Last month a watershed event took place in Iraq. During a raid near Sinjar, an interesting Al-Qaeda figure, Shiek Muthanna, was killed in a raid. This fellow was in change of bringing foreign fighters into the country to execute operations against US forces and the Iraqi population. While it is always a great day when […]
Japan is a wonderful and fascinating place. It has a long proud tradition of a warrior culture, that at the end of WW2 was invalidated and pushed to the far corners of Japanese society. Japan was all about peace and happiness. With a huge US presence in multiple bases across Japan, the people shifted their […]
Sometimes I think that all wit and humor has been driven from public discourse through poltical correctness and mindless subjugation to political and social “causes”. Then I wander into something like this (From a source I usually don’t think highly of). From The San Francisco Chronicle – A reaction to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s claim at Columbia […]
As I mentioned yesterday, I was eagerly running down information on something I had caught wind of – that banks in the UK were in a liquidity crunch to cover their positions, and rather than go to the Bank of England to get more money they were instead turning to the EU central bank. Now […]
Last month the US Federal Reserve cut interest rates a full ½ a percentage point. Some folks were surprised by this (myself included) due to the fact that many economic factors (such as the stock market) were near multi-year highs, and the economy in general was thought to be chugging along nicely. In reality what […]
Gerard Vanderleun — who was just across the river from Manhattan, in Brooklyn Heights, when the WTC was hit — has posted his own memories of that day: The Wind in the Heights Notes made on September 11, 2001 — Brooklyn Heights I’ll simply link to my posts from last year, as well as Bruce […]
I just finished reading House to House: An Epic Memoir of War by SSG David Bellavia (with John R. Bruning). Bellavia took part in the US battle for Fallujah (Iraq) in November 2004; his squad was one of the first to enter the city, in which insurgents had spent months entrenching themselves and booby-trapping much […]
Blackfive is on a role. First, they tracked down, identified, and conducted a phone interview with the USMC Staff Sergeant who did the slam poetry video below. And they did it before the mainstream media could. Second, they have this link to Military Motivator, a place where individuals use the “do-it-yourself-Demotivator” function at Despair.com to […]
Thirty, forty, fifty years from now, Americans will look back in wonder at those who answered the call at the turn of the century: Hat tip to Uncle Jimbo at Blackfive. ..bruce.. [UPDATED 08/12/07 – 2216 MDT] Thanks to Ace of Spaces HQ for the Ace-alanche! I should note for the record that my wife […]
Ten Postulates of Political Correctness
Baron Bodissey [nice pen name, since I happen to know where it comes from] does an excellent job of laying out what he calls the Ten Postulates of Political Correctness: 1. America is uniquely evil. 2. America is never justified in defending itself. 3. Illiterate people from poor societies are superior to Americans. 4. The […]
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