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In ‘Trump’s general is right,’ Mr. Tucker mentions a case of desertion in this manner: “… in 1977, in the middle of mass desertions during the Vietnam war …”

There were no "mass desertions." Additionally, U.S. ground involvement ended in 1972. The Republic of Vietnam fell to Northern aggression in 1975. I’d say Mr. Tucker gets paid a lot of money for being wrong. And his entire article is a POS.

#1 SgtBob (Link) on 2017-10-21 08:49 (Reply)

I'm sure Tucker thinks he is using his critical thinking skills but it is rather necessary to have facts straight in order to reach a rational conclusion. His facts are faulty...he needs to read "Stolen Valor" to acquire some facts. He denigrates the socioeconomic status of soldiers without an citation of value...again "Stolen Valor" provides facts. I and anyone else who served in the 101st during VN knew what we were getting into as we were volunteers serving under leaders who had already been there and done that. Tucker is likely a never been there and never will person who is speaking of something he never intends on doing in his lifetime. He is the wrong author for a subject he can only guess about. He is a writer looking for an out at every contract he ever enters. Small wonder kids, spouses, pets and mortgages are not honored in this day and age.

#1.1 indyjonesouthere on 2017-10-22 01:08 (Reply)

It is good to see that NR is as full of shiite as it ever was in that "Acting White" pile of crap. Oh how I wish someone would buy that rag and put John Derbyshire in charge...

#2 Mark Matis on 2017-10-21 09:16 (Reply)

Hear Hear.

Derb would make it interesting. Donors might not like it, though.

#2.1 Mike K (Link) on 2017-10-21 12:45 (Reply)

Trumpsters are as brittle and easily-offended as liberals, it seems.

#2.2 Assistant Village Idiot (Link) on 2017-10-21 15:51 (Reply)

Though I'm an atheist, I think the objections to the cross are absurd. Part, unfortunately, of our offense culture.

The cross does me no harm.

#3 Jay on 2017-10-21 10:01 (Reply)

The cross does me no harm.

Indeed not, and it does me a lot of good.

#3.1 Bird Dog on 2017-10-21 10:45 (Reply)

What about the people that are offended by the cross being taken down?

Don't they have a right not to be offended?

#3.1.1 feeblemind on 2017-10-21 12:08 (Reply)

Of COURSE not!!!

#3.1.1.1 Sam L. on 2017-10-21 14:22 (Reply)

"Migration: The Straw That’s Breaking Europe’s Back"

It is a crazy scene we are seeing that I could not have imagined. It is clear that the leaders either hate their country and their people OR they are so incredibly stupid that they do not see what is happening. I tend to believe both are true. But the same thing is happening here in America. Every year we import a million or two thugs; refugees, border crossers, visa over stayers, future welfare recipients and terrorists. It isn't "accidental" there are groups within our country who profit off this human trafficking and there is a nefarious effort to undermine our country and our constitution. And yet we turn a blind eye to the negative effects of this terrible policy and increase the rate of infiltration every year. This will not end well.

#4 GoneWithTheWind on 2017-10-21 10:29 (Reply)

It's not a straw; it's a whole barn full of bales.

#4.1 Sam L. on 2017-10-21 10:49 (Reply)

They hate their own culture and have no feelings for their own people, only see them as slaves working to generate money and power for their overlords.
And that's what they in their stupidity imagine the hordes of migrants will also become, money generating slaves, and servile voters.

The European population is effectively disarmed and harmless. Incapable of standing up against their rulers (the violent crackdown in Barcelona shows that clearly, and was no doubt a warning to all in the EU to stay in line or else) because they're unarmed against an armed state, and too divided to provide much organisation (can you trust your neighbours or anyone when organising a protest or revolt, or will they turn against you...), they're no threat.
And they're too delusional (the leaders that is) to see that those hordes of migrants ARE an organised invading force that can overthrow them, and most likely has the means to do so prepositioned already.

#4.2 JTW on 2017-10-22 00:30 (Reply)

Looks like I’d better finish my Candide-like satire of academia soon, before it gets confused with real life.

#5 Ann K (Link) on 2017-10-21 10:40 (Reply)

As far as aging and wisdom go I would agree but also offer this:

Now, for wisdom’s pure and complex stage
It is wisdom’s curse for all who say:
"How youth is wasted on the young" (Shaw)
Perhaps, but wisdom is the bane of my golden age

Jaymo

#6 jaymo on 2017-10-21 10:57 (Reply)

Suburbia: There is also the desire to own a home of one's own, on a plot of land of one's own. I've lived in apartments, and I've had four houses of my own. A fifth is in the future.

#7 Sam L. on 2017-10-21 10:59 (Reply)

Chucky Blow...managed to leave out the GOPer is Hitler comparison for Bush, McCain, Reagan.... Chucky's a slacker!

#8 Sam L. on 2017-10-21 11:10 (Reply)

Hey! Is the Gang Of Z taking today off??

#9 Sam L. on 2017-10-21 14:23 (Reply)

So when Benatar's time comes, will he have this be his epitaph?

"Here lies a wretched corpse of wretched soul bereft:
"Seek not my name: a plague consume you wicked caitiffs left!"

#10 Korora on 2017-10-21 15:09 (Reply)

The Gibbon quote is really from a speech given by Margaret Thatcher at Hillsdale College in 1994.

"Sir Edward Gibbon (1737-1794), author of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, wrote tellingly of the collapse of Athens, which was the birthplace of democracy. He judged that, in the end, more than they wanted freedom, the Athenians wanted security. Yet they lost everything-security, comfort, and freedom. This was because they wanted not to give to society, but for society to give to them. The freedom they were seeking was freedom from responsibility. It is no wonder, then, that they ceased to be free."

#11 Bulldog on 2017-10-23 08:36 (Reply)

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Saturday, October 21. 2017

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