1LT Travis Manion

McQ, (who really has to start putting up Project Hero stuff, again, ) passes along a story of heroism from Bill’s excellent INDC Journal.

Bill Ardolino, who blogs at INDC Journal and is presently embedded in Iraq, doesn’t ask

We do get caught up in the day to day… Far more than is good for us, I think.  Both Martin, and Billy, send us reminders of that, today.  Personally, I owe thanks to both of them, for

Jesse Jackson is fond of the term “defining moment.”   In politics, a defining moment is when a politician accidently speaks  thbe truth.  Glenn Thrush, Newsday, reports:

WASHINGTON – The Rev. Jesse Jackson has accused Barack Obama of “acting like

• Someone whose judgments I value told me here just recently, that it’s not how many hits you’re getting that really matters to the stature of a blog, but who is reading. I’m starting to understand what he meant. The recent

I’ve taken Megan McArdle to task on several occasions in these spaces in the recent past.  This isn’t going to be one of those days.  Our topic, this time, is a bounce off from rabid foamer Cass Sunstein, who

A rather startling comment from Jawa Report, this morning:

We won the war, so Iraqis have finally come to believe. Only on the streets of Europe and America is there really a question over “if” we can win.

Again:

The Jerusalem Post–

 Proof of cooperation between Iran and Syria in the proliferation and development of weapons of mass destruction was brought to light Monday in a Jane’s Defence Weekly report that dozens of Iranian engineers and 15 Syrian

• They’re calling for ten days of relatively dry weather with Thomson the seventies to the eighties, around here.  Not at all unusual, and it looks like we may be able to get some fall camping in.
• Why is it that

Richard Cohen is a liberal apologist of the first order.

So what is that when he comes up with something like this, you tend to sit up and take note:

If there is a phrase more closely associated with

From WDIV:

John David R. Atchison, 53, an assistant U.S. attorney from the northern district of Florida, was arraigned in U.S. District Court in Detroit Monday afternoon.

An undercover officer posed as a mother offering her child to Atchison for

This is post 7100. That’s right, 7100 posts, officially, since BitsBlog started. Even GZipped, it comes out around 300mb. A lot of writing, these past 6 and a half years. OK, let’s get to it.

• It amazes me, Billy,

Michelle Malkin has more on the bad idea that will not die – Shamensty;

Exactly one week ago, I warned about the return of the DREAM Act, which would confer special tuition benefits on illegal alien students despite

Ed Morrissey today gets into a long piece examining just how Norman Hsu got as far into the Democratic party’s inner circle… particularly Hillary Clinton.

The Los Angeles Times doesn’t do much better at unraveling the enigma. However, the Times

Greg Gutfeild, posts one I wish I’d thought of.

You say that the Republicans are fear mongers, what with their inconvenient reminders that terrorism is rampant in the world. But it seems to me that the real fear mongers are

• The BitsBlog site continues to run well…  and that’s good, because frankly I don’t think I have the strength left to do that all over again, just now.  Saturday morning was the first time I actually felt human in several