There’s been a good amount of reaction to the blog post put up by Paul Krugman at the NY Times today. There’s been less reaction to the story that’s linked below Krugman’s on memorandum as I write: A group of Muslim protesters set fire to an American flag outside the US embassy in London during …
Another conficting account from Osama bin Ladin SEAL raid
From the Associated Press today: “The decision to launch on that particular moonless night in May came largely because too many American officials had been briefed on the plan. U.S. officials feared if it leaked to the press, bin Laden would disappear for another decade.” From President Obama’s appearance on 60 Minutes on Sunday, May …
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Michael Mukasey on the “Christmas Day bomber”
Michael Mukasey has a good article today in the Washington Post on the Obama administration’s handling of the “Christmas Day bomber”, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, debunking many of the disingenuous talking points coming from the administration.. Contrary to what the White House homeland security adviser and the attorney general have suggested, if not said outright, not …
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Colin Powell endorses Obama
Colin Powell has for a long time struck us as a mushy moderate, David Gergen type, and not much of a deep thinker on most issues, way too concerned about what the “world community” (i.e. pacifist, welfare statist Europe) thinks, and his comments today did nothing to change that assessment. We won’t dwell on his …
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Lincoln, FDR, JFK, Clinton, McCain-Palin: neocon holy warriors all?
Here is a great video in rebuttal to one of the many mischaracterizations of Sarah Palin that have gained traction in the DeMSM effort to discredit her. According to the narrative from the left, Lincoln, FDR, JFK, and Bill Clinton must all be extremist neocon theocrats akin to the Taliban. The repeated attempts by the …
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Obama-Biden on 60 Minutes
Barack Obama and Joe Biden appeared together on CBS’ 60 Minutes Sunday evening. Steve Kroft was as tough yet objective as you’d expect from CBS News: “Does the fact that he [McCain] chose as his vice president someone what has less experience than you take that weapon out of his arsenal?” Kroft asked. Whether Palin …
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Joe Biden – Chickenhawk Warmonger…
… merely applying the standard the left applies to Vice President Cheney. The AP reports on Joe Biden’s evasion of the draft during the Vietnam war: Democratic vice presidential nominee Joe Biden received five student draft deferments during the Vietnam War, the same number of deferments received by Vice President Dick Cheney, and later was …
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Democratic Cowboy Chickenhawk War-mongers
Good point from Ralph Peters: AM I the only one who’s noticed the silence? Mere months ago, left-wing bloggers and demonstrators were wailing Support our troops, bring them home! seven days a week. Now their presidential candidate has announced that he won’t bring all those troops home, but will simply transfer combat forces from Iraq …
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Judgment: Obama, Democrats were completely wrong on the surge in Iraq
Via The Corner at NRO, Vets for Freedom announces a new ad: (Washington, DC) “” This morning, Vets for Freedom released its second television advertisement as part of the national “Four Months, For Victory” media and grassroots campaign. The ad””entitled “Some in Washington”””highlights the success of the Surge, and exposes detractors of the policy””namely Senators …
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Barack Obama embraces President Bush’s Iraq policy
How exactly is this any different from President Bush’s position? – It’s very hard to anticipate what it’s going to be like six months from now. We saw how rapidly things have changed over the last six months, because of not only the extraordinary work of our armed forces, but also the shift in attitudes …
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The Washington Post finally notices “The Iraqi Upturn”
An editorial from the Washington Post today: The Iraqi Upturn Don’t look now, but the U.S.-backed government and army may be winning the war THERE’S BEEN a relative lull in news coverage and debate about Iraq in recent weeks — which is odd, because May could turn out to have been one of the most …
Democrats OUTRAGED! by President’s anti-appeasement comments
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It’s quite funny to watch the Democrats sputtering in phony outrage over the president’s comments to the Israeli Knesset about the dangers of trying to appease our jihadist enemies. There are good and decent people who cannot fathom the darkness in these men and try to explain their words away. This is natural. But it …
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