THE TEXAS SCRIBBLER

Reading an article in the April issue of the print edition of Army Magazine, I came across a double-page (double-truck as we say in the newspaper business) photograph of six M1 Abrams tanks. They belonged to the Third Infantry Division and were in line at an assembly area in Kuwait hours before they rolled into [...]

We didn’t hear much about the Iraq elections. A few purple-finger photos, but that’s all. Why? Too quiet. Besides, making a big deal about it would only make W. look good and Big Media would never do that. But the Marine, MG John Kelley, who until recently ran Al Anbar province notes that, for its [...]

We didn’t hear much about the Iraq elections. A few purple-finger photos, but that’s all. Why? Too quiet. Besides, making a big deal about it would only make W. look good and Big Media would never do that. But the Marine, MG John Kelley, who until recently ran Al Anbar province notes that, for its [...]

It’s official, size ten flying shoes to the contrary notwithstanding: "The police are generally helpless, hundreds of thousands of middle-class Mexicans have fled the border region, often to the United States (if they had dual-citizenship, which many do). Those without money must hunker down and wait for someone to win this war." We could put [...]

One more very good reason not to vote for Baby Barry. He’d just throw it all away: "The Iraqis aren’t yet confident enough to stand entirely on their own; al Qaeda’s savagery still imposes too much fear, while Iran is training terrorists next door. In counterinsurgency, the people must know they are protected. Gen. Petraeus [...]

There’s a lot of teeth gnashing in the conservative blogosphere over BB’s tap dancing around the question of whether he should have backed the surge, given its success in Iraq. I watched the cBS video here and, though I don’t care much for his politics, I have to say his answer is no more than what [...]

There’s a lot of teeth gnashing in the conservative blogosphere over BB’s tap dancing around the question of whether he should have backed the surge, given its success in Iraq. I watched the cBS video here and, though I don’t care much for his politics, I have to say his answer is no more than what [...]

While America and the Old Media slept. Not that Baby Barry is likely to agree. But why should that matter? Via Instapundit UPDATE:  Now Mac is saying it, too. 

Their readership/viewership declines every year, in part because they’re widely and quite correctly perceived as politically skewed Democrat. But, as usual, the Old Media is deaf to the criticism, so they’re suffering no shame at their announced plans to staff BB’s upcoming "world tour" big time, while continuing to shoo Mac away as, uh, too old, too boring, [...]

It’s the way to win the Afghanistan campaign, McCain says, logically enough… "…if I’m elected President, I will turn around the war in Afghanistan, just as we have turned around the war in Iraq, with a comprehensive strategy for victory." …versus Baby Barry’s unserious preference to abandon Iraq in favor of hunting down (the quite probably already [...]