Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
Maybe Ben Howe is right, and it’s just simply protocol that the military men and women assembled for some speech or another that Obama gave were dead silent until given permission to applaud: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_f9iVHt6w4[/youtube] Or maybe they just don’t like him very much: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIHz5tevLAw[/youtube] Could be both, of course.
Continue readingSan Francisco’s Fleet Week is just around the corner. It is pretty much the last gasp of the City that once Knew How. (Herb Caen readers, meaning old San Franciscans, will know what I mean when I write that.) I just renewed my Navy League membership, not only because it
Continue readingThis is quite the Saturday. Not one BUT TWO of my friends have been published today at American Thinker. Navy One, who blogs at The Mellow Jihadi, and has for years been a Bookworm Room visitor, has a great piece there, a rumination (and book review) about Navy life, non-Navy
Continue readingOne of the lesser known songs in Oklahoma is “The farmer and the cowman should be friends,” which takes a humorous look at the rivalries between farmers (crops and fences) and cowman (open range requirements) in the Oklahoma territories. That song got stuck in my head, although with horribly bowdlerized
Continue readingThese covers are really, really good: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBaskRZDbNA[/youtube] (Hat tip for the above video to The New Editor) [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RoDx0fcvyLw[/youtube] (Thanks to a facebook friend for the second video)
Continue readingWhat a conscienceless sleaze.
Continue readingThe SEALS who gave their lives in Afghanistan were all young (of course) and many had families. If you’d like to help those families, you can contribute at the Navy SEAL Foundation. Hat tip: Richard Baehr
Continue readingIn Rome, I got internet access just long enough to learn about the crash in Afghanistan that killed 30 Americans, including 22 SEAL team members. The media is obsessed with whether the SEALS who died were involved in the bin Laden raid, which would allow (I imagine) for faux-meaningful articles
Continue readingThey fought for us, and we get a small chance to help them out, by donating money that gets used to buy specially fitted computers for troops disabled, permanently or temporarily, in the existential war now raging. Donate to Soldier’s Angels Project Valour-IT
Continue readingDonate to Soldier’s Angels Project Valour-IT
Continue readingOnce again, Soldier’s Angels is having its Project Valour IT fundraiser, the money from which helps helps get voice-controlled/adaptive laptop computers and other technology to support American troops who are recovering from hand wounds and other severe injuries. It’s hard to think of a better way to help out those
Continue readingI wrote the other day about the lovely commissioning ceremony I was privileged to attend. My friend wrote about it too (using a nom de cyber) and about the larger implications for conservative women warriors, whether in the military or not.
Continue readingYesterday, I attended the commissioning ceremony for a newly minted second lieutenant in the United States Marines. It was a moving and inspiring experience, and I’m glad my son was there to witness it. The reason I was there goes back more than thirty years. As I might have mentioned
Continue readingWe’ve had presidents who were not in the military, but nevertheless deeply respected it. I don’t know that we’ve ever before had a president who just isn’t into the military and who may even dislike it intensely. I commented on that in connection with Obama’s inability to understand the warrior
Continue readingPeter Wehner writes about Obama’s decision to draw down troops in Afghanistan, something that (just coincidentally, of course) will take place right before Obama’s reelection bid. Wehner is appalled, and he explains that this gross political calculation isn’t the way it needs to be: I have the advantage of having
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