An excerpt from a Washington Times editorial by Jack Kelly. “The fighting, such as it’s been, in Iraq pretty much illustrates the Arab way of war for the last 10 centuries: treachery, brutality toward the helpless, cowardice in the face of the enemy and constant empty boasting. Arabs bluster, then retreat.” Now that we are [...]
Fundamentally, there are two ways to look at elected officials. Group 1 tends to think of elected officials as their mouthpiece. They aren’t allowed to have their own opinion. They can only do what their constituents want. Group 2 looks at their elected officals as people they have chosen to use their best judgment to [...]
Tacitus, the Roman philosopher, once wrote, “In order to know the character of any people, you have only to observe what they love.” In the case of the French, they have become a country of effeminate sophisticates, adept at verbiage but absolutely useless when it comes to actual action and real accomplishment.
In one of his blog entries, Mannion brought up a really good issue that I think bears further inspection. Weapons of Mass Destruction or WMD has been at the fore front of media coverage recently. So recently that many wonder why weren’t we worrying about it earlier if it was such a big deal. The [...]
Anybody else having problems with yahoo? Sometimes, I can’t bring up the page. Other times, I can’t get my mail. I’m tech stupid so this is probably my doing, but on the off chance I’m not at fault, I’d like to know so my tech confidence doesn’t drop any further.
I am not surprised by the media’s handling of the historic mid-term GOP wins. I’ve said it before, but the media bias is really staggering. It’s that slick, educated bias that’s hard to detect because it’s so imbedded in the language, subconsciously shaping the thoughts of all those who read it. For example: “Republicans SEIZE [...]
For my first post, let me rant for a second about the media. It’s really hard to find a group of dumber people. Maybe there might be a smart one or two in the whole lot of but they are by far the exception. Now I firmly believe in a free press. And I also [...]