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I finished reading Anton Myrer's "Once An Eagle" last night. It's a heavy tome, nearly 1,300 pages, but it never drags. I began reading the book -- which my father had given me an extra copy of a couple years back, but had sat near the back of my extensive queue since then -- after […]

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 […]

A good friend of mine who's in the Air Force sent me this e-mail that has been making the rounds in military circles from SSgt. Parker Gyokeres. Hello all, Good lord what a week. I'm going to remember the 14th of December for a very long time. This marshy valley region is the area of […]

Time magazine names "The American Soldier" its Person of the Year. It's an honor well-deserved.

If you haven't read the latest from Victor Davis Hanson over at National Review Online, then you should remedy the situation promptly. Europeans: But don't simply scoff; for us the idea that you would spend $87 billion on fighting in Iraq while your own people don't have health care is preposterous. Dumb American: But was […]

Libya has agreed to allow international inspectors to verify and dismantle that country's WMDs. President Bush and British PM Tony Blair had been negotiating with Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi for about nine months. If you take a look at the calendar, you'll find that the trilateral talks (note that Gadhafi approached the U.S. and U.K. […]

The BBC, its moral vacuum rivaling a moderate-sized black hole, has banned its reporters from referring to Saddam Hussein as a tyrant or dictator, in favor of "the deposed former President." One anonymous BBC staffer has some sense: “This is our daftest order ever.” Well, maybe not ever, but it definitely makes the Top 10.

France is considering a law that would ban Muslim girls from wearing (the required) headscarves at public schools. In the interest of fair treatment, also banned would be "ostentatious" or "large" crosses, crucifixes, yarmukles and the Star of David. Of course, what is "large" or "ostentatious" is always open to interpretation. While a headscarf or […]

The New York Post is reporting that Michael Jackson, facing child molestation charges, has joined the Nation of Islam. My question: Don't you have to be black to join?

Christopher Johnson has been doing an excellent job over at the Midwest Conservative Journal covering the fallout from the Episcopal Church's decision that all that stuff in the Bible about homosexuality is just outdated moralizing that God wasn't really serious about. The latest: The Anglican Church in Uganda (the Episcopal Church is the American branch […]