I read the opening lines of Calvin Trillin's op-ed -- written in June 2006, but featured on the NYT website this morning as an op-ed "classic": MY excitement at the news that Senator Chris Dodd, Democrat of Connect…
Chief Justice Roberts writes for the majority in Winter v. Natural Resources Defense Council . He begins with a quote from George Washington: "To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace.&q…
Today is Veterans Day, a time to honor all military veterans. It is not, I think, a day to protest war. Yesterday, I was driving along the Speedway, the road between 2 cemeteries here in Madison. ( Here 's a picture I took of…
John S.D. Eisenhower has a NYT op-ed opining that presidential sons should not be permitted to serve in combat duty. He recounts his own experience, as a soldier assigned to combat duty in Korea in 1952, as his father was about …
I've been ignoring this Dick Cavett thing in the NYT that's been sitting at the top of the most-emailed list for days, but now I'm reading it. I don't want to delve into Cavett's earnest opposition to the war…
"Each investigated this and cleared themselves, but they both have vested interests." From the WaPo's piece on the Beauchamp affair, that's a quote from journalism prof Mark Feldstein
Asks Michael Goldfarb: THE WEEKLY STANDARD has learned from a military source close to the investigation that Pvt. Scott Thomas Beauchamp--author of the much-disputed "Shock Troops" article in the New Republic's Jul…
TNR checks up on its Baghdad Diarist, Scott Thomas Beauchamp: In the first [of three anecdotes], Beauchamp recounted how he and a fellow soldier mocked a disfigured woman seated near them in a dining hall. Three soldiers with wh…
For Memorial Day, here are some scans from my mother's "WAC Life/War Department Pamphlet," dated May 1945. The cover: Chapter 1 (Text: "So you're in the Army! You've had your fears and doubts, your che…
Women's Army Corps Song Book. I've written about this book before and said I wanted to scan the pictures, but here's a website where someone has done that. You can get a sense of how charming the line drawings are,…