Obscene amenities
WaPo writer said that part of what he loathes about our mercenary military is the “obscene amenities“
Continue readingConservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
WaPo writer said that part of what he loathes about our mercenary military is the “obscene amenities“
Continue readingAs those who know me best know well, I’m a kvetcher. In other words, I like to complain. Complaining doesn’t necessarily mean I’m unhappy; it may well mean that I’m engaging in something that is pleasurable in itself. My goal when I complain during a conversation is to be amusing
Continue readingThe story of Dunkirk is an amazing one. In May 1940, about 250,000 British troops (as well as about 120,000 French troops) found themselves stranded there, victims of the spectacularly successful German Blitzkrieg. They had virtually no weapons, no organization and nowhere to go: the seemingly unstoppable Nazis were to
Continue readingThe Houston Chronicle has a story about a Texas’ families outrage over the fact that the New York Times used a picture of their son dying on Haifa street to spice up a story: A photograph and videotape of a Texas soldier dying in Iraq published by the New York
Continue readingIf any of you bloggers are getting disheartened, don’t. The internet does matter, even if gains are slow and grudging. Case in point: the bombed out mosques in Baghdad. The story began in November when the AP reported that Shiite fights had destroyed four Sunni mosques in Baghdad and burned
Continue readingThe only problem with a Mark Steyn column is choosing which of the gemlike paragraphs to quote. It’s so tempting, paragraph after paragraph to say “Oh, I should include this in my blog. No, no, wait! This one too.” And on and on until I’ve highlighted each of them, ready
Continue readingAmericans are increasingly convinced that the war in Iraq is a failure and that the Iraqis are desperados, desperate to see the US leave. Their understanding is unsurprisingly, given that the MSM keeps pressing this view, despite the fact that there is more and more evidence that the media, unable
Continue readingI’m one of those who didn’t agree with the ISG’s conclusions, especially those that suggested making Israel the sacrificial animal in hopes of placating the ravening Islamic hordes. I’m wondering, though, whether the ISG didn’t end up having its uses. This is so because its recommendations opened up an abyss,
Continue readingMore news about the troops Kerry and Rangel casually insult. Again and again we learn that the same people Kerry and Rangel, safe in their offices, think are lazy slackers are, in fact, the best type of people: Private First Class Ross A. McGinnis packed only 136 pounds into his
Continue readingI have a deadline that’s going to keep me hopping for a couple of hours, but I’ll share with you two things I learned this weekend. First, I learned that, in my very blue neighborhood, there are surprisingly large numbers of gun owners, wannabee gun owners, and hunters. Who knew?
Continue readingI don’t think Charles Johnson, at LGF, is Jewish, but that fact doesn’t prevent him from being Israel’s staunch supporter. I think he is, not so much because he’s in love with Israel (and no one asks him to be), but because he recognizes that (a) Israel is the only
Continue readingJules Crittenden, writing at the Boston Herald, has this to say. I’ve added some less than sanguine comments at the end: When a company defrauds its customers, or delivers shoddy goods, the customers sooner or later are going to take their business elsewhere. But if that company has a virtual
Continue readingStung by charges that it was relying on named, but non-existent, official sources, AP has responded with a new tactic: no sources at all. That takes news to a whole new, very low, level, doesn’t it? del.icio.us | digg it
Continue readingI’ve got actual work I have to do today (how dull), so blogging will be light. However, before I sign off to help support my family, I urge you to take some time to check out Michelle Malkin’s comprehensive summary about what’s going on in the fight between AP and
Continue readingHere’s a quick chronology, followed by my comments. First, during this summer’s Israeli/Hezbollah War, AP, along with several other news outlets, was shown to have relied upon doctored and staged photographs, and false and/or misleading stories fed to them by local stringers sympathetic to Hezbollah. (You can read all about
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