I will have more on the European financial crisis in a future edition, but I couldn’t pass up the following quote from a recent article by George Will: “The EU has a flag no one salutes, an anthem no one sings, a president no one can name, a parliament no one other than its members […]
Archives for June 2010
Immigration, Sovereignty, and Sanctuary
The new Arizona immigration law continues to resonate around the country and now figures to become a tipping point for advocates on all sides of this issue and a level of activism that has now risen to a fever pitch. In a recent edition of The Houston Chronicle, my friend Bill King wrote an insightful […]
Know Your Enemy?
The Deputy National Security Adviser to President Obama is John Brennan, who first came to my attention in the aftermath of the Ft. Hood shootings and the almost successful Christmas bombing of an airliner in Detroit. Here is a man who is on the front lines of a war that has been underway in its […]
The Gaza Fiasco and Its Backstory
The details on the confrontation between Israeli commandos and a flotilla of Turkish “humanitarian” aid ships bound for Gaza is still being sifted as I write, and there will be other such incidents as the provocations continue. As usual, Israel will bear the large majority of the brunt of the public outrage from all the […]
Honoring Those Who Served
Recently we have heard the reports of a Connecticut candidate for the Senate who has consistently lied about his Vietnam War service and I was struck during one TV discussion of the issue by comments from Katrina van den Heuvel, Editor of the leftist magazine, The Nation, who wonders why we so revere our veterans […]
The Limits of Competence and Its Frustration
The political class and all of its groupies in the punditry industry just can’t stand it. They cannot abide a major disaster of the nature of the Gulf oil well blowout that doesn’t have a political solution. This frustration is manifest in every media update on the well and every White House press briefing–the 21st […]