We're the Military and Airpower Guys of Jonah Goldberg of National Review Online + a stray we found wandering around looking lost. All original material JHD, BHD, JR, WT, and KA 2003-2007 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/02/hi_fires_2_feb_1.html Tue, 23 Sep 2008 17:03:22 Z Movable Type 4.12 en Copyright 2008 http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification Open post for those with something to share, updated through the day. New, complete posts come in below this one. Note: If trackbacking, please acknowledge this post in your post. That's only polite. You're advertising here, we should get an ad at your place... Time to add a new caveat, because from email it's not clear to some folks (mind you, if you don't read this it won't matter...) Being an open post, people (collectively, the Denizens) other than I post in the H&I. They sign their work (most of the time) - keep that in mind when you want... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/02/hi_fires_2_feb_1.html http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/02/hi_fires_2_feb_1.html Sat, 02 Feb 2008 23:43:18 -0600 Heh. Inserting comments from the email causes me to not see all the comments before I insert my own. So, you two are wondering if Matt is InfoOp'ing us, eh? Well, it seems a rather tedious and retail approach to take - unless Mike is like a rash over all the blogs that brought up the topic. He's very good at it, if he *is* a gov't shill. Most of them sound like Public Affairs geeks. I think he's doing here what I do on foreign blogs... provide context where there is none, or it's hard to get. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/02/hi_fires_2_feb_1.html#comment-69297 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/02/hi_fires_2_feb_1.html#comment-69297 Sun, 03 Feb 2008 13:17:13 -0600 Matt - thank you for the input... I suspect that your advice works well applied both directions, too! http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/02/hi_fires_2_feb_1.html#comment-69296 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/02/hi_fires_2_feb_1.html#comment-69296 Sun, 03 Feb 2008 13:11:51 -0600 Heh. It occurred to me to wonder... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/02/hi_fires_2_feb_1.html#comment-69292 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/02/hi_fires_2_feb_1.html#comment-69292 Sun, 03 Feb 2008 02:20:15 -0600 I just gotta ask...is Matt like the official British government agent for combating (mis)information on the internet? http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/02/hi_fires_2_feb_1.html#comment-69291 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/02/hi_fires_2_feb_1.html#comment-69291 Sun, 03 Feb 2008 02:08:38 -0600 I didn't say anything about them taking over, I was thinking in terms of a disintegration of common values and a love of country. I'll go back and take a look to make sure I understood, but I read more than headlines. I clicked on the embedded links in the link I gave, and followed everything right back to original articles. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/02/hi_fires_2_feb_1.html#comment-69290 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/02/hi_fires_2_feb_1.html#comment-69290 Sat, 02 Feb 2008 23:29:26 -0600 You must stop reading the headlines in UK right-wing blogs and newspapers. If only for the sake of your blood pressure. The UK government has authorised a new Inspectorate (which will be routinely vetted by OFSTED - the Office of Standards in Education). This new Inspectorate will cover about 110 private schools (roughly 50 private CHRISTIAN and 60 private Muslim schools. Please note that it's going to cover CHRISTIAN schools as well as Muslim The fact that it's still overseen by OFSTED is reassuring - 50% of private schools have an arrangement where they don't get vetted by the state. As for the "British educators now actively discourage teaching of patriotism". This is another ... um... possible misinterpretation. The UK government is about to introduce a new curriculum for British History which will promote patriotism via an examination of certain aspects of British history (including immigration, the Commomwealth, Empire, the extension of the vote and women's rights). One report - the one that generated this hysteria - has recommended against promoting UNQUESTIONING patriotism (repeat unquestioning) Muslims represent only 2.8% of the UK population (1.5 million). We're not very worried about them taking over. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/02/hi_fires_2_feb_1.html#comment-69289 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/02/hi_fires_2_feb_1.html#comment-69289 Sat, 02 Feb 2008 23:13:01 -0600