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It's been 15 years since the Chinese Army moved into Tiananmen Square in Beijing and massacred hundreds and possibly thousands of their fellow citizens who peacefully gathered demonstrating for democracy. I was a high school junior at the time, and had recently taken the Advanced Placement U.S. History test. I was reaching the age when […]

The L.A. Daily News is reporting that the cowardly 3-2 vote to cave in to the ACLU on the county seal is causing a massive backlash. We alone have received more than 600 e-mails and 200 phone calls in the last 24 hours," said John Musella, spokesman for Board of Supervisors Chairman Don Knabe, who […]

There's an old metaphysical question along the lines of: "If a tree falls in the forest and there's no one around to hear it, does it make a noise?" The idea is that something has to be witnessed in order for it to have an impact. I've gotten a couple thousand hits over the past […]

For those in the San Diego area who want to show some support for the troops, Lt. Smash is organizing a counterprotest to the Marxist/Stalinist anti-American A.N.S.W.E.R types. Downtown on a Friday night! You can counterprotest and then go out to dinner in the gaslamp district.

CNN was on the TV closest to me at work this evening. I'm probably the only person around who prefers Fox News for the most part. Larry King had on Bree Walker and her husband Jim Lampley. Walker used to be an anchorwoman for one of the local San Diego stations back in the '80s […]

The Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal continues to consume journalists everywhere -- even at the San Diego Union-Tribune. Today's A1 has an article by Finlay Lewis of the Copley News Service (the U-T is the Copley Press' flagship paper) on President Bush's trip to Europe for the D-Day comemmoration. The second paragraph: Long a target […]

I'm currently reading the late, great Michael Kelly's "Martyrs' Day," an account of the first Gulf War. The book is very different in style and substance from Rick Atkinson's "In the Company of Soldiers" (which is also an excellent book), but more of a traditional historical account of Gulf War II. Kelly's work is more […]

Let's get this straight. A federal judge in San Francisco rules that a restriction on abortion (in this case a ban on partial birth abortions) is unconstitutional. Talk about a dog-bites-man story. This ruling was as predictable as the sun risiing in the east. This, of course, is not the final word on the subject. […]

The Los Angeles County Supervisors, a cowardly, spineless group has decided to cave to the Anti-Christian Liberals Union. Los Angeles County supervisors on Tuesday ended an emotional debate over the symbolism of the tiny gold cross on the county seal by deciding to remove it rather than defend it against a threatened ACLU lawsuit. Advised […]

Former New York Times editor Howell Raines has a piece in tomorrow's left-wing Guardian newspaper taking Sen. John Kerry to task for not running a competent campaign. Let's set Raines' arguments aside for a moment and focus on one throwaway statement. As America's first war-hero candidate since John F. Kennedy, he ought to be leading […]