Archive for the 'National Security' Category
Bookworm on Oct 08 2012 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Military, National Security, World War II
Tweet One of the most memorable advertising campaigns from WWII was the all-out effort to make sure that people didn’t inadvertently reveal military secrets that they’d gleaned from their work or from contacts with loved ones. The most famous is probably this one, because it’s got that memorable rhyme: The “loose lips” poster wasn’t the [...]
Bookworm on Aug 17 2012 | Filed under: National Security
Tweet Yesterday, I urged you to view a 22 minute video that a 501(c) organization put together to show how severely the publicity-hungry Obama administration has damaged America’s national security and the risks to which that same administration has exposed its special ops forces and human intelligence assets, both at home and abroad. The Democrats [...]
Bookworm on Aug 15 2012 | Filed under: Military, National Security
Tweet People in the intelligence community — as well as intelligent people — have long been upset that, in the current iteration of the war against terrorists and terrorist nations, it is our own White House that is afflicted with the loose lips that can sink ships. A group of intelligence community specialists and SEALS [...]
Bookworm on Jul 19 2012 | Filed under: National Security
Tweet We all know the TSA. Some of its employees are decent, hard-working folks who treat us with respect and try hard. Some of them are lazy. Some dishonest. Some vulgar. Some voyeurs. The institution’s policies are allegedly meant to make us safe, but many of us wonder how useful an organization is when it [...]
Bookworm on Mar 20 2012 | Filed under: Barack Obama, National Security
Tweet The conservative blogosphere has been upset since Friday, when Obama, as part of a Friday night document dump, issued an executive order entitled “National Defense Resources Preparedness” (“NDRP”). Ed Morrissey, for one, was unimpressed: This EO simply updates another EO (12919) that had been in place since June 1994, and amended several times since. [...]
Bookworm on Oct 26 2011 | Filed under: National Security
Tweet My earlier post was about the fact that the US spends and spends and spends, and saves very little. We definitely need to stop spending, but we need to be smart when we do it. Because our current administration tilts Left, it is reluctant to slow the hemorrhage but, to the extent it will [...]
Danny Lemieux on May 23 2011 | Filed under: America, Environmentalism, National Security, Uncategorized
Tweet Cheap fuel is an important key to peace, human welfare and prosperity. We have the key. The world can’t do without fuel and the scramble for world fuel resources lies at the root of most of our current geopolitical problems. The high price of fuel affects the environment (e.g., 3rd world deforestation) and the [...]
Bookworm on May 03 2011 | Filed under: Barack Obama, National Security
Tweet The narrative about a maddened Osama racing out firing an AK47 is starting to unravel. The truth, one that the Obama White House didn’t want the base to hear, is that the Navy SEALS had orders: kill Osama. The question is why kill him? Why not capture him and get information out of him? [...]
Bookworm on Mar 22 2011 | Filed under: Bureaucracy, Government, Military, National Security
Tweet I am cheap. Very cheap. That means that I’m a bargain hunter. I like used books and cheap clothes. I prefer to buy American but, if my pocketbook tells me that America isn’t a good deal, I’ll usually follow my pocketbook. Usually, but not always. If buying something from another country would put me [...]
Bookworm on Dec 09 2010 | Filed under: National Security
Tweet Zombie believes that the Berkeley City Council, with its unerring instinct for getting to the heart of the matter, and then going in the wrong direction, is on to something with its decision to laud Bradley Manning as a great American hero. After all, while Assange gets the fame, it was Manning who got [...]
Bookworm on Dec 06 2010 | Filed under: National Security
Tweet I have been, I suppose, almost remarkably silent about the whole wikileaks fiasco. The data drop is of such enormous proportions, it’s actually difficult for me to process all the implications. I have, however, got a laundry list in mind of some conclusions to be drawn and some of the things it means, which [...]
Bookworm on Nov 29 2010 | Filed under: Media matters, National Security
Tweet I haven’t had time (nor do I have the will) to pay close attention to the myriad revelations in the Wikileaks documents. My overall sense, though, is that, fact-wise, there is nothing new here — or, at least, nothing new to those of us paying attention. All of us at Bookworm Room have known [...]
Bookworm on Nov 18 2010 | Filed under: Muslim violence, National Security
Tweet Ace asks a question that needs to be asked, which is whether conservatives are overreacting to the TSA’s new search techniques (naked scans and intimate searches): This has been bothering me. On one hand I’m inclined to just not like invasive pat-downs and naked body scans. On the other hand, I can’t help but [...]
Bookworm on Nov 15 2010 | Filed under: Muslim violence, National Security
Tweet Sometimes, a reader leaves a comment that is too good not to elevate to post status. This time, it was Spartacus, writing in response to my question about real ways (not stupid, embarrassing, intrusive ways) to improve airport security: *** A childhood friend of mine got married in the Tel Aviv area in 2002. [...]
Bookworm on Nov 14 2010 | Filed under: National Security
Tweet In a previous post today, in which I asked how to make airline security actually work, the clear winner was profiling, a la the Israeli system (along with some other solid suggestions, such as privatization). But as long as the feds control airline security, that’s not going to happen. Witness what’s going on in [...]
Bookworm on Nov 14 2010 | Filed under: Muslim violence, National Security
Tweet Over at RedState, there is a post that succinctly sums up the three choices currently facing people who plan to travel to a faraway destination: Door #1: Have nude pictures of yourself beamed to some video monitor to be viewed by a total stranger where it may or may not be stored; or, Door [...]
Bookworm on Dec 27 2009 | Filed under: Muslim violence, National Security
Tweet By now, you’ve all heard that Janet Napolitano, the head of Obama’s Department of Homeland Security, is going around saying that the system worked perfectly when a guy on the US no-fly list, who had been turned in by his own father, boarded a plane and detonated a bomb, only to be foiled by [...]
Bookworm on Oct 13 2009 | Filed under: National Security
Tweet William Kristol, Liz Cheney (Dick Cheney’s daughter), Debra Burlingame, Charles F. “Chic” Burlingame III’s sister (his plane was hijacked into the Pentagon on 9/11) have started Keep America Safe, an organization specifically aimed at tracking national security issues. The mission statement is simple, and should resonate with every American who believes in American exceptionalism, [...]
