One Reason for Force Shortages
Alex Knapp on More Casualties of a Deeply Stupid Policy: I’m sorry, but at a time when we’re engaged in active military operations in the United States, discharging Arabic and Farsi speaking linguists for...
Author: James Landrith
Military Manipulates Media
The Age on US bans media from protests: US forces yesterday tried to stop the media from covering a third day of anti-American protests by Iraqis outside a hotel housing a US operations base,...
Glenn, What About Rummy?
It seems that Glenn Reynolds is playing the "you shook a dicator's hand" card on Chirac. By now I suspect nearly everyone in the blogosphere has seen the photo of Rumsfeld making nice with...
Test Entry
As my website host is experiencing troubles (again) due to server crashes, this is a test….
Don Neddo, Lying Chickenhawk
Dennis Yusko of the Times Union on He rallied for the troops and lied about his past: Don Neddo, the force behind the region's biggest pro-U.S. troops rallies, will no longer organize the demonstrations...
Dancing Stops, Warbloggers Still At Home
Niko Price reporting for the Associated Press on Baghdad Seethes With Anger Toward U.S.: At first they cheered, smiled, offered hearty thumbs-ups to the U.S. soldiers newly in their midst. But across Iraq's lawless...
NY Cops Emulating Denver Cops
Melanie Lefkowitz and Leonard Levitt writing for Newsday on PD Wipes Out Protester Database: Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said Thursday he had ordered an end to the recent department practice of questioning arrested anti-war...
Move Tax Slavery Day to November
Rep. Roscoe Bartlett has an interesting idea. He's sponsored legislation that would change tax day from April 15 to the first Monday in November. The concept being that folks would better remember the economic...
‘Friendly Fire’
Al Jazeera on US female soldiers fall to 'friendly fire': The prohibition of sexual intercourse among US squaddies has not prevented up to 20 of the fairer sex being sent back home after they...
Media Coverage
An Aussie online magazine called Crikey has linked to my post about Cpl Dupre in a commentary posted to their website. Read it here. As I've never heard of them, not being versed in...