Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
When we met the Blues, one of the people we met was the team’s flight surgeon, who struck me as a lovely young woman: warm, dedicated and intelligent. I’m sure Neptunus Lex wasn’t talking about her when he wrote this hysterically funny post a few years ago. (And no, I
Continue readingI blogged last week about Bravo Troop 361 Cavalry, the unit that was overrun by a horde of Taliban, and whose members stayed to fight despite their wounds. As with all these stories, there’s a back story too, and the back story is that the guys in that fight didn’t
Continue readingAs usual, the gal’s nailed it: One almost gets the sense that the Obama team may have not learned anything from our recent experiences in two war theaters. It is not as if Donald Rumsfeld and a slew of generals didn’t try in Iraq to use the fewest possible troops, spend
Continue readingYou know it’s been a good evening when Mom, Dad, and the kids all leave a party ebullient. The party in question was a fund-raising reception aboard the USS Hornet, which is a floating museum. The guests of honor were members of the Blue Angels team. My husband was a
Continue readingMy family is going to a reception tonight at which we’ll get to meet the Blue Angel fliers. (Although this is not an event affiliated with the Navy League, I learned about it through friends in the Navy League, so the NL still gets the nod.) As the reception has
Continue readingI just love Jennifer Rubin in the morning. Let me just cherry-pick some paragraphs from her morning writing. On Obama’s governing style: James Capretta notices two developments in the health-care debate. First, the president is telling us to shut up again. (”President Obama said today that the debate on health
Continue readingIt was like a battle scene in an old Hollywood movie, when Americans still knew in their arts that American soldiers are ordinary Americans — good people — only braver and more honorable: Fighting raged at two remote U.S. outpostsnear the Pakistan border this weekend, that left eight U.S. soldiers
Continue readingI found this news snippet interesting, beyond the fact that Obama, the missing and passive Commander in Chief, is at odds with his general (emphasis mine): According to sources close to the administration, Gen McChrystal shocked and angered presidential advisers with the bluntness of a speech given in London last
Continue readingIn this world of instant messages, communications, and news coverage, where nothing held back from the viewer and where the phrase “The public has the right to know” is seen as some sort of sacred trust, we have profaned our selves and our society to the god of success. When
Continue readingMy mind is full of Fleet Week events. As in the past two years, it promises to be a very exciting week for me and my family. I know I’m going to be on a Coast Guard boat on the Bay when the Blue Angels fly, I know I’m going
Continue readingHere I sit with no computer access and a phone delivered just two days ago — and a job to do, but no resources with which to complete it. Why am I in this predicament? Before last week, I was productively working for the Navy trying to integrate kinetic (shooter,
Continue readingIf you live in the Bay Area, and you want to have a better Fleet Week experience this October than the guy next door to you, I strongly urge you to join the Navy League. With the NL at your back, Fleet Week suddenly goes from being a spectator sport
Continue readingSome people destroy constitutions, some defend them. This young soldier knows exactly where he falls in that constitutional divide: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y98HxYbsdBM[/youtube] Hat tip: Hot Air
Continue readingMe, personally, I think parachutists are crazy — but then again I get vertigo standing on a chair to screw in a light bulb. These Army paratroopers, however, have brought magic to the craziness, and done something truly beautiful: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLPQ83ufvfw[/youtube]
Continue readingOne of the things I struggle to explain to my kids is that “the military,” in the abstract, is neither good nor bad. Nor does size matter. David and Goliath is an inspiring story, because we like to see the little guy win. However, David also had right on his
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