California's saner, senior senator, Dianne Feinstein, demonstrates that you can be to the right of Barbara Boxer and still be a nut. In a letter to The Wall Street Journal, Feinstein takes the paper's editors to task for supporting research into a bunker-busting nuke. [Link requires a subscription, but I'll be quoting the entire letter.] […]
New York Times Bush-hating columnist Paul Krugman's latest column is chock-full of conjecture that President Bush is going to bring back the draft. It's not worth anyone's time to go through Krugman's manure point-by-point, but there was something I wanted to consider. It will take four more years to disprove Krugman's lie, but at the […]
Let's set out a couple of facts about Republicans and the military. Unlike some on the left, Republicans have an extremely high degree of respect for those who've chosen to serve their country. The morale of those in the military is important to Republicans. For these two reasons, Republicans would be the very last ones […]
When voting for president next month, some of you may ask yourselves: What Would Marines Do? The Boston Globe answers this question -- and it's not good news for the hometown war hero. Standing near him in the operations center, Jamie Tyson, a 35-year-old Marine, interrupted. ''I voted for Clinton twice," he said. Tyson, who […]
Today's New York Times contains a bit of self-realization on the part of the Times' reporters and editors -- they don't know enough about the military and how it works. An article yesterday that examined statements by Vice President Dick Cheney and Senator John Edwards in their debate on Tuesday night incorrectly supported Mr. Edwards's […]
I knew Canada had a navy, but did you know they have a submarine too?
Commenter JayR, (whose comment I had to reformat) in this post provides a slew of links to news stories in which people say they've been buying body armor for loved ones going to Iraq. First, no one was buying the military's Interceptor body armor off the Internet unless it was stolen -- the Pentagon was […]
President Bush volunteered to go to Vietnam as part of a military operation called "Palace Alert." Evidence here and here. That is all.
During WWII the German Army's blitzkrieg dominated Europe. The German warrior culture was so feared that for decades the world kept the country divided into East and West. Today, one retired U.S. Army Lt. Col. can send the Germans into full retreat by suggesting that Germany only likes the U.S. troops for the money they […]
A colleague of mine, Union-Tribune photographer Earnie Grafton wrote an essay for today's paper remembering Marine PFC Nachez Washalanta II. Grafton was embedded with the Marines as they invaded Iraq last year, and Washalanta was the driver of the light armored vehicle in which Grafton rode. Washalanta died last month when the Humvee he was […]