Ezra Klein makes the (convincing to me, at least) that American foreign policy should better be expressed as Superman versus Jack Bauer. Though to be honest the foreign policy we’ve got right now bears more resemblance to Lex Luthor.
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I don’t have any problem with hunting per se, and enjoy fishing myself, but I gotta look at this story about hunting declining and think that it’s a little silly to hunt an animal when 90% of us live within blocks of a supermarket.
New figures from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service show that the number of hunters 16 and older declined by 10 percent between 1996 and 2006 - from 14 million to about 12.5 million. The drop was most acute in New England, the Rocky Mountains, and the Pacific states, which lost 400,000 hunters in that span.
Congrats to the crew of space shuttle Atlantis. Your work continues to be a credit to our nation.
I found this post on the Black Five military blog via a link on The Corner and it kind of bothered me a bit. It’s an email from an Army chaplain who describes soldiers standing to attention during the anthem when played before a movie. The chaplain says he would expect that sort of thing to be greeted by laughter by 18-22 year olds if it happened stateside. Really?
The anthem isn’t played before movies, but I’ve been to a few sporting events in different parts of the country (Maryland, California, Florida) - NBA, MLB, and NFL - and the vast majority of the crowd is usually quite respectful and reverent when the anthem is played. Most men (including myself) take of their ballcaps and put their hands over their hearts.
I respect the hell out of the armed forces, but I think efforts to say that they’re more American than the rest of us because they serve are quite misguided.
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