Drudge is laughing at these loons, and their failed Fitzmas. He’s particularly hard on nutball MSNBCer Keith “Tinfoil” Olbermann.
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The black crepe is out at Kos. Read this, and particularly the second comment:
I don’t think I’ve ever seen such a look of misery and dejection on the face of my daughter as I just did a moment ago. She just couldn’t understand why the President would be going to Iraq when so many things are wrong in this country. “Doesn
Over at Volokh’s place. It may not have been as big a kaboom as originally reported. Certainly (on the evidence, thankfully) not an earth-shattering one. Or even a Norway-shattering one.
Mark Whittington has a strange complaint about a Russian space program:
However, like a lot of other Russian schemes, it seems to me to depend on getting a hold of a lot of other peoples’ money.
In what way does that differentiate it from “NASA schemes”?
It’s been a tough week for terrorists. I particularly liked this part:
…an interesting statement made by the speaker of the parliament after the debate:
Anne Bayefsky writes about the latest scam that the UN has come up with to institutionalize anti-semitism and support for tyranny.
Thomas Lifson points out demonstrations in Spain in which the media seem to have no interest. I wonder why? Oh, yeah:
Something between 200,000 and one million people took to the streets of Madrid (see photo) for a demonstration against appeasement of terrorists.
No news value there, I guess.
Michael Barone says that Dems are winning everywhere except the polls.
To paraphrase Golda Meir, they’ll start to win elections again when they learn to love their country and its military more than they hate George Bush. Which probably means that they’re due for a long sojourn in the political wilderness.
Michael Barone says that Dems are winning everywhere except the polls.
To paraphrase Golda Meir, they’ll start to win elections again when they learn to love their country and its military more than they hate George Bush. Which probably means that they’re due for a long sojourn in the political wilderness.
Michael Barone says that Dems are winning everywhere except the polls.
To paraphrase Golda Meir, they’ll start to win elections again when they learn to love their country and its military more than they hate George Bush. Which probably means that they’re due for a long sojourn in the political wilderness.
Remember all of the outcry because Rumsfeld wasn’t getting better armored Humvees to the troops? Well, it turns out that the new “up armored” Humvees in Iraq are apparently killing more soldiers in rollovers than they’re saving with the new armor:
…serious accidents involving the M1114 have increased as the war has progressed, and the accidents were much more likely to be rollovers than those of other Humvee models, the newspaper reported.
Duhhhhh!
Increasing the vehicle mass, and coincidentally raising the center of mass, is obviously going to decrease its stability in turns. Didn’t anyone consider this when they came up with the design? People forget that this vehicle was a replacement for the jeep, not the tank.
This is a classic engineering safety trade, but soldiers killed in auto accidents don’t get all the press that the ones killed with IEDs do. That doesn’t fit the template that we’re losing the war, because they were killed by media outcry, not terrorists.