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  • Men without Chests Threaten Civilization

    10/09/2016 1:25:12 PM PDT · by Kaslin · 33 replies
    American Thinker ^ | October 9, 2016 | Chris Banescu
    Mid-twentieth-century C. S. Lewis witnessed and wrote about the increasing moral breakdown and intellectual decay of Western civilization. He observed how secular and atheistic academics, philosophers, politicians, intellectuals, and cultural elites abandoned reason, denied universal truths, undermined Christian doctrines, and rejected moral principles that formed the foundation of civilized society. "Lewis walked our cultural ground," explained Chris R. Armstrong. "He lived, as we do, in a society that denied objective value; lacked a coherent social ethic; wallowed in instant gratification, sexual license, moral evasion, and blame-shifting; and failed to pass on a moral framework to its children." In his book...
  • Petraeus' 'ribbon creep'

    04/10/2008 8:52:30 AM PDT · by hilaryrhymeswithrich · 69 replies · 336+ views
    LA Times ^ | April 9, 2008 | Matthew DeBord
    That's a lot of martial bling, especially for an officer who hadn't seen combat until five years ago. Unfortunately, brazen preening and "ribbon creep" among the Army's modern-day upper crust have trumped the time-honored military virtues of humility, duty and personal reserve.
  • LAT Op-ed Writer Compares Petraeus' Ribbons to Chotchkie's Flair

    "Memo to Petraeus: When you're making the case for more patriotic gore, go easy on the glitter." That's how Los Angeles-based writer Matthew DeBord concluded his LA Times op-ed entitled "Petraeus' 'ribbon creep.'" So DeBord apparently thinks ribbons worn on the service dress uniform are the equivalent of "flair" that Chotchkie's waiters wore in the comedy classic "Office Space"? Here's how DeBord began his screed against Petraeus being decked out in "martial bling":
  • Chestlessness -

    09/03/2006 9:59:52 AM PDT · by UnklGene · 102 replies · 1,983+ views
    DavidWarrenOnline via Western Standard - Canada ^ | August 30, 2006 | David Warren
    Chestlessness - August 30, 2006 The case of the two Fox News journalists, held hostage in Gaza, is worth dwelling upon. They were released after their captors had made tapes of them dressed as Arabs and announcing they had changed their names and converted to Islam. Lately I have been looking at the large -- at how the West is proving unable to cope with a threat from a fanatical Islamic movement, that it ought to be able to snuff out with fair ease. (See my column last Sunday.) But the large is often most visible in the small. The...