A couple stories...

I'm not one to ever cry at random things, but this story brought tears to my eyes:

Cancer-Stricken 10-yr-old Gets Wish: Joins Army

Last month, doctors told his family there was nothing more they could do, and gave Brennan just weeks to live.

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Becky Prejean, who runs a charity for sick kids called Dreams Come True of Louisiana, heard about Brennan's illness, and got in touch with his mother, Kristy Daigle. Brennan's greatest wish, Daigle told Prejean, was to meet some soldiers in person, before his illness worsened. So the two women contacted the Fort Polk Community Relations Office, which put out a call for a few soldiers to attend Brennan's tenth birthday on Feb. 26.

Forty showed up.

I'd highly recommend reading the whole article; it's only a few hundred words long, and well, well worth it. :)

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Separate from that amazing article, the story contained within this next one can't go without comment:

GOP Targets Student Voting Rights

Some GOP lawmakers in New Hampshire have billed the measures as an attempt to crack down on voter fraud in the state--but recent remarks from the newly elected GOP state House speaker have suggested otherwise.

In a recent speech to a tea party group in the state, House Speaker William O'Brien described college voters as "foolish." "Voting as a liberal. That's what kids do," he said, in remarks that were videotaped by a state Democratic Party staffer and posted on YouTube. Students, he said, lack "life experience" and "just vote their feelings."

Uhm. 'scuse me?

I would have boo'ed loudly if I was at that Tea Party and hoped my fellow young cons would join in.

( This is one of my biggest peeves with the GOP, and the debates are NEVER pretty... )