Daily Archives: March 1st, 2006 «

 

Victor Davis Hanson: At War With Ourselves

Posted by: ST on March 1, 2006 at 12:59 pm » 29 Comments

Victor Davis Hanson has an opinion piece up today at the Wall Street Journal, in which he addresses homefront conflicts over the war in Iraq. He writes: There is a more disturbing element to these self-serving, always evolving pronouncements of the “my perfect war, but your disastrous peace” syndrome. Conservatives who insisted that we needed [...]

 

Washington state Senate passes resolution honoring Pappy Boyington

Posted by: ST on March 1, 2006 at 12:14 pm » 10 Comments

Back on the Feb. 14th I blogged about the University of Washington’s student senate voting to reject a campus memorial in honor of UW alumnus and Congressional Medal of Honor recipient Gregory “Pappy” Boyington. According to some who voted against the memorial, Colonel Boyington was not good enough to honor with a memorial. In response [...]

 

San Fran supervisors: Impeach Bush!

Posted by: ST on March 1, 2006 at 10:41 am » 50 Comments

First they voted against a resolution supporting a bid to move the hisoric battleship Iowa to SF, where it would be converted into a floating museum. Now, there’s this: San Francisco’s supervisors jumped into national politics Tuesday, passing a resolution asking the city’s Democratic congressional delegation to seek the impeachment of President Bush for failing [...]

 

Manifesto against Islamic totalitarianism

Posted by: ST on March 1, 2006 at 9:15 am » 17 Comments

Excellent. Via Jyllands-Posten: After having overcome fascism, Nazism, and Stalinism, the world now faces a new totalitarian global threat: Islamism. We, writers, journalists, intellectuals, call for resistance to religious totalitarianism and for the promotion of freedom, equal opportunity and secular values for all. The recent events, which occurred after the publication of drawings of Muhammed [...]