http://www.nationalreview.com/article/365178/war-conservative-minorities-john-fund Racist and sexist attacks on women and minorities are acceptable, if the targets are conservative. Members of both political parties use sharp elbows to rough up and discredit the opposition, but the media are supposed to call “foul” on the worst abuses. But when the media are ideologically opposed to conservatives — especially minority […]
http://www.nationalreview.com/node/365103/print The perennial gun-control debate in America did not begin here. The same arguments for and against were made in the 1920s in the chaos of Germany’s Weimar Republic, which opted for gun registration. Law-abiding persons complied with the law, but the Communists and Nazis committing acts of political violence did not. In 1931, Weimar […]
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/365151/dissent-highest-form-tax-bracket-mark-steyn In Ian Fleming’s Goldfinger, the eponymous Auric Goldfinger observes: Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times, it’s enemy action. That may be overly generous. A couple of weeks back, cancer patient Bill Elliot, in a defiant appearance on Fox News, discussed the cancelation of his insurance and what he intended to do about […]
http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/ Let me begin by saying that the deal the U.S. struck with Iran on November 24 is so criminally stupid that mobs with torches and pitchforks should be surrounding the White House and Department of State demanding that the President and Secretary of State resign. How many times does the United States have to […]
http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/detail/charting-our-destinies-from-fdr-to-obama?f=puball In “What’s to Like About JFK?” I cited humorist Art Buchwald’s maudlin poem about the assassination of John F. Kennedy in Dallas on November 22nd, 1963, as an example of how captivated Americans were by JFK. Two lines from the second stanza stuck in my mind: We weep for our children and their children […]
http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304854804579232213683736826?mod=Opinion_newsreel_1 Great news: The White House says that Healthcare.gov and the 36 federally run insurance exchanges are finally good to go. The only thing missing from Sunday’s relentlessly upbeat progress report was President Obama in front of a “Mission Accomplished” banner. Sunday’s eight-page report was intended to meet Mr. Obama’s deadline for fixing the site […]
http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304747004579227911731774226 Luckily, previous ‘Free Flow of Information’ bills went nowhere. But a new one is picking up steam. Why? Anyone looking for proof that bad policy begets more bad policy need look no further than the all-too-aptly-named Free Flow of Information Act of 2013. The bill may be taken up on the Senate floor as […]
http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/59575 It was President Carter in 1979 who naively misunderstood the internal politics of Iran and let the Shah, Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, be overthrown by Islamists. Carter was overjoyed to let the Ayatollah Khomeini return from his exile in France to take over the Iranian state. Astonishingly as we look back now at his […]
http://www.americanthinker.com/printpage/?url=http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/../2013/11/desperate_democrats_bow_to_iran.html Remember the crowd at the Democrat convention booing Jerusalem? Obama is lifting sanctions on Iran for them. He wants to give Democrats a happy feeling over their morning cup of coffee, instead of another stomachache reading about those 5 million people who have lost their health care and will be voting Republican in 2014. With the fracking revolution […]
Ghosts of East Asiahttp:yeoldecrabb.com There is an eerie feeling of déjà vu about the drama in the East China Sea just now. Again an authoritarian government with a rapidly expanding politicized military is making more and more aggressive noises, in large part in pursuit of its voracious appetite for energy. The U.S., hegemonic […]
