I haven't written much on the current war on Iraq, and that's not just because I've been overwhelmed by the home-buying/moving/home-improvement activities. I've got friends over there in the Gulf -- good friends. From my church group there are 8 guys, all Marines, deployed over there. Four of them I consider friends. Two of them […]
According to Jonah Goldberg over at National Review Online, NBC correspondent Andrea Mitchell, wife of Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan, was on the Today show talking about last night's decapitation strike on Saddam Hussein. After 4 bunker-busters hit the site Saddam was believed to be at, there won't be much left of Saddam to identify. DNA […]
Michael Kelly was the first U.S. journalist killed in Iraq last week when the Humvee he was riding in crashed. Kelly was an excellent writer and editor. He will be missed. When word of Kelly's demise hit the Union-Tribune's watercooler, the consensus seemed to be that he shouldn't have been there in the first place […]
...but the computer is assembled and I'm back to limited blogging, probably for about another week. Anyway, the "professional journalists" who discuss media issues over on the Society for Professional Journalists mailing list once again have shown that they lack critical thinking skills. The incident that has caused a very minor uproar on the listserv […]
Or is it just an oncoming train? The move is going well, the vast majority of Hoystorical possessions are in my newly-purchased condo. More than a week of prep work has finally made the condo nearly-livable. The next thing to make the move will be the computer from which I now type. As my ISP […]
From wounded Army Staff Sgt. Jamie Villafane on being tossed out of his Humvee when Iraqi soldiers, clothed as civilians, hit it with an rocket-propelled grenade: Getting shot at really wasn't that bad. It's the getting shot part that sucked. After being thrown from the Humvee, a wounded Villafane singlehandedly captured four Iraqi soldiers.
I won't be posting a lot over the next week or so as I prepare to move into my new condo. Posting will ramp up when I can find the time.
I say that because I just read the following Associated Press bulletin: Jacques Chirac says France will not authorize a U.N. resolution allowing the United States and Britain to administer postwar Iraq. Jacques, how many battalions does the U.N. have? If, for some reason, it had escaped your notice -- this isn't a U.N. operation. […]
According to New York Times columnist Paul Krugman's latest tirade, the relatively modest Bush tax cuts (you know, the $300 rebate, elimination of the marriage penalty, etc.) are responsible for wreaking fiscal destruction like that created by anyone stupid enough to cast Pauly Shore in romantic comedy opposite J. Lo. The new study, carried out […]
Over at The Agonist Sean-Paul is doing yeoman's work when it comes to compiling all war-related information at a breakneck pace. Go check it out.