IMMEDIATE RELEASE No. 837-10 September 16, 2010 DOD Identifies Army Casualty The Department of Defense announced today the death of a soldier who was supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom. Sgt. Ryan J. Hopkins, 21, of Livermore, Calif., died Jan. 8, at Brooke Army Medical Center, San Antonio, Texas, of injuries sustained in a motor pool accident [...]

Ever since the Senate Foreign Relations Committee approved the U.S.-Russia New START nuclear-reductions accord this afternoon, I’ve received statements from President Obama, Vice President Biden, Secretaries Gates and Clinton and Senator Kerry. All of them are cheering the vote, in order to get the press to write about the Big Victory they recorded today. And [...]

I come to quibble with Andrew Sullivan: But I fear, unlike Peter, that [Republican voters and politicians]  have not tired of wars, just counter-insurgencies, and will never support actual withdrawal from Iraq and Afghanistan ever, because it reveals “weakness” in the war they want to escalate rather than defuse, and to use for domestic purposes [...]

Will Inboden muses about a GOP Congress’s spending priorities: The Defense Budget: With exploding budget deficits posing a serious threat to the nation’s short and long-term economic health, the next Congress will have no choice but to take a hard look and meaningful action on government spending. This will not spare the Pentagon budget, and [...]

Just because, here’s Katie Cook’s Marvel kitties. Summon the Ultimate Nullifier.

Whatever, Professor Farley. Whatever its first-week-of-Logic-101 failures, any true Yankee fan has to embrace this meme, right? To be self critical: the truth, of course, is that New York has not been thugged out for many, many years — “I’m from the murder capitol where we murder for capital” was a weird mix of nostalgia [...]

Quote of the day comes from David Rivkin in Charlie Savage’s excellent NYT piece about Justice considering using State Secrets to stop Anwar al-Awlaki’s father’s lawsuit: The government’s increasing use of the state secrets doctrine to shield its actions from judicial review has been contentious. Some officials have argued that invoking it in the Awlaki [...]

The Center for Security Policy assembles a conservative-all-star team (Andy McCarthy, LTG Jerry “My God Is Bigger” Boykin) to tell you to fear the coming march of Islamic law. Here’s its template: The authors, under the sponsorship of the Center for Security Policy, have modeled this work on an earlier “exercise in competitive analysis” which [...]

I’ve been “watching” the past month’s worth of Yankee games on the MLB iPhone app when they’ve not been televised in the D.C. market, and it’s predictably been a roller coaster. The past week’s exceedingly narrow losses to Texas and now Tampa Bay are the worst kind of false indicator for the postseason: it’s hard [...]

Were you stop-lossed since 2001? If so, apparently you’re entitled to your back pay thanks to (I think) last year’s defense bill. President Obama recorded this video to tell you how to claim your earning. Start by going to this website.