Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
[I’ll keep this at the top through Memorial Day. Scroll down for lots of new posts.] Several years ago, as part of a 9/11 commemoration, I wrote the following words as part of a post I did about Lt. Brian Ahearn, one of the New York fire fighters who perished
Continue readingAs I’ve mentioned just a few times, I just read, and was very moved by, Marcus Luttrell’s Lone Survivor: The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of SEAL Team 10. A liberal I know flipped through the book’s first few pages and had a very different reaction.
Continue readingI love kid logic. I was telling my pre-teen daughter about the Navy SEALS (having just finished Lone Survivor), and I mentioned the incredible physical strength and mental stamina the men had. “And the women….” she prompted me. “Nope,” I said. “No women.” She stared at me. “But don’t the
Continue readingYeah, I know it’s not quite Memorial Day yet, but sometimes things come my way that I can’t wait to pass on. This morning, it’s two posts from Greyhawk, at the Mudville Gazette. The first one is both a memorial to the dead, and a bit of background to the
Continue readingWhen I was in law school, one of my classmates was a lovely man who had decided to go to law school after several years as a police officer in Oklahoma. I forget the context of our conversation, but he once told me that, in law enforcement, you never shoot
Continue readingFrom a local newspaper, the Twin Cities Times: THREE CHEERS, YTD! For the CHiP who stopped my friend John Gulick the other day. John was speeding on his motorcycle when a CHiP hailed him to pull over, but John missed the exit so sped up to the next one, which
Continue readingReturn of the heroes in Canada: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2q_SLSMA9k[/youtube] H/t: American Thinker
Continue readingIt’s not Memorial Day yet, but it’s time to start thinking about it, and this beautiful video, by wordsmith at Flopping Aces, is a good place to start. Be prepared with a hankie, though, ’cause you’ll need it. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=058VyI89QoQ[/youtube] I just want to add one thing now that you’ve spent
Continue readingOne of my favorite organizations is the Navy League. I wrote this post last September to encourage people to check it out. I’m reprinting it today, slightly modified, because, for no clear reason, the Navy League has been in my mind. I guess the dog days of Spring already have
Continue readingI’d like to analyze a Harvard’s law prof’s defense of a Harvard law dean. The Prof (and ex-dean himself) is Robert Clark, who wrote an op-ed in the WSJ defending Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan’s approach to the military during her tenure as dean of Harvard Law. He spells out
Continue readingOne down, three to go: A U.S. military jury cleared a Navy SEAL Thursday of failing to prevent the beating of an Iraqi prisoner suspected of masterminding a 2004 attack that killed four American security contractors. The contractors’ burned bodies were dragged through the streets and two were hanged from
Continue readingYou know me — I can resist news stories that simply deserve to be paired. This pairing requires no comment from me. You’ll draw your own conclusions. First, this little story about military sensitivity: The Army is considering whether to rescind an invitation to evangelist Franklin Graham to appear at
Continue reading“Don’t fire until you see the whites of their eyes.” — attr. to various generals at the Battle of Bunker Hill (although it has a longer pedigree than that). Liberals have been orgasmically excited by a video that Wikileak published showing a 2007 shootout in Baghdad, during which two Reuters
Continue readingSometimes a picture is worth a thousand words. And when you have two pictures you can compare, the meaning multiples exponentially. First, from the White House’s own Flickr site, here’s Obama greeting the troops: Let me reiterate that this is the image the White House itself chose to represent the
Continue readingAndrea Shea King rightly points out what should be one of the most important fights Republicans wage in the months leading up to November.
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