“When the final accounting is done, 2014 will have been the most lethal year for global terrorism in the 45 years [since] such data has been compiled,” intoned National Intelligence Director James Clapper, speaking before the Senate Armed Services Committee last week. Of course, the director may have been lying, something Big Jim does on…
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Dick Cheney: I am so worse than Barack Obama! A whole lot worse!
It’s been a bit of a meme of mine for the past four years that Barack Obama is pretty much Dick Cheney without all the torture. Well, comparisons are odorous, and Big Dick clearly did not appreciate being linked with the president in this manner. A couple of days ago, the big guy reminded us…
Looking back on 2013: Who gives a fuck?
Yes, another year down. In political terms, it was sort of a win for our side, kind of a crab victory, because most of the advances came from walking sideways at best. It wasn’t that good a year for the president, for both good and bad reasons, but despite many articles dubbing him “Loser of…
The Budget Deal: same old same old, same old
The budget deal that President Obama will soon be signing is in fact so old-fashioned that the Republicans are apologizing for it, claiming that either 1) they’re going to get their pound of flesh before raising the debt ceiling next year (probably sometime in March, depending on Uncle Sam’s cash flow) or 2) they’re just…
President Obama’s horrible, terrible, callous, cowardly, shamelessly opportunistic, and reasonably effective foreign policy
Over the past five years, President Obama has ended two wars and brokered a deal with the most intransigent of the many oil-rich Muslim nations who regard the U.S. as largely if not entirely a damn infidel pain in the ass. Of course, he’s killed a couple thousand innocent civilians and wasted several hundred billion…
David Koch, speaking freely for two whole minutes
David Koch, libertarian billionaire and all-around man about town, talked the talk in an interview with Politico’s Kenneth P. Vogel. According to Ken, it went like this: Koch told POLITICO “I believe in gay marriage” when asked about the GOP’s stance on gay rights. Romney opposes gay marriage, as do most Republicans, and when that…
What Would Romney Do?
Increasingly, it looks like we’re going to find out. Europe continues to kick the can down the road, and kick us along with it. As for the U.S., there seems to be zero enthusiasm for an aggressive policy to stimulate economic growth. Republicans want the economy to get worse, the President says that, when times…
Ten aircraft carriers? Ten? We’re hanging by our fingernails with eleven!
Over at the New York Times, Elisabeth Bumiller and Thom Shanker team up to deliver a story on possible cuts in defense spending that, one must say, is not entirely misleading. While picturing Defense Secretary Leo Panetta as straining every nerve and sinew to achieve the near-impossible—cutting our grossly swollen defense budget by 10 percent…
The Barack Obama Chinese-American Naval Full Employment Act of 2012
Last week President Obama traveled to the quasi-god-forsaken site of Darwin, Australia to twist the tail of the Chinese dragon by announcing that 2,500 U.S. Marines would now be spending time in Australia. “As a Pacific nation, the United States will play a larger and long-term role in shaping this region and its future,” the…
The Good Ship Varyag, still making waves
In my recent fulmination regarding Time Magazine’s trumpeting of the non-existent danger posed to America by the launch of China’s first aircraft carrier, the reconstituted hulk formerly known as the Varyag, I assumed that only Time would be crass enough to try to make geo-political hay out of the launch of a naval museum piece….