Originally posted September 12, 2014. Pat Buchanan asks who will provide the legions Obama will deploy to crush ISIL in Syria. And Pat correctly tells readers that before Congress votes a dime, it should get some answers. Pat concludes among all the nations listed here, the least threatened is the United States. The president did […]
Unintended Consequences
Writing in the WSJ, Yaroslav Trofimov asks, “So how deep—and how permanent—is this deterioration of the U.S. ability to shape events in the Middle East?” As Mr.Trofimov notes, some believe “the decline is not irreversible at all. … But others have concluded that the Middle East’s Pax Americana is truly over.” Emile Hokayem, a senior […]
A Marco Rubio/Sheldon Adelson Hook Up?
What would this signal to voters? (1) More American intervention abroad in the business of others, and (2) the continuation of a failed strategy championed by neocons and historically proven to be contrary to America’s national security best interests. Politico reports here: Sheldon Adelson, one of the Republican Party’s most sought-after contributors, is leaning increasingly […]
Obama at War with Himself?
My friend Chris Preble, Cato Institute vice president for defense and foreign policy studies, writes, “It appears that the president is at war with himself. No one can dispute that the Syrian civil war is a tragedy. But no one can credibly claim that there are vital American security interests at stake in Syria. Who […]
Dr. Ben Carson on WWII Gun Rights
From The Washington Post: Ben Carson said Thursday that Adolph Hitler’s mass murder of Jews “would have been greatly diminished” if German citizens had not been disarmed by the Nazi regime. When it comes to disarming Jews during WWII, history is clearly on Dr. Carson’s side. To indicate otherwise is simply historical revisionism. More on […]
Paul Ryan D.O.A.
Pat Buchanan warns readers that Paul Ryan will end up “toes up in the OK Corral” should he mistakenly become Speaker of the House. Ryan is on the wrong side of key issues—such as amnesty for people here illegally and “Obamatrade” or the disastrous Trans-Pacific Partnership the Obama crowd has cooked up to benefit transnational […]
Are Americans Lab Animals?
Former CIA bin Laden unit chief Michael Scheuer states, “Obama and his party are the enemies of all Americans. They use and exploit Blacks, Hispanics, illegal immigrants, feminists, and other trifling, block-voting minorities to move their authoritarian agenda forward.” Mike writes that Obama, Hillary Clinton, Biden, Bloomberg want to install a one-party, minority-run, police state […]
Our 10 Million-Word Tax Code
The Cato Institute’s Dan Mitchell provides a shocking chart from the Tax Foundation on The Federal Tax Code. You will see that the number of words in the code has exploded to over 10 million from under 4 million in the mid 1970s and just over one million back in the sensible 1950s. Dr. Mitchell […]
Dylan, Kooper and Bloomfield
From The Wall Street Journal’s Speakeasy column: “Bob Dylan’s song “Sitting on a Barbed Wire Fence” was a previously unreleased cut from 1965 that first came out in 1991. Speakeasy today premieres an alternate version of the song: a deep cut of a deep cut, from the latest entry in Dylan’s ongoing “Bootleg” series.”
House Conservatives Back Webster
Reuters reports that House conservatives are supporting Congressman Daniel Webster as the next Speaker unless they see major changes in the way the House of Representatives is run. The Freedom Caucus members said the decision to support Webster on Thursday does not bind them to vote as a bloc for the Florida conservative in the full-House […]
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