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Quite possibly the stupidest article NYT ever published
I can’t believe I read the whole thing. The New York Times has an article entitled “In Pain, Women Soldiers May Be Tougher” about a research program on whether men or women in the military report more pain. In a review of the records of veterans of the wars in Iraq or Afghanistan, researchers at […]
Why AP doesn’t fight our wars
The Associated Press, in trying to show how smart they are and how incompetent the US military points out; There are already more than 100,000 international troops in Afghanistan working with 200,000 Afghan security forces and police. It adds up to a 12-1 numerical advantage over Taliban rebels, but it hasn’t led to anything close […]
Karzai questions US reliability
The Agency France-Presse and the Washington Times report that Afghan President Hamid Karzai wondered aloud to CNN if the US is a reliable partner. Of course, he says that to deflect criticism from the alleged corruption in recent Afghan elections, but he’d have no point if the Obama Administration hadn’t left him an opening; “Is […]
Obama’s “Cold Shoulder War” with Fox heats up
You know when the Washington Post’s op/ed pages turn against President Obama, it’s looking bad. This morning, that’s what happens – Ruth Marcus takes shots at the administration; The Obama administration’s war on Fox News is dumb on multiple levels. It makes the White House look weak, unable to take Harry Truman’s advice and just […]
Conflicted
Claymore sent us this link from the Las Vegas Review Journal which profiles the Oath Keepers; Launched in March by Las Vegan Stewart Rhodes, Oath Keepers bills itself as a nonpartisan group of current and retired law enforcement and military personnel who vow to fulfill their oaths to the Constitution. More specifically, the group’s members, […]
Obama Administration doesn’t like fact-checking
According to the Fox News Channel, the White House is purposely avoiding the network’s Sunday news show because it’s “opinion journalism masquerading as news”. Not at all like the networks that get tingles in their collective leg when the President’s name is mentioned. Apparently, they don’t like to be fact-checked; The White House stopped providing […]
Post for Deeds
In a stunning move that breaks with all of the conventions, the Washington Post has chosen to endorse Creigh Deeds, the Democrat candidate for governor of Virginia in the November 3 election. Yeah, I know, I’m so surprised, I can hardly type. And why would the Bethesda/Chevy Chase white liberals decide to back Deeds – […]
Command restricts photos of dead US troops
TSO sent us this link last night from Congressional Quarterly; The U.S. military command in Bagram, Afghanistan, confirmed Wednesday that it has barred reporters who embed with its forces from videotaping or photographing U.S. military personnel killed in action. Several senior members of the Senate Armed Services Committee — including the chairman, Democrat Carl Levin […]
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