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“Arise and take our stand for freedom as in the olden time.” Winston Churchill
“Proclaim Liberty throughout All the land unto All the Inhabitants Thereof.” Inscription on the Liberty Bell
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Barack Obama: way behind, but hardly leading, in Syria
Bill Roggio at the Long War Journal tells us that the Al Nusrah Front for the People of the Levant, an al Qaeda-linked jihadist group, has taken control of the last major Syrian Army base in western Aleppo. The base is believed to be involved in Syria’s chemical weapons program. Agence France Presse (AFP) reported last month that the base “contained clandestine scientific research whose purpose was unknown even to »
Honor in the air
The New York Post tells the remarkable story of World War II American bomber pilot Charlie Brown and German Luftwaffe ace Franz Stigler, who instead of shooting down Brown’s crippled plane, flew alongside it and saluted. The story comes from the new book “A Higher Call,” by Adam Makos and Larry Alexander. In December 1943, in the skies over Germany, Stigler was in pursuit of Brown’s plane, looking to shoot »
The Ravens waste no time
Yesterday, in a post about the Washington Redskins thrilling 31-28 overtime win over the Baltimore Ravens, I wrote: Baltimore, in a sense, was a victim of its own success running the ball. Washington’s pass defense is among the worst in the NFL. Any team that passes the ball only 21 times against it (as the Ravens did) is doing us a favor, regardless of how well it’s running the ball. »Will Obama lead from behind on Israel? Let’s hope so
President Obama has led from behind on nearly every major foreign policy issue except Israel-Palestine. But now, according to Peter Beinart, Obama plans to lead from behind in that area too. Specifically, says Beinart, Obama will be little involved with the “peace process,” and instead will sit back and watch pressure mount on Israel from the “international community.” Faced with international isolation, Netanyahu supposedly will shift course and embrace the »Doha or D’oh!-a?
Did no one at the UN think that a meeting in Doha might bring up unfavorable comparisons to Homer Simpson’s favorite exclamation? Both John and I have raked this farce over the coals, but it’s always worth doing more. Benny Peiser of the Global Warming Policy Foundation rounds up the dour media conclusions. Like Reuters: [Headline] Despair after climate conference, but U.N. still offers hope At the end of another »Green Energy, Red Ink
The defenders of clean green energy “investment” (which I put in scare quotes because when a liberal says “investment,” he means “taxpayer subsidy”) say we should look past Solyndra, A123, and other bankruptcies because it is normal for there to be failures in an infant industry. But the Washington Times reported last Thursday that the RENIXX index–the specialty index for renewable energy companies (it stands for the Renewable Energy Industrial »Hamas: Moderate would-be annihilator of the Israeli state
Last month’s confrontation between Israel and Hamas, and its resolution through an agreement, has reinforced the fiction, long perpetuated by left-liberal policy analysts and journalists, that Hamas can be viewed as relatively moderate. The notion is that, with its governing responsibilities in Gaza, Hamas has become more “responsible.” Behind this fiction lies the view that Hamas should be considered Israel’s emerging “peace partner.” I call this fantasy the “mainstreaming” of »Vox populi, vox Allah?
David Kirkpatrick is the New York Times’s man in Cairo. In the second paragraph of his long news analysis on the “crisis” precipitated by the pending Constitution, Kirkpatrick goes deep with an unnamed source to reveal the underpinning of President Morsi’s support: The Brotherhood “is who he can depend on,” said one person close to Mr. Morsi, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss internal deliberations. This may be »A banner day in the English Premier League
Today’s EPL schedule served up three mouth-watering matches: First place Manchester United against second place Manchester City (last season’s champions, with Man U as runner-up); fourth place Tottenham against sixth place Everton; and tenth place West Ham against twelfth place (but clearly better than that) Liverpool. Each match turned out to be a gem. Manchester City dominated the early play against their old enemy, but its attacks kept breaking down, »An Administration That Will Live In Infamy
There was a time when people assumed that if America’s future was under attack, it must come from a foreign source–like, say, Japan at Pearl Harbor. Those days are long gone. Now, our decline is no one’s fault but our own. We elect leaders who are ignorant of America’s history and contemptuous of its values. The currency in which this ignorance and contempt is expressed is government spending. I am »Media Alert: Bill Bennett Show Tomorrow Morning
I’ll be an in-studio guest with Bill Bennett on Morning in America tomorrow during the 8 am (eastern) hour of the show. Not sure what we’ll be talking about, but listen in and call in if you can. Here’s a pic from one of my turns as guest host a few months back: »Now They Tell Us!
Knowledgeable observers have always known that the U.S. cannot come close to balancing its budget by increasing taxes on the rich, for the simple reason that we have nowhere near enough rich people, and our rich people have nowhere near enough money. Yet for the most part, this obvious fact has been obscured in press coverage of negotiations between President Obama and Congressional Republicans. At this late date, however, the »Deal or no deal
According to the Washington Post, “the contours of a deal to avert the ‘fiscal cliff’ are becoming increasingly clear.” That deal would consist of three elements: First, tax rates on the “wealthy” would increase, as President Obama insists they must, but by a bit less than he proposes and perhaps with a more realistic definition of who is wealthy. Some deductions would also be limited, as Republicans have proposed, in »Miss Universe Gets Hot
The finale of the Miss Universe contest at Planet Hollywood in Las Vegas is only ten days away. And yet, betting has not yet gotten underway, so it is hard to say who are the favorites. I wrote about some of my personal favorites here and here, noting the representatives from Australia, Mexico, Ecuador, Peru, Czech Republic, Venezuela, Finland, Montenegro, Russia, the Netherlands, Singapore and Cyprus. Wow–that is quite a »A Banner Day in Redskins Nation
During their long history, the Washington Redskins have achieved many heart-stopping victories in key games. Unfortunately, few of them have occurred in the past 20 years. Today, however, the Redskins won as thrilling a big game as I can recall. Victory came in overtime, 31-28, at the expense of the Baltimore Ravens. The Ravens entered the game with a 9-3 record, coming off of a tough loss to Pittsburgh. They »Doha Wrap-up
Steve Hayward has done an admirable job of covering (i.e., ridiculing) the latest United Nations climate hysteria-fest in Doha, Qatar. The global warming phenomenon is all about money–Al Gore making off with a hundred million dollars, hundreds of scientists who are willing to abandon the scientific method raking in many billions in government funding, poor nations demanding vast amounts of money to “compensate” them for the world’s allegedly warming climate. »Not Enough Buns for All the Green Weenies in Doha
The latest UN climate change meeting has followed the predictable script laid out here a week ago: the meeting had to go into overtime to “save” the talks from collapse. I especially like reading the weenie-friendly UK Guardian‘s coverage of these meetings, because their attempt at earnest coverage ironically underscores what a complete farce the whole thing is. From the latest dispatch: Poor countries have won historic recognition of the plight »