Most of us are aware that during World War II, tens of thousands of children were evacuated from British cities in Operation Pied Piper and sent to the relative safety of the countryside at the onset of the war in 1939. What I hadn't encountered in history class was...
Well, let's see. Sharon has bulldozed some more houses in Rafah, shot some stone throwing little boys, assaulted the Al Aqsa mosque with riot police, who even shot sound bombs into the mosque, had a shootout at a Palestinian mental hospital, and threatened to kill...
Before the House Armed Services Committee: Congressional investigators warned about the ballooning cost and missed deadlines plaguing the Army’s efforts to rid itself of 31,000 tons of chemical weapons. The Army has made little progress in the last six months and...
From the new Warmongerz blog, a war FAQ:Q: How can destroying things and killing people be good for the economy? A: To see this, you have to look at the big picture. Sure, Johnny might not come home, but he's just one person, and you can't compare him to society,...
The White House website has a page called "Renewal in Iraq" where it posts good news stories under the heading "Liberation Update." News accounts are painting vivid pictures of the joy and relief of free Iraqis, who are living without fear of Saddam's brutality and...
One of the appeals currently being made by the warbots is an attempt to drum up sympathy for the Americans killed in Fallujah by casting them as humanitarian workers delivering food to the Iraqis. As AntiWar's Justin Raimondo points out when critiquing Peggy Noonan's...
A couple of weeks ago, four American missionaries were killed in Mosul. Then, on March 28, a Briton and a Canadian mercenary were killed in Mosul. After 4 mercenaries were killed in Fallujah, Kimmitt goes all ballistic and vows revenge and says he's going to "pacify"...
Regarding yesterday's prediction of a likely shift in liberventionist rhetoric, reader Daniel Larison sends the following thoughts:You might also consider that, conversely, the mayhem in Iraq is doing more to convince people in the Near East that "freedom" and...
(submitted by Matt Kaufman)On Tuesday, WorldNetDaily posted an Insight magazine story titled "Clarke's Friends Say He's Lost Credibility." Curious to know just who these "friends" were, I went to find out: Being a journalist myself, I naturally assumed what any...
Only joking, of course, and so is he. His April 1 hoax succeeds so brilliantly because it sounds just like Glenn Reynolds and the other warbloggers--well, actually, it's much more coherent in its ridiculousness than any of those guys ever are. Priceless:But then I...
