Archive for January, 2006

Red Google

Tuesday, January 24th, 2006

As Drudge and others have noted, Google will censor itself to satisfy the Chinese Communists. Thumbs up to keeping the Chinese ignorant, and thumbs down to the Department of Justice trying to stem child pornography. Red is definitely Google’s new color. . . .

Laughing at Those Who Die For You

Tuesday, January 24th, 2006

Joel Stein is the classic definition of a spoiled rich punk. A sample from his “Warriors and Wusses” column from today’s Los Angeles Times: But when you volunteer for the U.S. military, you pretty much know you’re not going to be fending off invasions from Mexico and Canada. So you’re willingly signing up to be [...]

French and Indian Wars

Monday, January 23rd, 2006

Jack Kelly is excited about some upcoming television regarding the War that Made America. Me too.

Camp Katrina

Monday, January 23rd, 2006

Camp Katrina: Proving that the United State military does much more than just kill people and break things. Who needs the New York Times anyway?

Octopus Eats Shark!

Monday, January 23rd, 2006

Yummy!. Hat tip to Patterico’s daughter.

Uh Oh

Sunday, January 22nd, 2006

My daughter will be teaching me to ski soon. From Carolyn’s adventures today as retold by her Mama: In this lesson [Carolyn's instructor] got her going down the steep part of the hill and she was going straight to the magic carpet (name for the kiddie lift ) all by herself, up and down, up [...]

Fire and Ice

Sunday, January 22nd, 2006

Check out Michael Fay’s new MilBlog, Fire and Ice, highlighted by Michelle Malkin. Who is Michael Fay? I am the artist in residence for the United States Marine Corps. I’m currently deployed in Iraq creating a body of artwork reflecting the experience of fellow Marines engaged in the War on Terrorism. Don’t miss it.

Iran Secretly Expands Nuclear Facilities

Sunday, January 22nd, 2006

Charles Johnson points to this latest piece of disturbing news from Iran via the Telegraph (emphasis added): Iran has secretly extended the uranium enrichment plant at the centre of the international controversy over its resumption of banned nuclear research earlier this month, satellite imagery has revealed. . . . Western intelligence agencies are focusing on [...]

Avian Flu Update XIV

Sunday, January 22nd, 2006

The BBC reports: A French woman who recently returned from Turkey is being tested in a Montpellier hospital for possible bird flu, the health ministry has announced. A first test was negative, but the results of further examinations are due later on Sunday, the ministry said. I have been raving about the Wall Street Journal [...]

Haleigh Poutre Fights for Her Life

Saturday, January 21st, 2006

But, do some in the state of Massuchusetts want her to die? Michelle Malkin highlights the incompetence of the Massachusetts Department of Social Services (DSS). The Boston Herald pulls no punches: Not content to have touched off a firestorm over life and death decisions, the head of the Department of Social Services has embarked on [...]