Storytelling

Oddly, one of the more compelling 9/11 memorials comes from humor-zine McSweeney's, "Welcoming Remarks Made at a Literary Reading, 9/25/01", by John Hodgman. Selected notable quote:I have heard a lot recently about the role of writing, song, music, painting, in...
Posted by Mitch on September 18, 2006 | Read Whole Post | Comments (3) | TrackBack

I Had Never Seen This

These kinds of stories amaze me:The Pacocha, a 312-foot former U.S. Navy attack submarine, had been accidentally rammed by a 412-ton Japanese fishing boat shortly after sunset on Aug. 26, about three miles from the port of Callao, eight miles...
Posted by Mitch on September 07, 2006 | Read Whole Post | Comments (2) | TrackBack

Flags Of Our Fellow Citizens

The passing of Joe Rosenthal - the war photographer who took the immortal shot of the flag-raising on Mount Suribachi - prompted a number of emails to Scott Johnson at Powerline, including this bit:The last surviving member of the first...
Posted by Mitch on August 22, 2006 | Read Whole Post | Comments (8) | TrackBack

I Do Like Mondays

Today is the twentieth anniversary of Chernobyl... ...but, on a happier note, it is the thirtieth anniversary (Sisyphus reminds us) of Rick Monday's immortal "Flag Grabbing" incident: Powerline had a retrospective last year that goes over the incident - and...
Posted by Mitch on April 26, 2006 | Read Whole Post | Comments (2) | TrackBack

Submitted Without Comment

Via Red this piece by Bill at INDC, a review of Mike Durant's In the Company of Heroes, caught me. Durant was an Army Blackhawk pilot who was shot down during the battle in Mogadishu, Somalia immortalized in Mark Bowden's...
Posted by Mitch on April 12, 2006 | Read Whole Post | Comments (24) | TrackBack

The Gulag

Sheila, as part of her odyssey through her bookshelves, reviews The Gulag Archipelago by Solzhenitzyn: I think that The Gulag Archipelago is one of the most important books not only of the 20th century, but ever. It goes a long...
Posted by Mitch on March 28, 2006 | Read Whole Post | Comments (22) | TrackBack

Defending Pacifism

I've written this article before. Bear with me. The story of the "Christian Peacemaking Teams" rescue has shown modern "christian" "pacifism" for what it is - an ideologically and morally bankrupt philosophy. Pacifism is a fine thing - as long...
Posted by Mitch on March 24, 2006 | Read Whole Post | Comments (6) | TrackBack

Liberty Or Death

Red points out that today is the anniversary of Patrick Henry's "Liberty or Death" speech. Since it's a Sheila post, you get all the background that you don't get in the history book. Or a graduate American History seminar....
Posted by Mitch on March 23, 2006 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0) | TrackBack

The Other Charles Lindberg

I hear on the KARE11 morning news that the legislature renamed Rochester's veteran's hospital after Charles Lindberg, former US Marine Corporal and the last survivor of the group that raised the original flag on Mount Suribachi: He's also a native...
Posted by Mitch on March 03, 2006 | Read Whole Post | Comments (2) | TrackBack

When Norway Saved The World

It was 63 years ago this evening that Norwegian commandoes ended the nuclear arms race in Europe. The German nuclear weapons effort, unable to produce a graphite-moderated reaction like the US effort that had just achieved fruition at the University...
Posted by Mitch on February 27, 2006 | Read Whole Post | Comments (52) | TrackBack

Baa Baa Baa

It's been covered elsewhere in the alternative media; the U of Washington Student Senate has rejected building a memorial to U of W alum and World War II hero Gregory "Pappy" Boyington.The University of Washington's student senate rejected a memorial...
Posted by Mitch on February 17, 2006 | Read Whole Post | Comments (11) | TrackBack

Reagan's Birthday

Ronald Reagan was born 95 years ago today. I try to explain to people - especially my kids - what Reagan meant. When I was my daughter's age, Jimmy Carter gave the "malaise" speech. When I was their age, I...
Posted by Mitch on February 06, 2006 | Read Whole Post | Comments (18) | TrackBack

This Could Be Good

Via KvM, some potentially amazing news: Justice Stevens may intend to retire during a GOP administration:Stevens has not made any formal announcement regarding his retirement, nor is he known to be in poor health. But he is 85 years old,...
Posted by Mitch on February 04, 2006 | Read Whole Post | Comments (3) | TrackBack

Just Remember...

...that Monday is the annual Reagan's Birthday celebration. Living in Minnesota as many of my readers do, surrounded by the nattering descendants of history's great midgets (Carter, Mondale, yadda yadda), who are in a temporary ascendant, it's important to focus...
Posted by Mitch on February 02, 2006 | Read Whole Post | Comments (4) | TrackBack

Object Lesson

Thirty-eight years ago today the Tet Offensive began. It's helpful to remember the context of the offensive: by the end of 1967, the US had basically ground the insurgency down:From the American perspective, the ongoing "police action" appeared to be...
Posted by Mitch on January 30, 2006 | Read Whole Post | Comments (24) | TrackBack

Consequences and Cluelessness

There are a lot of people out there who just don't "get" the Hamas election, I think. Last night I listened to "Wait Wait, Don't Tell Me", an NPR quiz show that, to be fair, doesn't pride itself on keen...
Posted by Mitch on January 30, 2006 | Read Whole Post | Comments (21) | TrackBack

So Help Him God

Dave from Mound writes that it was 25 years ago today that...:...Ronald Reagan, the greatest president in the 20th century (or US History...which I believe) took the oath of office and launched America back to its place as the leader...
Posted by Mitch on January 20, 2006 | Read Whole Post | Comments (17) | TrackBack

Name Change

A number of commenters brought up objections to the name "Reaganmas". Enh. Makes sense. So - get ready for the "Reagan's Birthday" holiday!...
Posted by Mitch on January 18, 2006 | Read Whole Post | Comments (2) | TrackBack

Reaganmas '06

Just a reminder that Reaganmas - the celebration of the birthday of Ronald Reagan, February 6 - is coming up in a little under three weeks. In last years' celebration, I put out a pot of jelly beans at my...
Posted by Mitch on January 17, 2006 | Read Whole Post | Comments (19) | TrackBack

What If?

Jack Kelly of Irish Pennants thinks Castro ordered the Kennedy Assassination. I've always personally thought it was Joe DiMaggio, but Kelly makes an interesting case:Retired FBI Agent Lawrence Keenan, who was sent to Mexico to retrace Oswald's steps there, but...
Posted by Mitch on January 09, 2006 | Read Whole Post | Comments (5) | TrackBack

Wacht Am Rhein

It was 61 years ago today that the Battle of the Bulge began. Hitler's last offensive in the West managed to fool all of the western intelligence services. Launched in an isolated part of the Ardennes forest near the intersection...
Posted by Mitch on December 16, 2005 | Read Whole Post | Comments (45) | TrackBack

That's Why It's So Cold

My neighbor Peter emailed me:Subject: hell froze over Headers: Show All Headers Yep, hell froze over. There's some guy on MPR talking about how Reagan ranks among our greatest presidents.Look for Hillary! to threaten to "start bombing Iran in five...
Posted by Mitch on December 06, 2005 | Read Whole Post | Comments (5) | TrackBack

The Mighty Fall

I'm immensely saddened to see that a great American has managed to destroy himself:Randy "Duke'' Cunningham pleaded guilty Monday to conspiracy and tax charges and tearfully resigned from office, admitting he took $2.4 million in bribes to steer defense contracts...
Posted by Mitch on November 28, 2005 | Read Whole Post | Comments (25) | TrackBack

Poland

World War II began 66 years ago today, with Germany's invasion of Poland. The Germans outnumbered the Poles 9 to 5 (2-1 in artillery, 3-1 in tanks and aircraft). Poland's military, like the rest of the struggling nation, had suffered...
Posted by Mitch on September 01, 2005 | Read Whole Post | Comments (5) | TrackBack

The Great Raid

Scott Johnson reviews The Great Raid, a movie based in part on the book Ghost Soldiers, the amazing (and to me theretofore unknown) story of a US Ranger battalion that staged an amazing rescue of 500 American POWs far behind...
Posted by Mitch on August 15, 2005 | Read Whole Post | Comments (1) | TrackBack

End of Quagmire

It took sixty years to bring the boys home from the quagmire in Germany:The US army said on Friday it would hand over 13 of its German bases to Berlin, some perhaps as early as next year, as part of...
Posted by Mitch on July 29, 2005 | Read Whole Post | Comments (3) | TrackBack

Battle of Britain - June 26/27

Sgt. Campbell is busy......
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Battle of Britain - July 25

The Battle of Britain begins a new phase today....
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Battle of Britain - July 24

Sergeant Campbell talks about the Battle, whose second week is drawing to a close....
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Battle of Britain - July 23

Sgt. Campbell's second entry in the extended section. Hawker Hurricane of 85 Squadron. It's a slow day,one of the last that Fighter Command will see for a while....
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Battle of Britain - July 22

Sgt. Campbell joins his squadron....
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Live-Blogging the Battle of Britain

A few weeks back, Right Wing Nuthouse "live-blogged" the Battle of Gettysburg. It was an interesting exercise - showing how much activity, bloodshed, and world-changing history was packed into three fateful summer days in 1863. Never being one to...
Posted by Mitch on July 22, 2005 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0) | TrackBack

D-Day Anniversary

Today is the 61st anniversary of D-Day. This was the view. You don't see the crisscrossing lanes of machine gun fire, the mines, the mortars, the artillery... Revisionist history says not to pat ourselves on the back too hard; the...
Posted by Mitch on June 06, 2005 | Read Whole Post | Comments (2) | TrackBack

Dr. Robert Fisch

I'm going to take the rest of the day off from holding Nick Coleman's feet in the fire. He covered some familiar, and worthwhile, ground yesterday....
Posted by Mitch on April 25, 2005 | Read Whole Post | Comments (5) | TrackBack

Today in History

The media will be hammering on the tenth anniversary of the Oklahoma City bombing today. That, of course, is justifiable; the attack was once synonymous with terror in the US, in what now seems like a simpler, less threatening era...
Posted by Mitch on April 19, 2005 | Read Whole Post | Comments (7) | TrackBack

Sixty Years Ago Today

Sixty years ago this morning, the last great battle of World War II began, as US troops went ashore on Okinawa Although Iwo Jima and Normandy justifiably are remembered as symbols of sacrifice and perseverence, Okinawa was an incredibly brutal...
Posted by Mitch on April 01, 2005 | Read Whole Post | Comments (5) | TrackBack

Black History/Democratic History

Deroy Murdock observes Black History Month with an unusual concomitant February anniversary:Today marks the 90th anniversary of a very special White House ceremony. President Woodrow Wilson hosted his Cabinet and the entire U.S. Supreme Court for a screening of D....
Posted by Mitch on February 24, 2005 | Read Whole Post | Comments (8) | TrackBack

Miracle

Today is the 25th anniversary of the "Miracle On Ice". I am not a huge hockey fan; I'm fairly illiterate about the sport, really. North Dakota, the Sioux notwithstanding, is basketball country once the weather turns (or at least it...
Posted by Mitch on February 22, 2005 | Read Whole Post | Comments (10) | TrackBack

Historical Trivia

Sheila O'Malley's on one of her tears, this time about the founding fathers, in honor of President's Day. This isn't even your garden-variety Sheila tear, not even one of her legendary ones. The Commonplaces? John and Abby's letters? Cary Grant?...
Posted by Mitch on February 21, 2005 | Read Whole Post | Comments (2) | TrackBack

Abandon Ship

The dedication of the attack/special ops submarine USS Jimmy Carter has prompted many a look back at the Carter Administration, from the hilarious to the furious. I'm going to add my two cents. Eventually....
Posted by Mitch on February 17, 2005 | Read Whole Post | Comments (4) | TrackBack

Panthers in the Snow

Warning: Serious military history wonkery to follow. Disregard if necessary As Trunk notes, today is the sixtieth anniversary of the Battle of the Bulge. People bloviating about the CIA's intelligence failures and lack of armored Humvees today should read up....
Posted by Mitch on December 16, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (21) | TrackBack

Vindication?

Last year, Hugh Hewitt asked the Northern Alliance to predict the date of Hussein's potential execution for his alleged crimes against the Iraqi people. I predicted January, 2007, if at all. I was the most pessimistic entry in the Fraters'...
Posted by Mitch on December 13, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (1) | TrackBack

Sheepdogs

The Sheepdogs Most humans truly are like sheep Wanting nothing more than peace to keep To graze, grow fat and raise their young, Sweet taste of clover on the tongue. Their lives serene upon Life's farm, They sense no threat...
Posted by Mitch on December 07, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (1) | TrackBack

Pearl Harbor Digest

Michelle Malkin has a knack for publishing mini-digests of vital links on major holidays and other important days . Her annual Thanksgiving articles are always founts of inspiration. Today, Pearl Harbor Day, is no exception. She quotes the White House:Today,...
Posted by Mitch on December 07, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (5) | TrackBack

Failure and Forgetfulness

Americans have short memories. Few things we remember as faintly as failure. Even on today, the anniversary of Pearl Harbor, one of America's worst failures. When the left would talk about the "quagmire" we face in Iraq, it's useful to...
Posted by Mitch on December 07, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0) | TrackBack

Tomorrow's Anniversary

Tomorrow is, of course, the 63rd anniversary of Pearl Harbor. Minnesota has, of course, a close connection to the events. 82 Minnesota navy reservists were on board the USS Ward when the Ward spotted a Japanese midget submarine off the...
Posted by Mitch on December 06, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (5) | TrackBack

RIP Iris Chang

Iris Chang, author of The Rape of Nanking, is dead of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound.In 1997, Chang published the international bestseller ``The Rape of Nanking,'' which described the rape, torture and killing of hundreds of thousands of Chinese civilians...
Posted by Mitch on November 11, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (1) | TrackBack

Anniversary To Remember

Folsom Jim Phillips at Infinite Monkeys notes the passing on Tuesday of an important, but oft-ignored anniversary - November 9 anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, along with a reprint of Reagan's "Tear Down This Wall" speech -...
Posted by Mitch on November 11, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (8) | TrackBack

America's First War on Terror

Via Dean Esmay, the story of our first war on terror:The first time the American flag flew over foreign soil taken in battle came in a war against international terrorists. Unlike today’s brigands, they were not driven by ideology or...
Posted by Mitch on November 10, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (2) | TrackBack

Still a Time For Choosing

Folsom Jim Phillips from the Infinite Monkeys reminds us that today is an important anniversary for any good conservative:Forty Years ago today, on October 27, 1964, Ronald Reagan gave one of the most memorable political speeches of the century on...
Posted by Mitch on October 27, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (2) | TrackBack

How's That?

HughHewitt is one of the best talk show hosts going - and I'd say that, even if he weren't a huge supporter of the Northern Alliance. However...:It must have been this way all across Paris in the summer of 1914....
Posted by Mitch on September 25, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0) | TrackBack

What Policy?

The lefties say "John Kerry has a foreign policy!". "Prove it", say the right. "Look," says the left, "He just gave a speech about it! So let's take a look......
Posted by Mitch on September 02, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (9) | TrackBack

Hell Hath No Fury

Yesterday, the Swifties rejected the President's call to cease and desist. Anyone surprised by this, please report to the Intellectual Maintenance department for a replacement clue....
Posted by Mitch on August 25, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (5) | TrackBack

Mistakeproof

For those of you who believe that John Kerry will fight a war without the "mistakes", let's look at a successful war. And let's count up the mistakes:...
Posted by Mitch on August 12, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (8) | TrackBack

Begging the Killers for Forgiveness

John Kerry wants to prostrate the United States before Europe The United Nations France, begging forgiveness for acting without their bye. In the meantime, Rwanda is investigating France's role in the mass murder of Tutsis and moderate Hutus ten years...
Posted by Mitch on August 01, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0) | TrackBack

Happy Independence Weekend

Hope you all have a great weekend. Tune in the Northern Alliance broadcast today - we're talking with Bob Leuci, after whom "Prince of the City" was modelled, plus the Week in Review and the Columnist Smackdown. And beyond that,...
Posted by Mitch on July 03, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0) | TrackBack

WWII Books, Movies You Haven't Seen

A few days ago I write about a David Gelernter piece on the cynicism behind so much baby-boomer genuflection to "The Greatest Generation"... ...but that's a subject we've already been over. Here's a question: What are the best WWII books...
Posted by Mitch on June 09, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (20)

Compare and Contrast

At Reagan's funeral, do you suspect we're going to see, say, Alexander Haig stand up, turn to the assembled Democrats and demand that they drop everything they believe to continue the Reagan legacy? Do you think in two years we'll...
Posted by Mitch on June 08, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (2)

Watch for This

Washington > Campaign 2004 > Reagan Legacy Looming Large Over Campaign" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/07/politics/campaign/07REPU.html?ei=5062&en=2b0daab7e3429b75&ex=1087272000&partner=GOOGLE&pagewanted=print&position=">The NYTimes notes the impact of Reagan on the various campaigns. To summarize the Times' obviously unbiased view - Bush is wrong either way....
Posted by Mitch on June 07, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0)

The Reagan Speeches

I've said it before - my dad taught speech. Great political oratory is a nearly-lost art, especially in the US. I appreciate it immensely when I hear it. And so the loss of Reagan was a loss, not only of...
Posted by Mitch on June 07, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0)

D-Day

Blackfive presents a fairly comprehensive list of Milbloggers' tributes to D-Day. Of particular interest - this piece about the Scottish involvement in D-Day - which BBC Scotland, perhaps even more blinkeredly liberal than its English corporate cousin, has not deemed...
Posted by Mitch on June 06, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (1)

The Larger Tribute

Steven Green has an observation on the Reagan Legacy from back when it was still being formed:One thing I did understand, and remember vividly today, was his visceral reaction to the name "Reagan." His eyes lit up at its mention,...
Posted by Mitch on June 06, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (3)

Sprache Des Reichs

Sheila O'Malley has this habit of posting long, Long, LONG collections of posts from single authors - always fascinating. Monday's is the best so far: the posts of Victor Klemperer, a German Jew and writer whose notes are a fascinating...
Posted by Mitch on June 02, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (1)

The Last Man Standing

I've been reading about Marek Edelman since I was a kid. He's always been among my heroes. He is the last surviving leader (perhaps last surviving participant) in the Warsaw Ghetto uprising of 1942 - where a slum full of...
Posted by Mitch on June 01, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0)

Historical Illiteracy

The bad news: American students are nearly illiterate about history. The good news? British students aren't much better:It is 1899 and Denzel Washington, the American president, orders Anne Frank and her troops to storm the beaches of Nazi-occupied New Zealand....
Posted by Mitch on June 01, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0)

Remember

Mudville Gazette has a long list of Memorial Day links by our best milbloggers. And James, of course, sums things up succinctly. Orwell said: "People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do...
Posted by Mitch on May 31, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (1)

Memorial Day

We have more people to remember this year. Please remember to honor them, and their sacrifice, in the way you find most appropriate. For my part - if a very significant part of our population gets its way, their sacrifice...
Posted by Mitch on May 28, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0)

Which Musician Is Your Blog?

Sheila O'Malley (still a guilty pleasure) writes:With the news being what it is these days, and the feeling of approaching terror attacks alive and well in the streets of Manhattan, (you can feel it when you go into the subways...
Posted by Mitch on May 26, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (8)

At the Top Of My Must-Read List...

...is "Brothers In Arms", a new book by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. Yes, that Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. The book is a history of the Army's 761st Tank Battalion, an all-black unit formed mainly as a PR exercise - but which served with great...
Posted by Mitch on May 03, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (3)

On Franco

On Franco - Joe Gandelsman was a reporter in Spain about the time the Franco government collapsed. He has a blog today - and writes this fascinating piece about the Basque separatist and terrorist movement ETA. He finishes:--- MY CONCLUSIONS:...
Posted by Mitch on March 19, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0)

Teachers - SCSU Scholars points

Teachers - SCSU Scholars points us to a wonderful piece by Michael Tinker on why standards may not be as important as the teachers who teach the material. To which I reply "Alleluiah". Tinker says:So the so-called "greatest generation" didn't...
Posted by Mitch on March 11, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0)

Billions of Years of Evolution...

(which I firmly believe to be not in any way discongruous with the story of Creation, but that's a separate post)... ...tens of thousands of years of human development... ...hundreds of years of focus on the advancement of human...
Posted by Mitch on February 17, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0)

Blast From The Past -

From today's bleat:You want to know why we invaded Iraq in 2003? Go back and read the papers in 1992. And you’ll find this quote: “’If they’re such whizzes at foreign policy, why is Saddam Hussein thumbing his nose at...
Posted by Mitch on February 17, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0)

The War and the Election

Victor Davis Hanson on the war and its electoral implications in the presidential race. Money clip:Europe, not America, has proved most interested in Iraqi oil over the last decade. Europe, not America, is apt to tolerate massacres in the Balkans...
Posted by Mitch on January 26, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0)

Flapping Through History

Via Sullivan -Churchill's parrot is still alive!: "Her favourite sayings were 'F*** Hitler' and 'F*** the Nazis'. And even today, 39 years after the great man's death, she can still be coaxed into repeating them with that unmistakable Churchillian inflection....
Posted by Mitch on January 20, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0)

2003 Wrapup

So - the war did NOT take six months. The Battle of Baghdad didn't turn into Stalingrad. Lack of UN support didn't render the liberation untenable. Hussein didn't nuke or gas Israel when he was up against the wall (hee...
Posted by Mitch on January 01, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0)

Polish Joke

Ralph Peters has this superb piece on Poland's long history of fighting for freedom: "It's a mistake to over-idealize any nation. But if there's a land of heroes anywhere between the English Channel and the coast of California, it's...
Posted by Mitch on December 29, 2003 | Read Whole Post | Comments (1)

"Fair Trial"

Powerline discusses the ins and outs of giving "fair" trials to dictators. They don't have a great precedent:After World War II, Churchill opposed the idea of trying the Nazi leaders who were still alive, arguing that they should simply be...
Posted by Mitch on December 29, 2003 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0)

Ask The Guy Who's Been There

Four leaders of "New Europe" - and four of the most remarkable men of modern times - Telegraph set their sites on their old enemy's protege. Lech Walesa, Vaclav Havel, and Arpad Göncz address Fidel Castro in this joint letter...
Posted by Mitch on September 19, 2003 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0)

Amnesia

Conservative eminimento and former Minnesota congressman Vin Weber has an excellent article in the WSJ (reprinted in Frontpage) about the amnesia of those criticizing the President's pace and motives in going to war with Iraq: "The Bush case for...
Posted by Mitch on August 13, 2003 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0)

No, Not That Peace

So, somehow or other, the countries most involved with and affected by the violence in Liberia - West African nations like Nigeria, Mali and Ghana - are responding to the crisis next door. Troops from those nations are on the...
Posted by Mitch on August 11, 2003 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0)

Iran

Michael Ledeen of the National Review continues to report on what seems, to some observers, to be portents of the downfall of the "mullahcracy", after half a million Iranians hit the streets over the weekend:Rafsanjani and his allies are preparing...
Posted by Mitch on November 25, 2002 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0)

A Great Proposal

James Robbins of the National Review has the best proposal I've seen yet for memorializing the victims of September 11:I have always admired the fact the Victoria Cross was originally manufactured from metal taken from Russian artillery pieces captured...
Posted by Mitch on November 21, 2002 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0)