Daily Archives: October 4th, 2003 «

 

“Questioning Patriotism” or not?

Posted by: ST on October 4, 2003 at 11:42 am » Comments Off

One of my favorite NRO writers, Jonah Goldberg, weighs in on the “They can’t question my patriotism!” crowd: *snip*Another phantasm of the liberal imagination is that they’re having their patriotism “questioned” at every turn by those nasty conservatives. I’m of two minds about this omnipresent assertion. On the one hand, I kind of want to [...]

 

The president is a poet?

Posted by: ST on October 4, 2003 at 10:30 am » Comments Off

LOL! A cute story this morning from CNN: *snip*At a gala Friday night kicking off this weekend’s third National Book Festival, Mrs. Bush celebrated the written word in an age of visual media, thanking American authors for their “tales of mystery, history and heroism.” “A good book is like an unreachable itch; you just can’t [...]

 

Somalia still a mess after “Blackhawk Down”

Posted by: ST on October 4, 2003 at 10:25 am » Comments Off

Sad. Here’s a snip from the story: The wreckage of a Black Hawk helicopter lies tangled in a big prickly pear cactus. It’s the only remaining evidence of the fierce battle on a dusty side street a decade ago that killed 18 U.S. soldiers and spurred the exit of American peacekeepers. On Oct. 3, 1993, [...]

 

North Korea and Iraq? Yep.

Posted by: ST on October 4, 2003 at 10:02 am » Comments Off

Kim Jong-il pulled a fast one on Saddam just before the Iraq war. North Korea’s wily dictator, Kim Jong-il, bilked Saddam Hussein out of $10 million in an aborted deal to smuggle ballistic missile technology and other prohibited military equipment to Iraq shortly before the war, the chief U.S. weapons hunter said Friday. The no-honor-among-tyrants [...]

 

Another Success story in Iraq

Posted by: ST on October 4, 2003 at 9:53 am » Comments Off

Stories like this one need to be heard. When they realized that the newly trained local police force desperately needed walkie-talkies, the U.S. troops who patrol Iraq’s fourth-largest city didn’t wait for civilian bureaucrats to buy them, as have their Baghdad counterparts. The soldiers in Kirkuk found a dealer and ordered the radios with their [...]

 

Still think there’s not a liberal media?

Posted by: ST on October 4, 2003 at 9:47 am » Comments Off

Think again. This morning’s Philadelphia Daily News shows us exactly how “impartial” the media really is. Note this paragraph: Jackson, who challenged the football element of Limbaugh’s commentary but not the racist part during the show, caught heat in some media quarters and from friends for not being more forceful, the paper said. The “racist [...]