I’m guessing this will be the stupidest thing you read all day. Saw this up at Blackfive yesterday, which helped lead me down a path of hostility that only dissipated after 4 hours of playing Tiger Woods golf on XBox
The name Mohammed Bouyeri is not familiar to most Americans, but is well-known in the Netherlands. Mr. Bouyeri is the Islamic terrorist who ritually slaughtered Theo van Gogh on the streets of Amsterdam back in 2004, and is now serving
The Florida pastor of a small Christian church in Gainesville, FL found himself at the center of an international firestorm last week. Even the staunchest of conservatives advised him against burning Qur’ans in protest of Islam. U.S. Commander in Afghanistan
USA Network has established itself as the master of smartly entertaining TV drama, not just on cable but on all of TV. Starting with Monk at the beginning of the decade and steadily adding a solid lineup of hit shows
WikiLeaks is poised to release another 15,000 secret military reports, this time about the war in Iraq. A rarely spoken context for the WikiLeaks controversy is the shared hostility of WikiLeaks and leftist Democrats toward U.S. military involvement in the
When reading stories about that formerly obscure Florida preacher behind the Quran burning controversy, bear in mind that the only law he would have broken in doing so would have been Islamic law. With this in mind, it should become
[Editor’s Note: The author of this post has requested anonymity.] Read part I here. Understanding that General Petraeus is himself the object of an intense sustained information campaign and realizing that, as a matter of fact, every Coalition partner he
On September 11, 2001, I was over the Atlantic when the pilot on my Moscow to New York Delta Airlines flight made a puzzling announcement. He said there was a minor problem with the plane and we would have to
[Editors’ Note: Two months ago Jim Hanson reported on BigGovernment.com that Staff Sgt. Salvatore Giunta was likely to become the first living Medal of Honor recipient since the Vietnam War. Today, Mr. Hanson’s report was confirmed. To honor SSG Giunta,
There’s a special place in my heart for period pieces involving excessive swordplay. There’s a natural romance to films where men write sonnets with swords, debating with the edge of a blade. But such films can quickly slip down the
I cannot accept the premise that causing “outrage to Muslims” is reason enough to condemn the burning some paper and ink. Nor would the matter differ if someone threatened to burn the Bible. A thing that has been done —
Read part I of this post here. Another highly successful counter-insurgency occurred in Hungary in 1956. Hungary was occupied by the Soviet Union after WWII. After a typical communist charade of free elections, the Hungarian government became a de facto
President Obama on Tuesday declared Iraq a done deal. Okay, he didn’t support the surge, back in the Bush days. He and his anti-war pals in the Senate declared the war lost years ago. His progressive world-view won’t allow him
General David Petraeus has sounded an alarm about the planned burning of copies of the Quran on the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks by the 50-member congregation of the Dove World Outreach Center in Gainesville, Florida. He believes that, “Images
A Florida church’s plan to burn Korans on the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks has sparked an outcry in the Muslim world. Protesters in Afghanistan burned an American flag and an effigy of the Florida church’s pastor.
“Look, we support the troops, we just don’t want them to kill anyone.” -Rosie Connell in response to Bill O’Reilly in An American Carol As a screenwriter, I was able to put those words in the mouth of a loony
The most important passage in President Obama’s “end of war” speech declares that there are no longer “surrender ceremonies”, which he seems to interpret to mean that there are no longer “celebrations of victories.” Victory, he suggests, consists in the
President Obama’s speech was a somewhat cover-all-the-bases address. It will not change the direction of U.S. domestic or international policy. President Obama hinted at going on “the offensive” because of the ending of the combat mission in Iraq. But he
You know the tide is turning against the Emperor Hussein when his state-controlled media subjects have the impertinence to pull this little stunt: OBAMA: “Tonight, I am announcing that the American combat mission in Iraq has ended.” THE FACTS: Peril
President Obama’s 18-minute speech August 31, 2010, left us between Iraq and a hard place. There was no immediately recognizable thrust. President Obama believes he is rid of the Iraq tar baby by simply stating that he is. His own
President Obama’s biggest problem as Commander in Chief is that he is not a leader. He is detached from the troops who fight our wars and they will never feel about him the way they did about George W. Bush.
The President has turned the art of presidential speech making into the art of giving a deposition. You have to look close to catch the nuance and the legal loopholes 1. The president said he is committed to Afghanistan. Except
I was surprised. The president praised the military in what seemed a sincere recognition of their accomplishment in Iraq as we wind down our involvement there. Instead of the vague and confusing term “terrorist,” he actually named some of the
Having first watched President Obama give an awkward talk to a group of soldiers at Fort Bliss, Texas, followed by his monotone prime-time speech, I was left with the impression that he tried as best he could to heap praise
Just when you think Wikileaks couldn’t stoop any lower, or the CIA get any worse, this just in from the Washington Post: A little-known fact, according to a once-secret CIA analysis, is that America has long been an exporter of
