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.comBlogger52841100tag: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.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5274368.post-37440481508674675162011-05-29T00:05:00.001-07:002011-05-29T00:05:00.294-07:00Thinking Theologically About Memorial Day
by Kevin DeYoung
With Memorial Day on Monday (in the U.S.) and, no doubt, a number of patriotic services scheduled for this Sunday, I want to offer a few theses on patriotism and the church...nixatronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17236836244348625454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5274368.post-31044992305310082832011-05-26T00:20:00.005-07:002011-05-26T08:23:26.011-07:00Obama Skirts Law to Reward Pals, Punish Foes
by Michael Barone
...One basic principle of the rule of law is that laws apply to everybody. If the sign says "No Parking," you're not supposed to park there even if you're a pal of the alderman. Another principle of the rule of law is that government can't make up new rules to help its cronies and hurt its adversaries except through due process, such nixatronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17236836244348625454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5274368.post-41164389508373438512011-05-25T22:22:00.000-07:002011-05-25T22:22:41.137-07:00Obama and the Arab Spring
by George Friedman
...After the 2010 election, I said that presidents who lose control of one house of Congress in midterm elections turn to foreign policy because it is a place in which they retain the power to act. The U.S. presidential campaign season has begun, and the United States is engaged in wars that are not going well. Within this framework, Obama thus sought nixatronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17236836244348625454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5274368.post-55828218961244887522011-05-16T21:03:00.000-07:002011-05-16T21:03:34.600-07:00Children as Cannon Fodder
Jihad Watch
"Our mullah told us that when we carried out our suicide attacks, all the people around us would die, but we would stay alive"...nixatronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17236836244348625454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5274368.post-35430421337860208362011-05-14T00:10:00.000-07:002011-05-16T21:01:41.454-07:00How Leftism Poisoned a Psychiatrist's Mind
by Dennis Prager
...Most people who hold left-wing views when they are young abandon those views as they get older and wiser. But for those who never abandon leftism, the dogma is so powerful, it functions as a fundamentalist -- secular -- religion. Just as the Orthodox Jew, the evangelical Christian and the traditionalist Catholic views the world nixatronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17236836244348625454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5274368.post-77327827112991460052011-05-13T00:20:00.000-07:002011-05-13T11:05:40.871-07:00What? Not Even a Look Out the Window?
by Keith Koffler
President Obama doesn’t seem to have even peered out his Air Force One window to view the swelling Mississippi, a minimal show of interest for which George W. Bush was pilloried when he took a peek at the damage wrought by Hurricane Katrina in 2005. At least Bush bothered to look...nixatronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17236836244348625454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5274368.post-74825233086021425242011-05-11T00:05:00.000-07:002011-05-11T00:05:00.782-07:00U.S.-Pakistani Relations Beyond Bin Laden
by George Friedman
...The United States must either develop the force and intelligence to wage war without any assistance — which is difficult to imagine given the size of the Muslim world and the size of the U.S. military — or it will have to accept half-hearted support and duplicity. Alternatively, it could accept that it will not win in Afghanistan andnixatronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17236836244348625454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5274368.post-78152501571515534142011-05-10T07:42:00.000-07:002011-05-10T07:42:24.205-07:00Weak Dollars, Strong Oil
by John Hayward
...Our government has been printing dollars like mad, while pointedly refusing to develop oil resources. That’s not a recipe for long-term reductions in the price of gasoline. The value of oil is not abstract – its exact price bounces around as the market fluctuates and speculators shake their Magic 8-Balls, but the underlying value of this essential nixatronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17236836244348625454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5274368.post-6587837385575582052011-05-06T00:05:00.001-07:002011-05-06T00:05:00.851-07:00To Get bin Laden, Obama Relied on Policies He Decried
by Michael Barone
...For years we heard supposedly enlightened people excoriate our leaders for torture, lawlessness, unilateralism -- the list goes on and on. Now the president they have wanted has used the tactics and methods they excoriated to get bin Laden. Good for him.nixatronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17236836244348625454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5274368.post-3806676655304450502011-05-05T00:20:00.000-07:002011-05-05T00:20:00.532-07:00Bin Laden's Death and the Implications for Jihadism
by Scott Stewart
...The survival of the ideology of jihadism means the threat of terrorist attacks remains. The good news is that as one moves down the jihadist pyramid from the al Qaeda core to the regional franchises to the grassroots, the level of terrorist tradecraft these individuals possess diminishes and the threat they pose is not as nixatronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17236836244348625454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5274368.post-43651564478901624902011-05-04T08:24:00.000-07:002011-05-04T08:24:03.480-07:00How Bin Laden Resembled Michael Moore
by Mona Charen
...Yes, the late Osama bin Laden was a religious fanatic. But if religious zeal were his only motivation, he might have turned his hatred toward China -- a consistent persecutor of Muslims (and others) or India (which some Islamists have attacked -- though without justification). But bin Laden's garrulous videos reveal someone who had drunk nixatronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17236836244348625454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5274368.post-6977564741366040382011-04-28T21:58:00.000-07:002011-04-28T21:58:05.854-07:00Former UK Foreign Office Minister Admits Political Correctness Led Britain to Shelter Jihadis
by Robert Spencer
...His comments came as a leaked diplomatic cable, published today by WikiLeaks, revealed Britain had been warned years before the London bombings to stop giving asylum to "very dangerous" terrorists. The cable, sent by a former military attaché to the Algerian embassy in Washington on nixatronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17236836244348625454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5274368.post-14097305777646489762011-04-27T20:57:00.000-07:002011-04-27T20:57:01.115-07:00Obama Unloved, Here and Abroad
by Brent Bozell
In the Bush years, poll results that showed the American people losing confidence in their president were featured routinely on the front page of major newspapers like The Washington Post. But when the Post discovers that President Obama's ratings are collapsing, you need a search party to find where inside the paper they're buried...nixatronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17236836244348625454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5274368.post-3939913648641290922011-04-26T08:36:00.000-07:002011-04-26T08:36:18.704-07:00Iraq, Iran and the Next Move
by George Friedman
...The pressure from Iran is becoming palpable. All of the Arab countries feel it, and whatever their feelings about the Persians, the realities of power are what they are. The UAE has been sent to ask the United States for a solution. It is not clear the United States has one. When we ask why the price of oil is surging, the idea of geopolitical nixatronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17236836244348625454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5274368.post-9101920578430885422011-04-24T14:40:00.000-07:002011-04-24T14:40:04.661-07:00How Easter and Christianity Undermine Atheism
by Anthony DeStefano
...Christianity, especially, they say, with its belief in Easter and the Resurrection, is nothing but “wishful thinking” — the product of weak human psychology; a psychology that is so afraid of death that it must create “delusional fantasies” in order to make life on Earth bearable. But is it wishful thinking to believe in hell, nixatronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17236836244348625454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5274368.post-77972270215979798422011-04-24T14:33:00.000-07:002011-04-24T14:33:27.045-07:00O Hades, You Have Been Angered by Encountering HIM in the Nether World
by Robert Spencer
...Khomeini's repudiation of the "foolish souls" who reject Islamic jihad warfare manifests an understanding of Islam that looks with resentment and hatred at non-Muslims and wills to conquer and subjugate and kill them. Chrysostom's homily, by contrast, is expansive, generous, open-hearted, and otherworldly.nixatronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17236836244348625454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5274368.post-71178661813380669542011-04-23T00:05:00.001-07:002011-04-23T00:05:00.882-07:00Easter in the East
by Oliver North
Easter morning sunrise services are part of a long tradition in Christianity. For millennia, believers around the globe have gathered in the open at dawn on Easter Sunday to celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ and profess their faith. This year, there will be far fewer such assemblies in the Middle East and southwest Asia. For this we can thank what nixatronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17236836244348625454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5274368.post-37629560062799389242011-04-22T00:05:00.002-07:002011-04-22T00:05:00.803-07:00An Easter Bonnet of Mud
by Brent Bozell
...For the Christian faithful, the week between Palm Sunday and Easter Sunday is sacred. It's a time of reflection, prayer and fasting. It is Holy Week. It deserves the strongest respect. But our secular media culture does not bend a knee -- or even shut a mouth. Instead, Holy Week means it is time to grab the spotlight with the most indulgent forms of nixatronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17236836244348625454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5274368.post-50803400144014003072011-04-21T00:25:00.006-07:002011-04-21T00:25:00.184-07:00Make the Rich Pay!
by Victor Davis Hanson
...before raising taxes, the president might first urge the super-rich to pay their taxes at the income tax, rather than capital gains, rate. Next, he could remind his own Cabinet officers to pay all the taxes they owe. Then, he should offer to pay more of the first family's costs when they jet to luxury spots like Martha's Vineyard, Costa del Sol or Vailnixatronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17236836244348625454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5274368.post-5767864172508882502011-04-20T23:56:00.000-07:002011-04-20T23:56:41.495-07:00Mexico Ambassador: Cartel Leaders Businessmen, Not Terrorists
by Todd Robberson
...Yes, they are very violent criminal organizations, he says. But "they pursue a single goal. They want to maximize their profits and do what most business do: hostile takeovers and pursue mergers and acquisitions"...nixatronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17236836244348625454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5274368.post-19744560020358891862011-04-19T08:36:00.000-07:002011-04-19T08:36:24.996-07:00China and the End of the Deng Dynasty
by Matthew Gertken and Jennifer Richmond
...As security becomes more oppressive in the lead up to the transition — with any easing of control unlikely before then or even in the following year as the new government seeks to consolidate power — the heavy hand of the state runs the risk of provoking exactly the type of incident it hopes to prevent. Excessive nixatronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17236836244348625454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5274368.post-5455951147537856922011-04-18T00:05:00.000-07:002011-04-18T00:05:00.906-07:00Enemies
by John Walker
In any conflict, it is a deadly error to mistake or underestimate the adversary's capabilities, will to employ them, or ultimate goals. Around the globe, what was once confidently deemed “Western civilisation” is in an end-stage battle with champions of a collectivist and statist ideology which, over the last century, has enacted programs of redistributive taxation, nixatronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17236836244348625454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5274368.post-19577937133485713662011-04-17T22:26:00.000-07:002011-04-17T22:26:18.320-07:00Pricey: Thirteen Items that Cost More, or Will
Associated Press
Four-dollar gasoline is just a part of it. As most any shopper knows, prices are climbing for everything from coffee and chocolate to tires and toilet paper. The Consumer Price Index has climbed 2.7 percent in the past 12 months, according to government statistics released Friday. That's the largest rise since 2009...nixatronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17236836244348625454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5274368.post-15921397824154764382011-04-16T00:05:00.000-07:002011-04-16T00:05:00.755-07:00Obama's Fort Hood Jihadist
by Pamela Geller
We have been hearing for years that the White House is withholding evidence on the Fort Hood jihadi, Major Nidal Malik Hasan. Now comes direct confirmation of this from Hasan's own lawyer...nixatronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17236836244348625454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5274368.post-47752074506106054382011-04-15T23:46:00.003-07:002011-04-19T08:37:24.361-07:00Man Accused of Stalking Woman Before Killing Her
by Steve Schering
...Smirnov had done research on the Internet to determine if Illinois had the death penalty, deciding to go through with Vesel’s murder when he discovered it does not...nixatronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17236836244348625454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5274368.post-49226411436229164682011-04-15T00:05:00.005-07:002011-04-15T00:05:01.153-07:00NOAA Update Confirms Acceleration of U.S. Cooling
C3 Headlines
...Per the latest NOAA/NCDC U.S. temperature data records, the 12-month period ending March 2011 was the 6th coldest March-ending period for the last 15 years. In terms of a single month, March 2011 was 79th coldest March in the past 117 years. The per century cooling trend of this period, a minus 2.9°F, took place in spite of the nixatronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17236836244348625454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5274368.post-92048637715881485692011-04-14T00:21:00.001-07:002011-04-15T23:47:18.721-07:00White House Visitor Logs Leave Out Many
by Viveca Novak & Fred Schulte
...The White House website proudly boasts of making available “over 1,000,000 records of everyone who’s come through the doors of the White House” via a searchable database. Yet the Center’s analysis shows that the logs routinely omit or cloud key details about the identity of visitors, whom they met with and the nature of nixatronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17236836244348625454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5274368.post-10300957880044313822011-04-12T22:53:00.000-07:002011-04-12T22:53:09.381-07:00There Is No Male-Female Wage Gap
by Carrie Lukas
A study of single, childless urban workers between the ages of 22 and 30 found that women earned 8% more than men...nixatronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17236836244348625454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5274368.post-80115283129769565682011-04-11T00:10:00.001-07:002011-04-11T00:10:00.291-07:00We've Become a Nation of Takers, Not Makers
by Stephen Moore
More Americans work for the government than work in construction, farming, fishing, forestry, manufacturing, mining and utilities combined. We have moved decisively from a nation of makers to a nation of takers. Nearly half of the $2.2 trillion cost of state and local governments is the $1 trillion-a-year tab for pay and benefits of nixatronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17236836244348625454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5274368.post-89767311595152476192011-04-10T00:10:00.012-07:002011-04-10T16:19:56.057-07:00Senator Schumer Tells Dems How to Smear Tea Party
by S.S. Miller
The media-hungry liberal leader yesterday accidentally revealed the inner workings of the Democratic Party's "extreme" p.r. machine -- hurting budget negotiations as both parties brace for an April 8 government shutdown...
More: On Obama's 'Raising the level of public discourse'--A Well-Executed Con Jobnixatronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17236836244348625454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5274368.post-20785252587920778362011-04-09T21:11:00.000-07:002011-04-09T21:11:16.657-07:00Exposing Planned Parenthood's Cover-up of Child Sex Trafficking
Liveaction.com
Undercover recordings reveal Planned Parenthood clinics aiding self-identified sex traffickers exploiting underage girls, including foreigners.nixatronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17236836244348625454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5274368.post-79030734047023205972011-04-06T00:05:00.002-07:002011-04-06T00:05:00.371-07:00Immaculate Intervention: The Wars of Humanitarianism
by George Friedman
...In the end, the ultimate dishonesties of humanitarian war are the claims that “this won’t hurt much” and “it will be over fast.” In my view, their outcome is usually either a withdrawal without having done much good or a long occupation in which the occupied people are singularly ungrateful...nixatronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17236836244348625454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5274368.post-31567895069307076662011-04-04T00:05:00.001-07:002011-04-04T00:05:00.587-07:00When Inflation Comes, Blame Big Government
Investor's Business Daily
Amid the good news of a rebounding stock market and better job growth comes a warning: Inflation may flare up soon. If it does, don’t blame business...Blame the federal government, which seems dead set on repeating the same errors it made in the stagflationary 1970s.nixatronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17236836244348625454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5274368.post-60703930912842821932011-04-02T23:16:00.000-07:002011-04-02T23:16:13.776-07:00If There's No Mission, When's It Accomplished?
by Mark Steyn
...So, having agreed to be the Libyan Liberation Movement Air Force, we're also happy to serve as the Gadhafi Last-Stand Air Force. Say what you like about Barack Obama, but it's rare to find a leader so impeccably multilateralist that he's willing to participate in both sides of a war. It doesn't exactly do much for holding it under nixatronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17236836244348625454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5274368.post-76931267545420598092011-04-02T00:05:00.008-07:002011-04-02T00:05:00.904-07:00Obama Accepts Transparency Award--In Secret
by Abby Phillip
President Obama finally and quietly accepted his “transparency” award from the open government community this week — in a closed, undisclosed meeting at the White House on Monday. The secret presentation happened almost two weeks after the White House inexplicably postponed the ceremony, which was expected to be open to the press pool...nixatronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17236836244348625454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5274368.post-63799520343867730892011-04-01T00:30:00.000-07:002011-04-01T00:30:02.723-07:00Voting with Their Feet
by Thomas Sowell
The latest published data from the 2010 census show how people are moving from place to place within the United States. In general, people are voting with their feet against places where the liberal, welfare-state policies favored by the intelligentsia are most deeply entrenched...nixatronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17236836244348625454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5274368.post-58087615231085481582011-03-30T00:30:00.001-07:002011-03-30T00:30:01.259-07:007 Topics We Can't Have Adult Conversations About in America
by John Hawkins
...The moment you try to [have a reasoned conversation about certain topics], legions of grievance mongers, ideologues and bottom feeders start belting out scripted responses that have nothing to do with the topic at hand and everything to do with what they imagine your motivations to be and how ugly, stupid, and flawed nixatronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17236836244348625454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5274368.post-75372494608926977202011-03-29T08:37:00.000-07:002011-03-29T08:37:16.145-07:00What Happened to the American Declaration of War?
by George Friedman
...As our international power and interests surge, it would seem reasonable that our commitment to republican principles would surge. These commitments appear inconvenient. They are meant to be. War is a serious matter, and presidents and particularly Congresses should be inconvenienced on the road to war. Members of Congress nixatronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17236836244348625454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5274368.post-19725397095308398042011-03-29T00:24:00.000-07:002011-03-29T00:24:23.560-07:00How Awful Is GE?
by Mona Charen
..."General Electric, the nation's largest corporation, had a very good year in 2010" reported the Times. "The company reported worldwide profits of $14.2 billion, and said $5.1 billion of the total came from its operations in the United States. Its American tax bill? None. In fact, GE claimed a tax benefit of $3.2 billion"...The problem is not that companies like nixatronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17236836244348625454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5274368.post-62402451719794548902011-03-28T12:02:00.000-07:002011-03-28T12:02:52.636-07:00Transparency: Reporter at Biden Fundraiser Kept in Closet
by Doug Powers
...One of the fundraiser attendees emailed the Orlando Sentinel: “I was in attendance at the fundraiser and enjoyed a nice lunch. If I had known there was a reporter stuffed in the closet, I would have been compelled to stand up and demand answers. I would also like to know if this is actually legal to treat people like nixatronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17236836244348625454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5274368.post-9014153351753017062011-03-28T01:10:00.005-07:002011-03-28T01:10:01.121-07:00Energy Fantasyland
by Victor Davis Hanson
...The administration's energy visions are formulated by academics and government bureaucrats who live mostly in cities with short commutes and have worked largely for public agencies. These utopians have no idea that without reasonably priced fuel and power, the self-employed farmer cannot produce food. The private plant operator cannot create plastics. nixatronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17236836244348625454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5274368.post-83392740537930047472011-03-27T01:05:00.014-07:002011-03-27T01:05:00.587-07:00The Damning Contradictions of Obama's Attack on Libya
by Michael Barone
...many Democrats have denounced Bush's "rush to war" in Iraq. But military action there began a full five months after Congress approved. Obama didn't wait five days after the Security Council resolution...
Flashback: Biden in 2007--"We Must Impeach Bush if He Wages War Without Congressional Approval" Could this be the nixatronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17236836244348625454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5274368.post-34145240107730864262011-03-26T00:05:00.003-07:002011-03-26T00:05:01.443-07:00Unreported Soros Event Aims to Remake Entire Global Economy
...The event is bringing together "more than 200 academic, business and government policy thought leaders' to repeat the famed 1944 Bretton Woods gathering that helped create the World Bank and International Monetary Fund. Soros wants a new 'multilateral system," or an economic system where America isn't so dominant...nixatronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17236836244348625454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5274368.post-20767463971901674072011-03-25T00:50:00.000-07:002011-03-25T00:50:01.270-07:00The Waiver Charade
by Mike Rogers
...In a shocking admission, Obama’s administration has granted more than 1,000 waivers to the health law to prevent 2.6 million workers from losing their coverage. Millions more weren’t lucky enough to get a waiver, and have already been forced to switch plans...nixatronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17236836244348625454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5274368.post-47701872057313597542011-03-24T00:48:00.000-07:002011-03-24T00:48:29.127-07:00'Gadhafi Is Facing a Coalition of the Unwilling'
by David Gordon Smith
...The US government, wary of getting stuck in another war in a Muslim country, would like to hand control of the mission over to NATO, but the alliance is divided. At a meeting on Monday, NATO ambassadors failed to agree on whether the alliance should take control of the mission. NATO involvement would require approval by allnixatronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17236836244348625454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5274368.post-32880883590638507902011-03-21T23:03:00.001-07:002011-03-21T23:05:18.344-07:00Never Mind [on Obama's Bombing of Libya]
by Mona Charen
...unlike George Bush, who took his case for war to the American people through a vote in the United States Congress (with 110 Democrats voting in favor), President Obama has acted unilaterally -- putting our forces into harm's way based solely on his power as commander in chief. (Code Pink -- call your office!)...
Flashback: Candidate Obamanixatronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17236836244348625454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5274368.post-81285948003391720782011-03-21T00:20:00.006-07:002011-03-21T00:20:00.266-07:00DOJ to White Male Bullying Victims: Tough Luck
by Kerry Picket
...DOJ will only investigate bullying cases if the victim is considered protected under the 1964 Civil Rights legislation. In essence, only discrimination against a victim’s race, sex, national origin, disability, or religion will be considered by DOJ. The overweight straight white male who is verbally and/or physically harassed nixatronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17236836244348625454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5274368.post-27771310818711336652011-03-20T00:40:00.001-07:002011-03-20T00:40:00.295-07:00Rubber Bullets Fly at Anti-Obama Protest In Rio
by Kenneth Rapoza
What is most ironic about the Brazil protests is that the PSTU is a hard core socialist party in Brazil. While anti-Obama protests in the US consider Obama a socialist, the socialists in Brazil consider him a yankee capitalist, the bane of the Latin American left.
Five CEOs Traveling with Obama, Including a Halliburton Directornixatronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17236836244348625454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5274368.post-15206340694884010762011-03-20T00:30:00.008-07:002011-03-20T00:30:00.941-07:00Then and Now
Drudge Report
MARCH 19, 2011
OBAMA: 'Today we are part of a broad coalition. We are answering the calls of a threatened people. And we are acting in the interests of the United States and the world'...
MARCH 19, 2003
BUSH: 'American and coalition forces are in the early stages of military operations to disarm Iraq, to free its people and to defend the world from grave danger'...nixatronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17236836244348625454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5274368.post-53519979656177707172011-03-19T08:40:00.003-07:002011-03-19T08:40:01.411-07:00Japanese Earthquake Looters -- MIA
by Larry Elder
..."Poverty equals crime" is the standard "plain and simple" explanation, especially to the left. The analysis contains holes big enough to drive a Hummer through...[Rather,] culture and values explain why some countries and some communities experience crime, while others do not. This explains why many students from Asian countries outperform nixatronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17236836244348625454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5274368.post-46977937603936698202011-03-18T08:30:00.005-07:002011-03-18T08:30:02.026-07:00President Hamlet
by Victor Davis Hanson
...Obama is chief executive, and learning, as did Prince Hamlet, that thinking out every possible side of a question can mean never acting on any of them -- a sort of Shakespearean "prison" where "there is nothing either good or bad." Worrying about pleasing everyone ensures pleasing no one. Once again such "conscious does make cowards of us all."
Related: nixatronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17236836244348625454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5274368.post-85926600279002525672011-03-17T07:35:00.000-07:002011-03-17T07:35:37.027-07:00A Glowing Report on Radiation
by Ann Coulter
With the terrible earthquake and resulting tsunami that have devastated Japan, the only good news is that anyone exposed to excess radiation from the nuclear power plants is now probably much less likely to get cancer. This only seems counterintuitive because of media hysteria for the past 20 years trying to convince Americans that radiation at any nixatronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17236836244348625454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5274368.post-86220521056572523702011-03-15T21:35:00.002-07:002011-03-15T21:35:45.834-07:00Clueless Clapper
by Robert Spencer
Nothing epitomizes more perfectly the Obama Administration’s abject failure to come to grips with the reality of the global jihad and a rapidly shifting international situation than the embarrassing tenure of James Clapper, the Director of National Intelligence. Last week, Clapper again demonstrated how wholly unequipped he is for the job he holds, telling nixatronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17236836244348625454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5274368.post-10822612791298642002011-03-13T00:57:00.000-07:002011-03-13T00:57:43.372-07:00Police Department Lowers Testing Standards
WKEF-TV
...It's a move required by the U.S. Department of Justice after it says not enough African-Americans passed the exam. The D.O.J. approved new scoring policy only requires potential police officers to get a 58% and a 63%. That's the equivalent of an ‘F’ and a ‘D’...nixatronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17236836244348625454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5274368.post-31585256428700882702011-03-01T08:14:00.000-07:002011-03-01T08:14:05.897-07:00Never Fight a Land War in Asia
by George Friedman
...Given that the United States has fought four major land wars in Asia since World War II — Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan and Iraq — none of which had ideal outcomes, it is useful to ask three questions: First, why is fighting a land war in Asia a bad idea? Second, why does the United States seem compelled to fight these wars? And third, what is nixatronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17236836244348625454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5274368.post-66000244352728810122011-02-28T04:17:00.007-07:002011-03-02T22:52:10.060-07:00Mary Meeker's Definitive Guide To The American Public Debt Crisis
by Mamta Badkar
Kleiner Perkins partner Mary Meeker analyzes America as a corporation in an epic presentation, "USA Inc.: A Basic Summary of America's Financial Statements." Meeker says USA Inc. is on a parallel course to GM before its bankruptcy. Only through drastic cost-cutting can our country bounce back -- like GM has done in nixatronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17236836244348625454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5274368.post-20222337988494634022011-02-27T16:13:00.001-07:002011-02-27T16:16:33.451-07:00The DOJ's Creeping War on Whistle-blowers
by Glen Greenwald
...Those pretty words [of Obama's campaign platform] have given way to the most aggressive crusade to expose, punish and silence "courageous and patriotic" whistleblowers by any President in decades. As the Federation of American Scientists' Steven Aftergood put it, "They’re going after this at every opportunity and with unmatched vigornixatronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17236836244348625454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5274368.post-596689188349382782011-02-25T11:46:00.004-07:002011-02-25T11:46:00.305-07:00Pelosi Edits Honorary Resolution...on Pelosi
Politico
..."You think I'm kidding," Christine Pelosi added, to surprised laughter from the room. The proposed changes, she indicated, came out of a discussion with her mother...nixatronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17236836244348625454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5274368.post-21163340744253701112011-02-24T23:46:00.000-07:002011-02-24T23:46:04.325-07:00White House Meets Lobbyists Off Campus
by Chris Frates
...It allows the Obama administration to keep these lobbyist meetings shielded from public view — and out of Secret Service logs kept on visitors to the White House and later released to the public...
More business as usual: Boeing Won Air Tanker Contract Due to 'Chicago Politics'nixatronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17236836244348625454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5274368.post-89536437468964426792011-02-21T14:02:00.002-07:002011-02-21T14:06:06.500-07:00Remembering Our Presidents
This Presidents Day, A Lesson In Greatness
by Michael Ramirez
...Presidents Day is a good time to reflect both on the accomplishments of presidents past and on the lessons of history. It's also a time to honor our truly great presidents: George Washington, the father of our country; Abraham Lincoln, the great emancipator; and Ronald Reagan, the great communicator...nixatronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17236836244348625454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5274368.post-20695081354705926032011-02-21T11:58:00.000-07:002011-02-21T11:58:02.141-07:00Unrest and the Libyan Military
Stratfor
Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi has ordered the Libyan air force to fire on military installations in Libya, according to what the BBC has characterized as a reliable source. Al Jazeera has suggested that air force fighters have opened fire on crowds of protesters...
More: Clashes in Tripolinixatronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17236836244348625454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5274368.post-51335953763471825942011-02-15T09:02:00.003-07:002011-02-21T14:03:38.987-07:00Federal Deficit on Track for a Record This Fiscal Year
by Stephen Dinan
President Obama's budget, released Monday, was conceived as a blueprint for future spending, but it also paints the bleakest picture yet of the current fiscal year, which is on track for a record federal deficit and will see the government’s overall debt surpass the size of the total U.S. economy...nixatronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17236836244348625454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5274368.post-70834641402437477072011-02-14T21:00:00.001-07:002011-02-14T21:01:14.819-07:00Egypt: The Distance Between Enthusiasm and Reality
by George Friedman
...What we see is that while Mubarak is gone, the military regime in which he served has dramatically increased its power. This isn’t incompatible with democratic reform. Organizing elections, political parties and candidates is not something that can be done quickly. If the military is sincere in its intentions, it will have nixatronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17236836244348625454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5274368.post-43209085663593126282011-02-10T21:19:00.000-07:002011-02-10T21:19:11.260-07:00Mexico's Gun Supply and the 90 Percent Myth
by Scott Stewart
...There has clearly been a long and well-documented history of arms smuggling across the U.S.-Mexico border, but it is important to recognize that, while the United States is a significant source of certain classes of weapons and ammunition, it is by no means the source of 90 percent of the weapons used by the Mexican cartels, as is nixatronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17236836244348625454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5274368.post-918223472697681902011-02-06T22:38:00.000-07:002011-02-06T22:38:21.206-07:00
No John 3:16 at Super Bowl
by Drew Zahn
...Fixed Point [Foundation] released a statement criticizing Fox's decision: "It seems one can advertise just about anything else. Few movie trailers are deemed too violent or beer commercials too sexual for primetime. But religious messages, particularly Christian ones, well, that's just too controversial"...nixatronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17236836244348625454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5274368.post-62832021454153871532011-02-04T00:42:00.000-07:002011-02-04T00:42:56.380-07:00Social Media as a Tool for Protest
by Marko Papic and Sean Noonan
Current conventional wisdom has it that social networks have made regime change easier to organize and execute. An underlying assumption is that social media is making it more difficult to sustain an authoritarian regime — even for hardened autocracies like Iran and Myanmar — which could usher in a new wave of democratization.nixatronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17236836244348625454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5274368.post-70159051222706902152011-01-31T21:14:00.000-07:002011-01-31T21:14:12.632-07:00The Egypt Crisis in a Global Context: A Special Report
by George Friedman
...When we look at the political dynamic of Egypt, and try to imagine its connection to the international system, we can see that there are several scenarios under which certain political outcomes would have profound effects on the way the world works. That should not be surprising...
More: Egyptian Police Redeploying
nixatronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17236836244348625454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5274368.post-83734179658779977192011-01-29T09:12:00.000-07:002011-01-29T09:12:31.221-07:00Current Events in Egypt
by George Friedman
For more than 30 years, the geopolitics of the Middle East has been built on the American-Egyptian-Israeli relationship. STRATFOR founder Dr. George Friedman contemplates current events in Egypt and the prospect of the end of an era...nixatronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17236836244348625454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5274368.post-7395406325544451292011-01-23T17:17:00.000-07:002011-01-23T17:17:21.850-07:00Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court's Dumbest Decision
by Michael Filozof
...The specious type of "reasoning" in Roe ultimately leads to Nancy Pelosi snarling incredulously, "Are you serious? Are you serious?" when asked by a reporter how the Constitution justifies ObamaCare; it leads to Justice Kennedy citing the European Court of Human Rights when declaring that the Constitution guarantees the nixatronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17236836244348625454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5274368.post-20671093926540484582011-01-21T07:17:00.001-07:002011-01-21T07:17:00.430-07:00Chinese Espionage and French Trade Secrets
by Sean Noonan
...If Chinese intelligence services were indeed responsible for espionage at Renault it would be one of only a few known cases involving non-Chinese nationals and would have involved the largest amount of money since the case of the legendary Larry Wu-Tai Chin, China’s most successful spy...nixatronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17236836244348625454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5274368.post-38735468794417175462011-01-20T07:17:00.000-07:002011-01-20T07:17:16.870-07:00China's Military Comes Into Its Own
by Rodger Baker
...For most of modern China’s history, the military has been an internal force without much appetite for more worldly affairs. That is now changing, appropriately, due to China’s growing global prominence and reliance on the global economy. But that means that a new balance must be found, and China’s senior leadership must both accommodate and nixatronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17236836244348625454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5274368.post-20933836480643238812011-01-14T09:03:00.005-07:002011-01-14T09:03:00.498-07:00WikiLeaks Vindicates President George W. Bush
by Larry Elder
"By late 2003, even the Bush White House's staunchest defenders were starting to give up on the idea that there were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. But WikiLeaks' newly-released Iraq war documents reveal that for years afterward, U.S. troops continued to find chemical weapons labs, encounter insurgent specialists in toxins and nixatronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17236836244348625454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5274368.post-23340551467279780382011-01-13T21:01:00.000-07:002011-01-13T21:01:41.148-07:00Blame Lies with the Wicked
by Cal Thomas
...The best "explanation" for this horror came from Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz. In a statement, McCain put the blame where it belongs: on "a wicked person who has no sense of justice or compassion." He added, "Whoever did this, whatever their reason, they are a disgrace to Arizona, this country and the human race, and they deserve and will receive the nixatronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17236836244348625454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5274368.post-79321191519823925312010-12-29T08:41:00.002-07:002011-01-13T21:07:27.494-07:00Making Sense of the START Debate
by George Friedman
...Passage allowed Obama to dodge a bullet, but it leaves open a question that he does not want to answer: What is American strategy toward Russia? He has mimicked American strategy from a quarter century ago, not defined what it will be.nixatronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17236836244348625454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5274368.post-81725965895117650822010-12-28T08:48:00.001-07:002010-12-28T08:48:00.234-07:00Closing the Books on the Worst Congress
Washington Examiner
...Columbia University historian Alan Brinkley told Bloomberg News recently that "this is probably the most productive session of Congress since at least the '60s." When Congress votes on bills that no one reads or understands, it can be quite "productive." Americans have already rendered a verdict on such productivity and elected a new nixatronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17236836244348625454noreply@blogger.com