Amnesty: By now, you've probably read about the new Iraqi government's propsed offer of amnesty to insurgents. If you haven't, ...

A Day in the Life of Colin Powell: The Scottish King of Arms, Lord Lyon, has gone out of his way to matriculate a coat of arms for Colin Pow...

Life In the Land That Time Forgot: This is a dispatch from Parris Island . I don't know what to say about it, except that it is right. ...

Y'all Back Home Read This: I hope you'll all reflect on this post from BlackFive . However, those of you back in the great state of...

Guns and Families: "How will we protect our families now? Criminals prefer unarmed victims... and so does the African National Congres...

"The War on Terror is Not a Real War" Someone I know said just those words to me earlier this week. I couldn't help but remem...

Stolen Medals: Apparently someone broke into the museum on the hanger deck of the USS Yorktown (CV-10), not too far from Charleston, South C...

Clarity: Thank you, Senator Clinton, for providing us with such a clear picture of your program in a few simple words. Rhetoric never gets ...

Press Corps Whines: The Washington Post today has a piece called America's Missed Photo Opportunity , subtitled, "Suprise Transfer...

Freedom Week: Greyhawk of the Mudville Gazette has noticed that Iraq's Independence Day and our Independence Day come within a week of ...

True Believers: The handover was two days early. What sort of man now leads Iraq? A month ago, one would have expected a cautious fellow, ...

Marines at Mahmudiyah: Those of you following (as I am) the career of "Da Grunt," fighting man of the 2/2 Marines, will notice tha...

Thailand Ponders Counterterrorism: I am developing a fondness for the good people of Thailand. This article ran originally in the Bangkok P...

Whew, Close Call: I spent part of the afternoon watching the end of Raiders of the Lost Ark , a movie that has probably been the unconscious...

L'audace : Audacity is not limited to the French, it seems. Out of the AFP today (no link as yet): Saudi Arabia's foreign minister ...

Another Victory: Following the news today, one would think that Turkey was the scene of the latest disaster for the war in Iraq. Google New...

"Run Silent, Run Deep": Don't miss this review of a new book on the submarine service . It's a history of submariners wor...

O Canada: Mark Steyn has a good column this week on Canada's elections. One of the issues he thinks gets less debate than it deserves i...

Victory: Why do people still expect us to lose in Iraq? Because they themselves can't imagine victory. Yet the Belmont Club outlines ...

Allah Be Praised: Allah is back on top of his game. "Whoa, Solider! Let's not turn our enemies into enemies!" A 5.56mm NAT...