A Little Perspective

Mark Steyn hit it this morning when he remarked upon the list of 500,000 on the watch list, and that it is not easy to check that list instantly.
Steyn remarked that if you buy a book on Amazon.com, and access that site 8 years later, the site will instantly remind you of that previous book [...]

Pure, Blind, Dumb luck

I saw our Homeland Director on two TV news/opinion shows this a.m. She appeared either clueless, or restrained — either way it was not reassuring.
The Obama administration appears to treat this ‘attack” as a criminal matter at home, while it engages in war abroad — not just Afghanistan and Iraq, but in Yemen. Yemen appears [...]

We Are Relearning How To Fight

It is amazing to me to compare and contrast the Revolutionary War (since I wrote about the Delaware Crossing) with the fights we now endure.
In the Revolutionary War, the two British commanders were brothers – the Howe brothers. One commanded the fleet, the other the British Army – both had tried to talk King George [...]

I Am Not (Exactly) a “Denier”

I believe the earth has been warming since New York City was under 1,000 feet of glacial ice 10,000 years ago, and I believe that the earth will warm until it hits a tipping point and goes into a new Ice Age at some time of nature’s choosing.
I do not support the concept that man [...]

“Surge” Revisited

ObamaBot Definition of SURGE in Afghanistan: “Bush surge bad; Obama surge good.
Yes, there were major distinctions between the “surges” – Including that one was done on Wednesday, and the other on thursday.
ALL are distinctions without a difference,
The real difference is tribal: Bush supporters have one position; Obama supporters have another. Cheer for “our team” and [...]

I Like My Plan Better

Tom Freidman said this morning that the President may not understand his own Afghanistan policy – that it IS “Nation building.”
But he says the US policy is like “an unemployed couple adopting a special needs baby.”
Right!
I like my Afghan plan better — withdraw and tell whomever the Afghanistan government is, that if we determine that [...]

Iran Thumbs Its Nose — Again

 Economic sanctions are a bit late, and most would hurt the population where there is plenty of opposition to the Mullahs.
If they had been tightened months ago…but getting international cooperation is slow. (General Rule of Thumb: Any plan that relies on international cooperation is always doomed to failure. )
A major portion of Iran’s refined gasoline [...]

Climate-Gate

Times of London On-Line:
“SCIENTISTS at the University of East Anglia (UEA) have admitted throwing away much of the raw temperature data on which their predictions of global warming are based.
It means that other academics are not able to check basic calculations said to show a long-term rise in temperature over the past 150 years.
The UEA’s [...]

The NY Times Gets It Right

The New York Times editorial today on Middle East diplomacy can be summed up in a single paragraph from it:
“Mr. Obama’s own credibility is so diminished (his approval rating in Israel is 4 percent) that serious negotiations may be farther off than ever.”
The NYT concludes that the Obama Middle East policy has “unraveled.”
Those Obamabot who [...]

Obama Backed The Wrong Horse

The State Department has egg on its face — it backed the wrong horse in Honduras.
It backed a leftist President who tried to abrogate the Honduran Constitution, and the Honduran Supreme Court ordered the Army to depose him — so he went into exile but with public US State Department support for his return.
Then the [...]