Fighters for Egypt
What do you do with Egypt, a former ally that is rapidly turning into an Islamist hell-hole and is talking seriously of repudiating its peace treaty with Israel? Send them state of the art fighter...
View ArticleYikes!
I have no problem with killing foreign terrorists using drones, but I’m profoundly uncomfortable with the idea of Homeland Security building a fleet of drones for domestic surveillance. Remember when...
View ArticlePaul gets an answer, sort of
Last week, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KT) staged a 13-hour filibuster to try to extract from the Obama administration an answer to a very simple question: Under what circumstances does the president have the...
View Article“You can’t go”
Another key revelation from the Benghazi hearings: The deputy of slain U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens has told congressional investigators that a team of Special Forces prepared to fly from...
View ArticleObama’s war on religion continues
The Obama administration’s little-recognized war on religion is continuing, and once again the battlefield is the area in which the president has the greatest influence: the military. During the last...
View ArticleWorst. Idea. Ever.
The Obama administration wants to give technical information on our missile defense to the Russians?! This isn’t stupid. Stupid doesn’t begin to cover it. Treason is more apt. The left has always...
View ArticleBenghazi suspects identified, but no action
After the 9/11 Benghazi attack, President Obama promised justice would be done: “We will not waver in our commitment to see that justice is done for this terrible act,” President Barack Obama said....
View ArticleMission accomplished
President Obama wants to declare victory in the war on terror: I intend to engage Congress about the existing Authorization to Use Military Force, or AUMF, to determine how we can continue to fight...
View ArticleScapegoating CIA, take two
When the sub-scandal over the Obama administration’s bogus Benghazi talking points erupted, the White House initially attempted to scapegoat the CIA, saying that the talking points were prepared by the...
View ArticleStingers for Al Qaeda?
One persistent question regarding the Benghazi debacle is what Ambassador Chris Stevens was doing in Benghazi in the first place. Now whistleblowers have stepped forward to answer the question, and...
View ArticleObama threatens to veto religious freedom
After repeated attacks on the rights of members of the armed forces to practice their religion, a corrective is necessary. The House’s defense bill for 2014 includes a provision that would protect...
View ArticleUnlawful command influence
Barack Obama just isn’t a very good lawyer at all, is he? Two defendants in military sexual assault cases cannot be punitively discharged, if found guilty, because of “unlawful command influence”...
View ArticleIraq wants us back
AP reports: A resurgence of violence and a renewed threat from al-Qaida have recently revived flagging U.S. interest in Iraq, officials said Friday as Baghdad asked for new help to fight extremists...
View ArticleMockery looking likely
Lord help us: A U.S. official briefed on the military options being considered by President Obama told the Los Angeles Times that the White House is seeking a strike on Syria “just muscular enough not...
View ArticleAnti-war demagogues exposed as utterly unprincipled
Remember in 2003, when President Bush took us to war “unilaterally”, with nothing more than a coalition of 40 nations, Congressional approval, and the support of 75% of the American people? Today our...
View ArticleThe unbelievably small president
For the record, I generally tend to support military action against our enemies abroad, provided that it is feasible and serves our interests to do so. But before we can say whether the action is...
View ArticleBenghazi, a year later
A year after the Benghazi debacle, the Guardian looks at how the official government story is a bunch of nonsense. But, this is nothing new; on September 13, 2012, it was already clear that the...
View ArticleSmart diplomacy
After the British House of Commons refused to support President Obama’s ill-considered action in Syria, the US military is shutting out the British from US military planning. I guess these fools really...
View ArticleCriminal incompetence
Fox News reports: Highly sensitive U.S. military equipment stored in Libya was stolen over the summer by groups likely aligned and working with terrorist organizations, State Department sources told...
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