Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
I posted here about a Zerlina Maxwell, a Democrat strategist who told Sean Hannity that weapons don’t prevent rape, words prevent rape. According to her, the best way to prevent rape is to teach men not to do so. Arming women is unnecessary. Their power rests in the word “No.”
Continue reading[UPDATE: Okay, I knew my theory was way too wacky to be true, although I had fun writing it up. Although the White House didn’t list it on the official schedule (because Thomas Lifson checked), I should have remembered that the Obama’s were hosting the annual Governor’s dinner — the
Continue readingLong-time readers know that Fleet Week is a BIG DEAL in the Bookworm household. Thanks to our membership in the Navy League, we’ve seen the Blue Angels from the deck of the USS Carl Vinson, as well as from the middle of the Bay on a Coast Guard cutter. We
Continue readingLeon Panetta has given the go-ahead to a plan to allow women into combat situations: Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta is lifting the military’s official ban on women in combat, which will open up hundreds of thousands of additional front-line jobs to them, senior defense officials said Wednesday. [snip] The
Continue readingThe rule of war used to be that you hated your enemy. That made it easy to fight your enemy. Then, starting with the first Gulf War, the new rule was that you felt sorry for your enemy. By the Iraq War, the rule had become, you’ve got to like
Continue readingI have some very exciting news: I have found my long-lost identical twin. It’s amazing, really. Like me, my twin grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area during the 60s and 70s. Like me, my twin went to UC Berkeley and found Leftist antics revolting. Like me, my twin
Continue readingMy childhood spanned the late 1960s and early 1970s. In San Francisco, a few things were clear: policemen were pigs; troops were baby killers; and veterans were crazy drug addicts. Those older than I — say in their late teens through late 30s — were openly hostile to the military.
Continue readingLast year, when I was casting about for a holiday season charity, a friend recommended the Semper Fi Fund, which helps out wounded service people and their families. I was planning on making a donation again this year, sometime around December something or other, but I’m not going to wait
Continue readingOn Monday, November 5, an ad will run in the Washington Times with the names of almost 500 retired military officers from all of the different forces who support Mitt Romney. I was lucky enough to get an advanced copy of the ad. The same email forwarding the ad asked
Continue readingI cannot vouch for the facts in this email I received, so please take that into consideration as you read it: From my personal experience at Bagram last year, when the “Commander-in-Thief” came over, the troops were handpicked, screened, and disarmed, including the Marines. All base roads, sidewalks, and access
Continue readingI’m guessing that a majority of Americans (a slim majority, but still a majority) know that America entered WWII because the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor. What few stop to consider is why we ended up fighting, not only the Japanese who had just bombed us, but the Germans as well,
Continue readingA military friend pointed me to Fallen Not Forgotten, a veteran-created and owned apparel business that donates a portion of its proceeds to military charities. The guys at FNF have now set up a page that seeks straight out donations that they will put towards a scholarship fund for the
Continue readingWhat one can say with certainty about the last presidential debate is that it is not a game-changer — which is good for Romney, because the game is currently scoring in his favor. In that way, it was a nothing of a debate. Nevertheless, there were aspects of the debate
Continue readingIn my previous post, I huffed and puffed about the fact that the top U.S. Commander in Afghanistan ruminated that, quite possibly, it was the NATO troops’ own fault that Afghan forces shot them, because NATO forces had been insensitive to the stress of Ramazan (the Afghan version of Ramadan).
Continue readingDespite being associated with water, the Marines have often been on the cutting edge of aviation, especially in battle conditions. Enjoy this video celebrating those accomplishments:
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