Surrender in Vienna

If you call a rabid dog peaceful, he is still just as apt to bite you.   If you deem Iraq’s nuclear ambitions as peaceful, she still just as apt to nuke you, from the Pallet bureau:

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I’m at College Point, Queens New York this morning. I’m delivering a load of Gatorade to the local Pepsi distribution center. Extremely narrow streets around this place, and as a result I’ve never come in here where I haven’t done

I’m coming off the first extended weekend I’ve had in several weeks. Kinda nice being able to spend some time around the house. My truck needed some work anyway, and I had some paperwork that I had to complete. the

One of the problems that I’ve noticed these last couple of weeks and particularly the last couple of days as regards Syria’s attack on its own citizens  (supposedly, anyway) is a total lack of information about who was being attacked

Bullies, as anyone who has dealt with them before will tell you, tend to be not all that bright.  And look, I know I’m hardly the first to the first to notice this, but Joe Biden would seem a prime

At some point during this next week, you’re going to hear one of the Democrats, either Obama or Biden mouth the words “Two wars we didn’t pay for”. Likely at the debates scheduled for this week, but outside those venues

There’s an interesting trend developing in open to foreign policy, and it’s been there since the outset;  sense Obama speech in Cairo Egypt, his supposed Arab reset, Arab Spring phenomenon and so on, every single attack on our interests, every

Some folks at the New York Times seem to think this is a  reason for celebration, via Doug Mataconis, Otside the Beltway:

BAGHDAD — The last convoy of American troops to leave Iraq drove into Kuwait on Sunday morning,

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Having the experience of being an Air Force Officer’s wife for fifteen plus years has revealed to me some traits that would create the perfect military wife. If these qualities could be rolled-up

My new Pajamas Media editorial deals with what I’ve considered the biggest problem America faces just now in our War on terror… our return to the underlying attitude of the Democrats that brought us the “Gorelick Wall.”

The bottom line

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Living where loud explosions pepper my day is routine. In Warner Robins, Ga., sonic booms are the norm. According to Dictionary.com, sonic booms are “explosive sounds caused by the shock wave preceding an aircraft traveling at or above

Max Boot in this morning’s LA TIMES:

During last year’s campaign, Barack Obama stressed that while he wanted to withdraw from Iraq, he was no pacifist. “As president,” he said on July 15, 2008, “I will make the fight against

Doctor Krauthammer today makes a great point about Obama’s response to the Iran situation:

…. this incipient revolution is no longer about the election. Obama totally misses the point. The election allowed the political space and provided the spark for

Charles Krauthammer, Washington Post:

And where is our president? Afraid of “meddling.” Afraid to take sides between the head-breaking, women-shackling exporters of terror — and the people in the street yearning to breathe free. This from a president who

The state is shooting her citizens in Iran, and all the one can promise is business as usual, Anne Gearan, Associated Press: 

“We will continue to pursue a tough, direct dialogue between our two countries, and we’ll see where