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Have I mentioned that my wife works part time at a local gun shop? Well, she does, and that’s how we came to be invited to an Arizona Friends of the National Rifle Association auction and banquet. One of the speakers was Scott O’Grady, the USAF Reserve F-16 pilot who was shot down over Bosnia in […]
Toward the end of my military career, US Air Force Chief of Staff General Merrill McPeak instituted a host of changes. He was one of those egomaniacs who, put into a position of great power, are compelled to change everything. He killed Strategic Air Command. He made us rewrite every USAF regulation because he didn’t like the word “regulation.” He […]
Why am I not surprised? . . . 18 families worth a total of $185.5 billion have financed and coordinated a 10-year effort to repeal the estate tax, a move that would collectively net them a windfall of $71.6 billion. The report profiles the families and their businesses, which include the families behind Wal-Mart, Gallo […]
I thought I was reasonably on top of the Scooter Libby trial story. But Nicholas Lemann of The New Yorker threw me with this, in his most recent Talk of the Town commentary: What’s ultimately behind Libby’s trial is the Administration’s obsession with finding hard evidence for what it already believes. President Bush is often […]
I subscribe to a Honda Goldwing owners’ message board. Too frequently for comfort, members post messages that make you suspect that after they park their bikes for the night, they hang up their leathers and put on white robes. Like this guy, who wrote today: President signs E.O. for illegals to get FULL S.S. If a […]
We just watched Wordplay, a movie about crossword puzzles. Former President Bill Clinton, one of several players interviewed, talked about his typical encounter with the Saturday* New York Times crossword. He said he almost always starts out stumped, but continues wading through clues until he finds a word he knows, then builds on that word until […]
When you have company it’s hard to make time for peripheral activities like blogging. But we did take time to fill out our ballots and mail them in, allowing us to smugly state: we voted. Control of congress will go to the party with the most energized voters. We’re energized. We hope you are too. […]
I posted this to another blog on May 16, 2006, right after a futile attempt to vote in an Arizona special election. This voter ID shit isn’t about keeping illegal aliens from voting. It’s about keeping minorities, the elderly, and the poor from voting (pdf file) – in a word, Democrats. And today, I am one happy Democrat! […]