http://www.democracy-project.com/ en-us Bnksd1@aol.com 2008-07-14T21:39:18-05:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://www.democracy-project.com/archives/003878.html Having drafted this post, I held it back as I didn’t want to post when angry. But I just received an email from a friend: I just returned from a month-long embed with military police in Iraq. Frankly, listening to... 3878@http://www.democracy-project.com/ 2008-07-14T21:39:18-05:00 http://www.democracy-project.com/archives/003877.html I live near Camp Pendleton in San Diego, so I run into many Marines and Sailors. Whenever I do I walk up and simply thank them for their service, and offer to buy them a coffee or a bite... 3877@http://www.democracy-project.com/ 2008-07-14T21:12:40-05:00 http://www.democracy-project.com/archives/003876.html Good News: Winnick Not Recommended For Court Martial The recommendation of the Article 32 hearing officer on Marine Sergeant John Winnick is that he not be court martialed, that charges of manslaughter be dropped, and at most he receive some... 3876@http://www.democracy-project.com/ 2008-07-14T18:21:56-05:00 http://www.democracy-project.com/archives/003875.html Barack Obama doesn’t have a Republican backing him near the stature of Democrat Joseph Lieberman’s support of John McCain. So, Obama turns to the only Republican senator he can find who might, maybe, back him, Chuck Hagel. Obama is taking... 3875@http://www.democracy-project.com/ 2008-07-14T11:57:18-05:00 http://www.democracy-project.com/archives/003874.html In a recent email discussion with Winfield Myers, Director of Democracy Project, I mentioned that rather than searching for topics, issues seem to find me. Recently the issue of immigration reform has been pursuing me, and it dovetails with the... 3874@http://www.democracy-project.com/ 2008-07-14T01:57:06-05:00 http://www.democracy-project.com/archives/003873.html Rachel Ehrenfeld is well on her way to getting a federal law that will expand her New York State victory for free speech to the rest of our nation. The Wall Street Journal carries an op-ed by US Senators Arlen... 3873@http://www.democracy-project.com/ 2008-07-14T00:36:49-05:00 http://www.democracy-project.com/archives/003872.html Wikipedia defines a “Sister Souljah moment”: …a politician's public repudiation of an allegedly extremist person or group, statement, or position perceived to have some association with the politician or their party. Such an act of repudiation is designed to signal... 3872@http://www.democracy-project.com/ 2008-07-12T02:51:15-05:00 http://www.democracy-project.com/archives/003871.html Russ Vaughn at Old War Dogs has contributed a wonderful little poem, "We're Oh So...," on the presumed intellectual and cultural superiority of Democrats. Here's a taste: We’re hip, we’re cool and oh so arty; We’re Democrats, the smarter party.... 3871@http://www.democracy-project.com/ 2008-07-11T10:24:12-05:00 http://www.democracy-project.com/archives/003870.html This Sunday, HBO will begin a seven-part miniseries, based on the book, Generation Kill, about a Marine Force Recon unit’s 40-day on-the-point battling their way to Baghdad in the Spring of 2003. The following is written without having read the... 3870@http://www.democracy-project.com/ 2008-07-10T14:37:08-05:00 http://www.democracy-project.com/archives/003869.html I’d thought that the New York Times had gone on the wagon, after the discrediting of New York Times’ earlier long but misleading “War Torn” articles about the mental health damage to our soldiers and Marines from serving in Iraq... 3869@http://www.democracy-project.com/ 2008-07-08T00:57:49-05:00 http://www.democracy-project.com/archives/003867.html My Campus Watch colleague Cinnamon Stillwell recently conducted an interview with Patrick Creamer, public affairs director for Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa (ASMEA). This new organization joins other other professional groups that offer alternatives for... 3867@http://www.democracy-project.com/ 2008-07-02T15:31:14-05:00 http://www.democracy-project.com/archives/003866.html ROE, that’s rules of engagement. For those first thinking I was referring to Roe vs Wade, you’re forgiven, as both do involve life and death issues. There’s currently in progress an Article 32 hearing at Camp Pendleton of charges against... 3866@http://www.democracy-project.com/ 2008-07-02T14:08:22-05:00 http://www.democracy-project.com/archives/003864.html The Supreme Court and lower federal courts are ruling on military law and on military operations. The following is really scary. Eugene Fidell, an authority on military law, of a liberal persuasion critical of US detainee policies, is the husband... 3864@http://www.democracy-project.com/ 2008-07-01T23:00:33-05:00 http://www.democracy-project.com/archives/003863.html Barack Obama is in Dickens’ world when he uses the term “inartful” to describe General Clark’s disparagement of John McCain’s military experiences, and when Obama used the term to describe his own flip-flop on the 2nd Amendment. Oliver Twist’s character... 3863@http://www.democracy-project.com/ 2008-07-01T21:50:15-05:00 http://www.democracy-project.com/archives/003862.html The National Association of Scholars has of late published a series of essays by higher education reformers under the rubric, "If I Ran the Zoo." Today, John Leo, one of our staunchest opponents of the thought police and the editor... 3862@http://www.democracy-project.com/ 2008-06-30T19:10:06-05:00