Advice & Dissent

Dec31

Year-end Update on Avian Flu "Pandemic"

I published major articles with the Weekly Standard in 2005 and 2006 (with updates elsewhere) on how, despite predictions of as many as a billion deaths from pandemic avian flu and calls for spending 2.5% of the U.S. GNP annually to prevent it, overwhelming evidence indicated the…Read More
Sep15

Remember when Iraq's Anbar Province was "Lost?"

It's wonderful news that we've handed over to the Iraqi military what was formerly the vicious province in the nation. But probably few remember that two short years ago the Marines themselves, in charge of Anbar military operations, admitted in a classified report "there is…Read More
May23

Cpt. Travis Patriquin, KIA Ramadi, honored in USA Today

USA Today in its Memorial Day issue put Army Cpt. Travis Patriquin's photo on the front page and had a nice write-up of him. The website version relates that Marine Lt. Col. John Church lost two friends in Iraq just days before his wife gave birth to a baby boy: Patriquin and…Read More
Apr29

"Unions' Big Colombia Lie," my NYPost piece on Colombia Free Trade Agreement

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has put the US - Colombia Trade Promotion Agreement on the back burner - apparently permanently. "The Colombia FTA is dead on arrival," explained Rep. Mike Michaud (D-Maine), co-founder of the House Trade Working Group. "Congress can't take up an…Read More
Apr13

My Wkly Std tribute to Medal of Honor winner SEAL Mike Monsoor

Petty Officer 2nd Class Michael Monsoor (right) during a fight in the Mulaab, Ramadi Spring 2006: The Mullab section of Ramadi, Iraq. Graffiti boast that this is "the graveyard of the Americans." Leaving your base camp virtually guarantees a fight, and I'm in one the first day of…Read More
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