The Angry Woman...

Neo-Neocon is not happy about the healthcare bill, and lately she's on a roll with her posts.  See here, here, here, here, here, and here.

Steyn on the Decline of America...

Steyn has a fascinating essay posted at NRO, called Tattered Liberty, about the kind of decline the American voters have put us on, and why it's likely to be different than what's happened in Europe.  I'd like to see him flesh out the ideas he surfaces into a book.  Here's his conclusion:

But, as Charles Krauthammer said recently, “decline is a choice.” The Democrats are offering it to the American people, and a certain proportion of them seem minded to accept. Enough to make decline inevitable? To return to the young schoolboy on his uncle’s shoulders watching the Queen-Empress’s jubilee, in the words of Arnold Toynbee: “Civilizations die from suicide, not from murder.”

Go read the whole thing.

On The Job in Afghanistan...

Pausing for lunch at a lookout post in Wardak Province, Afghanistan, on March 8th.  Click to enlarge.