For the past couple of years, we have repeatedly heard spokesmen from the National Guard and the reserve aver that they were continuing to meet their basic recruitment goals within a few percentage points. It never ceased to amaze me that there were so many who would...
The Hits Keep Coming
How sincere is Walid Jumblatt's much-hyped conversion to the Bush Doctrine? Well, according to a FrontPageMag article just two months back, Jumblatt told a Saudi daily:We are all happy when U.S. soldiers are killed [in Iraq] week in and week out. The killing of U.S....
US bully losing influence over Canada
The Canadian government has rejected US orders that it comply with the incredibly dangerous and wrongheaded waste of resources euphemistically called the "missile defense shield"; Prime Minister Paul Martin said Thursday that Canada would not join the contentious U.S....
Piling on the Jumblatteers
Yet another crazed Jumblatt quoter pops up and is efficiently dispatched by lenin. One of the Harry's Place commenters appeals for mercy for the Jumblatteers, "Oh, leave HP alone! Can't you see they're hanging to reality by their finger-nails? :)"
FBI abandons secrecy claims against Edmonds
Sibel Edmonds is about to make life very unpleasant for the FBI; The Department of Justice has abandoned its claim that allegations made by a fired FBI translator are secret, paving the way for a court case that will air embarrassing allegations about incompetence,...
Let’s pick a fight with Russia
Putin humiliated next to Bush "It could be that he kept his cool Thursday because he couldn't quite believe what was happening to him." Robin Shepherd, Washington Times: "It all happened following the end of bilateral talks when a televised press conference turned...
Jumblattapalooza
Arthur Chrenkoff says that he and his neocon buddies don't consider Walid Jumblatt an authority on anything. Well, Michael Young sure does, as he has now highlighted Jumblatt's testimony in two essays (here's the first) affirming the efficacy of the Bush Doctrine in...
Neocons forcing arms race with China
Conn Hallinan, of Foreign Policy in Focus, reports that the militant neoconservative wing of the Bush administration is pushing an extremely aggressive policy toward China. Despite the fact that; ... while China is modernizing its military, it is 20 years behind the...
Military Recruiters Have Unrivaled Access to Schools
Michael Berg reports: Today, military recruiters have unprecedented access to public schools. The little-known Section 9528 of the federal No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 grants the Pentagon access to directories of all public high schools (supplying them with...
Jumblatt Denial
Arthur Chrenkoff semi-responds to my post on Walid Jumblatt. I say "semi" because he curiously excises the Jim Henley passage at the end that ties it all together:Simply start saying things useful to the Bush White House and you too can take on gravitas with Gannonite...
