Duh
The “non-partisan” Congressional Budget Office claims that the actual size of the troop surge in Iraq may be much higher than estimates provided by the White House. According to the…
Long Overdue
On the eve of Super Bowl XLI, the NFL released this year’s list of selectees for the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Suffice it to say that the list for…
Support Little Caesars
Super Bowl Sunday is typically the busiest day of the year for the nation’s pizza parlors and delivery outlets. Some stores sell as many as 200 pizzas an hour during…
Air Pelosi
Today’s Washington Times has an interesting article that’s attracting virtually no attention in the MSM. Seems that Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi is leaning on the Air Force to…
The Wrong Stuff
In his classic book The Right Stuff, Tom Wolfe noted the contradiction between the carefully crafted public image that NASA maintained for its astronauts, and their private behavior. As Mr.…
The MANPAD Problem
Thanks to Powerline for spotting this Ralph Peters column on the recent spate of helicopter losses in Iraq. Peters is correct in identifying the apparent strategy behind the terrorists’ renewed…
Paging Dr. Phil
In the wake of astronaut Lisa Nowak’s bizzare meltdown on Monday, various psychoanalysts (professional and amateur) are trying to make sense of it all, offering their own explanations as to…
Voyeur Nation
Back in the 1950s, the patron saint of broadcast journalism, Edward R. Murrow, hosted a weekly interview show on CBS called Person to Person. Both the tone and content of…
Pelosi's Deceit
Having hit a little public relations “turbulence” over her request for a Boeing 757 for flights between California and Washington D.C., Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi is back-pedalling a…
What the Beeb Doesn't Tell You
The BBC’s “security correspondent,” Frank Gardner, is reporting that U.S. contingency plans for striking Iran “extend beyond nuclear sites and include most of the country’s military infrastructure.” Mr. Gardner also…