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I'll be in Saint Louis. I'm taking three honors students to the National Collegiate Honors Council annual meeting. In the meantime you will have to make do with Master Heppler and Professor Schaff, when he is not busy with trivial...

Larry Bowa is on deck to be the next Yankees third base coach, getting the job over some kid from Nebraska who runs a crap blog. Any deal with Bowa won't be finalized until Cashman's status is finalized. And then...

Taking Back North Dakota, via PoliPundit, has noted some of the things that are getting done in the new Senate:If you pay attention to anything the Pravda (mainstream media) says, you probably wouldn't know that the Republican-controlled Congress is getting...

I wish to second Jason Heppler's post. Ms. Parks was a hero if ever there was one....

'Tell it to the troops'

This piece from USMC Lt. General James T. Conway caught my attention for a couple of reasons. Firstly, it is a piece of blazingly bright reason on a subject that most of the media severely misreports. Secondly, the Chief had the privilige of knowing Gen. Conway many years ago in St. Louis at Roosevelt H.S., where he graduated in '65, a year behind the Chief's class. He was determined already to pursue a military career, and already was pursuing (and achieving) excellence in a number of ways. Obviously he has continued to do so.

This piece is just terrific. General Conway shows that unlike the MSM, he has acquired some real situational awareness over there:

One hundred and forty-four years ago last month, the first major battle of the American Civil War had been joined on a small stream named Bull Run, outside Washington D.C. As the fighting neared its climax, a Confederate staff officer galloped his horse up Henry Hill and hailed Brigadier General Thomas Jackson. He shouted above the din of cannon and musketry, "Sir, I fear the battle is lost."

Jackson, astride his horse near the crest of the ridge watching the advancing Union brigades, looked over his shoulder at his own brigade of Virginians on the reverse slope, lying prone but at the ready. He then turned his gaze on the officer and responded in a low voice, "You may think it, Sir, but you had best not say it to those troops!"

Jackson's words of so long ago still contain sound advice for those journalists, pundits, and official visitors who journey to Iraq. If you have any misgivings that the Coalition and Iraqi Forces are losing this war against insurgents and terrorists, then you had better not say so in their presence-lest you attract a hostile crowd.

The fact is, they get it. They are closest to the action, they feel the momentum shifts, and they know when they have taken the best the enemy can dish out. They know what victory looks like and smells like-and they know it's only a matter of time.

Read the rest of it! It's definitely grist for the mill to counteract the moonbat seditious defeatism that dominates the MSM and the Donks' dominant left wing.

Washington Post:The House yesterday voted to shield companies that make and sell firearms from lawsuits by the victims of shootings, sending the legislation to the White House and handing the nation's gun lobby a paramount victory it has sought for...

From NewsMax: Bill Kristol, executive editor of The Weekly Standard and a vocal critic of the Oct. 3 nomination of Harriet Miers to the U.S. Supreme Court, said he was relieved at the news of Miers withdrawal Thursday and confident...

... would you find Country Joe McDonald serving as chairman over the Veteran's Day ceremonies. And fighting over whether or not one of the co-founders of Gold Star Families should be the "keynote" speaker, no less....

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