http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111904140604576495932704234052.html A CASE STUDY IN STUPID IS AS STUPID DOES The aircraft was large, modern and considered among the world’s safest. But that night it was flying straight into a huge thunderstorm. Turbulence was extreme, and airspeed indicators may not have been functioning properly. Worse, the pilots were incompetent. As the plane threatened to stall […]
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/08/london-riot-tottenham-arrests_n_920806.html?icid=maing-grid10%7Chtmlws-main-bb%7Cdl1%7Csec1_lnk2%7C84779 LONDON (AP) — A wave of violence and looting raged across London and spread to three other major British cities on Tuesday, as authorities struggled to contain the country’s worst unrest since race riots set the capital ablaze in the 1980s. In London, groups of young people rampaged for a third straight night, setting […]
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/273961/our-dance-europe-stanley-kurtz OH THE BITTER IRONY…READ THIS COMMENT POSTED BY RICHARD L.A.SCAHEFER: “Kurtz highlights the contrast between the U.S. and Western Europe on economic and related ideological matters. Indeed, some note that Europe is trying to turn away from its own position at the time when the U.S. had been inclined to move towards the European […]
Those Colossal, Recklessly Irresponsible $2 Trillion Errors By Andrew C. McCarthy http://www.nationalreview.com/blogs/print/273976 It’s laugh-out-loud funny to hear the Obama administration’s all out assault on S&P’s math skills. According to the administration, if the downgrade in America’s credit rating is not the fault of the Tea Party (apparently for demanding the very spending cuts the political class’s […]
http://letthemfight.blogspot.com/ The Taliban and the “Innocent Civilians” Continue to Express Their Gratitude for COIN in Afghanistan! Monday morning quarterbacking combat from the operational vantage point continues to be the preferred parlor game for those without prior service or specific experience in combat operations – anywhere, or anytime. There have been many stories and even more […]
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=45373 On Deck: Why I May Run for President by John R. Bolton WISHFUL THINKING FOR HIM AND US….A GREAT MAN BUT HIS CHANCES ARE AS THEY SAY “SLIM TO NONE” FOR WINNING….HE HAS NEVER GOVERNED, NEVER MANAGED A BUDGET….EVEN THOUGH NATIONAL SECURITY IS HIS GREAT STRENGTH….RSK Adam Smith wrote in The Wealth of Nations​ […]
The Stunning Demonization of Fiscal Responsibility By Frank Salvato The New Media Journal. Just when you thought the Progressive Movement could be more deeply invested in denial, now comes the absurd notion that somehow, the TEA Party Movement, whose pinnacle tenet is fiscal responsibility; which has devoutly insisted that the federal government cease the practice […]
“It tanked while he talked.” More from President Downgrade Posted By Roger Kimball URL to article: http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerkimball/2011/08/08/it-tanked-while-he-talked-more-from-president-downgrade/ So, Barack Obama took to the airwaves again to reassure the American people and, not least, the world’s investors that the United States (as the AP reports [1] it) “always is and has been a triple-A country.” No, […]
http://www.dianawest.net/Home/tabid/36/EntryId/1869/The-Petraeus-in-the-Room.aspx The Afghanistan blame game begins with Time magazine putting it out there, albeit gently: The influx of troops, requested by General Stanley McChrystal, approved by President Barack Obama and overseen by General David Petraeus, brought stability to some areas in the south. And that is part of the narrative Petraeus, who has given up […]
http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.10104/pub_detail.asp Come, you spirits, that tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me, and fill me from the crown to the toe topful of direst cruelty. (Macbeth, Act 1, Scene 5) Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, a woman scorned, first by her husband former President Bill, who favored swishier skirts and less nagging, and then by the […]
