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 2003-2010 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/04/weekend_reading.html Thu, 21 Jan 2010 16:10:19 Z Movable Type 4.12 en Copyright 2010 http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification Something old, something new... a few more bits. Powerline points out someone who plays the double-standard card with more convincing detail than I've seen anywhere else. But whatever you do, don't call Obama "elitist," you racist. The media reports from Basra at the end of March drove me absolutely nuts. They were contradictory, fragmentary and incomprehensible. At the time, I missed the explanation for that. It was a matter of geography. Once again, I shouldn't be surprised. *sigh* We've already heard about a U.S. Navy Destroyer with a blogging XO, but did you know the Navy has an official policy... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/04/weekend_reading.html http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/04/weekend_reading.html Sat, 19 Apr 2008 11:23:09 -0600 On the other hand there's something impressive about reporters who may never have visited Basra — the country's second city and an hour's flight away — sounding authoritative about the place and its atmosphere... What's impressive to *me* is that nobody calls them on it. I could probably get a part time job with the NYT reporting on the action around Mosul -- as seen from Kirkuk...]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/04/weekend_reading.html#comment-72227 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/04/weekend_reading.html#comment-72227 Sun, 20 Apr 2008 05:36:39 -0600 Shoot, sorry the double comment was my fault. I reached for the bottle opener and missed. A soda, honest! [Double comment? *What* double comment, Pat? We have the antidote to the Great Hall Echo. -- Bill] http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/04/weekend_reading.html#comment-72226 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/04/weekend_reading.html#comment-72226 Sat, 19 Apr 2008 20:11:02 -0600 It's always interesting to go to the archives of the Washington and Richmond newspapers soon after the Battle of Bull Run. According to the Northern papers the US Army ran and Lincoln should sue for peace. While the Richmond papers hailed those steadfast boys of Dixie and implored the CSA to not negotiate until the Confederate flag flew on the border with Canada. The masthead motto, concerning military affairs, of modern newspapers should read something like, No incident too trivial for headlines and no opinion checked. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/04/weekend_reading.html#comment-72224 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/04/weekend_reading.html#comment-72224 Sat, 19 Apr 2008 20:07:45 -0600 "U.S. Navy Destroyer with a blogging XO". I am very partial to Shoes, especially those on TinCans.......my Dad was a TinCan Sailor.]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/04/weekend_reading.html#comment-72222 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/04/weekend_reading.html#comment-72222 Sat, 19 Apr 2008 19:21:27 -0600