Smash and friends were out at Coronado yesterday when the President arrived and got a big thank-you from a mystery guest. Check it out.
Smash and friends were out at Coronado yesterday when the President arrived and got a big thank-you from a mystery guest. Check it out.
If you've been surfing the blogosphere for the past few days and missed Michael Yon's latest report from Iraq, then this must be the only blog site you visit. Take some time this morning and read Yon's tale of heroism -- including a little of his own. There are a few things that struck me […]
The barking moonbats in San Francisco have decided that they don't want the decommissioned USS Iowa ported there and used as a museum. But city supervisors voted 8-3 last month to oppose taking in the ship, citing local opposition to the Iraq war and the military’s stance on gays, among other things. "If I was […]
Mark Steyn takes a long, hard look at the Cindy Sheehan media experience, and sees the focus is on the wrong thing. Yet in the wreckage of Pat and Cindy Sheehan's marriage there is surely a lesson for the Democratic Party. As Cindy says, they're both Democrats, but she's "more liberal" and "more radicalized." There […]
Maybe if she camped out in Crawford, then she'd make it onto the Big 3 networks, but then again, probably not. The mother of a Marine killed in Iraq urged mourners Wednesday not to let their anger and sadness turn them against the U.S. fight in Iraq. "Honor me in this way," Kathy Dyer said […]
I just walked in the door from seeing the last showing of the day of "The Great Raid." It's not quite as emotionally moving as the last great WW II movie to come down the pipe, "Saving Private Ryan," but it's well worth your time to check it out. I'd read a little about the […]
Sixty years ago this weekend, the United States dropped the first atomic bomb over Hiroshima, Japan. I must confess that I've little sympathy for the ignorant peace protesters who come out every year to demand unilateral nuclear disarmament. Sixty years after the fact, too many just don't get it, and the ones that do -- […]
Today's New York Times has a piece under the heading "MILITARY MEMO" which expounds on the question in the headline "All Quiet on the Home Front, and Some Soldiers Are Asking Why." The Bush administration's rallying call that America is a nation at war is increasingly ringing hollow to men and women in uniform, who […]
This is the most bizarre "editor's note" I've seen in years. The Op-Ed page in some copies of Wednesday's newspaper carried an incorrect version of the below article about military recruitment. The article also briefly appeared on NYTimes.com before it was removed. The writer, an Army reserve officer, did not say, "Imagine my surprise the […]
The Union-Tribune obituary is here. Stockdale, the highest-ranking naval officer captured during the war, was forced to wear heavy, viselike leg irons for two years. He was tortured and spent four years in solitary confinement. To avoid being used in a propaganda film, Stockdale smashed his face with a mahogany stool. After the death of […]