A song for Memorial Day
I’ve posted this song before, but I think it bears repeating, especially on Memorial Day weekend. It’s Tim McGraw’s extraordinarily moving song “If You’re Reading This:”
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Back when the left ♥ed the VA health care system
There was a time, and not so very long ago, when the left sang the praises of the VA health care system. Take Paul Krugman, economist extraordinaire, back in 2006: I know about a health care system that has been … Continue reading →
Hillary Clinton’s biggest accomplishment…
…is having been born with two X chromosomes. I didn’t say it—they did: Note that the video was made at George Washington University. Although GW isn’t exactly Harvard, it’s a very respectable university and it’s located in Washington DC, where … Continue reading →
Thoughts on the VA scandal
Here are the results of a poll on who it is that Americans blame for the VA scandal: Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki and the VA (33 percent) receive more blame than either local VA hospitals (28 percent) or President … Continue reading →
The VA hospital scandal spreads
I haven’t yet written a big post on the mess at the VA hospital system, and this won’t be that post. But the news on the VA is one of those outrages that even the left can’t quite coverup, it … Continue reading →
Was Snowden’s action a foreign operation?
I’m not usually a conspiracist, but I vote “yes” on this one by Edward Jay Epstein: Edward Snowden’s massive misappropriations of classified documents from the inner sanctum of U.S. intelligence is mainly presented by the media as a whistleblowing story. … Continue reading →
While Europe Sleeps*…
…Putin doesn’t. Europe has long relied on the US to save it. But courtesy one Barack Obama, America is now trying to be more like Europe. [*NOTE: The title of this post is a twist on a combination of the … Continue reading →
STRENGTH IS WEAKNESS, WEAKNESS IS STRENGTH
Scott Johnson writes the following about Obama’s recent statement “Russia is a regional power that is threatening some of its immediate neighbors, not out of strength, but out of weakness”: You have to wonder just how weak Russia is, in … Continue reading →
Slashing defense: tying his successors’ hands
This exactly coincides with my own opinion about the main motive behind Obama’s desire to drastically slash the military: Limiting the power his successors can wield is, for Obama, not just an unalloyed good idea but an imperative. Call it … Continue reading →
Hagel starts doing what he was hired for
Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel is set to announce the administration’s intent to make the biggest cuts in decades to the US military, returning it to its smallest size since 1940. I get tired of writing “this is no surprise.” … Continue reading →
Don’t mess with WWII vets
They may be old, but there’s life (and fight) in them yet.
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…one to go: In a stealthy seaside assault in Somalia and in a raid in Libya’s capital, U.S. military forces on Saturday struck out against Islamic extremists who have carried out terrorist attacks in East Africa, snatching a man allegedly … Continue reading →