Ingrates in Uniform
That should be the title of the latest blog entry from William Arkin of the Washington Post, who writes on national and homeland security matters for the paper. Mr. Arkin…
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…
How Much Do Teachers Make?
Today’s Opinion Journal offers a summary of a recently-released study on teacher pay in America. And, it’s safe to say that the National Education Association (NEA), the nation’s largest teacher’s…
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…
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…
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.…
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 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…
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…