http://www.forbes.com/sites/ralphbenko/2012/11/12/the-end-of-the-karl-rove-death-grip-signals-a-reagan-renaissance/ Liberals do not grasp the distinction between Ronald Reagan and (either) George Bush. This blind spot creates a massive confusion and hazard to their ambitions. Obama defeated neither the Reagan Narrative nor Team Reagan. Team Bush appropriated, and then marginalized, both. Obama beat Team Bush, not Team Reagan. The implications are huge. There was […]
He is the very model of a major U.S. General
With information vegetable, animal, and mineral
He know the royals of England, and can quote fights historical
From Marathon to Waterloo, in order categorical
He’s very well acquainted, too, with matters mathematical
And understands equations, both the simple and quadratical
On issues of religion he is really quite Canonical
With Predilections for the issues quite Koranical
For his military knowledge, though he’s plucky and adventury
Has only been around for the beginning of the century
In fact, he knows what is meant by “mamelon” and “ravelin”
And he can tell at sight a Mauser rifle from a javelin
When such affairs as sorties and surprises he’s more wary at
But he knows precisely what is meant by “commissariat”
He knows what progress has been made in modern gunnery
And he knows more of tactics than a novice in a nunnery
He has a smattering of elemental strategy and surge,
But couldn’t fight that elemental urge
They say in distant ports there’s nothing like a Broad, Well
That certain tumescence he couldn’t quell
But he is the very model of a patriotic general
He is a soldier at heart and will tell all
On Hillary’s sword he will not fall
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DOJ protocol let FBI remain silent on Petraeus
Roll Call
Monday, November 12, 2012
News
DOJ protocol let FBI remain silent on Petraeus
Lawmakers from both parties expressed frustration Monday that the FBI did not inform them that it was conducting an investigation that included former CIA Director David Petraeus. But it’s not at all clear that the agency violated protocol. Read more…
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2nd-term curse: Political irrelevance and scandals
Yahoo News
Monday, November 12, 2012
Commentary
2nd-term curse: Political irrelevance and scandals
The re-elected president should be worrying about the Second-Term Curse. Second presidential terms have almost always been disappointing and sad with thwarted ambitions, scandal and a slow slide towards political irrelevance. Read more…
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Petraeus’ other love affair was with media
CNN
Monday, November 12, 2012
News
David Petraeus had another love affair long before the one that cost him his job running the CIA. It was with the press. The retired general’s skillful courtship of journalists brought him a career’s worth of favorable headlines. Read more…
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FBI kept Petraeus probe private until election over
McClatchy Newspapers
Monday, November 12, 2012
News
FBI Director Robert Mueller’s top aide was told former CIA chief David Petraeus was having an extramarital affair that might have compromised national security a week before the Nov. 6 elections, a congressional official said Monday. Read more…
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http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/nov/12/obamas-second-term-bowing-begins/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS The head of the Palestinian Authority verbally smacked down the president of the United States, and the White House responded with a conciliatory note. Welcome to President Obama’s more flexible second term. Shortly after his Nov. 6 victory, Mr. Obama telephoned Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas to discuss the Palestinians’ drive for U.N. recognition […]
http://frontpagemag.com/2012/matthew-vadum/was-petraeus-sacrificed-for-obama/print/ As the scandal regarding the Obama administration’s deadly bungling in Benghazi, Libya, begins to heat up, suddenly CIA director David Petraeus is out, felled by his own sex scandal. Complicating matters further, Ronald Kessler reports at Newsmax that “Senior FBI officials suppressed disclosure of the highly sensitive case, apparently to avoid embarrassment to Obama […]
http://frontpagemag.com/2012/arnold-ahlert/pushing-back-against-stealth-jihad-charter-schools/ Americans may not realize it yet, but Turkey’s regression from a secular democracy into an Islamic state may be based on an educational movement that has also taken root in America. Imam Fethullah Gülen and his Gülen Movement (GM) have had enormous influence in setting the increasingly Islamist agenda of Turkey’s ruling Justice and […]
http://frontpagemag.com/2012/dgreenfield/a-conservative-sellout-is-not-the-solution/print/ Many of you reading this probably felt a kick in the gut when the election results came in. Filled with optimism by Republican pollsters predicting a landslide victory, the outcome came as an even bigger shock. Losing is never fun or easy and can lead to a temporary state of shell shock in which […]
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323894704578114591174453074.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEADTop Sometimes the revolution politicians seek isn’t the one they get. Consider the irony—and the opportunity—in Monday’s report that the U.S. is likely to surpass Saudi Arabia as the world’s largest oil producer as early as 2020. In its annual world energy outlook, the Paris-based International Energy Agency (IEA) says the global energy map “is […]
http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/detail/retaliate-yet-again?f=must_reads For the most part Israel’s military responses can be summed up with one word; “Restraint.: I understand the reasoning, from politics to world view, I get it, I don’t always agree, but I do understand. But at what point does Israel stop worrying about world view, which we all know will always be against […]
http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/ On the corner of the street a giant rat squats over the sidewalk, its shadow blocking the cold winter sun, while at its feet, hired men, some with heavy accents, hand out leaflets and chant, “Who are we, What do we want” in the familiar hymn of the hired union protester, not a member […]
