Mallon's Media Watch John responds today to an inquiry: .... Much of what bothers me is the tendency I see to make the United States the very last to be....

Maybe I've Been Too Positive About "Embedded" Journalists If there's anything to this. (Thanks, MM.)

"Cheer up, Chicken Little" Newt Gingrich skewered some folks in USA Today, Thursday: .... Chicken Little, watching the news 24 hours a day, is thinking a week is too long.....

"Victims of Success" "The CENTCOM child care center". :) A good blog today from Jed Babbin at NRO: .... The so-called "pause" going on now is a consolidation of forces....

"They Dominate the Air, but Still the Media Can't Win" Mark Steyn turns up with his usual brilliance in today's London Telegraph: After little more than a week, is this....

Remember September 11 Vide.

"History or Hysteria? Our Vulture Pundits Regurgitate Rumor and Buzz" A monumental column from VDH today at NRO: .... We should recall that in the first Gulf War we bombed....

Cavuto Incinerates Journalism Professor And it was a joy to behold.

Col. Larry Papini Jr. A Hometown Hero from Roscoe in the local paper today: U.S. Army Col. Larry Papini of Roscoe had been serving at the Army War College in....

"Taking Sides: The Iraq War Will Divide the World — For the Better" By Daniel Henninger at OpinionJournal today: .... Which side are you on? Some surely will recoil at....

Re: "Worse and Worse" A reader writes: I have been thinking lately about the two very different journalistic trends that were so starkly displayed on your blog today. I was....

"Slow Down, You're Not Winning Fast Enough" "They're like kids on the long drive to Grandma's house, only worse -- slow down Dadday, we're going to get a speeding ticket,....

"War No More? How Much of a Pacifist is the Pope?" William McGurn writes at OpinionJournal today: .... Catholics understand that not all papal utterances are invested with the same....

"Birth of the Embed" An interesting and informative article by FOX's Kim Hume at The Weekly Standard today: .... Barely two weeks before the conflict began the journalists from 200....

LA Times Spouts Iraqi Propaganda as News Bill O'Reilly pointed out this LAT propaganda piece news story on The O'Reilly Factor this evening. Have a look. 'EVERY DAY GETS WORSE....

"Pacifist Says 'I Was Wrong'" Iraqis told him: "We cannot wait anymore. We want the war, and we want it now." Rev. Ken Joseph's story of being converted from anti-war....

"A Little Perspective, Please" Jonathan Last throws some facts at the doom-and-gloom crowd at today's Weekly Standard: .... Remember the Grenada cakewalk? The United States invaded on October 25, 1983....

"Saddamizing America" By Craig McMillan at WND today: .... An attitude of national tolerance has served the left well. They have silenced their critics, while expanding their pet perversions into....

Three Phrases I Would Really Like to Never Have to Hear Again In no particular order. Hans Blix Saddam Hussein Security Council I can dream, can't I?

"Avoid Media Stew of Malice" Or, "The triple war". A reader calls to my attention a David Warren article in today's Ottawa Citizen, which is also available at his website:....

"Ten Points on the War: Questions and Answers" A good article by John Derbyshire at NRO today.

"Stand Up for America Speech" By Beth Chapman, Alabama State Auditor, Feb. 2003. Paul has sent me this speech by Beth Chapman at a Stand Up for America Rally in....

"War American-Style" Margaret brings to my attention this Tony Blankley column in yesterday's Washington Post: .... The American personality might be characterized as an easygoing, sentimental, fair-minded ruthlessness. We tie....

"Top Ten Myths About the War in Iraq" A good point-by-point rebuttal by James Dunnigan at StrategyPage yesterday: War brings forth strenuous efforts to report what is happening and why.....

The BBC is Anti-War No surprise there. The BBC has come under fire (heh, heh) for anti-war bias in its news — from its own "front line defence correspondent". From....

Daniel Patrick Moynihan, RIP The former US senator from New York died today. Here is the (in)famous report, now typically referred to as "The Moynihan Report", by which he first....

Robert Frost For the poet's birthday (1874), allow me to direct you to his poems here, here, and here at The View from the Core. (Thanks to G. Thomas for....

Protest Warrior Signs Here at Protest Warrior are the famous signs from San Francisco marches. Choosing a favorite is difficult. I do like this one very much. But this one....

"Shocked! War's Reality Surprises the Media" The Blogosphere's own Preston & Regan have a good column in today's NRO: .... The Iraqi people have lived under Saddam's heavy, bloody hand....

Has the Pope Condemned the War Against Saddam? A fine blog by Carl Olson at Envoy Encore today: .... There are some who insist that the Holy Father has condemned....

"War on Pessimism" Neil Cavuto pounded his fellow journalists in yesterday's Common Sense: I guess I shouldn't have been surprised. No sooner had we encountered some tough fighting in Iraq,....

"When Teaching the Ethics of War Is Not Academic" A valuable essay by Shannon French at The Chronicle Review: .... Some people might fear that encouraging young warriors to study....

"The Little People: On Oscar Night, Hollywood Thanks Everyone But the Toops." Some scathing observations by Michael Medved at OpinionJournal today: The most prominent personalities in the antiwar movement....

"Without Protesters, There Wouldn't be a War" A wonderful column today by Patrick R. Gibbons in The Digital Collegian: Protesters are useful idiots for people who want an emotional mob....

A Colonel's Address The Battlefield Speech blogged here yesterday was published, at least in part, in today's New York Times. + + + + + We go to liberate, not....

Ralph Peters Barely Disguises His Contempt for the Armchair Generals A great read at The New York Post today: .... Despite the steady progress of our troops, we continue to....

Virgin Annunciate by Antonello da Messina In honor of the feastday, allow me to direct you to a pretty good image of one of my very favorite paintings: Virgin Annunciate....

"Paying the Price" A mighty fine essay yesterday by Howard Owens — accompanied by a great photo.

Catholicism and Patriotism An excellent treatment by Bill Cork today.

Molly Slams Lefty "Artistic" Types And you really shouldn't miss it: .... If they were truly for 'the underdogs' they would be for a people that have been oppressed for....

"Don't mistake micro for macro with news 'embeds'" A good article in today's Christian Science Monitor: .... It's long been said that football is a metaphor for war. Teams push....

"Shields & Lances" "The moral decline in the West has robbed many of clarity in the ethical questions raised by war." David Warren serves up a typically well-written, insightful essay....

Tony Blair's Speech to the House of Commons Monday, March 24, 2003. I happened to catch the prime minister's speech on C-SPAN yesterday: .... We are now just four days....

Daffodil, and Crocus, and Coltsfoot And "Spring's Colors". I saw them all blooming this gorgeous spring morning on a brief walk around town. Even the trees are starting to bud.....

"The Mother of God" By W. B. Yeats. The threefold terror of love; a fallen flare Through the hollow of an ear; Wings beating about the room; The terror of....

Blog Stuff I have made extensive changes to the Links column on the main page: added Notable Entries; added Sources of News & Opinion; removed "Classic" Archives section (though the....

Pro Deo et Patria A most worthy blog from Bill Cork today: .... And the naive among us thought we should give sanctions time to work, a dozen years ago.....

Battlefield Speech by Col. Collins Nobility flowers in the desert — where it is least expected, and most needed. The address given by Lt. Col. Tim Collins to the 800....

Dale Price Smacks Down Vatican Officials Over at Dyspeptic Mutterings today. .... If you can't understand the connection between the war in Iraq and the war on terror, I have....

"The Uncertainty of War" A wise essay by Clifford Orwin in Friday's National Post: .... Only time uncovers truth, as the proverb runs, and it can take an awfully long....

"Eyes on the Prize: Iraq's Liberation Will be the Biggest Good Thing to Happen Since 9/11" Another beautiful essay, this one from Peggy Noonan at OpinionJournal today: This is what....

"The Long Riders: How Do Our Soldiers Do It All?" A beatifully crafted paean to our soldiers in Iraq from Victor Davis Hanson at NRO today: .... How do such....

Presidential Briefing of Congressional Leaders I hear that George W. Bush is going to be giving congressional leaders a briefing on the war sometime soon. It shouldn't take much time...........

Rerum Novarum Replies to JunkYard Blog Shawn McElhinney has written a lengthy response to a blog of Bryan Preston last week, to which I have already referred.

An Agent of a Fifth Column? And do we see a pattern emerging? Bill Cork has a round-up of information about Hasan Akbar a.k.a. Mark Fidel Kools. Gee. Hasan Akbar:....

The Skinny from Ralph Peters He explains what's going on in the war effort so far in today's New York Post: In combat, the ideal leader is the man who....

Barbarism on Display Surely, by now you have heard of the barbaric treatment and execution of US prisoners of war by Saddam Hussein's regime. God reward their suffering, and comfort....

The Command Post Susanna says go here; that does seem to be where it's happening.

Let Us Pray Let us pray for peace. Let us pray for justice. Let us pray for a swift and decisive victory over the regime of Saddam Hussein. Let us....

Credentials: Hollywood vs. Washington A revealing comparison, by Cindy Osborne, over at G. Thomas Fitzpatrick's Verus Ratio.

Are "Black" and "Muslim" Being PC-ed Out of the News? About the grenade attack on the Tactical Operations Center of the 1st Brigade, 101st Airborne Division, yesterday, a reader writes:....

Third Sunday of Lent Sermons by Ven. John Henry Newman. I cannot find any sermons by Cardinal Newman for this particular day. Allow me to refer you generally, then, to....

"I Was a Naive Fool to be a Human Shield for Saddam" How reality can shock a man out of his fantasies. From Daniel Pepper in today's London Telegraph: ........