My Thoughts on Ft. Hood and Two-Gun Hasan

It is disheartening to read all the various apologia and hand-wringing conjecture going on about what REALLY caused (Maj) Hasan to go all Al Qaeda at Ft. Hood. Some have even taken to invoking the Klebold Defense, something to the effect that he was bullied because he was a Muslim, he was a social outcast, [...]

A Little Perspective Is Called For, I Think.

I’ve seen several lists of Obama’s failures that include his “betrayal” of Poland over the whole missile defense thing.  Here’s the deal:  It wasn’t him, and it wasn’t a betrayal.
What happened was that Obama accepted the recommendation of his Secretary of Defense to adopt a different method of strategic missile defense based around Aegis guided [...]

“A Republic, if you can keep it.”

Well, I sorta “missed” the Fourth of July this year.  It just doesn’t have the same verve when you are living in a foreign country.  Folks here in Germany do New Years better than the Chinese by far, but the Fourth of July just doesn’t seem to be on their radar for some reason.  So, [...]

Global Warming and The Downing Street Memo

In the run up to the second Iraq war, there came to light a document which came to be know as the “Downing Street Memo.”  The crux of this document is that it reflected the author’s concerns that the culture in the White House at the time was such that there was only one right [...]

When the government fears the people…

You know, as I’ve watched and read and listened to all the various outrage, pontification, justification and sometimes even downplaying of the increasingly fervent protests in Iran, vs. the regime’s increasingly violent tactics in suppressing them, I bemusedly have begun to wonder.  Sort of a compare and contrast kind of thing.
I look at the protestors [...]

The Domino Theory and Iran

In betwixt and between all the impassioned outcrys both from within and without Iran regarding their most recent “election,” I find that all the intensity and furor suddenly begs the question:
Why all of a sudden do we see such a fervor from the voting public in Iran?
More importantly, why are we HEARING about it, from [...]

Obama would never take away our guns, would he?!

Now why would anyone think THAT?!
Back Door CIFTA Threatens Firearm Freedom
Too much to quote, so go read the whole thing. 
Libs are crazy, but they ain’t stupid.  They know that you don’t have to ban guns, if you can make it too difficult to lawfully own one.  This sounds very familiar.  California is already about there.  This [...]

DHS Report on Right-Wing Extremists Makes Stars & Stripes

There’s a front-page report on the DHS report highlighting the dangers of “right-wing extremists” in today’s Stars & Stripes,  yet strangely I can find nothing about it on their web site.  I wonder if that was an editorial decision to bury the story?  You can’t unprint newspapers, but you can easily delete a link.
There was some [...]

Pirates Invoke Rapist Rhetoric

“From now on, if we capture foreign ships and their respective countries try to attack us, we will kill them,” Habeb said. “Now they became our number one enemy,” he said of U.S. forces.
That’s right.  the bullies hate it when you fight back.  Makes their job so much harder.  So much less “fun.”  Can’t have [...]

Obama’s “Big Win” in Pirate Crisis

Apparently, our CINC’s “hand’s off” approach, and refusal to micro-manage is a “big win.”  I couldn’t resist a sound fisking of this Obama PR Release by “reporter” Jennifer Loven.  Yes, I will make the obvious pun that she sure is “Loven” Pres. Obama. 

Analysis: Obama scores win on pirate crisis
His administration passes its first critical national [...]