Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
(I wrote this for Mr. Conservative, but it’s pure Bookworm in word and thought, so I’m republishing it here. Frankly, I’m spitting mad, because regular readers know exactly how much I love Fleet Week.) Sequester or not, there always seems to be money for the Obamas to live the lush
Continue readingThe headlines have been deeply disturbing: North Korea, led by an unstable 20-something, has reinstated war against the United States and South Korea after a fifty-plus year hiatus in active hostilities. Admittedly, North Korea hasn’t fired any shots yet, but its rhetorical volleys have been incendiary. Just yesterday, it cut
Continue readingI posted here about a Zerlina Maxwell, a Democrat strategist who told Sean Hannity that weapons don’t prevent rape, words prevent rape. According to her, the best way to prevent rape is to teach men not to do so. Arming women is unnecessary. Their power rests in the word “No.”
Continue readingThis is a fun video that opens with the Top Gun low-fly pass, and then shows ten of the real deals. The last one was at a Blue Angels show in San Francisco a few years ago. I wasn’t in the Navy League yet, so I wasn’t on the Bay,
Continue readingI can’t make myself listen to Obama. He hectors and I don’t need that in my life. I’ll read the speech, and the multiple analyses of the speech, tomorrow. Until then, I’d love to hear what you have to say about it — or what you have to say about
Continue readingHaving read Chris Kyle’s American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History, I keep forgetting that I never actually met the man. The book was so vivid, not just about his war-time experiences, but also when it came to his life and personality, that my
Continue readingLong-time readers know that Fleet Week is a BIG DEAL in the Bookworm household. Thanks to our membership in the Navy League, we’ve seen the Blue Angels from the deck of the USS Carl Vinson, as well as from the middle of the Bay on a Coast Guard cutter. We
Continue readingA friend forwarded me this Facebook page: Perhaps, though, we should be grateful. You just know that Obama would have wanted to say something along the lines of Ron Paul’s execrable statement about living and dying by the sword. (And we know how stupid that is in this context.) Given
Continue readingBack in June, I reviewed Chris Kyle’s American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History. I gave the book a thumbs up — it was an enjoyable, informative read about life on the front lines from a tough guy who became a SEAL, and then
Continue readingHot Air caught the New York Times public editor stating — with a straight face yet! — that she really has no idea what political viewpoint informs their writing. Maybe this screen shot, from today’s online edition, will help her: I’m sure both stories are true. That is, I don’t
Continue readingLeon Panetta has given the go-ahead to a plan to allow women into combat situations: Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta is lifting the military’s official ban on women in combat, which will open up hundreds of thousands of additional front-line jobs to them, senior defense officials said Wednesday. [snip] The
Continue readingIf you knew a young man who is fascinated by the military and by watches, what watch would you give him? I would like a watch that is favored by the guys on the front line, whether Marines, Navy, Air Force, Army, or Coast Guard. It can’t be too expensive,
Continue readingThe rule of war used to be that you hated your enemy. That made it easy to fight your enemy. Then, starting with the first Gulf War, the new rule was that you felt sorry for your enemy. By the Iraq War, the rule had become, you’ve got to like
Continue readingMy childhood spanned the late 1960s and early 1970s. In San Francisco, a few things were clear: policemen were pigs; troops were baby killers; and veterans were crazy drug addicts. Those older than I — say in their late teens through late 30s — were openly hostile to the military.
Continue readingWhat more can I say? Happy birthday to one of the greatest institutions in America — the United States Marines. Semper fi!
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