It was a fierce battle that lasted all night and into the following day. Maj. Armando Espinoza (then Capt. Espinoza), an aircraft commander serving with the Marine Medium Helicopter Squadron 268, piloted a CH-46E helicopter that was sent in to evacuate the wounded in the midst of heavy enemy gunfire.

While the proposed takeover of health care continues to flail in the Senate and fall in the polls, Democrats stubbornly forge ahead anyway. For a poll-driven party, this is unusual and seemingly self-destructive behavior. Indeed, as the Examiner's Byron York put it, "Democrats' race to pass national health care seems irrational -- even suicidal." The question is, why are they so persistent?