THE TEXAS SCRIBBLER

“AT LEAST SEVENTY wicked witches were melted in last night’s unexpected drizzle. Governor Corbett has declared a state of emergency, and has designated Sunday as a day of prayer and human sacrifice.” News from Dr. Boli’s Celebrated Magazine.

These are the men of 60th Company, OC 504-68, who were killed in Viet Nam. We graduates of that 1968 class at Infantry Officers Candidate School at Fort Benning, Georgia, commemorate these seven each Memorial Day. One graduate:  1LT Jacob Lee Kinser, a Huey pilot. Two Tactical Officers:  CPT Reese Michael Patrick and 1LT Daniel [...]

You remember Couric, the so-called journalist who did the hatchet-job on Sarah Palin during the 2008 presidential campaign? Well, Sarah’s still viable. Couric is leaving cBS. She’s become even more irrelevant than the network she used to work for.

This is the main hall of Yad Vashem, the Holocaust museum in Jerusalem. Yes, the walls really do lean in that way, giving you the feeling of being trapped and about to be crushed. One is not supposed to take pictures there, but I wanted this one and so I did it secretly. Most of [...]

This Texas soldier, dead in Iraq in 2007, still has a website maintained by his family. No surprise, of course, but worth a look. Turn the sound on. I just hope the fools of Obamalot stick to their pledge not to put ground troops into Libya.

Only reason for the question mark is that the subject is abortion which, as we all know, must be performed freely, even up to the third trimester, lest minority women be forced to use rusty coat hangers in back alleys. As for the accused, we could use scissors to snip their spines, but that would [...]

Borders, it seems, is on the financial ropes. Stuck with stock it can’t unload and, so far, uncompetitive on ebooks. Will they be missed? Says Megan McArdle, not much: “In the good old days of local bookstores, I frequently went without books that I knew I wanted, because it was such a pain in the [...]

A little late for Christmas, granted. But just in time for the bombing of the Christian church in Alexandria. Only 21 dead, so far. Come on jihadis! You can do better than that. God is great! Etc.