Media Bias
Sgt. Tim Sumner is asking a simple question today, What explains the New York Times’ ten-day delay in reporting that U.S. Navy SEAL Lt. Michael P. Murphy would be posthumously awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor? and providing the answer, The short answer is some people never change. Thirty-five years ago, when the Times’ Arthur […]
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Michael Yon on The New Republic’s latest Fabulist, Scott Beauchamp. As for The New Republic, some on the staff may feel like they’ve been hounded and treed, but it’s hard to feel the same sympathy for a group of cowards who won’t fess up and can’t face the scorn of American combat soldiers who were […]
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This is fantastic. This creep thought he could take down his arrogant, obnoxious post about dealing with the US soldiers at a checkpoint, but he was sorely mistaken. The Americans, however, are the absolute worst. I had a testy exchange Tuesday with an American soldier at an entry checkpoint into the Green Zone. The pomposity […]
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Got to give the MSM points for persistence. Just a few days ago we got a hearty laugh out of the report about ditch diggers at Iraq’s largest cemetery. Seems like the dramatic drop in violence was bad for business. Now, we have yet another story that twists itself into a pretzel trying to bring […]
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Get ready for the next big scandal of the Bush Administration, according to Newsweak Magazine, The Bush administration is starving for good news out of Iraq, and it may finally have some: new U.S. government statistics showing that violent attacks of all kinds are down to levels not seen since 2005. But until recently, the […]
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Resistance is futile: You will be (mis)informed. Today I am in Iraq, back in a war of such strategic consequence that it will affect generations yet unborn—whether or not they want it to. Hiding under the covers will not work, because whether it is good news or bad, whether it is true or untrue, once […]
As violence falls in Iraq, cemetery workers feel the pinch NAJAF, Iraq — At what’s believed to be the world’s largest cemetery, where Shiite Muslims aspire to be buried and millions already have been, business isn’t good. A drop in violence around Iraq has cut burials in the huge Wadi al Salam cemetery here by […]
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