How can we expect to do well in Iraq when, after relieving six insurgents of multiple explosive devices, we just let them go? No way to run a railroad...The United States-led coalition in Iraq said in a statement on Thursday that an Iraqi security patrol...
Author: Robert Farley
Everybody's talking about Ralph Peters "give up on Iraq" bit, and I think that Glenn and Spencer, among others, have demonstrated how dishonest and incoherent his new position is. Peter's.
Friday Cat Blogging... Starbuck
Flags of Our Fathers was one craptastic movie.I consider it my professional responsibility to see most every major war movie. People ask me, in class and out, what I thought of particular films, whether they were realistic, and so forth. I answer as best I...
Matt Duss dredges the depths of the Corner and finds that opposition to abortion and the taking of positive steps to encourage families to have children is the equivalent of.
Last week the Patterson Film Series featured The Third Man. As a piece of filmmaking, what is there to say? Reed creates two of the most memorable scenes in the.
Mr. Trend is making sense:Since when did governments spending money become a bad thing?If the government is wasting money on weapons programs and military spending while ignoring social needs of its people (health, nutrition, medicine, famine, poverty, etc.), then spending can be justly criticized. But...
I, for one, welcome the return of the word "liberal" to something more closely approximating its political theory meaning. I've spent far, far too much time explaining to undergraduates that.
Sheik Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum is an odd entry into the pantheon of Kentucky heroes:Most of them, however, know him as Sheik Mo, a horseman who for nearly 25 years.
Brad's Battlestar Galactica article reminded me of this gem (discovered by Scott) from Jonah Goldberg,written in response to episode 2-17:In a society scientifically so much more advanced, it seems to me that the issue would no longer be controversial one way or the other. Either...
USS Michigan represented more of an evolution of the pre-dreadnought type than a revolution in the sense of Dreadnought. The next four classes of American battleships took the lessons of.
I have an article up at TAP Online retroactively assessing the decision to go to war against the Taliban.Ezra and Spencer comment.