Author: Mark Draughn
Protecting New Jersey’s Strategic Road Salt Supply
Coming soon, to a WikiLeaks mirror site near you…SaltBarnGate: The American Civil Liberties Union has filed a lawsuit against the state after it refused to release the construction plans for a barn used to store road salt, on the basis that doing so would be a security risk. … According to the complaint, [Carole] Chiaffarano… Read more
25% of Windypundit Blog Team Now In Jail
As I write this, 25% of the Windypundit blogging team is in jail. When I brought Joel Rosenberg in to Windypundit as a co-blogger, I wanted him to cover firearms issues, especially the right to keep and bear arms. And he did, rather rabidly, with some of the longest posts on the blog. Even though… Read more
Dreidel, Dreidel, Dreidel…
At about this time every year when I was in college, my friend Todd Cohen used to complain about all the businesses that would wish everyone a “Merry Christmas and Happy Hanukkah to our Jewish friends!” It was the “to our Jewish friends” part that somehow got on his nerves. With that in mind, I… Read more
Defense Secretary Gates on Wikileaks
This sounds about right to me. It’s from an email to Michael Yon from Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates: This is obviously a massive dump of information. First of all, I would say unlike the Pentagon Papers, one of the things that is important, I think, in all of these releases, whether it’s Afghanistan, Iraq… Read more
On the WikiLeaks Mess
This WikiLeaks business is bringing out the stupid on all sides. Start with all the folks who have been applying the Secret classification to all these diplomatic messages. From what I’m reading, most of latest batch of documents is utterly routine and pretty boring. The U.S. government produces classified documents at an insane rate, and… Read more