Eengstro on April 20th, 2009

This article in Time today echos several others I’ve seen recently:

Ten Years After Columbine, It’s Easier to Bear Arms

In the decade since, massacres perpetrated by deranged gunmen have continued – including the 2007 Virginia Tech massacre in which Cho Seung-Hui killed 32 people and wounded many others. But something odd has occurred. Whatever momentum the [...]

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Eengstro on June 8th, 2008

This AP headline just pisses me off:

War bill helps Iraqis, may ignore Katrina victims
NEW ORLEANS – A long way from Iraq and the war debate in Washington, Herman Moore sat outside a tent in a downtown New Orleans homeless camp, trying to make sense of a proposal that helps Iraqi war refugees but will likely [...]

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Eengstro on February 25th, 2008

This article by Victor Davis Hanson is a good example of why he’s a professional writer and I’m not.
First, he briefly explains how the Republicans have fucked up in the past few years, bringing us to the brink of electing the most liberal candidate since George McGovern. Then he articulates many of the fears [...]

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Eengstro on November 3rd, 2006

Today’s New York Times clearly admits that Saddam had the knowledge to build an atom bomb. (Original article here, via Drudge Report. Article reproduced here.)

Last March, the federal government set up a Web site to make public a vast archive of Iraqi documents captured during the war. The Bush administration did so under pressure from [...]

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Eengstro on March 12th, 2006

Sometimes CNN really outdoes themselves with their online polls (click for full-size):

Umm… WTF is that?

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Eengstro on October 1st, 2005

This intersting article, via Instapundit, demonstrates how easy it is for a newspaper to subtly slant a story based on the photos it runs.
But of course, the media isn’t biased…

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Eengstro on September 2nd, 2005

It looks like I was correct. The incorrect aerial photograph in Time’s Hiroshima photo essay has been removed.

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Eengstro on August 5th, 2005

I’m taking a look at a picture essay of the Hiroshima bombing at Time. Oddly, picture #8 does not appear to be from Hiroshima at all:

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The caption reads: “A panoramic aerial view of the city three weeks after the U.S. air raid”
I’m not exactly an expert here, but this appears to be [...]

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Eengstro on August 1st, 2005

Apparently there’s a new show on FX called “Over There”, about a small unit in Iraq. It is getting less than rave reviews from those who have actually been over there:

The grizzled leader of our heroes, Sgt. ‘Scream’, complains that they are stuck there holding the cordon so some stupid general 75 miles away can [...]

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Eengstro on May 18th, 2005

Strategy Page has an excellent article detailing Newsweek’s complete lack of understanding regarding al-Qaeda propaganda, which is an essential weapon in their bag:

Wake up. There’s a war going on — a global war. American lives and liberty are at stake, but Newsweek and its clan are still trying to “Get Nixon.”
Newsweek’s editors haven’t entered the [...]

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