The Washington Post’s Outlook section today contains yet another doozy of a headline in the op-ed article, “Al-Jazeera, as American as Apple Pie.” With all due respect to former ABC producer and author Joanne Levine: “as American as apple pie?” My American ass. Just because a foreign company decides to open up an office in [...]
I’ve been tied up in a variety of activities related to my business trip earlier this week, so blogging has been light and I haven’t followed up on it at all. Let’s get the preliminaries out of the way: 111° is hot. “Yeah, but it’s a dry heat!” True, it is. And I was in [...]
Interesting tidbit: a Galapagos tortoise that has been alleged to have been one of 3 such animals taken from the Galapagos Islands by researcher Charles Darwin has died at an Australian zoo. She was 176 years old: A 176-year-old tortoise believed by some to have been owned by Charles Darwin has died in an Australian [...]
Via such worthies as Captain’s Quarters, Hugh Hewitt, and FoxNews.com comes the death knell announcement for all those folks yelling that Hussein had no WMD when we arrived. Senator Rick Santorum and Congressman Pete Hoekstra held a press conference today where the Senator referenced the declassified portion of a National Ground Intelligence Center report. The [...]
The 2 missing soldiers we’ve been looking for in Iraq have been found, unfortunately dead. Initial reports indicate that they were tortured and “killed in a barbaric way.” The bodies of two U.S. soldiers who were reported missing have been recovered, and an Iraqi official said Tuesday the men were “killed in a barbaric way.” [...]
You may disagree with Susan Estrich, a journalist who writes on FoxNews.com, but she writes with insight and that demands serious consideration of her points. I take note of her column from yesterday titled, “Is Teacher-Student Sex OK if the Student is 18?“ She’s talking about a very specific topic, I realize, but a larger [...]
Those who have never done it have a rather romantic view of business travel. The jetting to and fro, the exotic locations, etc. Well, for any of you have this idea stuck in your head, let me clear this up for you. It sucks. At the very moment I’m writing this I am on a [...]
It’s Fathers’ Day and I wanted to take a moment to recognize the event and wish some folks a happy fathers’ day. To my own father, now gone over three years. I miss you, Dad. The girls say, “Hi.” To my brothers and brothers-in-law in places like Madison, Indianapolis, Florence, Canton, New Philadelphia, Minverva, and [...]
If my wife or sister or any of my women colleagues at the office attempted to walk past a security checkpoint controlling access to a federally secured space, ignored the repeated verbal orders from the uniformed police officers present to stop, and then physically assaulted one of those officers I can assure you there’s plenty [...]
Saw this note over at Hugh Hewitt’s and decided to take the quiz myself. Interestingly, I came up as a centrist. CENTRISTS espouse a “middle ground” regarding government control of the economy and personal behavior. Depending on the issue, they sometimes favor government intervention and sometimes support individual freedom of choice. Centrists pride themselves on [...]
