Last Full Measure of Devotion

Some of you have taken me to task for slamming the GOP for its lack of support for veterans, asking for evidence beyond my distate for George W. Bush. So be it.
As of 2003, there were 26 million veterans, and 1.4 million active-duty soldiers. That means that roughly 1 out of every 10 Americans [...]

Loop-de-loops

Via the estimable Ezra, you’ve got Matt Yglesias getting to the bottom of why, despite what many of us think is an abysmal performance in the Oval Office, President Bush is still even with John Kerry.
I’ve come face to face with this; my fiancee sometimes gets into arguments with my erstwhile [...]

Point & Counterpoint

Courtesy of the RNC, here are some highlights (or low lights, depending on your viewpoint) of what the false face of the GOP will be saying.
Up first is that darling of liberal fantasists everywhere, John McCain.

No Quarter

Personally, I’m not surprised that Bob Dole chose to attack John Kerry. This is the same man who, 24 years ago, claimed that Democrats were bloodthirsty warmonger, and who claimed tobacco wasn’t addictive when he ran for the White House 8 years ago, and who did yeoman service for the Nixon White House in 1972. [...]

Slash & Burn

“There’s what Kerry says, and there’s what Kerry does.”
That’s the tagline for a new negative ad (approved by the President, natch) slamming Kerry for–what else?–flip-flopping on several issues.
I could go on about what Bush has said, and then what he’s gone on to do–or not do, if you will. But others have gone down [...]

Excusing a Wrong

Many of you have read my post on the bridge incident. And many of you have drawn a wrong conclusion.
I’m not excusing the battalion commander, or the four soldiers who actually committed the crime. At the very least, they’ve acted in a very cold-blooded manner, and certainly in a very cruel manner. At worst, [...]

Let’s Not Get It Started

Over at Matt Yglesias’s, Dana Blankenhorn’s got an outstanding Sondheim shoutout:
Don’t play defense in America
Can’t hit the 3 in America
Get by on rep in America
Puerto Rico beat America.
You know it, brother! I left to get some food while the game was in the first quarter, and the score was still close. When I got back, [...]

Over the Bridge

Originally, I was going to write solely about what has–in the blogosphere, at least–become dubbed “The Bridge Incident.” Let me give you a little bit of background before I continue.
On January 2 of this year, a team of soldiers in my brigade stopped a couple of Iraqis near the town of Samarra. We were engaging [...]

Zoe’s Greenpass

I’ll post longer articles later, including a blow-by-blow account of tonight’s primary, but I wanted to let you guys know about Zoe Vanderwolk’s new blog. Zoe’s an intern at The Gadflyer; she contributed heavily to that worthy publication’s Democratic Convention coverage, and she now has a great new blog.
Check it out; it’s here.

Attack Ads

I know I’ve been negligent in blogging. Part of this is because my fiancee and I are busy running the campaign blog for one of our friends (who’s running for U.S. Senate), and part of this is because my unit is busy preparing to be the next unit to undergo transformation into a “unit of [...]