Tag Archive 'Dictatorships'

Obama’s faux-recess appointments are illegal and will be sold to the public as virtuous, but we can still be of good cheer

on Jan 06 2012 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Constitution

You’re not imagining it.  I haven’t had a dang thing to say about Barack Obama’s brazen constitutional violation, which was also an indirect repudiation of the 2010 mid-term elections.  His decision unilaterally to declare the Senate on a “recess” and then to make “recess” appointments has been analyzed to death and I agree with everyone:  [...]

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The facts belie the hyperbole

on Dec 05 2008 | Filed under: Africa

While Bush haters rant on about conspiracy theories in which people who dared to cross him vanished forever (despite a complete lack of any evidence, direct or inferential), we continue to get real world examples of horrible dictatorships in which daring to criticize the government results in punishment or even death — with the most [...]

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Thumbing our noses at tyrants

on Feb 28 2008 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Cuba

One of the things that puts the Kumbi-ya crowd into an absolute frenzy is President Bush’s refusal to deal directly with murderous dictators. Forgetting the example set by Neville “Peace in Our Time” Chamberlain, this crowd is certain that, if they can just wrest a smile from someone evil, they’ll be halfway to ending all [...]

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