Quotes

"Fascism and communism both promise "social welfare," "social justice," and "fairness" to justify authoritarian means and extensive arbitrary and discretionary governmental powers." - F. A. Hayek"

"Life is a Bungling process and in no way educational." in James M. Cain

Jean Giraudoux who first said, “Only the mediocre are always at their best.”

If you have ten thousand regulations, you destroy all respect for the law. Sir Winston Churchill

"summum ius summa iniuria" ("More laws, more injustice.") Cicero

As Christopher Hitchens once put it, “The essence of tyranny is not iron law; it is capricious law.”

"Government’s view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it." Ronald Reagan

"Law is where you buy it." Raymond Chandler

"Why did God make so many damn fools and Democrats?" Clarence Day

"If I feel like feeding squirrels to the nuts, this is the place for it." - Cluny Brown

"Oh, pshaw! When yu' can't have what you choose, yu' just choose what you have." Owen Wister "The Virginian"

Oscar Wilde said about the death scene in Little Nell, you would have to have a heart of stone not to laugh.

Thomas More's definition of government as "a conspiracy of rich men procuring their own commodities under the name and title of a commonwealth.” ~ Winston S. Churchill, A History of the English Speaking Peoples

“Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.” ~ Jonathon Swift

Wednesday, August 25, 2010

Bravery on a Different Battlefield - After Breast Cancer, Fox News' Griffin is back to the battlefield


Fox News' Griffin is back to the battlefield | Washington Examiner

Fox News' Griffin is back to the battlefield

By: Nikki Schwab and Katy Adams
Washington Examiner
08/24/10 9:00 PM EDT

Fox News Channel's National Security Correspondent Jennifer Griffin will return to work Wednesday after her yearlong battle with triple-negative breast cancer.

Griffin's return to the battlefield is a few weeks early, but she tells Yeas & Nays it's for an assignment she couldn't pass up.

"I was supposed to return to work after Labor Day, but when Gen. Stanley McChrystal unexpectedly stepped down and the defense secretary's office called and asked if I was ready to get back to work, I leapt at the offer to fly to Kabul immediately."

And so she did. Even though Griffin was undergoing treatment this year, she tells us she didn't stop following her beat. As soon as Gen. David Petraeus was nominated to take over as the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan, she wrote to him and requested an interview.

"Any journalist would have done the same," Griffin said. "We had a back-and-forth joke all year with him asking me in the darkest days of my chemotherapy about whether I was up for a run. So I sent him an e-mail saying, 'Sir, if you are up for it, I guess that run will need to be in Kabul."

Griffin was granted the first cable news one-on-one interview with Petraeus in his new position in Afghanistan.

She said she's a little bruised but feels good about coming back to reporting.

"If there is any group in the world that 'gets' why it is psychologically so important to return to the battlefield after being taken out of action, it's the military. I couldn't think of a better place to jump back into the fray."

You can catch her interviews Wednesday and Thursday.


Read more at the Washington Examiner: http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/politics/blogs/yeas-and-nays/Fox-News_-Griffin-is-back-to-the-battlefield-558686-101427359.html#ixzz0xffj1N3i

Jennifer Griffin Returns; Reports from Afghanistan

It's a big day for Fox News and national security correspondent Jennifer Griffin, who returned to work on-air this morning after being diagnosed with Triple Negative breast cancer last fall. In April, she announced that she was officially "cancer free."

Griffin traveled down to Kabul -- her first trip to Afghanistan since the diagnosis -- where she interviewed General David Petraeus for a piece that aired in the 9amET hour of "America's Newsroom." At the close of her report, anchor Gregg Jarrett responded, "Just like you to jump right back in with both feet into the middle of it and we are thrilled here at Fox to have you back.

Griffin has a detailed account of her trip back along with photos on her blog. (h/tJ$P) See some photos and video of her report after the jump.

Update: During "Studio B," Griffin had an touching and emotional exchange withShepard Smith discussing her first day back: see link

http://www.mediabistro.com/tvnewser/fnc/jennifer_griffin_returns_reports_from_afghanistan_171754.asp


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