Michael Berg reports: Today, military recruiters have unprecedented access to public schools. The little-known Section 9528 of the federal No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 grants the Pentagon access to directories of all public high schools (supplying them with...
Arthur Chrenkoff semi-responds to my post on Walid Jumblatt. I say "semi" because he curiously excises the Jim Henley passage at the end that ties it all together:Simply start saying things useful to the Bush White House and you too can take on gravitas with Gannonite...
In Backtalk: Emile Meylan describes visiting his daughter Mariela at the Walter Reed Medical Center. R.T. Carpenter points out that the last Civil War widow/ pensioner died just last year. The hundreds of billions budgeted for today's wars are just the down payment....
As a follow-up to Justin's great myth-busting post on new neocon pinup Walid "Oil & Jews" Jumblatt, here's a partial list of the great sages (besides Michael Young, who was Jumblatt when Jumblatt wasn't cool) who now consider him an authority:Instapundit (of course)...
Ali, the "Free Iraqi" has written an interesting post about how the New Iraqi Democracy is working out. Apparently his comment was inspired by 4,000 Sadrist militiamen marching in the streets of Basra in a show of power today.I say no to any reconciliation with...
and guilty of shaming UK." According to the Scotsman, two low level British soldiers have been convicted of "abuse," in their treatment of prisoners in Iraq at what they call "Britian's Abu Ghraib." Quoth The Scotsman: "THE ARMY was facing major questions over its...
It is reported that a US marine, who was captured on film killing a wounded Iraqi at point blank range during November's assault on Fallujah, will not be formally charged due to lack of evidence. Here's a video of the shooting. Here's an eyewitness account by the...
Something I left out of today's column: in trying to back up his assertion that Syria is to blame for the assassination of Lebanese politician-businessman Rafik Hariri, Michael Young cites one Walid Jumblatt, the head of the Progressive Socialist Party. But who is...
How absurd is it for a foreign country to send troops to another foreign country and then import other foreign troops in to guard them? And when one foreign country decides to pull its troops out of the invaded country the remaining foreign country's troops have to...
Juan Cole has a long post up in which he analyzes the somewhat sketchy information available about the process of choosing a candidate for PM of the Iraqi Assembly. Rather surprisingly, Ahmed Chalabi is still announcing to anyone who will listen that he has the votes...
