Tip of the Hat

Tip of the Hat - House Republicans

Shortly before noon on Friday August 1, 2008 the US House of Representatives adjourned for a five week summer recess over the objections of Republicans who desperately tried to address the nation’s energy problems.  The adjournment motion passed by a single vote to the embarrassment of Mark Udall who had pledged to vote against it but [...]

Tip of the Hat: Col. Thomas H. Kirk, Retired U.S. Air Force

Tom Kirk is a veteran of both the Korean and Vietnam Wars.  On October 28, 1967 he was shot down and immediately captured by the North Vietnamese and held as a Prisoner of War in the infamous “Hanoi Hilton” for 5 ½ years until his release on March 14, 1973.
Following his return home Kirk said,”I [...]

Tip of the Hat- Mesa County Commissioners and the Independence Institute: The Defenders of our Colorado Constitution

Governor Ritter and the Democrat controlled state legislature tried to pull a fast one on the citizens of Colorado with SB 199.  With their “freeze” of property tax rates, the elected leaders planned to skim $1.5 billion or so in just the next five years from Coloradans without asking for approval at the ballot box.  [...]

Tip of the Hat - Irena Sendler, 1910-2008

A petite Polish woman credited with saving 2500 Jewish children’s lives from the Nazi’s Holocaust died May 12 at the age of 98.  Smuggling babies and young Jews out of the Warsaw Ghetto during a 30 month period, Irena Sendler led a small group of courageous Poles that risked their own life to save the [...]

Tip of the Hat – The Voorhis Jury

No one should have to endure criminal prosecution from their own government just for showing up to work and doing your job.  Thankfully, that’s what a jury of nine men and four women (including the alternate) decided in the case of Cory Voorhis, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agent. 
According to Craig Disney, one of the [...]

Tip of the Hat: Tom Lantos: 1928-2008

Tom Lantos twice escaped Nazi labor camps where members of his family perished including his mother, but on February 11th cancer claimed his life at the age of 80. After liberation, Lantos, Hungarian by birth, immigrated to the United States. For 27 years he represented California and his San Francisco Bay district in the United [...]

Tip of the Hat: American Military Troops and General David Petraeus

One year ago President George W. Bush announced a change in strategy and a new commander for the war in Iraq. To say things had not been going well, that there existed unrest at home, and that public support for the war had eroded would all be well understated.
Although confirmed by the Senate with a [...]

Tip of the Hat: Julia Roberts

Hollywood types likely won’t get a lot of positive recognition from A Line of Sight, but Julia Roberts (aka: Pretty Woman, Tinkerbell, Erin Brockovich, and most recently a starring roll in “Charlie Wilson’s War”) did what a lot of people would probably like to do.
She chased down and got in the face of the ever [...]

Tip of the Hat: Evergreen High School Cheerleaders

Forget all the stereotypes about those self-centered, cliquish, stuck-up cheerleaders. The Evergreen High School cheer squad has shattered the myths.
Megan Bomgaars is a freshman at Evergreen High School and wanted to be a cheerleader. “I just want to have friends at school,” Bomgaars said. Sounds typical enough.
Megan has Down Syndrome, and struggles to keep up [...]

Tip of the Hat: Operation Redwing and all that serve

Colorado native and Navy Seal Danny Dietz died in a firefight with Al Qaeda in Afghanistan June 28, 2005 along with his Team Leader Lt. Michael Murphy and Matthew Axelson. Dietz and Axelson were awarded the Navy Cross posthumously, and on October 22 in a White House ceremony Murphy’s father will accept the nation’s highest [...]