A short recon of what’s out there that might draw your attention.
Victor Davis Hanson writes Traitors to the Enlightenment “The first Western Enlightenment of the Greek fifth-century B.C. sought to explain natural phenomena through reason rather than superstition alone. Ethics were to be discussed in the realm of logic as well as religion. Much of what Pythagoras, Socrates, Plato, and the Sophists thought may today seem self-evident, if not at times nonsensical. But that century was the beginning of the uniquely Western attempt to bring to the human experience empiricism, self-criticism, irony, and tolerance in thinking.” (READ MORE)
Hugh Hewitt writes The Choice In November And The Unbearable Lightness Of Being (In The MSM). “In yesterday's interview, longtime Woodward colleague from the WaPo Thomas Edsall warned ‘that there are significant problems in Bob's reporting techniques, and the product that he produces, that every reader of his work should be aware of.’ With that in mind, read this exchange between Bill O'Reilly and Andrew Card:” (READ MORE)
Ray Robison writes DNC and child predators “The democrats are all set to make hay out of the Foley scandal. Their mantra now is "how can you trust the republicans with things like national security when you can't trust them with your children?" After all, the republicans associated with a guy who was talking dirty to young people. But associating with other people who have exhibited the same or worse behavior has never been a problem for the democrats before. At least Foley hasn't been charged, unlike oh say Michael Jackson, who performed at a DNC fundraiser for their leaders and Bill Clinton in 2002. This is long after his highly publicized initial accusations of molesting much younger children (than Foley flirted with) were well known.” (READ MORE)
Bluto of The Jawa Report writes Reconstructing Vietnam “Ultimately, that's what the Foley scandal is a part of, stumbling into another Vietnam. The Left and the Democratic Party are so heavily invested in our defeat in Iraq and Afghanistan that they will have to withdraw our troops in order to maintain power. Emboldened, just as in Mogadishu in 1993, our enemies will follow us home. You see, Vietnam wasn't lost on the battlefield, though many of you are probably too young to remember what went down, and have been duly indoctrinated by the NEA.” (READ MORE)
Dafydd writes Editor, Squeal Thyself “One of the hardest temptations for conservatives to resist is the mad desire to be so holier than thou, that they shoot themselves right in the halo. Exhibit A: the Washington Times -- Tony Blankley, I presume -- just editorialized a demand that Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert (R-IL, 100%) resign his position, presumably for not being omniscient... along with, if we follow the logic: Majority Leader John Boehner (R-OH, 100%), who knew about the innocuous e-mails but not about the smoking-gun IMs.”(READ MORE)
Captain Ed writes A Reminder Of Depravity “Continuing rumors of ancient atrocities led German authorities to excavate a site that some thought contained the bodies of Nazi victims from World War II. This gossip proved all too accurate; they discovered a mass grave that the Nazis used to bury its youngest and most helpless victims: ‘Authorities in western Germany have found a mass grave containing 35 bodies, many of them of young children, and are checking whether they may have been victims of Hitler's program of forced "euthanasia" that killed tens of thousands of people with physical and mental disabilities.’” (READ MORE)
Mohammed of Iraq the Model writes The four sins... “Optimism about the future of Iraq has obviously decreased whether among Iraqis or their allies and conditions are seemingly taking a steep slope down to the worse. There's a growing feeling here in Iraq and especially in Baghdad that things were much better say a year after the liberation than they are now. How did this deterioration happen? For example when it comes to security…violence is increasing although the Iraqi police and army are steadily growing!” (READ MORE)
Greyhawk writes Letter to Zarqawi “The recently released letter from a senior al-Qaeda "advisor" to al Qaeda in Iraq leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi (captured in the aftermath of the strike that killed him) confirms the strained relationship between the factions of the terrorist organization. While media analysis has focused on the group leadership's dismay with Zarqawi's attacks on fellow Sunni Muslims, few analysts have gone beyond that surface issue to the deeper leadership strategy and long range plans endangered by Zarqawi's actions and revealed in the text of the document:” (READ MORE)
John Hawkins writes What Passes For "Mainstream" Liberal Thought These Days “The Smirking Chimp is an extremely popular liberal weblog. Just to give you an idea of how popular it is, it pulls roughly 4 times as much traffic as Right Wing News does. So, it's very fair to call it a mainstream liberal weblog. So, what sort of "mainstream" ideas does this "mainstream" liberal blog promote? Well, what you're going to read below are some quotations from articles on the front page of the Smirking Chimp. Keep in mind that every single quote you're about to read comes from the authors of the posts on the front page, not from the commenters. So, it's fair to say that the sentiments you are about to read are representative of their opinion....and oh, what opinions they are!” (READ MORE)
Sgt Hook writes One of Those Great Stories “I have a deep rooted love for the written word, in case you haven’t guessed, and when a string of great words are put to music something magical happens. Phil Collins and David Crosby managed to create that same magic back in 93′ with their song Hero. In that a picture is worth a thousand words, I felt compelled to put some fabulous photos to those magical lyrics. You can find the results below.” (READ/VIEW MORE)
Master Gunner of Tanker Brothers writes Fred Reed: Defeatist, Clueless, Begging For A Tanker Brothers Verbal Beating “I've notced a definite change in the past few months. I've gone from reporting you the good news of the War in Iraq, to fighting off the idiots that report you nothing but the bad news. And especially the idiots that don't report news, but instead spoon-feed the Left defeatist crap with some sort of "insight" into something they don't understand. Do me a favor, before you continue to read this post. Read this article. Then come back, so I can dissect this idiot's logic with real logic. G'head. I'll wait. Back already? Good, here we go: (READ MORE)
Pam of Iraq War Today writes Moonbat Watch - Gitmo Gluttony “First it was cries of torture, starvation, and inhumane treatment at Gitmo. And then the news came out that the inhumane treatment was coming FROM the inmates, towards our Heroes! Now, if you can believe it, the Moonbattery is concerned with the fact that the food is TOO GOOD at Gitmo. Yep, the evil U.S. empire is now malevolently fattening terrorists:” (READ MORE)
Marine Historian writes ONE WEEK TO GO “…until I begin the journey to Iraq… Preparing for activation is an interesting exercise in taking stock of one’s life. Reservists and Guardsmen live double lives, fulfilling a normal set of civilian duties while “living another life” one weekend a month and two weeks a year. This dual existence causes friction from time to time, but one learns to adapt. Of course the reason our nation maintains reserve forces is so that they are prepared to serve when our active forces need support. That time has come.” (READ MORE)
Good News from the Front:
Bandit 36 writes B36 News - 04 October 2006 “It's a 1230 as I write this and so far I'm not feeling too hungry. I've gone 24 hrs without food before and I've been working myself up for this so I'm confident that I'll be able to make it. So far I've had one cup of coffee and half a red gatorade.” (READ MORE)
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