FactCheck.org analyzes the swift boat vets latest ad and comes up with this headline: Swift Boat Veterans Anti-Kerry Ad: "He Betrayed Us" With 1971 Anti-War Testimony Group quotes Kerry's descriptions of atrocities by US forces. In fact, atrocities did happen. This analysis/Kerry-apology is lame. Yes, of course there were atrocities by U.S. forces during the […]
Here's a bunch of stuff I've been meaning to mention, but haven't had the time to really go into in depth. Check them out: John Kerry is a saint, really. Fox News' Chris Wallace demonstrated the most evenhanded and honest interview with regard to the swift boat vets. Ramesh Ponnuru over at National Review Online […]
The charges flying back and forth for the past few days in this year's presidential campaign is the calls by Sen. John Kerry, and now Sen. John Edwards, that President Bush order the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth's advertisements off the air. Kerry and his surrogates have claimed, without any real evidence, that Bush is […]
A Wall Street Journal editorial today gives the USA mens basketball a well-deserved spanking over their poor play. The shooting and passing skills that once made the game a pleasure to watch have given way to inside wrestling and one-on-one showboating. A modern NBA game often resembles water polo without the artistry. These weaknesses get […]
After reading William Rood's account of the Feb. 28, 1969, on the Dong Cung River in Vietnam, I'm satisfied that John Kerry's Silver Star citation is deserved. We agreed that if we were not crippled by the initial volley and had a clear fix on the location of the ambush, we would turn directly into […]
Sen. John Kerry is, rightfully, getting a lot of flak for the complaint his campaign filed with the FEC over the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth TV ads. Kerry's campaign alleges that the Bush campaign is illegally colluding with the Swift Boat veterans, basing its claim on the laughable New York Times piece that appeared […]
As I read the Union-Tribune's abridged version of the New York Times John Kerry/Swift Boat Vets story, something occurred to me. As a story works its way through the process of actually appearing on the printed page -- from the reporter to the line editor(s) to the section editor(s) to the copy editor to the […]
Sen. John Kerry finally forced The New York Times' hand. America's alleged "newspaper of record" finally acknowledged the existence of a substantial number of John Kerry's fellow veterans who believe that he is unfit to serve as commander in chief. But the Times hasn't spent the last two weeks investigating the claims of these 200+ […]
Word is out that the senior senator *hiccup* from Massachusetts, Ted "I'll drive off that bridge when I come to it" Kennedy was "erroneously" placed on the infamous no-fly list. Everyone insists that it was just another notorious bureaucratic screw-up, but it's a *hiccup* funny one.
So, we've got a problem with Muqtada al-Sadr and his thugs using the holiest shrine in Shia Islam as an armory and a safe haven for staging attacks on U.S. and Iraqi forces. The simplest solution is to make the shrine a parking lot, but that wouldn't go over too well with the shiites -- […]