Time magazine has another excellent article on NFL player turned Army Ranger Pat Tillman.
Time magazine has another excellent article on NFL player turned Army Ranger Pat Tillman.
Former Arizona Cardinal football star Pat Tillman, who gave up a multi-million dollar contract to join the Army after the 9/11 attacks on the U.S. has been killed in a firefight in Afghanistan. Once again, this puts a lie to the contention that those who join the military do so only because they're poor and […]
Retired Marine Gen. Anthony Zinni is in "I told you so" mode. In an interview with the San Diego Union-Tribune yesterday, Zinni criticized the United States' performance in post-war Iraq. Zinni's main criticisms are that the United States disbanded the Iraqi Army and there aren't enough troops on the ground to provide needed security. Both […]
Why you don't want to mess with the Marines: American forces killed more than 100 insurgents on Tuesday in close combat in a small village in central Iraq, Marine commanders said Wednesday. The battle, classic urban combat that raged for 14 hours, was one of the heaviest engagements since the invasion of Iraq last year. […]
Amidst the wall-to-wall coverage of the discovery of the missing UW-Madison coed this afternoon, there was little mention of the attack on U.S. contractors in the Iraqi city of Fallujah. According to the Washington Post, recovering the mens' bodies for their families may be tough. Crowds carried the bodies of two victims to the nearby […]
As I mentioned before, I've been reading Rick Atkinson's "An Army at Dawn." One anecdote that Atkinson relates is how government censors edited letters home from the troops. Journalists and other liberal conspiracy theorists who regularly decry government limitations on media reporting from the battlefield during Operation Iraqi Freedom should look at just how far […]
Not that he would have voted for him anyway, but San Diego Union-Tribune Insight editor Robert Caldwell outlines the case against John Kerry, from the perspective of a Vietnam veteran.
I don't much like columnist Ann Coulter. Sorry, I know a lot of people think she's great, but her hyperbolic rhetoric makes her little more than a conservative bomb-thrower. She is to the right what the New York Times Maureen Dowd is to the left. Having put that extended disclaimer on the record, this column […]
The Alabama National Guard base commander who Democrats have cited as an authority on "Bush never showed up" claim, suffers from Alzheimer's. Retired Brig. Gen. William Turnipseed, the 187th's Tactical Reconnaissance Group's former commander, recanted his statement that he couldn't remember if Bush reported for duty, now saying his memory is faulty because he's in […]
Democrat presidential frontrunner Dr. Howard Dean has done something stupid. Howard Dean came under criticism from an Iowa newspaper last weekend for an answer to a questionnaire in which he implied that his brother was serving in the military when he disappeared in Laos 29 years ago. His brother had been traveling in Southeast Asia […]