Green Zone Bombs
In Does Hollywood Make You Stupid? I noted, among other things, the imminent release of Green Zone, the latest in Hollywood’s long string of anti-Iraq-war movies. Green Zone, starring Matt Damon and directed by Paul Greengrass, tries to rewrite the history of the war, claiming that the CIA, the Bush administration and the Army [...]
Never Retreat, Never Surrender
Majority Leader Harry “Pinky” Reid (D-Caesar’s Palace, 70%) finally snared Sen. Ben Nelson (D-NE, 75%), getting the 60 votes needed to close debate on ObamaCare and (obviously) pass it. We haven’t lost entirely yet, though it’s now very likely that this dreadful government seizure will become law. Still, there are a few hurdles [...]
The 35-year war on the CIA
Not long after 9/11, I told a friend that at least now the CIA would be rebuilt and given the means and the backing needed to prevent attacks like this. My faith in this prediction seemed justified when I attended a party in mid-2002. A lefty was lamenting that all the reforms brought [...]
Gen. Jones Scoffs at Afghanistan "Surge" - Just Like Failed Iraq "Surge!"
I had forgotten this, but President Barack H. Obama’s National Security Advisor, former Marine Corps Gen. Jim Jones, in Fall, 2007, called for an early abandonment of Gen. David Petraeus’ counterinsurgency (COIN) strategy in Iraq — just before it began to show significant progress that led, less than a year later, to a widely acknowledged [...]
Blame it on Rio, not Obama
In a post from earlier this evening, John shows how various leftists have exaggerated the extent to which conservatives took pleasure from the fact that Chicago was not selected to host the 2016 Olympics. As John notes, the left is relying on a small number of examples.
Nonetheless, it’s unfortunate that there are any [...]
A Commonsense Health Reform Plan
First, let’s simply list what we need; then we can propose the smallest possible reform that delivers those needs. As a general rule, we should always try the easy, inexpensive, less intrusive reforms before trying any authoritarian, patronizing, socialistic, and irreversible scheme. (Would that the Democrats in Congress believed this… or even the [...]
