. . do go here and read this post on Hugh Hewitt’s site about this soldier and the tiny girl whose entire family was executed. . Especially since you won’t be reading about it in the mainstream media or in Private Beauchamp’s war diaries.
And understandably so. From his radio program.
That’s the term James Lileks coined this morning to describe all the early Baby Boomer scolds and blowhards like Garrison Keillor and Frank Rich. (I would definitely add Bill Moyers to that list.) Though he promises not to use the term anymore, it will henceforth and forever be a part of my vocabular arsenal. Check it out. An excerpt: Here’s the odd thing: most […]
More than two million American men went to war in France during World War I.  Would you like to know how many of them are alive today? Meet Frank Buckles–The lone surviving American veteran of World War I. (free registration required) It’s an excellent essay. Here’s the final paragraph: It’s hard for anyone, I imagine, to say for certain what it […]
Thank you. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RQ-TmJ0EAk You too, Dad.
As a father of three teenage girls, I got a kick out of this blast from the past: This “16” magazine from the early sixties is a hoot. (See more here.) This issue featured the inside scoop on the big Bonanza news: the departure of Pernell Roberts due, no doubt, to “creative differences” with Michael […]
Over the last 24 hours I’ve had an entertaining and cordial, if profoundly unfruitful, email dialogue with Brett Shipp, the reporter that generated that WFAA piece on the Copelands. It was gracious of him to reply to my message and responses. Those exchanges were private and I will keep them so. But his responses did […]
 That WFAA piece of non-news posing as a shocking expose’ I mentioned in the previous post proved to be such a rich source of mock fodder that my pointer finger got tired before I could give every worthy item a proper taunting. Speaking as a former journalist, would you like to know when a […]
As you must certainly have heard by now, Sen. Charles Grassley has launched a investigation into the grave danger to the nation posed by preachers with absurdly large houses. My friend Phil Cooke over at Cooke Pictures posted some excellent thoughts on the whole thing yesterday. (Phil has consulted for a couple of the ministries […]
Translation: Fish or Cut Bait That’s the spot-on message Ramesh Ponnuru has for Congressional Democrats: Dennis Kucinich called his party’s bluff. If Democrats believe half of the things they say about the Bush administration, then they ought to impeach both Bush and Cheney. I don’t believe that Bush and Cheney “lied us into war.” If the […]
