The big pictures in Iraq?

Last updated on: March 16, 2017 at 7:16 pm By Elizabeth Scalia

This is excellent, by Katherine Kersten via Irish Pennants. The Crawford campout is a quintessential media event. Its purpose is to gain attention for a small group of people, far out of proportion to their numbers or their knowledge of conditions in Iraq. While protesters win headlines, soldiers with on-the-ground experience have no forum to express their strong support for our cause there. The major media’s love affair with the Crawford protest is no surprise. It’s consistent with the focus... Read more

Hillary should be smart

Last updated on: March 16, 2017 at 7:17 pm By Elizabeth Scalia

George Will has a new column up, and it should be read as a warning to the Democrats but I don’t know if they will heed it. Toward the end, Will writes something that I had been thinking this morning as well – that the out-of-control Dems, increasingly wagged by the tail of the extreme left – are going to complicate things for Hillary Clinton, and that if she is smart, she will get out before these folks and tell... Read more

Iraqi Const. praised as “organically” Iraqi

Last updated on: March 16, 2017 at 7:17 pm By Elizabeth Scalia

Amazing. The Bush Administration has finally “done something right.” This constitution gives each group what it wants. It will create a very loose federation in which only things like fiscal and foreign policy are controlled in the center (even tax policy is decentralized). Oil revenues are supposed to be distributed on a per capita basis, and no group will feel inordinately oppressed by the others. The Kurds and Shiites understand what a good deal this is. The Sunni leaders selected... Read more

Well, they’ve got their 1971

Last updated on: March 16, 2017 at 7:17 pm By Elizabeth Scalia

Sometimes it becomes necessary to state the obvious: being a soldier is a dangerous thing. . . . Even in peacetime. The media’s breathless tabulation of casualties in Iraq–now, over 1,800 deaths–is generally devoid of context. Here’s some context: between 1983 and 1996, 18,006 American military personnel died accidentally in the service of their country. That death rate of 1,286 per year exceeds the rate of combat deaths in Iraq by a ratio of nearly two to one. – Powerline... Read more

One of those double standards…

Last updated on: March 16, 2017 at 7:17 pm By Elizabeth Scalia

that we are told don’t mean anything, that particularly don’t mean the press is…biased, or nuthin’. Read more

When you are thinking it’s just about hair

Last updated on: March 16, 2017 at 7:18 pm By Elizabeth Scalia

Julie has a really splendid post up at her blog, it is very funny and very wise, and it also is very sad. It’s all about what happens when you think the big thing in your life is a hair problem, and you discover the problem might be meant to help another’s life! The Lord moves in mysterious ways. It’s really, really good. Go read, you’ll definately like After you’ve both giggled and prayed, then – if you are interested... Read more

Consecrated Virgins in the News

Last updated on: March 16, 2017 at 7:18 pm By Elizabeth Scalia

Well, one consecrated virgin, anyway, at least in this profile. H/T Amy. While I’m linking to things Cat-lick, here is a nice photocommentary on the difference between architecture that uplifts the heart and sends the mind soaring heavenward and…architecture that does not. And Patrick O’ Hannigan (do I love that Irish name, or what) has some thoughts on a book that is not particularly “Catholic” but talks about “framing” which is the heavily embraced communication tactic of the left, and... Read more

What has happened since May 10th (updated)

Last updated on: March 16, 2017 at 7:18 pm By Elizabeth Scalia

On May 10th, I wrote Bush dances with free people; Albright danced with Kim Jong Il. (If you think I do not support President Bush, please READ that link). Does anyone remember April and May of 2005? And the months preceeding them? The Orange Revolution? The Arab Springtime? The Cedar Revolution of Lebanon – all of them seeming to have a fire lit under them, a wonderful fire of liberty. Remember Revolution Babes? All around the globe, there was a... Read more

Lies, damn lies and the NY Times

Last updated on: March 16, 2017 at 7:18 pm By Elizabeth Scalia

Jack Kelly at Irish Pennants got my Irish up real good this morning: Col. Thomas Spoehr is annoyed with New York Times reporter Michael Moss, and with good reason. Just go read it. And shake your head in disgust. Again. Read more

Acedia and the Emperor of Ice Cream

Last updated on: March 16, 2017 at 7:11 pm By Elizabeth Scalia

Call the roller of big cigars, The muscular one, and bid him whip In kitchen cups concupiscent curds. Let the wenches dawdle in such dress As they are used to wear, and let the boys Bring flowers in last month’s newspapers. Let be be finale of seem. The only emperor is the emperor of ice-cream. Take from the dresser of deal, Lacking the three glass knobs, that sheet On which she embroidered fantails once And spread it so as to... Read more