Real Peace is a Product of Having Won the War

I’ve been spending a good deal of time the last several weeks thinking about many things as I go about the business of driving my truck, and piloting the nation’s freight to where it needs to go. It’s a kind

Just go and read this.

Starting to catch up on my reading. As it has been in the past, James Joyner’s Outside The Beltway is among my first stops:

John Hawkins‘ unscientific survey of conservative bloggers on The 25 Worst Figures In American History

Dim Won, Barney Fran and Mrs. Pelosi or not match for the Gipper, video:

Hat tip: RS McCain.

Sixty five years ago today,  one United States warplane dropped one bomb on one  Japaneses city, Hiroshima and killed what a hundred thousand Japanese civilians; men, women, children. from Bruce McQuain, Q and O:

[I]t is the annual Hiroshima

I notice that the most recent gamble of our tax money involves the Chevy Volt…

Keep in mind, this is the president who told us that the GM and Chrysler bailouts were an unvarnished success. What a lot of people

Hey, Bruce:

This “Ground Zero” mosque controversy has begun to rankle me. It is my understanding that those who want to build the “ground zero” mosque own the property there.

Secondly, it really isn’t adjacent to the old World Trade

Noted today an article in the McClatchy News wire… a service that I seldom scan anymore. Today, they offer up something fairly useful.

The first paras:

BAGHDAD — Shiite Iraqi militants have trained in Iran in preparation for attacks against

Or maybe  Vurkey?  From Edward Niedermeyer, New York Times:

GENERAL MOTORS introduced America to the Chevrolet Volt at the 2007 Detroit Auto Show as a low-slung concept car that would someday be the future of motorized transportation. It would

From DRJ, Patterico’s  Pontifications:

The hottest story of the week was Shirley Sherrod. Alexander Marlow at BigGovernment looks at why Sherrod was silenced by the Sunday media shows

Was silence the price the Obama adminstration extracted from Mre.  Sherrod as

I see it as nothing short of alarming that we go forward with the Fourth of July /Independence Day celebrations as if nothing was wrong; as if the instrument which has served better than any other to protect our freedoms

For a fitting tribute to the now departed Senator Robert “Sheets”  Byrd, late of West Virginia, a cite Michelle Malkin 2001 article in Capitalism magazine, via Ed Dristoll,  Pajamas Media:

The ex-Klansman’s admirers praise his historical knowledge, mastery of

I’ve been watching the nonsense over GOP Chair Steele’s comments on Afghanistan, with a somewhat jaundiced eye.

Look, the DNC may like to claim that Steele is “betting against our troops and rooting for failure in Afghanistan”, but  what’s

None dare all it education, via Sister Toldjah:

Students in Provincetown – from elementary to high school – will be able to get free condoms at school, under a policy passed earlier this month, even though their parents