Of Goldwater and of Black Gold in the Water
Forty-nine years ago, Barry Goldwater had some things to tell
conservatives that are still relevant today. Please allow a
digression, though, before we see what the late, great senator
from Arizona had to say.
This past Tuesday afternoon, the Drudge Report posted as
its lead, top-of-page item the [...]
U.S. to issue more flexible oil drilling moratorium
The U.S. government will revise its restrictions on offshore drilling, which could allow some deepwater oil projects to go forward after a court threw out the Obama administration’s blanket drilling ban, a senior official said on Wednesday.
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An Ineffective Thug
It was Michael Barone who first used the phrase “gangster government” to refer to the Obama administration’s lawlessness. Today he expands on that thought, describing the administration’s actions in the Gulf as “ineffective thuggery.”
Thuggery is unattractive. Ineffective thuggery even more so. Which may be one reason so many Americans have been reacting negatively to [...]
If less is less, that’s still an improvement
The Obama administration appears to be facing up to reality in the Middle East:
With the Palestinians refusing to return to the negotiations, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu not calling for a complete settlement freeze and the Arab world declining to make any gestures to Israel, the current sense in Jerusalem is that the U.S. is scaling [...]
