It’s what all the cool kids are talking about tonight. I won’t pretend to know what’s in Obama’s heart regarding his decision to send 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan with the intention of starting to withdraw in 2011. All I can judge him by is what he actually does, and I think what he actually [...]
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Obligatory Afghanistan post
Posted in Damned Lies, International Affairs, News, Obama, Politics, tagged Afghanistan, military-industrial complex, Obama, surge, terrorism, war on December 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
More he-said-she-said media failure
Posted in Assholes, Damned Lies, Idiots, Lies, Media, News, Politics, Reality has a well-known liberal bias, tagged crowd size estimates, Media on September 20, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Rarely does one paragraph so perfectly crystallize so much of what is wrong with the media. But David von Drehle, you achieve just that when you write in Time magazine in your cover story about Glenn Beck and the 9/12 rally in D.C.:
“If you get your information from liberal sources, the crowd numbered about 70,000, [...]
A peek behind the curtain
Posted in Assholes, Damned Lies, International Affairs, Media, Politics on September 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A criminal investigation into an Iraq security contractor has revealed some ugly truths about our current occupation/reconstruction efforts there. It’s easy to say that this is one bad apple, but given the report’s detail of the scope of the malfeasance, I doubt that this was an isolated case.
The amount of miscommunication and incompetence-disguised-as-pragmatism is outrageous:
The [...]
