Posts Tagged ‘terror’

Balancing the budget: Pakistan

August 15th, 2011 | 1 Comment

Osama Bin Laden lived in peace and completely unfettered there for a decade.  Our helicopter that got shot down going after Bin Laden was given access to the Chinese.  They have terrorists a few hours from Islamabad.  They sometimes like us, they sometimes don’t.  And, they have nukes. We are currently on target to give [...]

Carbon will be the leading source of conflict

June 16th, 2010 | No Comments

Per Barbara Boxer: “I’m going to put in the record … a host of quotes from our national security experts who tell us that carbon pollution leading to climate change will be over the next 20 years the leading cause of conflict, putting our troops in harm’s way,” Boxer said. “And that’s why we have [...]

Bill Clinton is worried about that vast right wing conspiracy again

April 19th, 2010 | No Comments

Particularly, he’s concerned that Tea Party and right-wing rhetoric will fuel the flames for domestic terrorism attacks like the one in Oklahoma City fifteen years ago. First, a history lesson. Murrah was not a reaction to some right-wing media show. It was a reaction to the Waco, Texas massacre. It was a very direct reaction. [...]

Sympathy for the devils

August 14th, 2009 | 2 Comments

Got two competing stories going on right now: Manson ‘Family Member’ Lynette ‘Squeaky’ Fromme Released From Prison And, Release of Lockerbie Convict Is Debated Squeaky served thirty years for attempting to shoot President Gerald Ford in 1975.  She escaped from prison in 1987, but was immediately caught.  It was felt at the time that Fromme [...]

Scott Ott and the Obama Doctrine

July 28th, 2008 | 2 Comments

Scott Ott has been one of my favorite authors for quite some time.  Here is yet another reason why: …..Sen. Obama, a man who aspires to be our commander in chief, tells us that a nation called Afghanistan is where this threat dwells. Yet, he says, it does not dwell in Iraq. He tells us [...]

Comparing Sharia law and fascism

July 17th, 2007 | 1 Comment

Shaun Mullen over at The Moderate Voice takes offense to President Bush comparing Iraq to World War II: The bravery of the men and women in Iraq has never been an issue, but to compare the global pushback against fascism with Iraq dishonors World War II veterans and their families, friends and fellow citizens on [...]