The making of a Marine: “Ultimately … [it] was a duty I could not, and should not, leave for others to assume.”

Let the record show that I was a proponent of Jersey Shore punditry long before it was cool: “I don’t know if we should be insulted or humored at the President’s feeble attempts to incorporate Republican ideas into his latest health care proposal. Snookie, from the Jersey Shore, has more substance than President Obama’s offer.”