Looking for Mr. Goodbar.

The TSA screenings are absurd. The offense however, rests not on the premise that the State does not have an interest in preventing terrorists from boarding planes with weapons (it does), but instead on the foolish notion that the State must not discriminate whom it subjects to its terrorist prevention measures. My high school had [...]

Cheney speaks.

Dick Cheney, that is. Former Vice President of the United States of America. He had this to say about current US President Barack Obama’s decision to launch a criminal investigation into the tactics used by CIA officials to prevent terrorist attacks during the Bush administration: The documents released Monday clearly demonstrate that the individuals subjected [...]

The dumb one.

Turns out Obama was the dumb one after all. Victor Davis Hanson wraps it neatly for us in a pretty pink bow: In the recent Cairo speech, Obama’s historical allusions were . . . suspect. Almost every one of his references was either misleading or incomplete. He suggested that today’s Middle East tension was fed [...]

Nuance.

From Obama’s Cairo speech: “No single nation should pick and choose which nations hold nuclear weapons. That is why I strongly reaffirmed America’s commitment to seek a world in which no nations hold nuclear weapons.” First, and obviously, if no nation should pick and choose which nations hold nuclear weapons, then on what grounds is [...]

Roskam.

Official statement from Republican Congressman Peter Roskam on President Obama’s recent support for Iranian pursuit of nuclear power (did I just type that??): “President Obama’s recent comment in support of Iranian nuclear power is both shocking and reckless. Supporting Iran’s “legitimate [nuclear] aspirations” ignores all recent history and smacks of the same naive and misguided [...]

Close Guantanamo.

I’ve come full circle on this. It’s time to close Guantanamo. But only after we hang these bastards from a lamp post in lower Manhattan.

Oops.

Looks like President Obama’s been caught in a little fib, by (egad!) a Churchill historian. You know, someone who actually knows what they’re talking about. Since I obviously do not, I’ll yield to Mr. Langworth: In his press conference of 29 April, in response to a question on the disclosure of top secret memos on [...]

Our fragile Left.

Enough with the breast beating and gnashing of teeth, already. The left is not opposed to waterboarding. They’re opposed to Bush, who was pro-waterboarding (thank God). They’re anti-waterboarding now so that the possibility of his being denigrated for it may linger. Hell, they’d be anti-toothpaste, anti-meatloaf and anti-Levi’s now if the Left thought they could [...]

More on the Air Force One fiasco.

From The Virginian: Who wanted new pictures of Air Force One against the New York skyline? Why was there a demand for secrecy? And, of course, the big question: who thought that low flying jumbo jets over Manhattan would pass un-noticed by the people who watched their friends die just eight years ago? [ . [...]

A 9/10 world.

The nitwits at the White House thought it would be a good idea to fly Air Force One down low and buzz lower Manhattan yesterday morning, because, you know, why not? Here’s the video: In case you needed any more evidence that the current administration does not take the lessons learned on 9/11 seriously, here’s [...]

What’s on their minds?

There was a time when people who violated the rules of war were not entitled to turn around and claim the protection of those rules. German soldiers who put on U.S. military uniforms in order to infiltrate American lines during the Battle of the Bulge were simply lined up against a wall and shot. American [...]

Waterboarding convictions after WWII?

Not quite. Some Japanese were convicted of war crimes after WWII. Among the charges of which they were convicted were “water torture”. Ergo, to the left, “waterboarding” is impermissible “torture.” Not so. Read the whole thing, but the gist of it is as follows: 1) “water torture” is not “water boarding” as practiced by the [...]

Liz Cheney rocks.

If you watch one thing today, please let it be this: Love it: “That’s actually not what the document says that you’re referring to.” How much of what you read or see on TV is just made up like this?

Please don’t go.

This capital, scarred and traumatized by years of war, became quieter and safer over the past couple of years. Few ordinary Iraqis saw the lull as a clear turning point. Many feared that extremist groups were lying low, waiting for the U.S. military to disentangle itself from a war that appears to be far from [...]

Giddy-up.

Couldn’t help but become giddy over this, posted just a bit ago over at Wizbang: As the image of Candidate Obama becomes murkier by the day the actions of President Obama bring into focus a man that was clearly not properly vetted during the campaign. Jennifer Rubin notes that cross over voters may be beginning to have [...]

About those “torture” memos.

From NRO: The memos tell a different story from the one the Obama administration and the press are pushing. Detailed and carefully reasoned, they make it clear that neither the CIA nor the Justice Department was trying to “define torture down,” but were instead determined to locate and avoid crossing the legal line at which [...]

Wal-Mart guy.

So this writer, Charles Platt, got a job in Wal-Mart to see if the retail supergiant was as hellish in real life as its been depicted in the mainstream media (in particular, Barbara Ehrenreich’s Nickel and Dimed). Surprise, Barbara, it’s not so bad. Of course, I was not well paid, but Wal-Mart is hardly unique [...]

Too comfortable. Too numb.

In 2002, seven years ago this past Sunday, a Jewish American journalist named Daniel Pearl was abducted in Pakistan, held captive, and beheaded. Here’s an op-ed in today’s WSJ written by his father. Neither he, nor the millions who were shocked by his murder, could have possibly predicted that seven years later his abductor, Omar [...]

Smoke ‘em if you got ‘em.

What’s the President smoking? WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama said in an interview aired on Monday he worried that detainees freed from the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo, Cuba, might resume attacks on the United States. But he told NBC News that closure of the prison was a matter of upholding U.S. values and [...]

Afghan strategy.

Check this out: Strategic Divergence: The War Against the Taliban and the War Against Al Qaeda | Stratfor. It’s a nice piece describing our objectives and likelihood for success in Afghanistan. As President Obama turns our focus there from Iraq in the coming months, what should we expect? What does the President expect? How will [...]

September 20, 2001.

President George W. Bush said this to the American people during his State of the Union address on 9/20/01: It is my hope that in the months and years ahead life will return almost to normal. We’ll go back to our lives and routines and that is good. Even grief recedes with time and grace. [...]

An endless stream of cigarettes and magazines…

Guess who’s going home to plot the murder of our children? CAIRO, Egypt (AP) – A Saudi man who was released from Guantanamo after spending six years inside the U.S. prison camp has joined al-Qaida’s branch in Yemen and is now the terror group’s No. 2 in the country, according to a purported Internet statement [...]

More on the FISA wiretaps decision.

But the Constitution bans only “unreasonable” search and seizure, not all searches and seizures, and the Fourth Amendment allows for exceptions such as those under a President’s Article II war powers. The courts have been explicit on this point. In 1980, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals held in Truong that “the Executive need not [...]