Check out the latest dispatch from Michael Yon. This is part 1 of 4 of his tour with the British Royal Lancers.
Impressive stuff.
4 June, 2007
George Bush Endorses Fred Thompson
If that were W it’d be the kiss of death. But it’s George P. Bush.
Amnesty International
Suppose I told you that Amnesty International really started out as a communist group with the goal of subverting American interests during the Cold War. Would you be surprised?
Of course not.
Well, I’m not going to tell you that.
When you don’t know how to think
you buy into – or invent on the fly – the most bizarre conspiracy theories. Check out this scary stuff from British Muslims (including a homeopathic “doctor”) who don’t think Muslims carried out the 7/7 attack. The reaction to the bombers’ videos explaining the act is particularly jaw-dropping.
3 June, 2007
Say it ain’t so, Fred
Novak reports on his appearance before the Saturday Evening Club.
In his Senate voting record and his public utterances, Thompson is more conservative than Giuliani, McCain or Romney. He takes a hard line on the war against terror (referring in Connecticut to the danger of “suicidal maniacs” crossing open borders) and worries about immigration policy creating a permanent American underclass. His one deviation from the conservative line has been support for the McCain-Feingold campaign reform, much of which he now considers overtaken by current fundraising practices and perhaps irrelevant. Overall, his tone, in a soft Tennessee drawl, is less harsh than that of other Republican candidates — a real-life version of the avuncular fictional D.A. he plays on TV.
Great.
Experiment Finished
If you click on the graph above you’ll get the whole image. Kinda tells the story. The experiment was posted – guess when?
Quite the spike for this little blog. And the hits are still coming in ones and twos. I’ll call the experiment done, though.
We bid it farewell with this.
Dispelling Myths About Iraq
What happens when a General takes time out of his mid-deployment leave to correct misconceptions about the situation in Iraq? He gets picked up by all the major media, of course.
Kidding!
What’s he know? He’s only been there.
An Inconvenient Truther
That’s one possible title for Algore’s planned sequel. Others are “Even More Inconvenient” and ‘Worship Me, Already”.
The content of this sequel is even more predictable than most Hollywood rehashes.
And I predict you’ll be hearing more about his favorite oxymoron, “scientific consensus“.
2 June, 2007
ACLU helps al Qaeda sue Boeing
Actually, they’re suing Jeppesen.
The suit said Jeppesen, based in San Jose, Calif., has been a key provider of flight and logistical support services for CIA aircraft in the rendition program. Since December 2001, the suit said, Jeppesen provided flight and logistical support to at least 15 CIA aircraft that conducted 70 rendition flights.
While they’re at it, why not sue the weather service for providing forecasts, and ATC for radio communications? Nobody flies IFR without their Jepp charts. It’s the gold standard in instrument navigation data. They’re just part of the infrastructure.
The ACLU must think we’re as stupid as they take pains to appear to be.
Traitors.
1 June, 2007
Recruited to Die
The chilling account of making a new film, The Making of a Martyr.
In fact, the fanaticism was worse than she ever imagined. “The most shocking thing was reconciling the normal appearance of these kids and what was coming out of their mouths,” she said. “I was holding these beautiful children in my lap, and my translator was translating words of hate.”
