May 18, 2006

Web Reconnaissance for 05/18/2006

A short recon of what’s out there that might draw your attention.

euphoricreality.net posts Murtha Tattles On Marines Again “Ex-Marine John Murtha (a true Marine is always a Marine, and Murtha is not) has once again taken a stab at today’s Marines. This time he has accused them of heinous war crimes, stating that they are worse than anything previously reported.” (read more)

The Pink Flamingo Bar and Grill writes The Reason Amnesty won't work even if President Bush hoodwinks us into passing the "comprehensive bill" “Captain Ed and others miss the point entirely by saying that were it not for our war on terror we would not need comprehensive immigration reform. Whether we are at war or not controlling our borders and punishing employers who go looking in the underground for illegal workers makes sense. What doesn't make sense is normalizing/amnesty of the current illegals in country.” (read more)

All Things Beautiful writes How Do We Legalize Illegality? You know posts like this really tee me off. On Monday I said the vultures were out and of course they were just revving up, culminating into the usual feeding frenzy. So now if we disagree with the President on anything, it's labeled "Bush cult impeachment hysteria", and we, the supposed Bush cultists are now Judases reincarnate and ready to burn the President, and... (read more)

Jay Tea of Wizbang writes I think I know why the caged canary sings “I first learned about the "Canary Trap" in Tom Clancy's "Patriot Games." It's a technique for identifying leakers; feed selected (often false) information to those you suspect of disloyalty, then see if it appears in public. In more sophisticated forms, it involves giving different suspects different information (or different details) of the same story. It's been around for ages, and nearly everyone knows about it, but it is still used, and it still works.” (read more)

Pam at Iraq War Today writes Marine Mom's Flag Fight - Update - Score this One for Mom “Remember Cathy and her husband, who encountered resistance trying to display the US Flag with the Marine Corps emblem (posts here and here) in support of their son? Well, this one goes down as a victory for them:
To the PineCrest Board, Residents of PineCrest and our Supporters
Today we received a letter from the Board stating “ We understand that there are no official penalties for etiquette violations. Accordingly, the Board has decided at this time not to take any action against the flag with the Marine Corp endorsement.” (read more)

Kenneth R. Timmerman writing at FrontPageMagazine.com writes Dealing With the Devil “Should President Bush “respond” to the 18-page rant sent to him through the media by the jihadist president in Tehran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad?
The Party of Appeasers – which includes the Senator from France, Chuck Hagel – believes the answer is yes. They believe the United States should be offering concessions to a regime that murders its own young, that cheats on its international obligations, and that threatens to obliterate another member of the United Nations.” (read more)

Ann Coulter writing at FrontPageMagazine.com and Jewish World Review writes Read My Lips: No New Amnesty “On the bright side, if President Bush's amnesty proposal for illegal immigrants ends up hurting Republicans and we lose Congress this November, maybe the Democrats will impeach him and we'll get Cheney as president.
At least Bush has dropped his infernal references to slacker Americans when talking about illegal immigrants. In his speech Monday night, instead of 47 mentions of "jobs Americans won't do," Bush referred only once to "jobs Americans are not doing"’ (read more)

Victor Davis Hanson writes Too Few Troops? “When Saddam’s statue fell in April 2003, 70 percent of the American people, along with both Houses of Congress that authorized the war, were quite happy with President Bush’s decision to depose the Baathist regime. Three years and a messy reconstruction later, less than half the public says it was a wise idea.
Democratic senators and Beltway pundits scrambled to square their initial support with later about-faces. The easiest tactic: “The Administration sent too few troops, and so botched the victory that I foresaw and endorsed.” (read more)

Clint Taylor at Nail Yale writes Blog Writes Itself “Not quite, but there's a great exchange in the comments section of the entry below I ought to highlight. One Ricky Snow writes in to plead that the Boola Boola Mullah might be converted to sweetness and liberal democracy through exposure to a Yale education. And one "Hondo" fisks the comment better than I could have done. So I'll just post the latter, with Ricky Snow's words in italics and Hondo's all regular-like:” (read more)

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