Pat Buchanan raises just such a question. Here Pat notes that Syria is a nation that has neither attacked nor threatened us. Pat continues that in the absence of an attack on the United States, Congress alone has the authority to decide whether or not the United States goes to war. The next 72 hours will […]
Archives for August 2013
Montana’s Firearms Freedom Act Shot Down by Court
Unbelievably, the 9th Circuit has butted into Montana’s state business and overturned Montana’s Firearms Freedom Act. Conservatives made a mistake in believing the court was going to rescue the country from the health care takeover, an error they’ve repeated in hoping the legal system would end the federal encroachment on gun rights. It was worth a try, […]
Dow Down 4.3%
This is the Fed’s market. The carnage in the foreign exchange market is proof positive that Bernanke and Co. is in way over its head. Meanwhile the Dow is down 4.3% in August and on its way to its worst month since May 2012. Steve Russolillo explains in the Wall Street Journal: The uncertainty explains […]
Firearms Revolution?
Americans will not tolerate debasement of the Second Amendment no matter what the Supreme Court thinks. Today the supremes stand behind the Second. Put another Marxist influenced president like the current ill-prepared-fellow in the White House, and the Supreme Court
The World is Going to Change
The investing world is going to change in a few weeks when companies like PIMCO are allowed to sell alternative products to retail investors. These products are going to be snapped up by the uninitiated hoping for a higher return…for a fee of course. Has everyone forgotten 2008?
The Stupidity of War
Korea, a loser. Vietnam, a loser. Iraq, a loser. Afghanistan, a loser. Libya, a loser. Syria? Americans are wise to use the original Weinberger/Powell doctrine as their road map to potential foreign intervention. The doctrine outlines five tests for foreign intervention. Do the math. I count zero tests met. Here Reason offers a detailed current […]
What Is America’s Senior Military Advisor’s Take on Syria’s Civil War?
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Martin Dempsey says that “the application of force rarely produces and, in fact, maybe never produces, the outcome that we seek.” Here Cato Institute’s defines the Dempsey message while highlighting the supposed credibility problem caused by President Obama. Chris concludes that Syrian violence will end only when the […]
“This Could Be the Thing That Triggers an Israel-Iran War”
Do you think for a minute that Russia is going to let Assad go down? How about Iran? No? Well then how about Hezbollah? Probably not. So the next step then becomes escalation of the civil war in Syria—leading to what? How about war between Israel and Iran? Writing in the The New Yorker, George […]
Safe Haven
Gold is your insurance policy for your portfolio. It acts as a counterbalance when investors smell fear and bail out of stocks. That’s exactly what’s happening now. Too bad for those who sold their safe haven investment at the bottom. Claudia Carpenter and Phoebe Sedgmann write at Bloomberg: Gold climbed to a three-month high in […]
Do You Know about the Syrian Electronic Army?
Here, NPR tells readers that the group brought down The New York Times, took out The Washington Post and took control of npr.org. In the latest hacking that brought down The New York Times on Tuesday, evidence points to the activist group of hackers known as the Syrian Electronic Army. This group also took out The Washington Post briefly last week and […]
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