70 Years Since Doolittle Raid on Tokyo
In a day, the notion that Japan was invulnerable to attack was dissolved.
In a day, the notion that Japan was invulnerable to attack was dissolved.
Why exactly did the president plan to apologize for Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
Gaia’s Revenge?
Gaia’s Revenge?
As Lloyd Dobler proved to us in that famous scene in “Say Anything,” desperation leads people to do some pretty unreasonable, and often stupid, things, no matter what the reason. That’s exactly how the Left is these days. Unable to debate conservatives on the merits of their issues, many Leftists have resorted to straw-grabbing tactics like name calling.
Discussing perceived political angles to tragedies, especially as they’re happening, is always touchy. Even if there is a valid policy observation to be made, you’re opening yourself up to ready-made accusations of insensitivity, partisanship, and opportunism. So it should come as little surprise that the leftist smear merchants at Media Matters are raking Sean Hannity over the coals for a “five-minute Obama-bashing session” during his coverage of the disaster in Japan.
America’s Asian allies decide to keep the US around, after all.
Remember how Bush and his loyalists were reported as believing that if Iraq, or rather the fiction they described as “the Iraqi people,” could be made “prosperous” through the introduction of “free-market ideas,” then the lure and appeal of terrorism would be diminished? Remember how Americans were not only to…
Kim Jong-il puts his tyranny’s armed forces on war footing.
“Emo” refers to a punk-influenced music sub-culture known for wearing a great deal of black (actually pretty easy for women in Saudi Arabia), heavy eye makeup, and generally appearing rather sad (though a little more dressed-down and less monochromatic than Goths). More extensive background than you probably need can be…