Bill Roggio Reports, II: Today's story includes an attack driven off by the Fallujah Police , and the capture of an al Qaeda commander.

Bill Roggio Reports: He's been on patrol with the Marines in Fallujah, and Route Mobile, one of the two largest and most important road...

A Poem by Doc Russia: Obviously, being up north is playing with his brain, because he's taken to composing poems about the snow . Actua...

To Die for Freedom: How important was Thermopylae ? A new book considers the question (h/t Arts & Letters Daily ). The author says it w...

At last, an exit Strategy: Or, a reprise of that great concept film, Escape from New York . Good advice for anyone, if you can manage it.

And now for something completely different: So. I've seen (on a rack of sarcastic and ironic bumber stickers) a bumper sticker that said...

I would like to make two apologies. First, I do not have even a quarter of the writing talent that Grim, or my co-bloggers, possess here in...

Saddle Time: This has been a hard year for lots of us. I see that BloodSpite has found a source of solace: teaching a young man to break ...

"Rigging up the Lights!" My sympathies , Heidi. I think we're on day four of trying to get the decorations rigged, here.

Bill Roggio Reports: Coalition Task Force 145 has taken down some high value targets . Our old friend Bill Roggio is back on the scene, giv...

Gentlemen Defined: I am told I have the bad habit, for a writer, of putting my point last, and the evidence -- in the form of long narrative...

Set Theory: Over at The Geek w/a .45's , Charles is positing a set theory for political correctness: It seems to me that when a bad act ...

Aso: Japan Can Have Nuclear Arms "...like, next week , if we want them." I'd say that was clear enough. So is this, the pure...

Another Leak: This time, the full text of a secret memo is printed in the New York Times . It's OK, though, so we're told by RedSt...

Well Earned: CWO Lori Hill of the 101st Airborne has been awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross . Read why. Now there's a woman Americ...

Failure: The New York Times reports today that Hezbollah is training the Mahdi Army , according to a 'senior American intelligence offi...

Not Injustice: Captain Ed reports some details about the six imams removed from a US Airways flight. Apparently, the men switched seats wi...

Mourning: Grim's Hall extends its condolences to D. J. McGuire of China e-Lobby, due to the death of his mother . You might wish to dro...

Tomahawks: Doc Russia wrote to ask an opinion on Dwight C. McLemore's Fighting Tomahawk , which is a followup to his Bowie and Big Knif...

Two on Iran: Read "Velvet Revolution" in Logos Journal , which posits that democratic and non-violent movements in Iran may threa...