Month: August 2005

People keep talking about “moderate Muslims,” but I haven’t read much about who they are, where they are, or how to find them. Now I read about Israel’s plans to talk to them: JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israeli diplomats will court moderate Muslim leaders in Europe to counteract the sway of Islamists hostile to the Jewish…

A soon-to-be-an-Iraq-war-veteran, Specialist Leonard A. Clark, has been punished for violating operational security and for 11 counts of disobeying orders: Clark violated Article 92 by “releasing classified information regarding unit soldiers and convoys being attacked or hit by an improvised explosive devices on various dates, discussing troop movements on various dates,” according to the statement.…

As if we needed any more proof that SUVs are dangerous, I see that one of the evil things wreaked havoc right at my local Berkeley Starbucks! An SUV driver battered his vehicle through the doors of the Starbucks at Solano and Colusa avenues Tuesday morning, scattering a dozen or more customers who leapt out…

Everyone, please go check out the Raging RINO Carnival at All Things Jennifer. I’ve never seen anything quite like this. Jennifer has taken each post and folded them into an updated version of Don McLean’s “Miss American Pie.” Musical sample: Helter skelter in a summer swelter. Jimmy Carter’s hiding in his fallout shelter, Chinese Yen…

I’m not much of a war blogger (because I don’t think war should be a debate). But there’s this one seemingly neutral, war-related phrase I’ve been seeing so often that it’s now making my antennae go up every time I see it, because I’m suspicious of the sneaky way it’s misuse is creeping into the…