Here’s why you shouldn’t take the NYT’s political bloggers seriously: they have real trouble with the English language.
Walking off with today’s award for most outrageous offense against the English language is Kate Phillips.
Here’s what presidential candidate Mitt Romney said today in New Hampshire:
… Romney said he would likely accept the presidential salary of $400,000 annually […]
On Memorial Day, Peter Pace appeared on CBS News Monday. Here’s what went down:
Smith: Almost 1,000 men and women have died in Iraq since last Memorial Day, and you know what the polls say in terms of support for this war. A lot of Americans are wondering this morning if […]
The professed grief of our politicians for U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq selectively embraces the young. The phrases heard most often are phrases like “our sons and daughters” and “young lives” and “taken from us in their prime”.
So who will remember the mothers and fathers, the uncles and aunts, this Memorial Day […]
NYT:
Staff Sergeant David Safstrom does not regret his previous tours in Iraq, not even a difficult second stint when two comrades were killed while trying to capture insurgents.
“In Mosul, in 2003, it felt like we were making the city a better place,” he said. “There was no sectarian violence, Saddam was gone, we were tracking […]
Yesterday, Dick Cheney was holding forth at the United States Military Academy commencement at West Point:
As Army officers on duty in the war on terror, you will now face enemies who oppose and despise everything you know to be right, every notion of upright conduct and character, and every belief you consider worth fighting for […]
WaPo: Faces of the Fallen - Tribute to U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan. Clicking on a thumbnail brings up a brief description. Most older entries have links to hometown newspaper stories. Browsing through this page is one way to honor these men and women on Memorial Day.
Reuters: U.S. scraps missile-defense […]
For the first time since the invasion, the number of American soldiers killed in Iraq has exceeded a hundred for two consecutive months.
Ironic that this “milestone” is reached on the Memorial Day weekend.
Whatever else The Surge has or hasn’t accomplished, deaths of American soldiers have certainly surged.
Maybe that’s why Bush’s script for the […]
Om May 10, I wrote a post questioning the assumption that everyone seemed to be making that Gen. Petraeus could be trusted to deliver an honest and fair assessment of progress in Iraq.
Lawrence J. Korb, assistant secretary of defense in the Reagan administration, has a piece in today’s Philadelphia Inquirer in which he spells out […]
This Bush fellow is entirely too easy to manipulate.
It struck me only yesterday that if a major league a**hole like Prick Cheney could have Bush dancing to his tune for the last six years, surely anybody could play along at home, and win.
So yesterday I bid him to continue a high level of fearmongering through […]
At this point, Alberto Buttercheeks Gonzales is an indelible stain on the fabric of American justice. Probably on the fabric of our body politic too. But as long as no blue dresses are involved, all is well with the republic.
Maybe if the President were paying attention (but he’s too busy reminding us how […]
