Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
Thomas Lifson has a good summary of the link up between the usual suspects at work with regard to the San Francisco Film Commission’s decision to deny the Marines the right to film in San Francisco, as well as the MSM’s curious lack of curiosity regarding the City’s conduct vis
Continue readingI was impressed by the temperate tone in this Stars and Stripes article, because I was just incensed when I read that our troops, who are putting their lives on the line for us, as a result of bureaucratic inefficiency, are being denied that most fundamental of all American rights,
Continue readingTwo things are going on in San Francisco that demonstrate that City’s abiding dislike for the American military. The first thing to note today is that the Board of Supervisors is set to vote on Supervisor Chris Daly’s umpteenth attack against the Blue Angels. I’m confident that it will fail
Continue readingJohn Hawkins, at Right Wing News, sent out a poll to conservative bloggers asking them about political issues of the day, such as Larry Craig, the 2008 elections, patriotism and religion. You’ll find the results here. Would you have answered the questions as the majority of responding bloggers did? I
Continue readingOne of the things the anti-War movement does is obsess on the war dead. They say they do it out of respect but, their protests notwithstanding, their antics always look remarkably as if they’re pushing bodies in front of the American public so as to advance their agenda that war,
Continue readingOne of my favorite milblogs is Acute Politics, because Teflon Don, the soldier who writes it, has the soul of a poet. That is, he manages to combine astute on-the-ground observations about military life in Iraq with really beautiful writing. I see a shift coming, though, because Teflon Don is
Continue readingThe New York Times has again thrust before me food for thought — and food that I haven’t seen addressed in the major conservative blogs. Again, it involves military personnel criticizing the war effort. The trigger article is a May 2007 opinion piece in the Armed Forces Journal in which
Continue readingAs you may recall, a couple of days ago I asked why there had been no comment whatsoever in the conservative blogosphere about a New York Times op-ed piece in which seven active duty soldiers criticized the Iraq War. In updates to that same post, I was able to point
Continue readingOn August 19, the New York Times ran an op-ed by seven military personnel, who were described as follows: Buddhika Jayamaha is an Army specialist. Wesley D. Smith is a sergeant. Jeremy Roebuck is a sergeant. Omar Mora is a sergeant. Edward Sandmeier is a sergeant. Yance T. Gray is
Continue readingClifford May has an excellent article about the Surge. It begins with the doomsday scenarios the anti-War people in politics and the press spelled out before the Surge happened, and then points that the more honest amongst them are admitting that the Surge is working. What makes May’s article very
Continue readingI’ve blogged before about San Francisco Supervisor Chris Daly’s prior attacks on the Blue Angels. He tried in the spring and, when bloggers focused the spotlight on his attempt to ground them, he backed off. He’s trying again now. Tonight’s vote will decide whether the matter passes out of committee
Continue readingI’ve talked in posts past about the benefit a draft would have on the American character. I think it would be good for young people to get two years of strong discipline, and I think it would be good for race relations in this country to have all young people
Continue readingAce deconstructs The New Republic‘s most recent attempt to explain away Scott Thomas’ rather strange, and almost impossible to corroborate, claims about his macabre and novelistic experiences in Iraq. The more one learns, the more it seems that Thomas wanted to write a semi-biographical version of the great anti-War novel,
Continue readingI met a retired Air Force vet today, and he was just the nicest guy. Kind, thoughtful, enthusiastic. In that, he resembled all of the other career military people I’ve met over the years, whether currently serving or retired. I’ll admit that my sample is small, since I don’t move
Continue readingIf you’ve been thinking that I haven’t been blogging very vigorously the last couple of days, you’re right. I’ve had a big work project, that started out grim and got rather interesting, and I’ve been getting ready for a trip. I’ll probably blog during the trip, so I’m not signing
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