Matthew Currier Burden, author of the great book Blog of War and proprietor of the #1 milblog Blackfive, joined us once again for our weekly collaboration to bring the inspirational, true stories of the men and women fighting for around the world to the radio.
This week we spoke Matt told us the story of Forrest Langley.
What is Pundit Review Radio?
Pundit Review Radio is where the old media meets the new. Each week Kevin and Gregg give voice to the work of the most influential leaders in the new media/citizen journalist revolution. Hailed as “Groundbreaking” by Talkers Magazine, this unique show brings the best of the blogs to your radio every Sunday evening from 7-10 pm EST on AM680 WRKO, Boston’s Talk Station.
Last night it was our pleasure to welcome back to the studio one of our favorite bloggers, Dean Barnett of HughHewitt.com and a frequent contributor to the Weekly Standard.
We had a great time, took some angry, unhinged calls and talked about Iraq and presidential politics.
The interview is also available for download at iTunes and Podcast Alley.
What is Pundit Review Radio?
Pundit Review Radio is where the old media meets the new. Each week Kevin and Gregg give voice to the work of the most influential leaders in the new media/citizen journalist revolution. Hailed as “Groundbreaking” by Talkers Magazine, this unique show brings the best of the blogs to your radio every Sunday evening from 7-10 pm EST on AM680 WRKO, Boston’s Talk Station.
Here is a perfect example of why I will never send my child to a government run school. This example is not an anomoly. Not only are our children not learning how to read and write and think critically (Time Magazine just did a cover story on how one third of high school students don’t graduate.) But they are also increasingly vulnerable to being raped, abused, and molested. As I have often said, government can’t run the DMV and Post Office efficiently, and they should not be in the teaching business. If only the Democrats and their number one donor/constituency the NEA (teachers’ union) would stop obstructing school choice, accountability, merit based pay, vouchers and other free market based competitive reforms. As long as we have a virtual monopoly on education our kids will continue to under-achieve especially the least advantaged students (blacks and hispanics). Government run education is essentially a socialist system which, like all government run monopolies/monopsonies always result in contrived scarcities, inferior quality, and rationing. But the fact that parents can’t trust teachers to protect the children to me is something Americans should not tolerate. Again, I will say, this is not an isolated incident.
Teacher charged with raping student 28 times
Police: Rachel Holt engaged in intercourse with 13-year-oldThursday, April 6, 2006 Posted: 2000 GMT (0400 HKT)
Schoolteacher Rachel Holt is charged with 28 counts of raping a 13-year-old student.RELATED
LaFave has charges dropped
(CNN) — A Delaware schoolteacher was charged Tuesday with 28 counts of raping a minor after she allegedly engaged in a weeklong sexual relationship with a 13-year-old student, police said.Rachel L. Holt, a 34-year-old science teacher at Claymont Elementary School, faces additional charges that she allowed a 12-year-old friend of the victim to watch them have sex at her home, and that she gave both boys beer, New Castle County acting Police Chief Scott McLaren said.
Robert Ziegler, a spokesman for the Brandywine School District, confirmed that two boys were allegedly involved in the incident.
Last night on Pundit Review Radio we spoke to Peter Lance, an Emmy awards winning investigative journalist with ABC News, 20/20 and Nightline, about his fascinating book Triple Cross: How bin Laden's Master Spy Penetrated the CIA, the Green Berets, and the FBI–and Why Patrick Fitzgerald Failed to Stop Him.
This book is an amazing, incredibly well-researched and compelling account of the dysfunction within our intelligence agencies that allowed Al Qaeda to fester inside this country for years before 9/11.
The interview is also available for download at iTunes and Podcast Alley via the Pundit Review radio feed.
What is Pundit Review Radio?
Pundit Review Radio is where the old media meets the new. Each week Kevin and Gregg give voice to the work of the most influential leaders in the new media/citizen journalist revolution. Hailed as “Groundbreaking” by Talkers Magazine, this unique show brings the best of the blogs to your radio every Sunday evening from 7-10 pm EST on AM680 WRKO, Boston’s Talk Station.
The New York Post has the story of the shifting goalposts when it comes to the executive compensation at the New York Times company. This is the same New York Times whose Pulitzer prize winning business writer has a series of articles called Gilded Paychecks. As our friend Don Luskin wryly noted today,
WHERE’S GRETCHEN MORGENSON WHEN WE NEED HER?
The New York Time’s true crime reporter on the business beat somehow managed to overlook this story, which would seem to fall so neatly into her usual narrative about how corporate mangement enriches itself with incentives that kick in even when the company performs poorly.
Here’s the story from today’s New York Post,
March 15, 2007 — Even steep losses at The New York Times didn’t stop its family owners from enriching themselves and insiders with bonuses for making “profits” when there were none.
Although its board acknowledged in filings yesterday that the media company lost $3.76 per share in 2006, directors revised its bottom-line bonus formula to exclude embarrassing write-downs, converting millions in losses into instant profits of $1.58 per share….
…Chairman Arthur “Pinch” Sulzberger, 55, failed to meet his company’s original targets based on earnings per share, but the board voted anyway to let him collect as much as $3.4 million in bonus and stock awards by using more optimistic cash flows instead of final earnings per share.
I don’t know which is worse, the greed of Chairman Arthur “Pinch” Sulzberger and his management team or their hypocrisy? What do you think?
Dylan Desilva is the 14-year old founder of Cape Cod Cares 4 The Troops, and he was honored tonight by the Boston Celtics as a Hero Among Us. What a deserving honor for a young man who has shown such incredible dedication to the men and women in the armed forces. Dylan’s organization has sent thousands of care packages to soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Gregg and I got to know Dylan through the radio show and tonight we met this impressive young man for the first time. We were lucky enough to be there along with Dylan’s parents, Paul and Michelle, his sister, brother, aunt and uncle. Dylan also brought with him some of the soldiers and Marines who received care packages from Cape Cod Cares 4 The Troops who are now back home and helping his group.
Dylan DeSilva surrounded by some heroes he brought with him, and Kevin and Gregg.
Dylan chats with an Atlanta Hawks assistant
Alone at center court
Dylan on the Jumbotron
Walking off center court after receiving a spontaneous standing ovation.
Kevin, Dylan and Gregg
How out of touch and pathetic is Nancy Pelosi? The nation’s leading liberal newspapers are ripping her plan for Iraq to shreds. With her and the always embarrassing John Murtha leading the way, they continue to be the best asset the GOP has going for it in Washington. Just as I predicted before the election,
Let the country to get a nice full plate of Nancy and the Gang for two years leading up to the next presidential cycle. Chairmen Dinngell, Conyers, Hastings, the hearings, the histrionics, the hypocrisy. Let’s give this gang some of the sunshine they long for. It can only be good for the GOP. They have been out of power so long, they are bound to overreach, to be too cute by half to fumble away any opportunity that is given them. In other words, they will be the same people they have been these past two years as the GOP has handed them one gift after another, none of which they have been able to fully, or even partially take advantage of.
Los Angeles Times: Do we really need a Gen. Pelosi?
AFTER WEEKS OF internal strife, House Democrats have brought forth their proposal for forcing President Bush to withdraw U.S. troops from Iraq by 2008. The plan is an unruly mess: bad public policy, bad precedent and bad politics. If the legislation passes, Bush says he’ll veto it, as well he should.
Washington Post: The Pelosi Plan for Iraq
The only constituency House Speaker Nancy Pelosi ignored in her plan for amending President Bush’s supplemental war funding bill are the people of the country that U.S. troops are fighting to stabilize. The Democratic proposal doesn’t attempt to answer the question of why August 2008 is the right moment for the Iraqi government to lose all support from U.S. combat units. It doesn’t hint at what might happen if American forces were to leave at the end of this year — a development that would be triggered by the Iraqi government’s weakness. It doesn’t explain how continued U.S. interests in Iraq, which holds the world’s second-largest oil reserves and a substantial cadre of al-Qaeda militants, would be protected after 2008; in fact, it may prohibit U.S. forces from returning once they leave.
In short, the Democratic proposal to be taken up this week is an attempt to impose detailed management on a war without regard for the war itself.
If you don’t believe these noted members of the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy, watch for yourself,
As Blackfive said, “Wow. What. A. Trainwreck.”