Collision course with Pakistan still imminent for next POTUS
I've said this many times... most recently in my March 31st 2008 post, "Pakistan Update: Trouble on the Horizon?". Prior to that, I lambasted the fools who bought, hook-line-and-sinker, the media...
View ArticleCode Pink hits the trail Avoids face off with biker Marines
Code Pinko cowards have much in common with other criminals. They only like to assail easy targets. Once they had notice that the Marines Biker Club was paying a visit to Code Pink's headquarters in...
View ArticleFuture not so rosy for biofuels UNFOA sez unfair to women
Let me put a disclosure right up front... I never saw ethanol as "the future", didn't think it wise but in small local quantities at best. There were many reasons for it.First, it costs more power to...
View ArticleHillary - on how to win friends and influence people
I'm just beside myself with laughter today. It was just Mar 26th when I posted on "Just who is beating the drums of war in Iran?", noting that while the Bush admin has been constantly saying dealing...
View ArticlePolitical Islam as the Spanish Inquisitor
Barry Rubin's article, "The Region: Stuck in the Middle Ages, Islam targets moderation" is an excellent analysis of the multifacets of Islam.There are clerics radical in their oppression and adherence...
View ArticleObama vs Wright The politics of "change"?? Hardly
I've been trying to stay out of the Obama/Wright fray as it's covered non-stop in other blogs. But there's a couple of nagging problems I had with Wright's media blitz on the talking head shows over...
View ArticleDNC: Siding with Chavez instead of Columbia?
The story says it all. The largest steel maker in Venezuela wouldn't sell to the government, so they took it... adding to their collection of communications, electricity and oil. Chavez is making sure...
View ArticleEx Veep Gore touts Myanmar tragedy to pimp global warming agenda
Andrew Bolt at Australia's Herald Sun as done a magnificent job examining the tragedy of Myanmar's unthinkable mass murder by Mother Nature. I'm not sure I can add anything of value to his article,...
View ArticleAn President Obama?"If the dictators and terrorists are smiling, it means...
An insightful column in the Israel Insider today by Barry Rubin, "LEBANON TO WEST: WAKE UP FAST!"Anyone who has read my dissertations and rants knows I have the utmost disdain for our western media,...
View ArticleOn Urban Warfare and Collateral Damage
There's many talking points and websites that cite statistics of Iraq and Afghanistan's "collateral damage", constantly used as fodder for anti-free Iraq rhetoric. Their problem? They believe the enemy...
View ArticleUPDATED: Pakistan cuts 2nd "appeasement" dealAfghanistan royally PO'd
Here we go. Round #-who-can-keep-count. AP's Riaz Khan's headline screams "Pakistan, Militants agree to Peace Deal" in the NWFP, including the hotbed of activity in Swat.A senior minister in the...
View ArticleUPDATED:Dangerous liaisons, oil & appeasement policyA vision of our future?
There is a slow groundswell in the West. There is no longer a proud and defiant movement to battle the jihad movements who carried out, assisted, or cheered on the 911 bombers that hit US soil in...
View ArticlePT I: Hezbollah & Clinton era DTSA... 6 Degrees of Separation?
May 22nd turned into an odd cascade of bizarrely related events. Greg Grant over at Tribal Wars drew my attentions to a WSJ article with his post ... Communications Networks and Irregular War....
View ArticlePakistan Update: Musharraf out?Foreign fighters okay...
With the DNC bent on taking over all branches of US government, fulling overdue promises of "tough love" by yanking the US troops out of Iraq, ignoring Lebanon, and Pakistan's peace deals further...
View ArticleMore "plans to bomb Iran" Feinstein/Lugar briefed?
Truly a bizarre article in yesterday's Asia Times. Again the usual headline catches my eye -"Bush 'plans Iran air strike by August'.But this article provides startling details... rather like predicting...
View ArticleWorld praises Iraq progress DNC "stays the course" on "failed policy" rhetoric
Evidently the rest of the world isn't so consumed with Bush hate as they cannot acknowledge from Iraq's fledgling govt has accomplished against all odds.A declaration adopted by 100 delegations at a...
View Article6-06: Thought for the Day
For 40 years I've read and ad nauseum heard how we must respect the culture of this group or that, this country or that. But why is it the same proponents of "respecting other cultures" exhibit no...
View ArticleDNC need for "exit strategy" dooms Hillary run?Not so fast....
“We pledged to support her to the end. Our problem is not being able to determine when the hell the end is.”Rep-NY Charles RangelTypical of the cowardly party that has neither balls, nor patience and...
View ArticleObama's Chicago style diplomacy? Corners Lieberman after critique
Jake Tapper sets the imagination a'whirling. His Political Punch entry today, "Obama Confronts Lieberman On McCain Advocacy, Tone, on Senate Floor", conjures visions reminiscent of 1900s Chicago mob...
View ArticleThe Middle East two-step and the Syria-Israel talks that "aren't"
There is no doubt that the bulk of the Middle East is in the middle of a two-step dance. The region, as a whole, stands on the brink of reforms and - using that massively popular catch word today -...
View ArticleObama Spending and Lessons from Venezuela
Faced with shortages of food, building materials and other staples, President Hugo Chávez is intensifying state control of the Venezuelan economy through a new wave of takeovers of private companies...
View ArticleThe Supremes: The road to todays SCOTUS opinion
I've been reading the 134 page SCOTUS opinion Boumediene vs Bush, and archiving previous related decisions. So I thought I’d post this to complement Curt’s post at Flopping Aces, The Nation will live...
View ArticleBlogging at Flopping Aces now!
As of June 5th, 2008, the illustrious posse at Flopping Aces has invited me to become a regular contribution author there. As most other authors are either post, or current serving military - plus the...
View ArticleWhen cultural worlds collide The duel over dual (religious vs civil) courts
When the Archbishop of Canterbury gave a lecture on civil and religious law… from the religious perspective… at the Royal Courts of Justice on Feb 7th of this year, I was quick (as were the media and...
View ArticleRIP, friend Alia
The world lost one of it's brightest stars when God reclaimed one of his greatest creations in Alia Darrow. She left our world, and it's woes, for paradise on April 21st, 2009... way too early for...
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