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 →
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 →
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 →
…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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
They may be old, but there’s life (and fight) in them yet.
Continue reading →…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 →
British poet Philip Larkin (1922-1985) was a complicated man, like many poets. But unlike most of them these days, he was politically of the right, at least in some respects. Larkin wrote in forms, which is inherently conservative. But his … Continue reading →
I’ve been wondering about the history of the restriction of weapons on military bases to MPs. Googling leads to the notion that it was a result of an order by President Clinton in 1993 (see also this). But that didn’t … Continue reading →
They don’t wait for facts to be known, because facts might ruin the narrative. So the news post-Navy Yard massacre has been filled with cries to ban semiautomatic rifles such as the AR-15, initially reported as having been the weapon … Continue reading →