This image hit the Internet yesterday, taken by Michel Yon in Mosul. Major Mark Bieger found this little girl after the car bomb that attacked our guys while kids were crowding around. The soldiers here have been angry and sad for two days. They are angry because the terrorists could just as easily have waited […]
I missed the milestone earlier this week, but on Monday The New York Times published Paul Krugman's 500th column. The indispensible Lying in Ponds noted that Krugman continues to bat 1.000 -- over the course of 500 columns Krugman has devoted not one to praise of a Republican nor criticism of a Democrat. Krugman would […]
The Camp Pendleton Marine who was captured on videotape shooting an Iraqi militant who was apparently feigning death won't face charges. Before the opening of the Nov. 8 assault on rebel-held Fallujah, Marine commanders told infantrymen that the rules of engagement allowed the use of deadly force against men of military age deemed holding hostile […]
Former New York Times reporter John McCandlish Phillips takes the "elite" commentariat to task over their outrageous rhetoric when it comes to the religious right. The piece is well worth a read, but I'd like to highlight the autobiographical portion of the article. I come at this with an insider/outsider vantage and with real affection […]