"60 Minutes' " resident curmudgeon really needs two things. First, someone needs to take a weed wacker to his eyebrows. Second, he needs to retire. His folksy little pieces about his favorite typewriter or the fact that people don't pick up pennies were amusing 20 years ago. Now he's opining on serious issues -- and […]
Here's a few articles from the past week or so that you really shouldn't miss. The Los Angeles Times story on 2nd Lt. Mark Jennings Daily. John Leo looks at how speech codes on campus have been stifling -- mostly conservative -- speech. Judge Gibson Lee should be recalled after giving eight black youths probation […]
This is several days late -- eons by blogospheric standards -- but quite a few posts are going to be because there are things I want to write about, but was unable to due to evil-flu-bug. Some things will get lost by the wayside, but this was one I didn't want to miss. I was […]
It's interesting to read the Seattle Post-Intelligencer article and the Seattle Times article on the mistrial of Lt. Ehren Watada side by side. (For those unfamiliar with Lt. Watada, he has been a favorite of anti-war rallies of late because he contends that the Iraq War is illegal and has refused a lawful order to […]
The Washington Post's hateful hitman has decided, with the help of his editors, that maybe he ought to just shut up. William Arkin has posted a second follow-up to his idiotic screed against the U.S. military. I'll save you the burden of reading it. It consists wholly of "woe is me, the evil right-wingers are […]
The Washington Post's William Arkin forgot the first rule of holes: If you are in one, stop digging. After more than 1,000 responses to his original bile -- the majority of which questioned his intelligence, sanity, sincerity and the circumstances of his birth -- Arkin doubled down on stupid. Contrary to the typically inaccurate and […]
The Washington Post's national/homeland security columnist crossed the line Tuesday. William Arkin, who served four years as a military intel guy in Europe in the mid- to late-'70s followed by jobs with every left-wing group from Greenpeace to the National Resources Defense Council and Human Rights Watch, made the mistake of watching an NBC Nightly […]
This should be the lead story on all of the television networks tonight, but it won't be. President Bush Presents Medal of Honor to Corporal Jason Dunham The Medal of Honor is the highest award for valor a President can bestow. The Medal is given for gallantry in the face of an enemy attack that […]
Novelist Pat Conroy is a graduate of the Citadel and spent the Vietnam years protesting the war. Now, unlike too many others, he's come to realize that his actions in protesting that war were wrong. Now, at this moment in New Jersey, I come to a conclusion about my actions as a young man when […]
OpinionJournal.com's James Taranto is on vacation, but before he left he got a lot of letters reacting to Democrat Rep. Charlie Rangel's claim that the only reason people go into the military is because they can't get good jobs in the private sector. Taranto's been dribbling these letters out over the past few days, and […]