Jonathan Tobin has this up at Contentions, and it provides a vital lesson for Israel and any other nation faced with an implacable enemy. My take:
I don’t know what they are teaching in schools either, but in my Navy courses (ROTC and War College) it was considered almost too obvious to emphasize: [...]
Archive for February, 2009
On the importance of being victorious
Posted in War and Peace on February 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Public school hypocrisy
Posted in Hypocrites on February 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Cruella DeVille has a grand summary of the hypocrisy of Obama and other Democrats with respect to public schools:
As with the Clintons, Obama so earnestly believes in public school education that he sends his girls to … an expensive private school. He demands that taxpayers support the very public schoolteachers he won’t trust with his [...]
“Nobody messes with Joe”
Posted in Politics on February 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Our Smooth-Talker-in-Chief said a lot about nothing in his speech last night. Some howlers, most notably his claim that he does not believe in big government. That’s why he vetoed the porkulus spending bill. Oh, right. He did no such thing.
Obama is still talking down to us; treating [...]
Good for a laugh…
Posted in economy on February 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
…if it wasn’t such a harbinger of bad things to come. Bad economic things, that is. The headline in the WaPo, written without the slightest bit of apparent sarcasm, is Obama’s First Budget Seeks To Trim Deficit. Yes, those multiples of trillions of dollars won’t be problem.
My first reaction [...]
Hard problem; hard solutions
Posted in Immigration, Republicans on February 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Jay Nordlinger writes, “the Republican party faces at least one daunting challenge: the growth of Hispanic America.”
Yes, indeed. But we must not go wobbly on the matter, as I believe President Bush did, or, for that matter, as my news source of record, the Wall Street Journal, does. As for the Obamatons, [...]
Did my eye harm your stick?
Posted in America, International on February 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Obamatons are going ’round the globe searching for absolution. America’s sin? Having that slack-jawed Neanderthal malaprop George W. Bush as our president. Liberating Iraq; giving aid and support to Eastern European allies; warring against the Taliban and al qaeda in Afghanistan and elsewhere. The list of how we [...]
Not guilty
Posted in race on February 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
With all due respect to our race-mongering attorney general, I don’t feel the least bit guilty about my neglect of black history. The history I learned was American history; it included blacks. When the abomination that is known as Black History Month was foisted on us, my first thought was, “How condescending [...]
Dhimmi Hillary
Posted in Idiotarians, Islam on February 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Such high hopes; so quickly those hopes dashed. Hillary Rodham Clinton has shown herself to be just another dhimmi tool of Barack Hussein Obama. Obama was raised a Muslim, and, depending on who you ask, he’s still one. As for his actual beliefs, those count for little in the [...]
Media bias?
Posted in Media on February 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Headlines about President Bush’s second inauguration 4 years ago:
“Republicans spending $42 million on inauguration”
“Bush extravagance exceeds any reason during tough economic times”
“Fat cats get their $42 million inauguration party, Ordinary Americans get the shaft”
Headlines about President Obama’s inauguration this year:
“Historic Obama Inauguration will cost only $170 million”
“Obama Spends $170 million on inauguration; America Needs A [...]
The gift that keeps on giving
Posted in Democrats, Politics on February 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Jennifer Rubin has a short list for us: Six people who could make-or-break Obama. One of them surprised me: Roland Burris, the nothingburger political hack who Blago selected to replace Obama as the junior senator from Illinois.
Burris was chosen for one reason alone: he is black. [...]
Time for a new revolution?
Posted in Tyranny on February 17, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Not just yet. The Great One has been in office less than one month, and his failures are minor. So far. The big failure that is brewing is the “stimulus” bill, which he just had to have by February 16. Which won’t work, but which will also [...]
Like watching a wreck in slow motion
Posted in America, Politics, Pork on February 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Watching our Congress take control, in a matter of speaking, was both alarming and satisfying. Sort of like watching a car or train wreck in slow motion. You know that what you’re watching is awful, a calamity, but somehow, you just can’t take your eyes off of it.
What is [...]
Check back next week
Posted in Just me on February 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Me and the missus are off for a Caribbean vacation. Please check back in a week or so for some freshly-baked complaining. In the meantime, check out NRO, or, if you’re hardcore, TownHall.
Thanks for stopping by.
“would we accept an all-Asian class?”
Posted in America, race on February 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This is the 64-dollar question in an essay by Stephan Thernstrom at NRO. The context is the attempt to limit enrollment by Asian Americans in the University of California system.
All in the name of “diversity,” of course. Where “diversity” has only one meaning for so-called liberals: more blacks; more Hispanics. [...]
When you’re a hammer…
Posted in Crime and Punishment, Democrats on February 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
…everything looks like a nail to be pounded. To the liberal mainstream media, any time a black takes up a high office, it is a victory for civil rights. And, of course, that person will have suffered under Jim Crow, or, if he isn’t old enough, have family members who did. [...]
Clueless
Posted in Idiotarians, economy on February 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Tuesday, February 3, earlier:”Recognition events are still part of our culture,” spokeswoman Melissa Murray said Tuesday afternoon. “It’s really important that our team members are still valued and recognized.”
Tuesday, February 3, later:”In light of the current environment, we have now decided to cancel this event as well.”
Glad they clarified that. They being Wells [...]
Tim Geithner must go
Posted in Hypocrites, Obama, Uncategorized on February 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Running for office may be tough, but governing is a lot tougher. Welcome to the Bigs, Barack Baby. Now that Tom Daschle has wisely removed himself from what would surely have been a nasty confirmation hearing, Larry Kudlow at NRO has it just right:
For all of Mr. Geithner’s apparent skills and [...]
Daschle, Geithner, Rangel, and Richardson, oh my
Posted in Democrats, Hypocrites on February 3, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Last year it was the fashion for the Democrats to whine about the Republicans alleged “culture of corruption.” Yes, there were a few bad seeds. But they were not in the top ranks, and, once exposed, they quickly sank under the weight of their own misdeeds. Larry Craig, call [...]
Defamation
Posted in Christianity, Hypocrites, Islam on February 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Nat Hentoff this day reminds us, should we need reminding, that freedom of conscience is always under some attack. In this case it is the United Nations that has urged its member states to make it a crime to “defame” any religion. From Mr. Hentoff’s op-ed:
In an 83 to 53 vote, with [...]
Thuggery Bowl
Posted in Sports, race on February 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Has anybody else noticed that at about three of four of all players in yesterday’s Super Bowl were black? And that there seemed to be an inordinate number of bonehead moves that resulted in penalties? The worst was late in the fourth quarter, when a Steeler thug continued punching a downed [...]
Two percent solution?
Posted in economy on February 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The stimulus package might better be called the Pork Sausage Production Farce of 2009. The WaPo, to its credit, provides some background today on what this trillion-dollar mess is intended to do, and what it actually might do.
Yes, trillion: $845 or so billion is going to have a price tag. [...]
