Tom Friedman is correct in calling for the need of an anti-ISIS coalition. President Obama has been excoriated for declaring that “we don’t have a strategy yet” for effectively confronting the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, or ISIS. In criticizing Obama for taking too much time, Representative Mike Rogers, the Republican chairman of the […]
Archives for September 2014
Rand Paul: Kill ISIS
Rand Paul wants (strategy bereft) Obama to convene a joint session of Congress to make the case that the United States should destroy ISIS . ISIS is not a sovereign state like Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya. A targeted, clearly defined mission, with a non-nation-building end game is required, as I have outlined here. Rand Paul, […]
America on the Wrong Track, Say 70%
A new George Washington University poll shows that an overwhelming number of Americans believe that the economy is on the wrong track. The poll, conducted in partnership with The Tarrance Group and Lake Research Partners, found that the economy weighs more heavily on the minds of American voters than gridlock in Washington. Twenty-four percent of […]
Jimmy Buffett’s Shrimpboat Sound
Becky and I have walked past Jimmy Buffett’s Shrimpboat Sound Studio many times during our visits to Key West. It’s hard to believe such great music is produced in an old shrimp freezer. Buffett will be in Paris later this month at the intimate La Cigale located in the 18th arrondissement. Out of curiosity I […]
A Bridge Too Far
“The Constitution is plain as day that any international treaty that compels certain actions by the United States requires a two-thirds ratification by the Senate,” writes Patrick J. Michaels, director of the Center for the Study of Science at the Cato Institute. Read here from Mr. Michaels how President Obama is playing “fast and loose” […]
Turkey: No Iraq Military Preparations
Here Turkish political analyst Ceylan Ozbudak tells readers that Turkey’s parliament would have to pass a resolution allowing military operations against ISIS in Iraq, and that no such resolution has yet been agreed upon. One wonders why the delay in that, as Ms. Ozbudak reports, ISIS has already attacked the Turkish Embassy in Mosul taking diplomats […]
“The Smartest Person in the Room”
In his latest dispatch from the Goldberg File, NRO’s Jonah Goldberg examines some of President Obama’s most compelling traits: The doofus who thinks the language spoken by Austrians is “Austrian,” that you pronounce the p in “corpsman” and that ATMs are the reason why job growth is sluggish. The egomaniac who gave the queen of […]
Battle of Amirli
By working in concert and with assistance from U.S. airstrikes, the Iraqi military, Shiite militiamen and Kurdish peshmerga forces have pushed ISIS back from Amirli, saving 15,000 Turkmen. An Associated Press report by Sinan Salaheddin tells the story at Military.com. About 15,000 Shiite Turkmens were stranded in the farming community, some 105 miles (170 kilometers) north of […]
A Million Here, A Million There
Staff writer Elizabeth Harrington writing online for the Washington Free Beacon, Aug. 29: More than five years after the stimulus was signed into law, a new audit reveals the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) spent nearly $5 billion in questionable costs and funded programs that were “inherently not shovel ready.” The Office of Inspector General […]
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