Monthly Archives: September 2009
Fighting With One Hand
McClatchy’s Jonathan Landay reported on 4 marines killed in Afghanistan this week. The marines were pinned down by a Taliban ambush. U.S. commanders refused requests for artillery support because women and children were re-supplying ammo to the Taliban attackers. Eight Afghan troops and a translator were also killed while 3 Americans and 19 Afghans were wounded.
Landay, an embedded reporter, was pinned down with them. Please go here to read his story. Here’s a column about the situation by Diana West
Kid Talk
The wing nuts demanded a congressional investigation after the president’s speech to school children. That would be President George H.W. Bush’s speech in 1991.
Fears that our future generation of social security payers would be brainwashed by President Obama’s speech this week were overstated. He told kids to study hard and stay in school.Unfortunately they’ll be staying in failing public schools in DC because the Department of Education is shutting down the popular voucher program there.
