Carmel California, has one art gallery per 34 residents and is banning more. See my old essay "Drive by in Paradise---Old Carmel Dies." The absolute phoniest town on the totally phony Left Coast.

The best written Military blog that I've seen is called MARINE M31 A sample of what he writes is contained beneath a sniper team of Marines with one of the guys carrying a wounded comrade over his shoulder:

Well, here we go. The Left media is circling a lone Marine like jackals.

Like the cop who is tried and convicted by the left for shooting a perp before any evidence is available, this Marine, and by extension, the Corps, POTUS and America will be similarly attacked.

That is not to say that I do not consider the allegation serious. It is.

There are rules even for killing, and discipline is the foundation of of an army in the field. It is the difference between an army and a mob. The rag heads are a mob; they behead, torture, murder, use human shields, employ weapons of mass destruction and wantonly kill civilians and children because they are "soft targets."

We, on the other hand, are an army. This Marine will recieve his due process; I just hope it is as much as that given to captured terrorists at Gitmo. I won't hold my breath waiting for the ACLU to come forward to help.

This Marine may have seen a secreted weapon, he may have believed his life was in danger, perhaps he'd seen too much for too long (he was reportedly shot in the face just the day before). Regardless, he did not have the luxury of making a life or death decision over a period of hours and days in NBC's plush executive offices.

But let us say that he dispatched the man without the requisite threat of a clear and present danger to his own life. This war is for all the marbles; there will be no surrender, there is no quarter. We will not win this war following every Marquis of Queensbury rule the Left can wave hysterically on the evening news.

Brutal? Yeah, so was 9/11.

With all due respect to other wars and other enemies, our servicemen have never seen anything like this before. This is war without quarter. Our enemies have lawyers, American lawyers, who seek to have captured terrorists given "constitutional" rights, charges dropped, and released from prison. Where does a released terrorist go? What does he do?

Exactly.

Our enemies have supporters, American supporters, in the public, in the media and in our own government. They will oppose us in this war at every turn, not out of some moral outrage, but for purely political reasons. These people simply do not understand evil and what is required to combat it. First, evil must to be recognized, but the Left, steeped in moral relativism, makes no distinction between the terrorists and the soldiers from the Red States. You can make book on it.

Proof? Easy... John Kerry received a Silver Star for shooting a critically wounded VC in the back, yet he was embraced as a war hero by the Left and even backed for the most powerful and prestigious position in the world.

So you may immediately dismiss any outrage you hear from the Left in this matter with your moral integrity entirely intact.