Archive for May, 2004

No Way to Run a War

Elgin Hushbeck -

Mark Helprin has a very good piece in Today WSJ, “No Way to Run a War” in which is he critical of both Republicans and Democrats and luckily it is on their free site. https://opinionjournal.com/columnists/mhelprin/?id=110005090 While I do not agree with all of his comments, (call me overly optimistic, but I do think that creating […]

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Crossing Another Line

Elgin Hushbeck -

One clear difference between conservatives and liberals is that for liberal, almost everything is political. This is one of the reasons liberals tend to gravitate into control of what otherwise are non-political organizations and then once in control, use the organizations to support their personal agenda, regardless of what the actual membership believes. For example […]

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An Interesting Historical Contrast.

Elgin Hushbeck -

I heard an interesting historical contrast the other day. When Dewey was running for President against Roosevelt during WWII, he received some information that indicated that Roosevelt knew in advance about the attack on Pearl Harbor.* General Marshall asked him not to use the information because it would hurt the war effort. As such Dewey […]

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After a Year

Elgin Hushbeck -

It has been a year since Bush declared major combat actions over and he continues to take a lot of criticism from the democrats for that statement, and for the Mission Accomplished banner. Like most of the democratic attacks, I find this based more on their spin than on what Bush actually said. Democrats spin […]

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