Bruce McQuain from QandO joined us for our discussion with Michael Yon live from Hit, Iraq. Hit is in Anbar province and we spent a lot of time covering the success in Anbar and the so-called “awakening”. Michael talked at length about the importance and benefits of working with tribal leaders. He mentioned “a very […]
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We have to thank Matt Burden from Blackfive once again for putting us in touch with Bruce McQuain from QandO. Matt knew that Bruce was the right man to take over the weekly Someone You Should Know segment. Don’t miss Blackfive’s Someone You Should Know print archive and radio archive. Before we got to this […]
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Courtesy of Absolute Moral Authority Hat Tip: Instapundit, who commented, “ACTUALLY, I HAD TO LOOK TWICE to realize that this was a photoshop.”
Barack Obama was supposed to be different. When he burst onto the scene with a speech at the Democrat Convention in Boston in 2004, the media breathlessly reported that this was an up-and-coming star. This guy was different, not just the color of his skin or his name, but his politics. The humble man himself […]
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Photo via The Onion Big Time Magazine cover story on The Last Temptation of Al Gore this week. Among those declaring that Gore, should he run, would win the presidency is none other than Apple Computer co-founder Steve Jobs. “If he ran, there’s no question in my mind that he would be elected,” Jobs told […]
Schadenfreude: enjoyment obtained from the troubles of others Nothing pleases me more than reading stories about bad people who get what’s coming to them. Here’s a story that demonstrates the benefits of a concealed carry law. Detroit Free Press Man with unloaded gun killed by victim A robbery and crime spree aided by an unloaded […]
Greetings, Interesting developments in Iraq. A new dispatch, Maysan, is published on the site. Next in the queue is a series of dispatches called Death or Glory, which is also the motto of the Queen’s Royal Lancers, the British unit I met up with as the ceremony described in Maysan concluded. I am currently near […]