Blogs of War

Need to Know is a short roundup of key stories that shouldn’t be missed on your cruise through the blogosphere. The number of links in the roundup may vary but if you find it here you can trust that it’s must-read material.

A Soldier’s Mind
When one looks at a photograph of SSG Brandon Zylstra, you assume he’s just an ordinary Soldier, who’s doing his job. A photograph doesn’t even begin to tell the story of the bravery, dedication and courage that this young man embodies. A photograph doesn’t tell you of the things he’s done, to ensure the safety of his Soldiers.

Blackfive
It is a tale of a bureaucracy with no one at the helm, just sailing along spending money trying not to cause any trouble. That seems to be the over-arching mode for the Clinton foreign policy and intel team. The suits were busy sipping mint tea by the pool and promising we would never actually do anything mean and the spooks were buying all kinds of satellites and technology that unfortunately was unable to read the minds of Sadaam, Kim Jong Il or much of anyone for that matter.

Blue Crab BoulevardAs Stossel points out, people from all over the world come to the US for treatment. You never hear about Americans traveling to other countries like that. Stossel also demolishes – as many people have – the grossly misleading (but much quoted) figure of “45 million uninsured” in America. Among other things that inflated number includes people who are in this country illegally and those who can afford insurance, have it available if they wanted it, but choose not to get it. There is also a large portion of those uninsured who already qualify for government programs but have not enrolled. Take all of those groups out of the number and that huge figure shrinks to a very small number.

David Limbaugh
People forget that the left’s infernal hatred for President Bush began way before their famous catch-all excuse, the Iraq invasion, was a glimmer in the president’s eye. Their permanent antipathy began with the Democrats’ 2000 electoral defeat.

Michael J. Totten
Clear, hold, and build is the strategy now. The Graya’at neighborhood has been cleared of active insurgents, although there still are dormant cells in the area. The Army is working on several modest community and urban renewal projects and is planning larger ones in the near future. Constant patrols and intelligence gathering are the two crucial pieces of the hold part of the strategy.

DefenseTech
Being a highly modified Model 700 Remington bolt-action repeating rifle, the M24 is capable of great precision accuracy. However, lessons were relearned in Somalia and in target-rich environments encountered in the G-WOT that a self-loading rifle can be fired in succession 4 to 5 times faster than a bolt action rifle. Thus, the Army was determined to standardize a semi-automatic sniper rifle.

Florida Cracker
From rooftop to basement, from ceiling to floor, the St. Louis County Jail is the prettiest jail I’ve ever seen. It makes me want to pack my bags and move right in. With its glorious exterior, which, granted, most residents don’t get to see too much of, and its inner light, space, and attention to detail, it’s the kind of place we artistic types would be proud to call home.

Gay Patriot
And while many on the left (including readers of this blog) call us hypocrites, equating being a gay Republican with being a Jewish Nazi or black Klansman, most of us have discovered that gays on the left–and not just gays–give us more grief for being conservative than conservatives give us for being gay. Why, I wonder yet again, do they hate us so?

Hyscience
It’s beginning to look as though the raging crazy netroots and nutroots at the DailyKos (they really do need to get a real life and begin to look through a prism of more reality and less BDS) have so severely infected Democratic politicians that the party has now become the Party of Rage, and are behaving like the DailyKos kids.

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