The "Breaking News" of the day is that former CIA agent Valerie Plame is suing Vice President Dick Cheney, his former chief of staff Lewis "Scooter" Libby and presidential adviser Karl Rove for leaking her identity to get revenge against her husband, former ambassador Joe Wilson. If somebody I'd just passed on the street had […]
A U.S. Marine recruiter who was "featured" in Michael Moore's "documentary" was killed in Iraq. The headline: 'Fahrenheit 9/11' Marine killed in Iraq Not included in this short wire story (a longer version is here) was an anecdote about Staff Sgt. Raymond J. Plouhar that brought a smile to my face. Raymond Plouhar said that […]
There was a brief brouhaha over the weekend over a proposed amnesty for insurgents in Iraq. Such a proposal is pretty good PR, but the targets of the amnesty went about immeditely rejecting the idea by continuing to kill civilians and soldiers -- both U.S. and Iraqi. That didn't stop Wisconsin Sen. Russ "cut and […]
The announcement yesterday by Rep. Pete Hoekstra and Sen. Rick Santorum that U.S. investigators had discovered more than 500 shells containing chemical weapons -- mustard and sarin gasses -- was greeted with collective sigh by most of the media. FoxNews.com ran a rather extensive story, but The Washington Post had only a brief stuck inside […]
Radio show host Mark Levin has a blog over at National Review and in a post responding to yesterday's discovery of the bodies of two tortured and mutilated American servicemen, he writes in part: Meanwhile, two kidnapped U.S. soldiers were apparently brutally tortured and murdered today. And the question I pose to those who rightly […]
I must say that I wasn't surprised to discover that the two U.S. soldiers who were kidnapped last week were found dead yesterday, their bodies mutilated and booby-trapped. Not only were the bodies booby-trapped, but homemade bombs also lined the road leading to the victims, an apparent effort to complicate recovery efforts and target recovery […]
On Sunday, Congressman Jack Murtha was on "Meet the Press." He did not acquit himself well, but Bush Derangement Syndrome seems to have that effect on people afflicted with it. Murtha pointed to the success of the U.S. assassination of terrorist Abu Musab al Zarqawi to bolster his case for a "redeployment" out of Iraq […]
Today's Union-Tribune has an article on 53-year-old Air Force veteran David Patterson who has sent his medals back to President George W. Bush to protest the war in Iraq. Mailing them via the USPS doesn't have the drama of "pulling a Kerry" -- tossing someone else's medals over the White House fence -- but it's […]