It's just not a good idea to walk around toting a rocket-propelled grenade in Fallujah, even if you think no one's watching, because some Marine snipers just might be looking at you. In the past three weeks, two sniper teams attached to the 1st Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment have shot down 90 people who have […]
The New York Times' David Brooks gets it exactly right. The media isn't paying nearly enough attention to what's going to happen next in Iraq. Instead, they're obsessed with the past at the expense of the future. Members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee did at least hear testimony last week on the political transition […]
Extensive use of facts is not really necessary if you're a columnist at the New York Times. Case in point: Paul Krugman. Krugman, a former adviser to disgraced energy giant Enron, starts out with an interesting claim. [T]here's a deep mystery surrounding Dick Cheney's energy task force, but it's not about what happened back in […]
Last week the Web site The Memory Hole posted hundreds of photos of fallen soldiers in their coffins returning to Dover AFB. (Included in the photos were those of the fallen astronauts, mistakenly published by some newspapers.) Many newspapers ran the photos not because it was news that fallen soldiers were coming home, but because […]
Time magazine has another excellent article on NFL player turned Army Ranger Pat Tillman.
Slate editor Jacob Weisberg has made a tidy sum from his collections of "Bushisms" -- verbal flubs made by President George W. Bush. For those of you who missed it, Eugene Volokh over at the Volokh Conspiracy demonstrated the how far, and how lame, the Bushisms have sunk -- hoisting Weisberg on his own petard. […]
If you go to Amazon.com and type: "Bush Lies" into the search engine, you come up with a plethora of left-wing novels: "Big Lies," "The Lies of George W. Bush," "Bushwacked!," "Big Bush Lies," etc., ad infinitum. Lying is endemic to politicians, but in recent years Democrats have come to believe that only Republicans -- […]
The New York Times last week screwed up (yeah, I know this isn't news). Thursday's New York Times misidentified GOP Senate candidate Pete Coors as a Ku Klux Klan member who murdered a black sharecropper. The Coors campaign found the error "so outrageous it's kind of funny," said spokeswoman Cinamon Watson. "It could have been […]
Former Arizona Cardinal football star Pat Tillman, who gave up a multi-million dollar contract to join the Army after the 9/11 attacks on the U.S. has been killed in a firefight in Afghanistan. Once again, this puts a lie to the contention that those who join the military do so only because they're poor and […]