01.26.10
Glad someone said this
By way of a refutation of Charles Johnson’s (Little Green Footballs) ten reasons for parting with the right, Dennis Prager demonstrates the basic decency and intellectual integrity of mainstream conservatism.
01.11.10
Another voice for freedom
Texas Darlin has revived her dormant blog for the express purpose of promoting Scott Brown in the Massachussetts Senate race.
12.19.09
Time to fight like never before
Bookworm Room gives us a good pep talk on staying fierce and busy. She points out that Hugo Chavez’s speech in Copenhagen lays bare like nothing else (save, perhaps, Robert Mugabe’s speech to the same assemblage) what’s at the core of the FHer vision.
We will not lose, because we are not wrong.
09.23.09
Further isolation of a once-great blogger who has chosen to become a goofball
JoshuaPundit on Charles Johnson at Little Green Footballs.
04.29.09
Some accurate numbers – and some context
As Michael Medved points out in his Townhall column today, it turns out that civilian Iraqi deaths since the coalition invasion amount to 110,000. The figure of 87-plus-thousand arrived at by the British group Body Count has beed supplemented by newly obtained figures from the Iraq Health Ministry.
This being an AP story, you have to do a little digging to see that 59-plus-thousand of those occurred when sectarian violence was at its worst. Bottom line: a very small percentage of the deaths are attributable to US or coalition forces.
Medved looks at some conflicts of similar severity in the past few decades to offer some context.
02.05.09
It was nowhere near that many civilian casualties
The very public spanking of Gilbert Burnham, chief author of that Lancet study on Iraqi deaths.
09.15.08
The shame and dishonor at the core of FHer opposition to US involvement in Iraq
We’ve seen this kind of seditious behavior before out of the FHers, but the Marxist From Chicago has now become the embodiment of it.
This needs to be trumpeted from every media outlet of every type in this nation.
If you were a soldier, a pilot or a Marine serving in Iraq next January and this sorry excuse for an American became president, could you really take him seriously as your Commander In Chief?
09.02.08
This ought to be one of the big stories right now
Even with conventions, hurricanes, Iranian and North Korean nuke programs, Russian imperialism, Palin babies and – ahem – 3.3 percent economic growth in the second quarter, there ought to be more media trumpeting of the fact that the US-led coalition has handed security authority in once-wild Anbar province back to Iraqi forces.
08.04.08
A thought-provoking cab-ride conversation
Frank Turek’s latest Townhall column, “Jesus and the Case for War.”
07.05.08
Normalcy makes a big splash
Sometimes something will go very right. Such is the case with the opening of Baghdad’s pools and parks.
05.29.08
Why we call them Freedom Haters – today’s edition
Memo to the American people: Before you return this slug posing as a human being to the Speaker ofthe House postion, remember that whether you deserve a secure, free and happy future depends on whethr you come to your senses.
04.30.08
I’ve been paying attention
Blogging has been light the past few days. That’s because life is good, professionally speaking. I’ve knocked out a couple of things for Indie-music.com’s May issue – a review of a lackluster CD, but also a very cool interview to which I’ll link when it comes out. Also doing some copywriting for a PR / marketing guy I’ve worked for over the years. I also had to do next Sunday’s Republic column (on why nuclear proliferation isn’t a bigger issue this political season). I’ve also been lining up musical associates for several upcoming gigs. Also grading papers and getting ready to administer tonight’s final exam.
I have been paying attention to the world around me, though. It’s wacky out there, ain’t it?
Were you like me when you heard about Miley Cyrus’s Vanity Fair photo shoot? I immediately thought, “Oh, no, our sordid, rotten culture nabs another Disney kid.”
I doubt if Obama’s denunciation of Rev. Wright yesterday ends the matter. That would depend on the Trash Talker from Trinity not shooting his mouth off any more. How likely is that? Plus, He Who definitely Doesn’t Walk On Water sounded, shall we say, less than resolute when he said, “I mean it.” Not the man he met twenty years ago? Oh, please. And if he’s that poor a judge of character, we sure as hell don’t want him sitting down one-on-one with Kim, Ahmadinejad and Chavez.
Iran looks to be a front-burner issue. There’s yet another warning-shot-to-a-speedboat incident in the Persian Gulf, another American aircraft carrier sailing into that body of water, more proof of Iranian weapons and Iran-trained bad guys turning up in Iraq, and, of course, Dennis Ross’s warning to that Toronto congregation that the West has less than a year to prevent Iran from having nukes.
Gas prices won’t be coming down any time soon, for two main reasons: Mideast tensions and Congress’s refusal to allow drilling in places like ANWR and the Gulf of Mexico.
Environmentalists aren’t just dweebs; they’re agents of misery. Riot-causing food shortages are menacing the entire world, in no small part because of the diversion of perfectly edible grain into biofuel production.
Zimbabwe’s oppostion is bravely trying to see that political justice and national stability prevail. Robert Mugabe is showing us how evil dictators operate when they have no more ability to dress up their motives as anything civilized, like “the national interest.”
As I say, it’s wacky out there, ain’t it?
03.24.08
It was the right thing to do – today’s edition
If anything, according to the new Pentagon report, Secretary Powell’s characterization of Saddam’s regime as a “sinister nexus” in the world of terrorism was an understatement:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120631495290958169.html?mod=opinion_main_review_and_outlooks
03.17.08
What would it take to get the hard left to consider the possibility of optimism?
There has been a fresh spate of bad-mouthing of the US mission in Iraq lately in the BN threads. A lot of it sounds like an attempt to keep alive Harry Reid’s failure meme from last year. Maybe this ABC News item will alleviate some of the gloom. After all, the Iraqis themselves ain’t so gloomy.
The irony is that the world’s major-league Freedom-Haters, who make the ones within our midst look like rank amateurs, are postively giddy about the gloom regarding Iraq spewed forth by the likes of the H-Word Creature. ( I link to the Freeper post about it because the expressions of exuberance at the source website are in Arabic.)
03.11.08
Today’s required reading
Christopher Hitchens’ Washington Post column entitled “Iraq Was Worth the Price.”
01.25.08
Soros strikes again
A commenter thought he was really sticking one down my throat with a link to a news story about the two foundations that reported on the “Many lies the Bush administration told” about Iraq.
I hadn’t anticipated needing to even deal with it, but here’s the refutation:
At Big Lizards, you’ll find the omissions from what the reports had to say.
