Today’s provocative lefty talking point—picked up by Kevin Drum and others and parroted in the comments here in order to suggest a disconnect between Presidential leadership and the “troops on the ground” (because remember:  the left loves the troops; it’s the commanders they can’t stand)—has to do with a BBC report (video here, direct link here) showing Lt. Commander Sean Kelly, a Pentagon spokesman for Northern Command, “accidentally” telling the

Regular readers of my site—particularly social conservatives—will recognize that I’m no Bush apologist, and have been critical of the President when I believe he’s taken missteps (lumber / steel protectionism; ideological dithering in the terror war, etc.) or backed bad law (Schiavo, McCain-Feingold, etc.); having said that, though, I’m going to take what I consider to be an intellectual stand here and state clearly and for the record that I

Earlier this week, the New York Times did itself little honor when it blasted the Bush Admnistration for not providing the very federal monies that it itself had raged against in an earlier editorial.  Well, it seems this kind of thing is becoming a pattern with the Paper of Record.  From the Weekly Standard “Scrapbook,” Sept 5/12, “The Best of Times, the Worst of Times”: Let it be recordeth that

This Saturday press briefing by Lt Gen H Steven Blum speaks to the questions some of the commenters here have asked about a “paperwork delay” bringing the military law enforcement presence into NO.  Read the whole thing, but for the purposes of this post I’ll excerpt a relevant portion of the Q & A: GEN BLUM:  […] Martial law has not been declared anywhere in the United States of America.