Last month, New York Times columnist Paul Krugman, among others, decried the "slashing" of the Department of Veterans Affairs budget. Krugman and others care about this issue because they see it as a way to attack President Bush, who is largely popular among America's military. I pointed out at the time, that the claims were […]
The Wall Street Journal's Dorothy Rabinowitz has an excellent column today on why Michael Moore, Janeane Garafalo, Tim Robbins and Susan Sarandon just don't matter. On April 14 in Vermont, for example, mourners gathered for the funeral of 21-year-old Marine Cpl. Mark Evnin, killed in action on the drive to Baghdad. A thousand people attended […]
Just saw John Pike on Fox News. (Full disclosure: I interviewed him several times many years ago and used him as a source when I was covering Vandenberg AFB for the Lompoc Record.) Pike suggested that we might find a use for the Mother of All Bombs if, hypothetically, a column of Iraqi troops was […]
I haven't written much on the current war on Iraq, and that's not just because I've been overwhelmed by the home-buying/moving/home-improvement activities. I've got friends over there in the Gulf -- good friends. From my church group there are 8 guys, all Marines, deployed over there. Four of them I consider friends. Two of them […]
...but the computer is assembled and I'm back to limited blogging, probably for about another week. Anyway, the "professional journalists" who discuss media issues over on the Society for Professional Journalists mailing list once again have shown that they lack critical thinking skills. The incident that has caused a very minor uproar on the listserv […]
From wounded Army Staff Sgt. Jamie Villafane on being tossed out of his Humvee when Iraqi soldiers, clothed as civilians, hit it with an rocket-propelled grenade: Getting shot at really wasn't that bad. It's the getting shot part that sucked. After being thrown from the Humvee, a wounded Villafane singlehandedly captured four Iraqi soldiers.
Head on over to any news site, turn on any TV station, and you'll see the worst of American and world journalism right now. At this point, we've launched a few missiles at "targets of opportunity" -- hopefully Saddam Hussein and some of his top aides. That's all there is to report, but news organization […]
Britain's Sunday Mirror is reporting that the Iraqis are trying to get a head start on the imminent war -- by crossing the Kuwaiti border and attempting to surrender to British troops. The motley band of a dozen troops waved the white flag as British paratroopers tested their weapons during a routine exercise. The stunned […]
A friend e-mailed me this photo earlier today. Democrats have been complaining that funding for a war in Iraq was not in President Bush's proposed budget. This could be the reason why: Sponsorships!
The San Diego Union-Tribune's own Robert J. Caldwell has an article in the Sunday paper on the proposal to resume the draft. The article is based upon some facts from the Pentagon on our all-volunteer military -- and whatever Democratic congressmen Charlie Rangel and John Conyers say -- forcing people into the military that don't […]