Writing at the The American Conservative, Pat Buchanan explains to Americans the common denominator between Donald Trump and Ronald Reagan. Since World War II, the two men who have most terrified this city by winning the presidency are Ronald Reagan and Donald Trump. And they have much in common. Both came out of the popular culture, […]
These People Don’t Even Know Who Their President Is
In America, other than coma patients and Appalachian hermits, pretty much everyone knows who the president is. That’s a function of how much power the president has come to wield, and of what a central position the office holds symbolically. But there is a country where many people don’t even know who their president is […]
Can Trump Now Undo the Intentional Damage Obama Inflicted?
From former CIA bin Laden unit chief Michael Scheuer: It is time to relax and let the Democrats and their war-loving Neocon, Republican, and Israel-First friends go piss up a rope. They are as mangy a lot of miscreant mongrels as the republic has ever seen, and they will remain so even as their head […]
Energy Man Tillerson’s Confirmation Might Look Like a No
Daniel Larison, opining at The American Conservative lays out a pretty good case against a Tillerson confirmation for Secretary of State. One of the main assumptions that almost everyone has made about Tillerson’s nomination to be Secretary of State is that he would be inclined to improve relations with Russia. Some of his answers from […]
The Most Important Person You May Have Never Heard Of: Part I
Originally posted March 11, 2013. Can there be any subject more vital to your personal security, your family’s security, and the security of America itself than our country’s foreign policy? Of course not, so it makes sense that if there is a rational mind out there who can explain to you why, for over two […]
New Pick for State Would Be a Stick-In-The-Eye For American Voters
UPDATE: December 19, 2016 The New York Times has reported that there is opposition within the ranks of GOP Senators to confirming John Bolton’s appointment as deputy secretary of state. The NYT also reports that Rex Tillerson, who has been tapped for the lead role at the State Department, also doesn’t appear keen on having […]
The Treason That Calls Itself Neo-Conservative
Originally posted March 29, 2016. Former CIA bin Laden unit chief Michael Scheuer alerts Americans that because of the 2nd Amendment, Americans, unlike most unarmed European citizens, ensures that the American citizenry can, if they so choose, defend themselves against the Islamists, the national government, or perhaps both. Scheuer continues: What the aftermath of the […]
All 17 U.S. Intelligence Agencies Agreed Iran had No A-Bomb
Writing at The American Conservative Pat Buchanan tells readers: Though every Republican in Congress voted against the Iran nuclear deal, “Tearing it up … is not going to happen,” says Sen. Bob Corker, chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee. Hopefully, the chairman speaks for the president-elect. During the campaign, Donald Trump indicated as much, saying that, […]
Out of the Sewer into the Cesspool
Originally posted July 27, 2016. David Bromwich, writing in The National Interest, tells readers that John Kennedy deceived Americans regarding Russia’s supposed “missile gap.” In the 1960 campaign, John Kennedy ran to the right of Richard Nixon on nuclear policy toward the Soviet Union. He accused Nixon of having allowed a “missile gap.” Compared to […]
Are American ICBMs Really Still on a 2-Minute Alert?
The American Conservative publisher and my Cato Institute-associated friend John Basil Utley looks at the prospects for avoiding accidental nuclear war. Our wasteful military budget is overloaded with incredibly expensive aircraft carriers, F-35 fighters, and now another bomber. Surprisingly, U.S. ICBMs, the Minuteman III, are still kept on two-minute hair-trigger alert still seemingly run by […]
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