The implications of the Panetta doctrine [Anonymoused]
From the other day: Panetta said he and top military commanders had judged it too dangerous to send troops to the eastern Libyan city without a clearer picture of events on the ground. The “basic...
View ArticleBenghazi isn’t going away [Anonymoused]
McCain on Benghazi: this is either a massive cover-up or gross incompetence on the part of the president of the United States. There were ample warnings ahead of time. There was two attacks on our...
View ArticleAnother Clapper caper? [Anonymoused]
Reuters: CIA officials on the ground in Libya dispatched security forces to the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi within 25 minutes and made other key decisions about how to respond to the waves of...
View ArticleArithmetic, up close and personal [Anonymoused]
How interesting. One Bobbie Bigsby noticed that her paycheck was short $31. That’s one way to get the attention of the 47%.
View ArticleCalling planet earth [Anonymoused]
Tom Bevan: Two months ago Illinois’ Democratic Sen. Dick Durbin made the utterly misleading assertion that “Social Security does not add one penny to our debt — not a penny.” In fact, Social Security,...
View ArticleOdds and ends [Anonymoused]
Apes and pigs again. Where have we seen this before? And Mac Owens and Captain Katie Petronio weign in on the latest offense to common sense from the faculty lounge. The Tatler explains that the...
View ArticleSomeday, someday [Anonymoused]
From a few days ago: I’ll lay out additional proposals that are fully paid for and fully consistent with the budget framework both parties agreed to just 18 months ago. Let me repeat: Nothing I’m...
View ArticleWill drawing to an inside straight work? [Anonymoused]
Actually it’s more like drawing to an inside straight flush. The odds of that are in the ballpark of 1 in 52. You have to get not only the right card, but the right suit. In the instant case, the...
View ArticleWill the media awaken? [Anonymoused]
The media have started to wake up. How far will it go in this much-more-serious-than-Watergate scandal? PL: Obama and Hillary Clinton are on trial — not yet before a court, but in the minds of...
View ArticleCover-ups and crimes, then and now [Anonymoused]
The New Yorker: the mere existence of the edits — whatever the motivation for them — seriously undermines the White House’s credibility on this issue. This past November (after Election Day), White...
View ArticlePathetic non-denial denials [Anonymoused]
All the tech companies are denying that they ever heard of “PRISM“, and that the government does not have “direct access” to their servers. Amazingly, they all use almost precisely identical language...
View ArticleAppalling creatures [Anonymoused]
VDH has an encyclopedic list of celebrities, politicians, media people and historians who plagiarize or simply make things up, sometimes trivially, sometimes in very serious matters. Sometimes the Ick...
View ArticleWhy? [Anonymoused]
History is part fact, part myth, part narrative. From a moral perspective, a nation’s history is typically a mixed bag. It’s what you emphasize that is telling. We remember going to the 4th of July...
View Article1615, 1946, and today [Anonymoused]
An author in the 1940′s: Unpopular ideas can be silenced, and inconvenient facts kept dark, without the need for any official ban. Anyone who has lived long in a foreign country will know of instances...
View ArticlePants on fire yet? [Anonymoused]
Jonah Goldberg: Say I like my current car. The government says under some new policy I will be able to keep it and maybe even lower my car payments. But once the policy is imposed, I’m told my car now...
View ArticleBright lines, perilous times [Anonymoused]
The NYT is still happy, though concerned that their man “misspoke” two dozen times or so. The AP is running news that was unthinkable five years ago, and ABC is mocking their erstwhile messiah. A line...
View ArticleThen and now [Anonymoused]
Then: If you like your healthcare plan, you will be able to keep your healthcare plan, period Now: if you have or had one of these plans before the Affordable Care Act came into law and you really...
View ArticleDon’t worry, be happy [Anonymoused]
Bob Laszewski: Millions of people are facing cancellation letters. Ideally, we could just say, never mind –– let these people simply stay on their current policies. But here’s maybe the biggest irony...
View ArticleThe day the wheels came off [Anonymoused]
CNN: “I personally believe, even if it takes a change in the law, the president should honor the commitment the federal government made to those people and let them keep what they’ve got,” Clinton said...
View Article7.0 versus 0.1 — and counting [Anonymoused]
7.0 down, and 0.1 or 0.0 up, depending on how you measure. And the sign-ups are not coming from the groovy cohort. The incompetence of this is staggering, as anyone with eyes to see can see. What’s...
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