“This will not be a Benghazi,” vowed President Trump to reporters on New Year’s Eve. “This will never, ever be a Benghazi.” A Little History On 4 November 1979, Iranian extremists stormed the U.S. embassy in Tehran: 66 hostages seized 52 hostages held for 444 days A Military Fiasco When Carter informed a sleepy nation […]
Archives for January 2020
The Death of the West is Happening Now
At The American Conservative, Pat Buchanan explains to readers that the prediction of his 2002 book, The Death of the West, is no longer a prediction, but is now a reality. He writes (abridged): The number of births in Japan fell in 2019 to a level unseen since 1874, around 900,000. But there were 1.4 […]
Proven Wrong: Krugman, Summers, Rattner
Unethical experts abound in every discipline, but no more so perhaps than in the media and DC think tanks, warns Victor Davis Hanson in National Review. A supposedly clueless Donald Trump had the lemmings racing toward the abyss in an attempt to trash his economic plans as gravely absurd. Mr. Trump was bound to destroy […]
Was the Soleimani Killing Legal? Yes
Whether you agree with the decision to kill Qassem Soleimani or not, says Alan Dershowitz, it’s legality is not in question. He writes: The targeting of Soleimani was more justified, as a matter of law, than the targeting of Osama bin Laden in 2011. The killing of Soleimani was in large part an act of […]
Winner of “Adult of the Year” – Attorney General William Barr
In what she calls a new award category, Kimberley Strassel at the WSJ would bestow her prize on “a person’s willingness to speak truth to power—whether to the press, the boss, or to partisan operators.” When President Trump nominated William Barr as AG in December 2018, the press, who demeaned all Trump nominees, was stymied […]
The Death of Qassem Soleimani: “A Truly Evil Figure”
Qassem Soleimani was “a truly evil figure,” according to Gen. David Petraeus in 2008. Now the Irani general has been killed by a drone strike in Iraq. Sune Engel Rasmussen reports for The Wall Street Journal: Qassem Soleimani, the architect of Iran’s shadow wars and military expansion in the Middle East that brought the Islamic […]
MQ-9 Reaper: The Drone that Killed Soleimani
By now many Americans, including those on Wall Street, have heard the news of a major escalation in tensions with Iran that occurred yesterday. In a drone strike ordered by President Trump, Iranian Maj. Gen. Qassem Soleimani was killed outside Baghdad. The drone used for the mission was the MQ-9 Reaper. The drone was proposed […]
Tucker Explains: “Official Washington” Pushing Trump and America Toward War
During his primetime show last night, Tucker Carlson got the news that the United States had bombed Iranian Maj. General Qassem Soleimani in Iraq. In response, he tore into what he called “official Washington” and the establishment’s push to start another war in the Middle East. The Week reported on the segment: Earlier, fellow host […]
Did You Get AirPods for Christmas?
At the turn of the century, the most popular Christmas gifts among America’s young teens were Pokemon playing cards and merchandise. Now, 20 years later, the hottest gift for Christmas is Apple’s AirPods. The pro version of the small wireless headphones cost $249 (before taxes). Shortly after the kids opened their gifts on Christmas 1999, […]
Wilson’s WWI Folly
Originally posted June 17, 2014. America should have stayed out of WWI and instead practiced a strategy of armed neutrality. Here Cato Institute’s Jim Powell (author of Wilson’s War: How Woodrow Wilson’s Great Blunder Led to Hitler, Lenin, Stalin, and World War II) thoughtfully lays out the historical disaster of Woodrow Wilson’s WWI intervention policy, which straight […]