I wish I’d researched Eagle Publishing and Regnery’s associations much sooner – I might have spared myself some of the dismay with its sordid roster of authors (whom it may also be cheating) and its methods of attack-journalism as evidenced in Human Events. The events of the last two weeks have only amplified my desire to no longer associate with agents of voter exploitation and reactionary punditry. Frankly, I’m disgusted that some of those people make a living peddling manufactured outrage and lies, while my honest attempts to find truth have been largely unrewarded. I have difficulty believing this is the same Human Events that was Ronald Reagan’s favorite periodical.
No heroes or clean hands in S. Ossetia
(Lesterblog update)
(I would have edited the wording of some sentences that were more pertinent to Lesterblog but every such sentence included an important link, so I decided RS readers don’t need a further explanation of a cross-post, anyway.
BTW, I forgot that RS 3.0 was imminent when I disappeared a couple weeks back. I like it.)
This weekend’s rapidly escalating fighting in the former Soviet republic of Georgia is absolutely appalling. Saakashvili’s irresponsible and disastrous offensive to retake South Ossetia has provoked a predictably heavy-handed Russian retaliation. Both sides seem to be indiscriminately shelling and bombing civilian areas for (apparently) no greater cause than ethnocentric identity.
Dan McLaughlin
KnightsofMalta
Steve Maley
Neil Stevens
Moe Lane
