Fast and Furious: The Other Shoe Drops (update)
Remember early on when the controversial and failed ATF/DoJ operation “Fast and Furious” came to light where the ATF bought guns and allowed them to be smuggled into Mexico, there was conjecture this...
View ArticleObama Administration’s Climate Change Policy: Barter Away Your...
Todd Stern, the Obama administration’s “Special Envoy for Climate Change” held a quick press conference in Durban, South Africa where a UN conference on climate change is being held. He first made it a...
View ArticleEzra Klein: A larger welfare state means a smaller deficit, or something
Honestly, that’s his premise. You can read it here. He bases his argument mostly in health care costs. Obviously where he tries to go with it is toward selling a single payer system. But he uses...
View ArticleDoJ rejects South Carolina Voter ID law
With a tight election in the offing, it comes as no surprise to me that the DoJ has decided to begin getting interested in voter ID laws in certain swing states where it can have an effect. South...
View ArticleObama’s New Defense Strategy: Prescient or Problematic?
Over the years I have seen more “new” defense strategies than one can shake a stick at. And I’ve noticed one thing about all of them: for the most part they’ve been uniformly wrong. We have mostly had...
View ArticleOut of control spending? You’re kidding!
Obviously what I’m about to list isn’t going to make or break us as a nation in terms of monetary outlay. Each taken individually is but a drop in the sea of $16 trillion dollar debt we now float in....
View ArticleSequestration and DoD – A common sense solution to a possible national...
The DoD is presently working through a half trillion dollars in budget cuts mandated by Barack Obama which is going to see a much weaker military despite what any of the madly spinning politicians...
View ArticleObama’s $2 billion to Brazil ends up helping send oil to China
Remember this? The U.S. is going to lend billions of dollars to Brazil’s state-owned oil company, Petrobras, to finance exploration of the huge offshore discovery in Brazil’s Tupi oil field in the...
View ArticleSalon v McKeon: When Is A Investigative Reporter Not An Investigative Reporter?
When most people think of an investigative reporter, they think of someone who pursues a story in depth, gathers all the facts and then, using those facts, connects the dots to a then fairly obvious...
View ArticleTwo more scientists change sides in the AGW debate
In fact, it seems as if it isn’t really much of a debate anymore. First, let me be clear, the debate among scientists isn’t whether CO2 is a greenhouse gas or whether, even, it can cause warming, but...
View ArticleCPAC: A discussion with Conservative bloggers
What an interesting day at the CPAC bloggers lounge. Why? Well, WiFi sucked (again), so it wasn’t that. And I heard a variety of speeches which kept me interested for about 5 minutes before I wanted to...
View ArticleFraudulent Attack On Heartland Institute Exposes Alarmist Desperation
Sometimes it is interesting to let a story play out for a couple of day to see what’s what. A couple of days ago I noticed a story on a blog which supports the Goresqe AGW nonsense with a story...
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Senate Democrats Reject Keystone XL Pipeline Again At Obama’s Behest
Remember the official line from the White House when Obama rejected the pipeline in January? Obama rejected a cross-border permit for the Keystone pipeline in January. He said the decision was not...
View ArticleThe ticking sequestration time bomb
Last week, Bob Stevens, CEO of Lockheed Martin, made a rather startling announcement that has gone all but ignored in the media. Addressing sequestration, the legal requirement to cut 10% of all...
View ArticleBritish Climate Scientists Recants His Alarmism
Interesting. True confession time I guess. James Lovelock, the maverick scientist who became a guru to the environmental movement with his “Gaia” theory of the Earth as a single organism, has admitted...
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Why Obama’s war on oil speculators is poppycock (Choose – onions or corn)
Economist Dr. Mark Perry has a series of posts at his blog Carpe Diem which makes the case that “speculators” play and key and positive role in commodities markets. One of the more intriguing posts...
View ArticleForward
By now you’ve probably heard the Obama campaign has decided on a new campaign slogan. The word “Forward” has been chosen for … yeah, I don’t know. We’ve done anything but move forward under this...
View ArticleImpressions of my time among heroes
I’m not really one of those people who goes to events like Salute Our Troops in Las Vegas and spends his time trying to get interviews. It’s not that there’s anything wrong with that, it just isn’t my...
View ArticleThe F-35 is indeed our fighter of the future
Yesterday I had the opportunity to visit the Lockheen Martin Flight Demonstration Center in Crystal City near Washington DC and be updated on the progress of the Joint Strike Fighter. The briefing was...
View ArticleUkraine and the Sword of Vladimir
Watching old-school power politics unfold is a fascinating activity, and no better example can be found than those played by Russia and Vladimir Putin. The current maneuvering with respect to Ukraine...
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