Archive for November, 2004
Famous Blue Staters
Liberals want to claim that Blues states house every thinking and tax-paying American in the country. But the Blue states have produced more famous people than liberals might want to acknowledge:
Timothy McVeigh
O. J. Simpson
Ted Bundy
John Wayne Gacy
Scott Peterson
Richard Speck
Benedict Arnold
Richard Nixon [...]
Book Review: The Pentagon’s New Map, by Thomas P. M. Barnett
American military policy as most of us know it evolved in response to the Cold War. The Soviet Union represented a military commander’s worst nightmare: equal or superior strength in numbers, technology, and intelligence, combined with a desire to conquer the world.
But, as we found in the 1990s, the Soviet Union was also a [...]
Veterans’ Day
I’ll resist the temptation to write specifically about Veterans’ Day. As a veteran, I’m afraid anything I wrote would too self-indulgent. ;)
Instead, I’ll link to this earlier piece.
National Review has this nice piece.
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Arafat
Jimmy Carter will probably attend Yassir Arafat’s funeral service in Cairo, Egypt. How typical of the man who considers the American Revolution a low point in world history.
Yassir Arafat was a tyrant, a murderer, a thief, a shameless self-promoter, a liar, a welcher whose ego killed more Palestinians than all of Israel’s weapons. While [...]
Newsweek: Unfair, Imbalanced
It’s no surprise that the liberal MSM would smear John Ashcroft in his retirement as they’ve smeared him throughout his career. But Newsweek’s coverage of Ashcroft is over the top. Their lead story, Ashcroft’s legacy, is an interview with a single person, David Cole, who has a toolshedfull of axes to grind with the outgoing [...]
Kerry Supports Blugeon Bush Supporter
According to posters to liberal forums, conservatives have a monopoly on violence. But some young Democrats, it seems, have learned their lessons from the union thugs who destroyed numerous Bush-Cheney and Republican offices prior to the election.
Three high school seniors who supported Kerry beat a Bush supporter with baseball bat and chains after school [...]
READ THIS: CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS IS MY HERO!!!!!!
This is the best Hitchens in . . . ever. Read it. Read it now. Tell your boss you’re busy, and read it now, savoring every brilliant word.
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Thank You, General Ashcroft
At the 1983 Lincoln Days in the Chase-Park Plaza in St. Louis, I followed a group of partiers from Jack Danforth’s room up a few flights of dingy stairs to Ashcroft’s room. At the time, John Ashcroft was Missouri’s Attorney-General who was seeking to replace Kit Bond as Governor.
As we slithered between preppily dressed bodies [...]
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