How will Obama handle rising death tolls in Iraq and Afghanistan?

by: Scott Martin   posted: 2009-10-26 17:09:00
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As Barack Obama continues to focus on socializing the nation while completely ignoring his role as Commander in Chief, the body counts in Iraq and Afghanistan continue to rise. On Sunday, Iraq saw the its bloodiest day since 2007, with 155 reported casualties.

There were conflicting reports of the deaths of children at the Justice Ministry’s day care center. A police official stationed at the Ministry of Justice, Hussein Issa, said 30 children had been killed, but other officials said the number was much smaller. Most were in the center’s playground, close to the street, when the bomb went off

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Liz Cheney's 3 Minute Destruction of Obama's Foreign Policy

by: Bill Dupray   posted: 2009-08-03 23:17:00
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Cheney is far and away the most effective, persuasive Republican on the issue of national security. And, as noted by Ben Smith, she is sounding more and more like a candidate. Just let me know where to send the check.

In case you missed it, here is another of Cheney's bone-jarring thumpings, this time of Norah O'Donnell. That post was one of our biggest of the year, and with good reason.

Report: Obama Pal Chavez Turning Venezuela into 'Outlaw Narcostate'

by: Bill Dupray   posted: 2009-07-25 00:39:00
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Talker-in-Chief Barack Obama restored diplomatic ties with the his buddy Hugo Chavez on July 1, just in time to learn that Venezuela's top three government officials have officially been designated 'drug kingpins.' From IBD.

A new report released last Monday, "U.S. Counternarcotics Cooperation With Venezuela Has Declined," by the Government Accountability Office, offers the harshest assessment yet about Venezuela's rising role in Latin America's drug trade. The GAO said that state corruption, Chavez's aid to Colombia's FARC guerrillas, and Venezuela's refusal to cooperate with U.S. law enforcement agencies add up to trouble — an outlaw narcostate in the making and trouble for the U.S. on the horizon. "The findings of this report have heightened my concern that Venezuela's failure to cooperate with the United States on drug interdiction is related to corruption in that country's ...

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Finding the Limit of U.S. Power? His Name is Obama

by: Scott Martin   posted: 2009-07-10 14:48:00
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In a piece titled, "Finding the Limits of U.S. Power," Alan Cowell of the New York Times notes:

But, diplomatically, the unfinished business lies in North Korea and Iran — twin beacons of nuclear ambition casting a baleful, contrary light onto the frontiers of America’s ability to impose its will on those who see nuclear technology as a portal to respect and influence that would otherwise elude them.

And perhaps, in a backhanded way, the real puzzle lies not so much in America’s deployment of power as in the acknowledgment of its limits.

In fact, the real puzzle lies more in discovering just how willing the new administration is to give up its power on issues of national security, while extending its power to control

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Despite MSM Spin, Obama Accomplishes Nothing in Russia

by: Bill Dupray   posted: 2009-07-07 07:58:00
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Another Obama talk-fest and another foreign policy adventure lands with a thud. Here is the New York Times lauding The One's success.

President Obama signed an agreement on Monday to cut American and Russian strategic nuclear arsenals by at least one-quarter, a first step in a broader effort intended to reduce the threat of such weapons drastically and to prevent their further spread to unstable regions. Mr. Obama, on his first visit to Russia since taking office, and President Dmitri A. Medvedev agreed on the basic terms of a treaty to reduce the number of warheads and missiles to the lowest levels since the early years of the cold war. The new treaty, to be finished by December, would be subject to ratification by the Senate and could then lead to talks next year on more substantial ...

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Video: The Alternative - Ronald Reagan on Obama's First 100 Days

by: Scott Martin   posted: 2009-04-30 05:02:00
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"It would seem that some place there must be some overhead." (Around the 11:00 mark. If you haven't heard it, you ought to.)

Nearly every problem Reagan discusses in his classic speech, "A Time for Choosing," is now evident in Obama's first 100 days.

For the record, Reagan isn't reading off a TelePrompter. He occasionally glances at his 3X5 index cards that he always had on him. They contained the speech that he, himself wrote. And if he lost a card, I guarantee he wouldn't become a stammering fool like Obama without TOTUS, because he wrote the words on those cards.

An example:

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O'Reilly, Cameron and Garrett Evaluate Obama's First 100 Days

by: Scott Martin   posted: 2009-04-30 04:36:00
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To most of our readers, this will probably seem too charitable. In fact, the left will probably be surprised at how fair and balanced he is, if they would stop to think about their own opposition to Bush. But then, O'Reilly is more of a populist and a social conservative than a believer in a free and capitalist society.

Video: Hannity on Obama's First 100 Days

by: Scott Martin   posted: 2009-04-30 03:51:00
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Video, Transcript of Rush Limbaugh's Brilliant Comments on Obama's First Hundred Days, from the Milken Institute Forum

by: Scott Martin   posted: 2009-04-30 02:26:00
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This was just a portion of Rush Limbaugh's comments at the Milken Institute Forum. I'll post some more lines from this conference below the video. Many of his comments would have been hilarious, were they not, sadly, true. First allow Rush to set the scene:

Last night I was in Los Angeles, flew out there right after the program yesterday -- actually, Beverly Hills. Michael Milken, who is a friend of mine... runs the Prostate Cancer Foundation... Milken has this thing every year called the Milken Institute Global Forum, and he brings in people from all over the world, some of the wealthiest tycoons in the world, and it's a three-day seminar, and there are programs, speakers, panel discussions all day long. Last night was a debate, and the participants in the debate were Harold Ford, Jr. of Tennessee, and Willie Brown, ...

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Obama gets one Right: Nationals beat Pirates 3-0

by: Scott Martin   posted: 2009-04-13 17:07:00
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As I'm sure you know by now, the Pirates lost to the visiting Washington Nationals 3-0 yesterday, as manager Barack Obama called a series of hit-and-runs which resulted in three consecutive bullet-like line drives, the death of three pirates and the return to safety of Captain Richard Phillips.