tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-52743682012-02-16T19:08:25.967-07:00The Nixatron Blog-TimesPro Deo et Patria: News and thought on political, social, and moral issues.nixatronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17236836244348625454noreply@blogger.comBlogger5284125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5274368.post-72844495190366222562011-11-03T07:56:00.000-07:002011-11-03T07:56:00.106-07:00Why Our Blacks are Better than Their Blacks by Ann Coulter By spending the last three decades leveling accusations of "racism" every 10 seconds, liberals have made it virtually impossible for Americans to recognize real racism -- for example, the racism constantly spewed at black conservatives...nixatronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17236836244348625454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5274368.post-64340263407259445412011-10-23T21:10:00.000-07:002011-10-23T21:10:34.470-07:00Special Series (Part 1): Assessing the Damage of the European Banking Crisis Stratfor Europe faces a banking crisis it has not wanted to admit even exists...nixatronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17236836244348625454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5274368.post-74663685190707560902011-09-20T11:54:00.000-07:002011-09-20T11:54:40.451-07:00Obama's Dilemma: U.S. Foreign Policy and Electoral Realities by George Friedman ...The U.S. president will not be deeply engaged in the world for more than a year. Thus, he will have to cope with events pressed on him. He may undertake initiatives, such as trying to revive the Middle East peace process, but such moves would have large political components that would make it difficult to cope withnixatronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17236836244348625454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5274368.post-63572019370450943462011-08-31T12:14:00.000-07:002011-08-31T12:14:22.406-07:00Libya: A Premature Victory Celebration by George Friedman ...Given that the dying is far from over, it is interesting to consider why Barack Obama, Nicolas Sarkozy and David Cameron, the major players in this war, all declared last week that Gadhafi had fallen, implying an end to war, and why the media proclaimed the war’s end...nixatronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17236836244348625454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5274368.post-49465304500340505912011-08-20T00:35:00.000-07:002011-08-20T00:35:11.325-07:00Attacks in Israel and New Militant Opportunities in Egypt Stratfor ...al Qaeda can be expected to focus heavily on the Egyptian-Gaza-Israeli fault line. This fixation will not only complicate matters for Israel and its efforts to deal with the Gaza Strip, it could also begin to unravel the Egyptian-Israeli relationship that has existed since the signing of the 1978 Camp David Peace Accords.nixatronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17236836244348625454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5274368.post-15507798162887147992011-08-16T08:06:00.000-07:002011-08-16T08:06:33.732-07:00Re-Examining the Arab Spring by George Friedman ...[people in the Arab world who want liberal democracy] are not powerful enough to topple regimes or maintain control of new regimes even if they did succeed. The Arab Spring is, above all, a primer on wishful thinking in the face of the real world.nixatronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17236836244348625454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5274368.post-90797841389936060092011-08-15T22:20:00.000-07:002011-08-15T22:20:49.332-07:00Crisis of Political Economy Stratfor Agenda Video with George Friedman The current economic problems in the United States, Europe and elsewhere are the result of systemic failure in two major communities: the financial and political elite.nixatronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17236836244348625454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5274368.post-12979302660349514402011-08-11T09:28:00.000-07:002011-08-11T09:28:13.508-07:00Situational Awareness: How Everyday Citizens Can Help Make a Nation Safe by Scott Stewart ...Situational awareness is effective in allowing people to see potential threats before — and as — they develop. This allows potential victims to take proactive measures to avoid a perceived threat, and it enables them or other observers to alert authorities...nixatronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17236836244348625454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5274368.post-42257329801780708912011-08-01T10:00:00.002-07:002011-08-01T10:00:02.386-07:00New NASA Data Blow Gaping Hole In Global Warming Alarmism by James Taylor ...Study co-author Dr. Roy Spencer, a principal research scientist at the University of Alabama in Huntsville and U.S. Science Team Leader for the Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer flying on NASA’s Aqua satellite, reports that real-world data from NASA’s Terra satellite contradict multiple assumptions fed into alarmistnixatronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17236836244348625454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5274368.post-62688010038190042932011-07-31T10:40:00.004-07:002011-07-31T10:40:00.986-07:00Under Cover of Debt Crisis, Senate Looks To Extend Telco Spying Immunity by Stemphen C. Webster ...While the Obama administration has urged the FAA's renewal, at least two Senators are calling for greater caution in the process. Sens. Ron Wyden (D-OR) and Mark Udall (D-CO) asked the director of national intelligence to explain how the Obama administration had applied the 2008 act, and to provide nixatronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17236836244348625454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5274368.post-27134575095214882222011-07-29T21:10:00.000-07:002011-07-29T21:10:29.750-07:00A Plea for Economic Sanity by Jabby Lowe ...First, we must stop arguing over which administration has caused our predicament. This is not an issue of President Bush’s tax cuts, wars in Iraq or Afghanistan, or stimulus spending. All of those are but symptoms of the greater problem; a failure of both the executive and legislative branches to collectively understand and accept the limits of our nixatronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17236836244348625454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5274368.post-52939608671714579062011-07-27T09:00:00.008-07:002011-07-30T10:42:38.965-07:00Guns from Botched U.S. Sting Found at Mexican Crime Scenes by Jeremy Pelofsky ...The sting has become an embarrassment for the Obama administration and its Justice Department, rather than a victory in stemming the illegal flow of weapons to Mexico. It has also hurt ties with Mexico, which has been battling the cartels in a war in which tens of thousands have died... Related: Obama Administration nixatronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17236836244348625454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5274368.post-32148199079833464052011-07-26T23:40:00.000-07:002011-07-26T23:40:20.549-07:00A Leadership Default Wall Street Journal ...[Obama's speech] was more like a DNC fund-raiser than an Oval Office address. Though President Obama referred to the need to compromise, his idea of compromise was to call on the public to overwhelm Republicans with demands to raise taxes... Related: Is Obama a Pathological Liar?nixatronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17236836244348625454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5274368.post-61396922691677260952011-07-22T22:06:00.000-07:002011-07-22T22:06:45.347-07:00What the Norway Attack Could Mean for Europe Stratfor ...The significance of the events in Norway for the rest of Europe will depend largely on who is responsible, and the identity of the culprits is still unclear. However, STRATFOR can extrapolate the possible consequences of the attacks based on several scenarios...nixatronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17236836244348625454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5274368.post-12067033962659331092011-07-10T09:00:00.002-07:002011-07-11T06:39:38.156-07:00'Fast & Furious' Gets Hotter for Holder by Michael A. Walsh ...The ATF's acting director, Kenneth Melson, has been singing like a canary to congressional investigators as he pushes back against administration pressure for him to resign and take the fall for something that, at the very least, had to include the US Attorney's Office, the FBI, the Drug Enforcement Administration and possibly the nixatronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17236836244348625454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5274368.post-19921652574705940522011-07-09T06:04:00.000-07:002011-07-09T06:04:01.031-07:00Ninety Percent of Obama Travel at Least Partly Politics by Keith Koffler ...Since returning from vacation in Hawaii Jan. 4, Obama has embarked on 25 domestic trips involving use of Air Force One. Of the total, 22 have involved either a fundraiser, travel to a presidential battleground state, or both.Only three times has the president traveled for purely non-political purposes: a trip to visit nixatronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17236836244348625454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5274368.post-54921001818328779262011-07-04T11:13:00.002-07:002011-07-04T11:13:50.494-07:00Do This for 10 Minutes on the Fourth of July by Dennis Prager Four years ago, I wrote a column titled "America Needs a July Fourth Seder." In it, I explained that "national memory dies without national ritual. And without a national memory, a nation dies." Many readers and listeners to my radio show responded by creating their own rituals to make the day far more meaningful than watching nixatronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17236836244348625454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5274368.post-29782794150285508952011-07-03T00:15:00.000-07:002011-07-03T00:15:16.185-07:00The Failure of Al Gore: Part One by Walter Russell Mead ...I am not one of those who thinks him a hypocrite; I think rather that he shares an illusion common amongst the narcissistic glitterati of our time: that politically fashionable virtue cancels private vice...If Al Gore really wants to understand why the global green movement has tanked, he should start by taking a long hard look in the nixatronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17236836244348625454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5274368.post-14142942689053236462011-06-23T07:37:00.000-07:002011-06-23T07:37:41.599-07:00Obama's Afghanistan Plan and the Realities of Withdrawal by Nathan Hughes ...Based solely on the activity on the ground in Afghanistan today, one would think the United States and its allies were preparing for a permanent presence, not the imminent beginning of a long-scheduled drawdown...nixatronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17236836244348625454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5274368.post-55215715142469391392011-06-22T08:49:00.000-07:002011-06-22T08:49:37.655-07:00U.S. and Pakistan: Afghan Strategies by George Friedman ...the United States is exploring ways to accelerate the drawdown of its forces in the country. It is also clear that U.S. relations with Pakistan are deteriorating to a point where cooperation — whatever level there was — is breaking down. These are two intimately related issues. Any withdrawal from Afghanistan, particularly an accelerated nixatronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17236836244348625454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5274368.post-65122288396484648362011-06-17T00:05:00.000-07:002011-06-17T00:05:00.920-07:00Ten Years And Counting: Where’s The Global Warming? by James Taylor ...The evidence is powerful, straightforward, and damning. NASA satellite instruments precisely measuring global temperatures show absolutely no warming during the past the past 10 years. This is the case for the Northern Hemisphere mid-latitudes, including the United States. This is the case for the Arctic, where the signs of nixatronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17236836244348625454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5274368.post-8087963175269290512011-06-16T07:38:00.000-07:002011-06-16T07:38:27.163-07:00FBI's New Rules to Give Agents More Leeway on Surveillance by Judson Berger The FBI sought Monday to downplay its expanded surveillance powers for agents as civil liberty groups sounded an alarm that the new rules not only make it easier for agents to investigate suspects but give them startling leeway to spy on ordinary Americans...nixatronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17236836244348625454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5274368.post-57167577853048238452011-06-07T00:10:00.000-07:002011-06-07T00:10:00.209-07:00Firms To Cut Health Plans by Russ Britt Once provisions of the Affordable Care Act start to kick in during 2014, at least three of every 10 employers will probably stop offering health coverage, a survey released Monday shows...nixatronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17236836244348625454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5274368.post-2219287540695565432011-06-06T22:10:00.000-07:002011-06-06T22:10:31.511-07:00Decline and Fall of the American Empire by Larry Elliott ...America in 2011 is Rome in 200AD or Britain on the eve of the first world war: an empire at the zenith of its power but with cracks beginning to show. The experience of both Rome and Britain suggests that it is hard to stop the rot once it has set in, so here are the a few of the warning signs of trouble ahead...nixatronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17236836244348625454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5274368.post-36928996610451543412011-05-30T00:11:00.002-07:002011-06-02T20:52:06.733-07:00Two Americas on Memorial Day by Chuck Raasch What is Memorial Day to you? A three-day head start to summer beach season? Shopping deals? The Indy 500 weekend? This year, approaching the end of a decade of war, will there be room to remember the more than 6,000 Americans who have died in Afghanistan and Iraq?nixatronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17236836244348625454noreply@blogger.com