(Cartoon courtesy of Michael Ramirez, IBD)
I hope you weren’t among those so grateful for Iran’s quick release of our sailors and their boats that you dismiss the fact that it again pointed to America’s weakness abroad.
Pictures of our sailors on their knees with their hands on their heads were broadcast around the world with quotes by an Iranian Revolutionary Guard general saying our Marines were “crying,” and “admitted humbly our power and might.” Continue reading
After posting my thoughts here that we now have a plan to reduce carbon emissions over the next 50 years, but lack a plan to destroy ISIS today, I was pleased to see the Investor’s Business Daily editorial position, Leaders 
Fight Phony Climate Enemy – Solving Real Problems Too Hard. “What better enemy for them to tackle than one that can’t be seen, whose damage can’ be quantified, and which can’t fight back?” IBD states.
“They should get serious about eradicating terrorism. Climate change has harmed no one, but terrorists continue to slaughter in large numbers – nearly 33,000 people were killed just last year in terrorist attacks,” according to the IBD editorial. Continue reading
There he was this weekend, Secretary of State John Kerry, touting the Paris agreement on global emissions reduction he negotiated for the United States; the same John Kerry who negotiated the nuclear deal with Iran.
Master negotiator John Kerry touted his Paris agreement on carbon emissions reduction this weekend. (nypost.com)
Understandably, Kerry spent most of his time defending the lack of any provision for enforcing the “pledged” reductions by the 185 countries, saying that “If there had been a penalty, we wouldn’t have gotten agreement. So it has to be voluntary. We got the best deal we could.” Continue reading
“… this is a man who knows how to break through the clutter – but crudely, seemingly off the top of his head, and using his mouth as a blunt instrument.” – Peggy Noonan
So wrote Peggy Noonan in her Saturday Wall Street Journal column, “A Rash Leader in a Grave Time,” in which she calls for a leader with a plan to avoid a Paris style attack on our soil.
WSJ columnist Peggy Noonan devoted her Dec. 12, column to the undisciplined Donald Trump. (lonelyconservative.com)
In her unique way with words, Noonan wrote of Donald Trump’s plan to keep all Muslims out of this country, even those citizens returning from foreign vacations. “He doesn’t think it through, doesn’t anticipate legitimate pushback, doesn’t try to persuade, only declares.” Continue reading
The terrorist shooting in San Bernardino gave the media another opportunity to provide cover for Hillary Clinton and the latest bombshells on Benghazi.
However, thanks to FOX and a couple of conservative papers, the word is on the street and will certainly find its way to the Select Committee on Benghazi and future debates.
Not only did we learn that there were forces preparing to move to Benghazi just hours after the attack began, Clinton apparently missed a meeting on sensitive intelligence items, including the Presidential Daily Brief (PDB), because she slept late on the Saturday following the Benghazi attack. Continue reading
From time to time Judge Jeanine Pirro delivers a truly thought-provoking opening monologue on her FOX program, “Justice With Jeanine.” Just in case you were out to dinner or missed it for some other reason last night, I have copied it to this blog for you to see and hear. Click here.… read more
President Obama likes to blame others for creating “recruitment tools” for the terrorists, when his lack of action telegraphs a weakness to Al Qaeda and ISIS.
President Obama’s continuing denial of ISIS advances telegraphs a weakness that is the “real” recruitment tool. (usnews.com)
This week, with Paris still reeling from ISIS attacks and the French president in Washington seeking help, President Obama sent terrorists a message sure to have them shaking in their sandals. Speaking of the up–coming summit on climate change in Paris, he said “What a powerful rebuke to the terrorists it will be, when the world stands as one and shows that we will not be deterred from building a better future for our children.” Talk about a “recruitment tool.” Continue reading
“No commander in chief of the U. S. armed forces can be wholly irrelevant, but to the extent one can be, Mr. Obama is.” – Peggy Noonan, Nov. 21, 2015
Under the headline, “Uncertain Leadership in Perilous Times,” Wall Street Journal columnist Peggy Noonan again demonstrates her unique ability to put her succinct thinking in print. Briefly reviewing the terrorist attacks in Madrid, London and most recently in Paris, she reflects on the question, what to do?
Wall Street Journal columnist Peggy Noonan writes of President Obama’s irrelevance as commander in chief. (lonelyconservative.com)
“On this issue the American president is, amazingly, barely relevant. The leaders and people of Europe and America will not be looking to him for wisdom, will, insight or resolve,” she writes, “He has misjudged ISIS from the beginning – they were not, actually, the junior varsity – to the end.”
As I have previously written for this blog, we have a petulant, arrogant individual in the White House, who chooses to criticize the press for pressing him on his ISIS non-strategy, while ridiculing GOP candidates on their refugee stance. He says his military and civilian leaders support his position on “containing” ISIS. I don’t believe it. Continue reading
“If confirmed in this job, I pledge to you my most candid strategic advice. And I pledge also that you will receive equally candid military advice.” – Ash Carter, speaking to President Carter during his nomination as Secretary of Defense, Dec. 5, 2014
I’m still waiting for the candid advice he promised a year ago. Is he now a “yes” man? (wsj.com)
“It is not just my view, but the view of my closest military and civilian advisors that (sending more U.S. ground troops) would be a mistake, said a testy President Obama during his Antalya, Turkey press conference on Nov. 16, 2015.
Visibly short-tempered with the media, who were unwilling to let him off the hook on his failing ISIS strategy of containment, President Obama said, “If there’s a good idea out there, then we’re going to do it. I don’t think I’ve shown a hesitation to act.” Oh, really. Continue reading
During your Manilla press conference this week, you mocked Republicans for their concern over the threat Syrian refugees pose saying, “They’re scared of widows and orphans coming into the United States of America.”
Where were you on Aug. 20, 2013, when 1,429 people, including 426 children, in Damascus were killed with Sarin gas? … read more