The Other McCain

"One should either write ruthlessly what one believes to be the truth, or else shut up." — Arthur Koestler

The Truly Pathetic Thing Is …

. . . Obama never could have gotten elected without these kooks: Just a bunch of mainstream moderate American swing voters. Meanwhile, Dennis Kucinich says the president has committed an “impeachable offense.” Apparently, Kucinich has discovered that there is this thing called a “Constitution” for which Obama has no respect. It took more than two years for […]

OPERATION ODYSSEY DAWN: U.S. Launches Attacks on Targets in Libya

The first Tomahawk cruise missiles hit about 3 p.m. ET today: Military strikes by the U.S. and its allies against targets in Libya Saturday have “severely disabled” Libyan leader’s Muammar al-Qaddafi’s air defenses, a U.S. official confirms to Fox News. . . . The Pentagon says 112 Tomahawk cruise missiles have been launched from U.S. […]

Too Many White Guys in U.S. Military?

Being stuck in Kabul with crappy bandwidth is, apparently, a privilege that all those crackers are hogging: The U.S. military is too white and too male at the top and needs to change recruiting and promotion policies and lift its ban on women in combat, an independent report for Congress said Monday. Seventy-seven percent of […]

Tell It to the Marines!

“There were a few gay girls who lived in the barracks. . . . The other gay girls had affairs with each other in the barracks, and ‘hit’ on other girls in the barracks. This really freaked out some of the Marines. We were all very young, and inexperienced in these types of situations. “It was […]

Don’t Worry, Egypt: He’ll Pull Out

Obama sending “multiple platoons” of Marines to Egypt “to assist in the evacuation of US citizens”? Why would the administration make a panic gesture like that? Let’s see: Arbitrary detentions of foreigners. Yeah, that’s not a good sign. Muslim Brotherhood negotiating with Mubarak regime? Also not a good sign. If the administration is gearing up for a […]

Virginia Muslim Institute?

Somebody mentioned this in the comments the other day when I was up to my neck in Egypt blogging, but I just saw it again at 1389 Blog: VMI is celebrating the Muslim invasion and occupation of Spain in 711 AD. And then I read this: The March 23-25 celebration entitled “711-2011: East Meets West” […]

Join the Marines!

Glenn Reynolds has been warning for months about the “higher education bubble.” Too many kids are going to college with the idea that it will automatically lead to higher incomes. Tuition has ballooned, increasing much faster than the overall inflation rate. A major part of the problem is that many students are taking on massive loans […]

Drew M. Nails It

“If Captain Honors goes down for this, expect some guys with stars on their shoulders to take a hit as well . . . “If Honors is relieved . . . you have to wonder if the top brass of the Navy really get that we are a nation that has been at war for […]

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