Al Gore: Not interested in dissent

For my friends who remain convinced that Global Warming is a crisis: Is this really the guy you want to throw your lot in with?
As over 150 heads of state and government gather at UN headquarters in New York to discuss climate change, former Vice President Al Gore, the most prominent proponent of the theory [...]

In the mail

Brandon Friedman’s The War I Always Wanted: The Illusion of Glory and the Reality of War: A Screaming Eagle in Afghanistan and Iraq. I’ll have a review up next week.

House abandons anti-war netroots

Ah. Following the Senate’s example, the House of Representatives has also condemned MoveOn’s pathetic advertisement:
The House on Wednesday overwhelmingly voted to condemn the liberal advocacy group MoveOn.org for a recent advertisement attacking the top U.S. general in Iraq.
By a 341-79 vote, the House passed a resolution praising the patriotism Gen. David Petraeus, the commander [...]

More unintended irony from Sullivan

Oh, boy. When Andrew doesn’t like a candidate, it really shows, doesn’t it? Here he is excoriating Rudy Giuliani:
New Yorkers tell you he’s flat-out bonkers. I’m still trying to figure out if that cell phone call from Judith was planted or not. Was it an elaborate device to prove to voters that he’s [...]

Envy

Man, I envy those who blog for a living. Me, the full-time job is sorely inhibiting my free time, if not my muse.
Plus, my laptop (a 2002 Thinkpad) finally went irretrievably on the fritz, so no opportunity to blog from home in the evenings. Trust me, I’ve tried sneaking down to my basement [...]

John Edwards’ “Populism” exposed

You really do find allies in the strangest places, sometimes. I’ve been writing about John Edwards’ hypocrisy and cold political calculation in pursing the Democratic nomination for quite a while now, but this Kos diarist introduces not just Edwards quotes, but Edwards video that condemns the man as a serial re-inventor of his political [...]

House to House: An Epic Memoir of War

House to House: An Epic Memoir of War
SSG David Bellavia with John R. Bruning
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SSG David Bellavia lays the foundation for his book on the first page, with this quote:

Welcome to the infantry. This is our day, our job. It sucks, and we hate it, but we [...]

Hillary’s “No” vote on condemning MoveOn.org

Well, that was a mistake, Mrs. Clinton.
You would think, given the many, many thousands of words that have been churned out regarding the Clinton’s contempt for the United States military, this would have been a no-brainer of a vote for her. Having worked as hard as she has to moderate her image, and atone [...]

Sad

I don’t like to admit it, but in late 2001 and for most of 2002, I was a fairly consistent visitor to Andrew Sullivan’s Daily Dish. Hell, I even used to email tips to Andrew, and got a couple of acknowledgments back from him.
Well, Andrew went off the rails some time ago, and because [...]

Charges against ANOTHER Haditha Marine dropped

Haditha isn’t cracking up to be all the left wanted it to be, is it?
“A Marine Corps officer accused of failing to properly investigate the alleged massacre of 24 Iraqi civilians in the town of Haditha has been cleared of wrongdoing, the military said Tuesday.
A statement released from the Marines Camp Pendleton base in southern [...]