Timothy Birdnow (Free subscription) | 28/05/2008
This from the incomparable Thomas Sowell at Townhall, courtesy of Wil Wirtanen: Mascot Politics Thomas Sowell Tuesday, May 27, 2008 Years ago, when Jack Greenberg left the NAACP Legal Defense Fund to become a professor at Columbia University, he announced that he was going to make it a point to hire a black secretary at Columbia. This would of [...]
tbirdnow.mee.nu (Free subscription) | 28/05/2008
This from the incomparable Thomas Sowell at Townhall, courtesy of Wil Wirtanen: Mascot Politics Thomas Sowell Tuesday, May 27, 2008 Years ago, when Jack Greenberg left the NAACP Legal Defense Fund to become a professor at Columbia University, he announced that he was going to make it a point to hire a black secretary at Columbia. This would of course make whomever he hired be seen as a token...
Timothy Birdnow (Free subscription) | 25/06/2008
This from Wil Wirtanen: Got this from Military.com. For us, ex-infantry this will be a sad moment. Akin to having your dog die. Wil ‘Ma Deuce’ Days May be Numbered Norman Polmar | June 17, 2008 Probably the longest serving weapon in the U.S. military arsenal is the Browning .50-caliber M2 machine gun. Often referred to as “ma deuce” [...]
tbirdnow.mee.nu (Free subscription) | 25/06/2008
This from Wil Wirtanen: Got this from Military.com. For us, ex-infantry this will be a sad moment. Akin to having your dog die. Wil 'Ma Deuce' Days May be Numbered Norman Polmar | June 17, 2008 Probably the longest serving weapon in the U.S. military arsenal is the Browning .50-caliber M2 machine gun. Often referred to as "ma deuce" for its M2 designation, the weapon entered U.S. service at...
Timothy Birdnow (Free subscription) | 22/06/2008
By Wil Wirtanen: I am currently reading the biography of Lynn “Buck“ Compton of “Band of Brothers“ fame. He eventually became the prosecutor in the Sirhan case, the assassin of RFK. Remember this is 1968-69. What follows is verbatim from the book in his after trial interview with the press. This is on pages [...]
tbirdnow.mee.nu (Free subscription) | 22/06/2008
By Wil Wirtanen: I am currently reading the biography of Lynn ``Buck`` Compton of ``Band of Brothers`` fame. He eventually became the prosecutor in the Sirhan case, the assassin of RFK. Remember this is 1968-69. What follows is verbatim from the book in his after trial interview with the press. This is on pages 228 - 229 Reporter to Buck: ``What can we learn from this experience?`` I answered...
Timothy Birdnow (Free subscription) | 19/06/2008
Timothy Birdnow Wil Wirtanen forwarded a piece by Michael Ledeen from the Wall Street Journal, and I found my thoughts racing after reading it. Below are some excerpts followed by my thoughts on the matter: Ever since World War II, we have been driven by a passionate desire to understand how mass genocide, terror states and global [...]
tbirdnow.mee.nu (Free subscription) | 19/06/2008
Timothy Birdnow Wil Wirtanen forwarded a piece by Michael Ledeen from the Wall Street Journal, and I found my thoughts racing after reading it. Here are some excerpts, followed by my own notions on the issue: Ever since World War II, we have been driven by a passionate desire to understand how mass genocide, terror states and global war came about and how we can prevent them in the future. Above...
Timothy Birdnow (Free subscription) | 17/06/2008
This piece from the Wall Street Journal dovetails with my own piece below. Muchas Gracias to Wil Wirtanen: The Supreme Court Goes to War By JOHN YOO June 17, 2008; Page A23 Last week’s Supreme Court decision in Boumediene v. Bush has been painted as a stinging rebuke of the administration’s antiterrorism policies. From the celebrations on most U.S. editorial [...]
tbirdnow.mee.nu (Free subscription) | 17/06/2008
This piece from the Wall Street Journal dovetails with my own piece below. Muchas Gracias to Wil Wirtanen: The Supreme Court Goes to War By JOHN YOO June 17, 2008; Page A23 Last week's Supreme Court decision in Boumediene v. Bush has been painted as a stinging rebuke of the administration's antiterrorism policies. From the celebrations on most U.S. editorial pages, one might think that the court...
Timothy Birdnow (Free subscription) | 11/06/2008
The Marines at Haditha have been acquitted, yet John Murtha refuses to apologize. This from Newsmax, courtesy of Wil Wirtanen: Heroic Haditha Marine Acquitted Friday, June 6, 2008 4:01 PM By: Philip V. Brennan The long, painful ordeal of Marine 1st Lt. Andrew Grayson came to a sudden end Wednesday when a jury of seven fellow Marine officers [...]
Timothy Birdnow (Free subscription) | 11/06/2008
Wil Wirtanen forwards this Wall Street Journal piece by Pete DuPont on Crap and Degrade, er, Cap and Trade: The Big Chill By PETE DU PONT June 9, 2008 Two years ago a Time magazine’s cover warned us about global warming: “Be Worried . . . Be Very Worried.” We should be even more worried about the supposed global [...]
tbirdnow.mee.nu (Free subscription) | 11/06/2008
The Marines at Haditha have been acquitted, yet John Murtha refuses to apologize. This from Newsmax, courtesy of Wil Wirtanen: Heroic Haditha Marine Acquitted Friday, June 6, 2008 4:01 PM By: Philip V. Brennan The long, painful ordeal of Marine 1st Lt. Andrew Grayson came to a sudden end Wednesday when a jury of seven fellow Marine officers found him not guilty of trumped-up charges that should...
tbirdnow.mee.nu (Free subscription) | 11/06/2008
Wil Wirtanen forwards this Wall Street Journal piece by Pete DuPont on Crap and Degrade, er, Cap and Trade: The Big Chill By PETE DU PONT June 9, 2008 Two years ago a Time magazine's cover warned us about global warming: "Be Worried . . . Be Very Worried." We should be even more worried about the supposed global warming legislation the U.S. Senate debated last week, then rejected without a vote....
Timothy Birdnow (Free subscription) | 10/06/2008
Wil Wirtanen forwards this for our amusement: Sunday, June 08, 2008 DUANESBURG, N.Y. A 29-year-old man leaped out of a plane at 10,000 feet with a camera but no parachute Saturday. His body was found next to a house with a damaged roof, police said. Sloan Carafello of Schenectady, who was observing on the flight, followed an instructor, [...]
