Lance on Apr 30 2007 | Filed under: Domestic Politics, Foreign affairs, Lance's Page, Military Matters, Notes on the war
Andrew Sullivan received an e-mail from a Marine in Anbar which gives more depth to the NY Times report from Anbar. I am posting the whole thing. Notice for those who tried to follow our little spat about COIN in this posts comments, the Marine makes the point that COIN techniques have been successful in […]
Lance on Apr 30 2007 | Filed under: Domestic Politics, History, Lance's Page, Law, Libertarianism, Media
Often I am told how certain people value tolerance. The most irritating are a certain species of left/liberal/progressive. If it doesn’t apply to you, please don’t be offended. This species claims it is tolerant based on certain beliefs they have. For example, they believe homosexuals deserve equal marriage rights or stem cell research should be […]
Joshua Foust on Apr 30 2007 | Filed under: Domestic Politics, Foreign affairs, Military Matters, Notes on the war, Religion and theology, social science
Cross-posted at The Conjecturer.
The Pentagon
I’ve reread Lt. Col. Yingling’s essay on the failures of the generalship several times at this point. This morning, while I was pondering the flag announcements, which are the lists of people being submitted to have stars attached to their rank (i.e. generals and admirals), it hit me: we have more […]
Lance on Apr 30 2007 | Filed under: Around the Web
Somehow I missed this amidst all the pork attached to the Iraq funding bill, but it seems the minimum wage hike was attached to it as well. From the Guardian.
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Lance on Apr 30 2007 | Filed under: Domestic Politics, Lance's Page, Law, Libertarianism
Heh, I like it. Caught with lobbyists at a Who concert. “Won’t Get Fooled Again” indeed.
Here is a good summary of the holdup on reforming the appropriations process. Key points:
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid wanted to table DeMint’s amendment, but the Senate voted against this motion 46 to 51. The amendment then passed by a […]
Lance on Apr 30 2007 | Filed under: Domestic Politics, Foreign affairs, Lance's Page, Notes on the war
I have spent some time discussing how many Democrats have pulled the old bait and switch on timelines, including Harry Reid, but some less well known figures have done so as well. Especially freshman members:
Before the April 25 vote, the most strident criticism had come from Arizona’s Harry Mitchell, whose office told the Business Journal […]
Robby on Apr 30 2007 | Filed under: Around the Web
La la la la la I can’t hear you!
So, was the MacArthur Maze wired for demolition or was it hit by a missile?
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Lance on Apr 30 2007 | Filed under: Domestic Politics, Foreign affairs, Lance's Page, Media, Military Matters, Notes on the war
In my post on the black hole of coherence Harry Reid has become on Iraq and its associated issues, I made a prediction in the comments about what we would hear from him (and the Democrats in general) after their meeting with Petraeus.
We will see after he meets with Petraeus what comes out. My guess […]
Lance on Apr 30 2007 | Filed under: Hugo Chavez, Lance's Page, Media
Manny Lopez has written a nice editorial at The Detroit News about his experience entering the world of blogging and my and Lee Garnett’s interview of him discussing Hugo Chavez and developments in Venezuela. Our first time to get mentioned in the dead tree edition of a major paper. The online editorial can be found […]
Lance on Apr 30 2007 | Filed under: Around the Web
From Taxprof Blog:
The Tax Foundation has announced that today (the 120th day of 2007) is Tax Freedom Day® — Americans will work four months of the year, from January 1 to April 30, before they have earned enough money to pay this year’s tax obligations at the federal, state and local levels.
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Lance on Apr 30 2007 | Filed under: Domestic Politics, Lance's Page, Media, Notes on the war
I haven’t watched this yet, but Celsius 41.11, one of the various movies taking apart Michael Moore’s Fahrenheit 9/11 is now available in its entirety on Google Video. Enjoy!
Description: Celsius 41.11 The Temperature at Which the Brain Begins to Die - The truth behind the lies of Fahrenheit 9/11. Celsius 41.11 (2004) is a film […]
Lance on Apr 29 2007 | Filed under: Foreign affairs, Lance's Page, Media, Military Matters, Notes on the war
On one hand the construction and other infrastructure projects we have been funding are still struggling:
In a troubling sign for the American-financed rebuilding program in Iraq, inspectors for a federal oversight agency have found that in a sampling of eight projects that the United States had declared successes, seven were no longer operating as designed […]
Lance on Apr 29 2007 | Filed under: Around the Web
Read here:
“One of the chief reasons is the fact that there has been too much heat around me lately. I no longer believe that my anonymity is kept, especially with State Secuirty agents lurking around my street and asking questions about me since that day.”
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Lance on Apr 29 2007 | Filed under: Around the Web
Todd Zywicki on the hiring scandals at DOJ. He is pretty spot on if you ask me.
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Lance on Apr 29 2007 | Filed under: Around the Web
Don Surber is excited. Instapundit wonders if it should be and the left side of the sphere says it isn’t about sex, it is the hypocrisy! Don nails that:
Wrong. It’s the Sex. If we fired politicians for hypocrisy, there would be no one left in Washington — a tempting idea, I hasten to add.
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Lance on Apr 29 2007 | Filed under: Around the Web
McQ looks at Attorney General Ray Coopers report on the case of the Duke lacrosse players and the various people who drove this story. The roll is taken and awards and brickbats are handed out.
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Lance on Apr 29 2007 | Filed under: Domestic Politics, Foreign affairs, Lance's Page, Notes on the war
Via Gateway (who has more) The Washington Post:
No Results in Damascus
Having finished hosting U.S. politicians, Syria’s dictator has returned to jailing dissidents and sponsoring terrorism.
THE CONGRESSIONAL leaders who visited Damascus this month to meet Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad gave a practical test to the oft-stated theory that “engaging” his regime is more likely to produce […]
Lance on Apr 29 2007 | Filed under: Domestic Politics, Foreign affairs, Lance's Page, Notes on the war
This about the fact, George, that American troops are dying for no good reason at this point. They are in a situation where they are being sacrificed because people want political comfort in Washington.-Russ Feingold on This Week with George Stephanopoulos, ABC, April 29, 2007
I heard him say this this morning over my wifes French […]
Lance on Apr 29 2007 | Filed under: Around the Web
D.A. Ridgely comments on this story:
the Chicago Sun-Times reports that an eighteen year old honors student at Cary-Grove High School in Cary, Illinois has been arrested and charged with two counts of disorderly conduct as a result of his submitting a creative writing class essay that “described a violent dream in which he shot people […]
Lance on Apr 29 2007 | Filed under: Around the Web
D.A. Ridgley on Hugh Grant’s latest and his career. Bonus Snipe:
As if the prospect of Angelina Jolie (and possibly master thespian Brad Pitt, too!) starring in a film version of Atlas Shrugged wasn’t funny enough, CV recently discovered that a film version of the wonderful 1960’s television western, Have Gun – Will Travel, is in […]
Lance on Apr 28 2007 | Filed under: Culture, Domestic Politics, Foreign affairs, Lance's Page, Notes on the war, Religion and theology
The always worth attention Christopher Hitchens has a brief, but interesting, interview in New York Magazine. Many thanks to Lee Garnett for giving me the pointer.
Some choice bits:
And what if one of your children found God? Would that be a problem?
Not at all. My children, to the extent that they have found religion, have found […]
Lance on Apr 28 2007 | Filed under: Around the Web
At Overcoming Bias Robin Hanson points out that logically many “fallacious” forms of argument are not necessarily so. So is question begging inherently fallacious? It seems context matters. The comments are juicy.
Much more here. Conclusion? Adding in heuristic biases, if glasnost and I don’t already agree on the conclusion we will most likely never […]
Lance on Apr 28 2007 | Filed under: Around the Web
In an era of resurgent realism Joshua Foust contemplates the regularity of genocide and its lesser cousins, our international impotence against it and the ongoing Turkish recalcitrance over the Armenian genocide.
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Lance on Apr 28 2007 | Filed under: Domestic Politics, Lance's Page, Louisiana Politics
You have got to be kidding me:
House Democratic leaders are not expected to pressure embattled Rep. William Jefferson (D-La.) to forfeit his lone remaining committee assignment, even as two Republican lawmakers who similarly face intense FBI scrutiny have relinquished their posts in recent days.
Democratic sources indicated that Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) is unlikely to ask […]
Lance on Apr 27 2007 | Filed under: Domestic Politics, Foreign affairs, Lance's Page, Military Matters, Notes on the war
I think it is time for a little timeline since in my last post that touched on this issue some people seem not to be aware of what has really happened:
80 DAYS AGO:
President Bush Sends War Funding Bill To Congress
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE: “President George W. Bush today sent to Congress his defense budget […]
Joshua Foust on Apr 27 2007 | Filed under: Developmental economics, Foreign affairs, Military Matters, Notes on the war, Religion and theology, Technology, social science
Cross-posted at The Conjecturer.
The Pentagon
When START stops, what happens to Prompt Global Strike? Let’s think of this question in the context of Volodiya scrapping arms control accords with Europe.
Rumors that the 15-month extension was a bad joke, and that soldiers are now being told to expect deployments of 16-18 months—for reducing stress, remember.
Secrets=fun. […]
MichaelW on Apr 27 2007 | Filed under: Environment, MichaelW's Page
A British documentary claiming to debunk “accepted theories” of anthropogenic global warming is set to air, unedited, in Sweden tonight. Ironically, British scientists are loudly demanding that edits be made to the same documentary, which aired in the UK in March, prior to its DVD release:
An open letter sent Tuesday by 38 scientists, including […]
MichaelW on Apr 27 2007 | Filed under: Foreign affairs, MichaelW's Page, Military Matters, Notes on the war
One of the proclaimed goals of the current overall strategy in Iraq is to train and equip Iraqis, assisting them in attaining enough competency to take the lead in military and police efforts. Some of that progress has been noted here at ASHC before. From the MNF-I we learn that new progress […]
MichaelW on Apr 27 2007 | Filed under: Domestic Politics, Media, MichaelW's Page
If someone were to compile a list of the de facto rules of modern politics, say Jack Handy channeling Machiavelli, this would have to be one of the first: If you can’t attack what your political opponents actually say, make something up.
Rudy Giuliani created quite a stir among Democrats when, according to DNC Chairman Howard […]
Lance on Apr 27 2007 | Filed under: Around the Web
McQ questions whether the brickbats the military is receiving over the Jessica Lynch story is warranted.
UPDATE: Rich Lowry chimes in as well (”The Story of Jessica Lynch:
What really happened in Nasiriyah“) with recounting of what really happened to Jessica and how the sensationalist story grew legs.
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