Archive for July, 2010

SSG Sal Giunta — living Medal of Honor recipient

I don’t know what alchemy went into creating the personality that is SSG Sal Giunta, but there was a drop of something very special mixed in.  I am so glad he is a living Medal of Honor winner.  You don’t need to be dead to have been extraordinarily brave.

Elena Kagan

You’ve probably noticed that I’ve had nothing to say about Kagan.  There is nothing to say.  She’s a bright, often charming, lady from the far Left who, entirely separate from her anti-Constitutional ideology, is grossly unqualified in terms of professional experience and intellectual heft to be a Supreme Court justice.  She is, in other words, [...]

Is it ever moral to target civilians in warfare? *UPDATED*

My (conservative) book club read Victor Davis Hanson’s A War Like No Other: How the Athenians and Spartans Fought the Peloponnesian War. One of the points Hanson makes in the book is that Pericles embarked upon a new type of warfare: Periclean strategy . . . defined the new war as battle not between hoplites [...]