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We’ve been following the Pentagon’s “boiled frog” strategy related to women in combat. . . the plan has been to simply go ahead and put women into combat, present it to the American people...
Children: The new status symbol. So says Simon Doonan at The New York Observer: Onto the landscape of Manhattan, a new and lethal status symbol has alighted—and it’s causing the J.A.P.’s and WASP’s of...
For today’s history exam: “The relative merits of Abraham Lincoln. . . and John Edwards.” Please discuss. The Discovery Channel and AOL have just released a list of nominees, based on an online poll,...
Monday’s Washington Post article about tonight’s dinner in honor of Tom DeLay quoted Marshall Wittman, (former Republican-now DLC staffer) as saying: “Tribute dinners are how politicians sit shiva for their dead.” Well, maybe that’s often true, but the event tonight at the Capital Hilton was pretty festive and, as Brent Bozell said, had more the air of an old-fashioned hootenanny. . . for over 900 people.
Sex and virtue . . . Men across cultures: Are good-girls back still in style? Maybe there are some customs so enduring they sell in both Hollywood . . . and Iraq. Army Colonel...
Just got word: Congressional Republicans are finally moving to address the problems we’ve been highlighting with the new Army policy of assigning women to Forward Support Companies. I wrote about the FSC issue here....
A dear friend called today to say that she is moving. Great news for her and her family; not so great for those of us who love them. So I set off for the...
Linda Ellerbee strikes again. Linda Ellerbee, Nickelodeon’s new historian She’s now hosting a “news bump” for Nickelodeon, the kids’ television channel. The segment recently ran a piece on the Alamo. The short clip feautured...
A reader, Martha, a former Air Force enlisted, who has been following the thread on women in combat with concern, writes to explain the “Abracadabra” issue: I have heard horrid stories from deployed friends...
Howard Kurtz quotes our review of the new blog, the Huffington Post today in Media Notes Extra. Howard begins: “A rather mixed reception in the blogosphere:” Then quotes, American Mind, Jack Shafer at Slate,...
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