Feb 26, 2009 – And proactive on the economy -- at last. Is this a great country, or what? … It is of course a great country -- the best ever. The question is whether, with this bunch, it can remain so. … Only ramping up for World War II pulled us out of the Great Depression.…

Feb 24, 2009 – One of the many symptoms of this decay from within is that we are preoccupied with the pay of corporate executives while the leading … charge of Iran or the fanatics in charge of the international terrorist organizations that Iran supplies. … In the World War II naval battle of Midway, if things had not happened just the way they did, at just the time they did, the American…

Feb 20, 2009 – The message is clear. … And for emphasis, after the roundhouse hook, came the poke in the eye. A U.S. women's badminton team had been invited to Iran. … On Feb. 4, Tehran denied the team entry into Iran.…

Mar 17, 2009 – people is high among the reasons America is no longer seen as a beacon of liberation in the Arab and Muslim world. … The foreign country is Israel; the political faction Likud. … Nor did Freeman shrink at naming the source of the noxious campaign of slander against him.…

Mar 12, 2009 – Here’s what happened in recent days to change the game and make us closer to a cataclysmic confrontation with dire consequences for … The situation is hair-triggered as Israel and Iran both contemplate pre-emptive action. … the indispensable Ras Tanura gulf oil terminal and the Saudi oil facility at Abqaiq.…

Mar 31, 2009 – …”” The second excerpt is from much later in the novel and is a conversation that takes place at the White House between the former … the sick notion that all that is wrong with the world is the fault of the United States, and that our way of life is the enemy, then … India is preparing for an all out nuclear war with Pakistan, and Iran, even after a joint attack years ago from Israel and the United…

Mar 30, 2009 – me of the Bush Is Hitler crowd on the left. … He is not the anti-Christ, although a disturbing number of people on the right are convinced he is. … that the American system, the one the Founders created, is still in place.…

Mar 23, 2009 – According to this logic, the various steps Barack Obama is taking with respect to the armed forces, the foreign battlefields in which … Consider some illustrative examples: The Obama administration is cutting the defense budget by 10%. … The President is on a path to denuclearizing the United States by refusing to modernize the arsenal or even to fund fully the steps…

Apr 5, 2009 – These days the war on terror is over as a nomenclature as if changing terminology can change reality. … Is anyone noticing that President Obama is much more comfortable talking about his bona fides with the Islamic world as someone who … with infidels (read: “We the People”).…

Apr 20, 2009 – is also concerned about the impact that oil revenues have on freedom abroad and security at home. … It may sound strange to say that the gasoline we consume on a daily basis is funding terrorism and increasing the cost of the war on … Doing so will be a long process, but the current recession presents us with a golden opportunity.…

Apr 17, 2009 – The result would be a "man-caused disaster," and what could the SEALs have done with that? … His new strategy for dealing with the Iranian nuclear threat is to dispense with the reasonable precondition that Iran shut down its … A strategy of "sensitivity" when the stakes are so high, whether with pirates on land or pirates at sea, is, to say the least, "inappropriate…

Apr 16, 2009 – Defense Secretary Robert Gates, on Afghanistan: "This is a long fight, and I think we're in it until we are successful along with the … dioxide is neither polluting nor warming the planet: "Carbon dioxide is not a pollutant. … far left, better than the cadres in MoveOn.Org, is no extremist.…

Apr 14, 2009 – Payne was headed home, having dispensed his cogent advice at the end of a visit with Somali leaders of one kind or another concerning … So also Russia, with its aggressive attitudes toward the United States on practically everything, including the war on terror. … Depend on the bureaucracy to come up with language that leaves everyone in doubt as to whether America is contending with people who…

Apr 13, 2009 – If the US were taking the Iranian threat seriously, the Obama administration would not be begging Iran to negotiate with it after Teheran … If the US were interested in contending with the danger Iran constitutes to global security, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton would … Whereas Middle Eastern countries have no choice but to deal with Iran, the US and its European allies apparently believe that they…

Apr 13, 2009 – At a time when Iran, not to mention North Korea, is shaking a nuclear-armed fist at the world, Obama is telling Russia he’d like to … Furthermore, we are no longer supposed to call “the war on terrorism” the war on terrorism because, I suppose, it might give certain … So far as I’m concerned, the only term they’ve come up with that I approve of is “man-made disaster,” which was invented by Janet Napolitano…

Apr 13, 2009 – failed attempts at peace with Japan. … Again, the genie is out of the bottle. … That is not paranoia, but rather is basic human nature. The genie is out. The 1930's have come and gone. Let's deal with reality.…

Apr 30, 2009 – Way back in 1991 when I went to war with the 1st Infantry Division (The Big Red One), the Army that surrounded me as we launched our … But the fact is that the ground war was over in four days! … And North Korea is not the only threat. The mid-term threat from Iran is also very real.…

Apr 30, 2009 – We no longer call the War on Terror the "War on Terror." We no longer call Islamofascist enemy detainees "enemy detainees." … The President offered a new relationship with Iran, provided Iranians "unclenched their fist." … On the other hand, Washingtonian magazine graced us with a spiffy, Photoshopped cover of a fit and toned swimsuit-wearing President…

Apr 29, 2009 – Evil Empire in the Cold War, to boot. … This is not the Great Depression, not even close. … Other presidents have led us out of recessions, and the test for this president is whether he can do the same without bankrupting the…

Apr 29, 2009 – as part of its effort to depict the war as one of the great genocides of human history. … For instance, the analysis failed to note that the overwhelming majority of the 110,600 dead met their demise at the hands of terrorist … In the Iran-Iraq War of 1980-88, for instance, more than 200,000 Iraqis died – a much higher percentage of a significantly smaller…

Apr 24, 2009 – It seemed to us that the Cold War consensus had broken down with the Vietnam War. … In Prague, Obama declared that "the most dangerous legacy of the Cold War" is the large stockpile of nuclear weapons left behind after … Obama talks a lot about wanting to move beyond the "stale arguments" of the Cold War.…

Apr 23, 2009 – The e-mailer guessed that all the sniper ammunition the jihadists have used in the whole war hasn't cost close to that. … The point is, the United States is getting a lot of bang for a lot of buck but not much else. … This is not to suggest that there is no war or enemies to fight, which is what both the Left and the Paleo-Right will say; there most…

Apr 21, 2009 – Is there anyone Obama would decline to exchange friendly greetings with at a diplomatic encounter? How about Robert Mugabe? … He said something very similar about Iran during the campaign. … neighbors, to us and to the world.…

May 7, 2009 – "With smart power, diplomacy will be the vanguard of foreign policy," Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told senators at her confirmation … scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, in the Weekly Standard. … What the administration does not seem to grasp is that the battle against the Taliban in Pakistan or the nuclear threats posed by Iran…

May 6, 2009 – One of the many problems with moving all, or any, of the terrorists to U.S. soil is that every square inch of American soil in the … courthouse has 137 soldiers surrounding him with weapons at the ready. … maybe one or two at the German Embassy - just for old time's sake; and a half-dozen or so at the Embassy of Iran - they know a little…