Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
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
Continue readingPeople 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
Continue readingWe 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
Continue readingThe 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
Continue readingMy 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
Continue readingCheap 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
Continue readingThe 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
Continue readingI 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
Continue readingZombie 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
Continue readingI 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
Continue readingI 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
Continue readingAce 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,
Continue readingSometimes, 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
Continue readingIn 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
Continue readingOver 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
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