Fellow Patriots, As you have noticed, we send regular emails at the end of the year requesting your support for our 2011 Year-End Campaign . As with any donor-supported organization, we must ask for funding in order to continue providing The Patriot Post to you and hundreds of thousands of other Patriots every week. Fundraising is tough, but it's a necessary part of what we do. As our publisher Mark Alexander wrote to you last week, if you aren't able to support us, please don't feel any obligation to do so. We know this is a difficult economic time for so many. If you are a student, in the military or on the mission field, or if you are just having a hard time making ends meet, please allow us to provide The Patriot Post as a service to you. But that leads to the question: "Well, if I can't give, then why do you continue sending me appeals?" The honest answer is that we send requests to all of our ...