In an excellent blog post by fellow Milblogger the Mudville Gazette discussing the targeting of journalists by the military, Mrs. Greyhawk has a very informative interview with Jules Crittenden. It should be noted that Jules has been doing an outstanding job fighting the conventional wisdom (in the foreign media, at least) about the so-called targeting …
Archives for February 2005
The Angry Left
Yesterday in the comments section of this Oliver Willis response to an Instapundit post about the angry left, Canadian Robert McClelland wrote: Reynolds hates reality. And I’ve already told you how to deal with this prick. Stop dicking around and start digging up some dirt on him. He has students. I’m sure there is at …
Get Well Soon
Go wish Roger L. Simon a speedy recovery from his surgery.
An Excellent Idea
Here is an idea we can all rally around: This idea is not original, but at the moment I can’t find where I saw it. We need to take back the word ‘martyr’. When a suicide bomber blows himself and 10 kids up on a bus, the ten kids are the martyrs not the crazy …
A Turning Point?
The election results are out, and it appears that the Shi’ite Coalition won the most votes, but not quite a majority: New and nearly final tallies of the votes cast in the Jan. 30 Iraqi national election show Iraq’s majority Shiite Muslims won nearly half, 48 percent, of the 8.5 million votes cast, more than …
The Roots of Rendition
For those of you who think I am being hysterical about the post below regarding the tracking of children, think about your position on ‘extraordinary rendition’ for a moment. Perhaps, after reading this excellent piece by Sebastian Holsclaw (see also these worthy comments here by Matt Yglesias), you, like Mark Kleiman, are wondering about the …
Kid Tracking
Oliver links to this Talk Left post discussing this article: The only grade school in this rural town is requiring students to wear radio frequency identification badges that can track their every move. Some parents are outraged, fearing it will take away their children’s privacy. The badges introduced at Brittan Elementary School on Jan. 18 …