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It's time for some straight talk on Democrat defeatism, Sen. McCain. Read the entire article. I've been screaming this one from the rooftops for so long I'm hoarse (see here, here and here). McCain has not done too bad a job in engaging on Iraq, though I agree with Krauthammer that this must be front and center of McCain's campaign. The one thing McCain has done a horrendous job of doing is tying our efforts in Iraq into the effort to stop Iran. Further, McCain has done an equally horrendous job of outlining the nature of the dangers Iran poses. He speaks in generalities - he needs to get specific.
As I watched McCain in a Town Hall on Fox News last night villify "greedy" big oil as one of the main causes of our high gas prices, my Tourette's kicked in. This is a an issue of incredible importance, and he might as well have been reading a press release from Howard Dean. He really has little grasp of economics. What an utter ass. While I admire McCain for his pricipled stands, he seems to be lacking common sense and the ability to change his stands when the underlying facts change. Four dollar a gallon gas and skyrocketing prices of food are going to crush the lower economic echelons in America, and severely hurt the middle class. These are changed facts.
Having said that, there are still three issues upon which I will absolutely have to show up and pull the lever for McCain in November, even if I must show up to the polling booth with my mouth taped shut so I am not arrested for one long continuous burst of profanity. One issue, thrown into stark relief after the insane judicial activism of the Supreme Court in the 5-4 decision in Boumediene yesterday (blogged here) is the issue of Supreme Court nominations. The second issue, the subject of Charles Krauthammer's article today, is Iraq. The third issue, inextricably tied to Iraq, is Iran. All of these issues are equally of existential importance to our country and a failure in any of three issues could do untold, fundamental harm to our nation. All should be the centerpieces of McCain's effort.
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This today from Charles Krauthammer:
In his St. Paul victory speech, Barack Obama pledged again to pull out of Iraq. Rather than “continue a policy in Iraq that asks everything of our brave men and women in uniform and nothing of Iraqi politicians. . . . It’s time for Iraqis to take responsibility for their future.”
We know Obama hasn’t been to Iraq in more than two years, but does he not read the papers? Does he not know anything about developments on the ground? . . .
The disconnect between what Democrats are saying about Iraq and what is actually happening there has reached grotesque proportions. Democrats won an exhilarating electoral victory in 2006 pledging withdrawal at a time when conditions in Iraq were dire and we were indeed losing the war. Two years later, when everything is changed, they continue to reflexively repeat their “narrative of defeat and retreat” (as Joe Lieberman so memorably called it) as if nothing has changed.
It is a position so utterly untenable that John McCain must seize the opportunity and, contrary to conventional wisdom, make the Iraq War the central winning plank of his campaign. Yes, Americans are war-weary. Yes, most think we should not have engaged in the first place. Yes, Obama will keep pulling out his 2002 speech opposing the war.
But McCain’s case is simple. Is not Obama’s central mantra that this election is about the future not the past? It is about 2009, not 2002. Obama promises that upon his inauguration, he will order the Joint Chiefs to bring him a plan for withdrawal from Iraq within 16 months. McCain says that upon his inauguration, he’ll ask the Joint Chiefs for a plan for continued and ultimate success.
The choice could not be more clearly drawn. The Democrats’ one objective in Iraq is withdrawal. McCain’s one objective is victory.
McCain’s case is not hard to make. Iraq is a three-front war — against Sunni al-Qaeda, against Shiite militias, and against Iranian hegemony — and we are winning on every front:
— We did not go into Iraq to fight al-Qaeda. The war had other purposes. But al-Qaeda chose to turn it into the central front in its war against America. That choice turned into an al-Qaeda fiasco: al-Qaeda in Iraq is now on the run and in the midst of stunning and humiliating defeat.
— As for the Shiite extremists, the Mahdi Army is isolated and at its weakest point in years.
— Its sponsor, Iran, has suffered major setbacks, not just in Basra, but in Iraqi public opinion, which has rallied to the Maliki government and against Iranian interference through its Sadrist proxy.
Even the most expansive American objective — establishing a representative government that is an ally against jihadists, both Sunni and Shiite — is within sight.
Obama and the Democrats would forfeit every one of these successes to a declared policy of fixed and unconditional withdrawal. If McCain cannot take to the American people the case for the folly of that policy, he will not be president. Nor should he be.
Give the speech, senator. Give it now.
At any rate, it is my sincere hope that McCain spends the rest of the time between now and November focusing like a laser on Iraq, Iran and Supreme Court nominations. Otherwise I will need to spend that time period alone in a cave lest my extreme bouts with tourettes land me in trouble in polite society.
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Friday, June 13, 2008
Krauthammer, McCain & Tourette's Syndrome
Tuesday, March 4, 2008
Watcher's Council Nominations - 4 March 2008
Each week, the members of the Watcher's Council nominate one of their own posts and a second from outside the Council for consideration by other council members in a contest for best post. The Watcher publishes the results each Friday morning. The Watcher also has a process for anyone who would like to submit one of their posts for consideration as part of the weekly contest. You can find out more about that here. This week's nominations are:
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Council Posts:
1. Done With Mirrors, This Is a 'Moderate Voice?'
Callimachus fisks a rather immoderate blog that takes umberance at the Bush administration's calls for Cuba to move towards democracy following the retirement of Fide Castro.
2. The Glittering Eye, Ending the War in Iraq
Call me cynical, but I really do wonder whether John Podesta, Ray Takeyh and Lawrence J. Korb can possibly believe what they write. At any rate, GE does not accept their arguments for withdrawal from Iraq.
3. Joshuapundit - Why Don't Jews Like Christians Who Like Them?
JP blogs on the spectrum of political leanings exhibited by and towards members of the Jewish faith and some of the possible explanations therefor.
4. Rhymes With Right - Where Have All the Male Teachers Gone?
There is discrimination against males teaching, particularly in the younger grades.
5. Wolf Howling - The Dershowitz Questions
My post on how to address the Salifization of the Middle East and the expansion of its death cult, written within the framework of questions raised by Alan Dershowitz in the WSJ.
6. Soccer Dad - The Fine Art of Flying (with the president)
SD takes a generally favorable view of Bob Geldof's interview of the President, at least in as much as it reflects positively on President Bush's Africa policies.
7. Bookworm Room - Rape
A fascinating post from BWR on how the feminist movement has divested women of individual responsibility for their own conduct, in this case as concerns campus "rape," and made rapists of men who do not meet the classical definition of having forced themselves on an unwilling woman or otherwise taken advantage of a woman they have placed in a such a position that they cannot dissent - i.e., date rape drugs.
8. Cheat Seeking Missiles - The Rape of Rape On American Campuses
And an equally fascinating post from CSM on the same topic as BWR blogged above.
9. The Colossus of Rhodey - Exchange Student Woes
Rhodey reminisces on the worth of taking advantage of being an exchange student.
10. Big Lizards - Chicago Rules
Daffyd does an exceptional job of digging into the curious electoral history of Obama, which appears to owe far more to lawyers and scandal than it does to the votes of an electorate or his policy positions. I love his Ian Flemming quote: "Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. The third time is enemy action."
11. The Education Wonks - Why We Don't Give Money To The American Red Cross
The Red Cross is experiencing a crisis of leadership and performance.
12. Right Wing Nut House - The Terrorism Conundrum for Democrats
Democrats portray any mention of terrorism or national security issues as the "politics of fear" in order to innoculated them from charges on the right that they are incredibly weak on national security issues. So when Hillary raises the issue as to Obama, she is getting attacked from within her own party. So can Democrats even raise this as a viable issue? As Rick Moran notes, "This is the conundrum largely created by the Democrats to answer the GOP’s huge advantage on the issue of terrorism. Apparently, it has now come back and bit them in the ass."
Non-Council nominations:
1. The Chronicle of Higher Education - Not to Complicate Matters, But...
2. The Long War Journal - Inside Iraqi politics -- Part 5. A Look At Legislative Progress: Sunnis’ and States’ Rights
3. City Journal - Why Don't Jews Like the Christians Who Like Them?
4. Stop the ACLU - Turmoil: The New York Times Facing Internal Take Over Bid?
5. Classical Values - Redeeming the Old Stereotypes
6. Elder of Ziyon - Defending Against Terror Impossible In International Law
7. Right Wing News - Blogging While Female: 5 Conservative Women Bloggers Talk About Gender Issues and the Blogosphere
8. The Rosett Report - Orchestrated in Pyongyang
9. Oliver Kamm - Blair and His Masters
10. Power Line - Dissecting the 60 Minutes Scandal
11. Breath of the Beast - Think Happy Thoughts About People Who Want to Kill You!
12. Dr. Sanity - Maybe in the Future Things Will Be Different?
13. Dodgeblogium - Title: A Shot Across the Bow
14. KT Dodge - Yet Another Complaint About NHS Cleanliness and Care...
Tuesday, February 26, 2008
Watcher's Council Nominations - 26 February 2008
Each week, the members of the Watcher's Council nominate one of their own posts and a second from outside the Council for consideration by other council members in a contest for best post. The Watcher publishes the results each Friday morning. The Watcher also has a process for anyone who would like to submit one of their posts for consideration as part of the weekly contest. You can find out more about that here. This week's nominations are:
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Council Posts:
1. The Colossus of Rhodey - Mrs. Obama's ‘Proud’ Remark: It's the GOP's Fault
CoR ponders the genesis of Ms. Obama's angst with America and liberal academia.
2. Done With Mirrors - Packer on Iraq
DWM critiques George Packer's article on Iraq, interspersing it with his own assessments of historical parallels.
3. The Glittering Eye - Unforced Errors
GWM makes three very important points about Clinton's intervention in Kosovo. One, it was not in our national interest. Two, it pointed up the weakness of Clintonesque limited objective "humanitarian intervention." Three, our actions as regards Kosovo have been one in a series that have seen European nations pass the costs of defending their interests onto the U.S.
4. Soccer Dad - Find the Adjectives
I linked to this post earlier today. Soccer Dad takes a semantic knife to a bit of MSM agenda journalism. He leaves the flayed remains in his wake.
5. Wolf Howling - Obama (with links) & McCain's Petard
McCain has problems on the horizon with campaign financing. Obama is in the middle of McCain's problem at the moment.
6. Big Lizards - Associated Press, Like Others, Retails Malicious Rumor as "Reporting"
The Lizard uses his own semantic knife on an AP article that compares McCain's wife favorably to the other wive's of politicians whose husband's actually have been caught with pants at half mast. The problem of course is that Ms. McCain is not a member of that not quite so august crowd.
7. Cheat Seeking Missiles - In A PC Nation, How Will The GOP Run?
Updated: After rereading CSM's piece, I find it far more nuanced than I gave Laer credit for in the initial reading, and I think that Laer's first draft at a response to the racial politics charge is a very good one. I liked this piece much better on the second read. I think though, that McCain will be able to weather the racial storm probably better than Laer thinks. I note his public denunciation in Texas of the shock jock's comments about Obama was precisely the way he needs to handle that type of situation. I think it will be very difficult indeed to make any racial charges stick against McCain - and indeed, they could well backfire.
8. Bookworm Room - The Pursuit of Happiness
The age old argument of what should be the role of government in our individual lives. BWR uses the vastly different precatory language of the Declaration of Indepenance in juxatoposition with the preamble to the California constitution as the vehicles to frame her arguments.
9. The Education Wonks - John Murtha: Porker of the Year!
Actually, I think Murtha has a lifetime achievement award coming due on this one.
10. Joshuapundit - "I'd rather be with God against man than with man against God..."
The story of a prinicpled man who paid the price for his good deeds, but who has now been recognized for his heroism.
11. Rhymes With Right - An Ethics Flap That Isn't
RWR takes on the NYT McCain hit piece and the logic of those on the left who so want to believe that there is mud hidden under all the dust the NYT has kicked up.
12. Right Wing Nut House - Still At Risk: The Shocking Ignorance of Our Young
I agree with Rick that there is a huge problem with the teaching of our cultural heritage and the state of knowledge amongst our teenagers. I do not think he has identified the crux of the problems. There is nothing wrong with standardized tests. And the claim that teachers are teaching to the exam rather than teaching their subject I don't think a valid argument. I think the problem is that we have stopped teaching literature and history and, in their stead, adopted social studies and using the classroom to teach greater social truths. And if you trace this back, you will find socialism and multiculturalism at its core.
Non-Council links:
1. The Washington Post - The Dumbing of America
2. Roger L. Simon - Bobby Kennedy and Why Obama Unnerves Me
3. Kings of War - Greece and Rome in Iraq
4. My Shrapnel - To Die in Jerusalem, Part II
5. Dr. Sanity - The Democrats' Collective Cognitive Catatonia
6. Captain's Quarters - Clark Hoyt, Conscientious Objector
7. GlobalSecurity.org - DoD News Briefing with Col. James from Iraq
8. National Journal - Obama Logic Versus Racial Preferences
9. Michelle Malkin - 15 Years: The World Trade Center Bombing
10. Michael J. Totten - Guns in the Desert
11. Hillbilly White Trash - Hillary Is Losing
12. American Thinker - The Fierce Urgency of Lies
13. Validating AGW SkepticismThe QandO Blog
14. Fox News Headline -- Video Gamers Leave Baby To DieDodgeblogium
Wednesday, February 13, 2008
Watcher's Council Nominations
Each week, the members of the Watcher's Council nominate one of their own posts and a second from outside the Council for consideration by other council members in a contest for best post. The Watcher publishes the results each Friday morning. The Watcher also has a process for anyone who would like to submit one of their posts for consideration as part of the weekly contest. You can find out more about that here. This week's nominations in the Council category are:
Council links:
1. The Colossus of Rhodey - It's Going To Be One Interesting "Race"
Identity politics is biting Democrats in the ass at the moment, or at least the Clintonian wing. And if Obama becomes the nominee, the identity politics of race will take center stage.
2. Bookworm Room - Complaint, or Liberal Political Thinking in a Nutshell
The sophistry of left wing thought and the deranged socialist paradigm is all on display in Philip Roth's interview in Der Spiegel. It really "Bugs" the Bookworm.
3. The BalanceThe Glittering Eye
GE questions the degree to which the drive for production of biofuels is also driving global changes to landuse.
4. Wolf Howling - Ann Coulter, Rush Limbaugh and McCain Derangement Syndrome
Ann Coulter and Rush Limbaugh are being very disingenuous in their opposition to John McCain.
5. Rhymes With Right - The Problem of Double Standards In Political Speech/Contribution Limitation Laws
RWR discusses the fatuity of laws limiting political "speech" in the form of contributions of only one type - money - as opposed to contributions of time and skills.
6. Cheat Seeking Missiles - America In a Six-Word Slogan
My favorite: "Our worst critics prefer to stay."
7. Joshuapundit - None Dare Call It Murder
With the U.S. pushing for "peace in our time," the PA is trying to avoid judgments against it for the terrorist murders of U.S. citizens.
8. Trying a Child For Her Own Murder: Legalistic IdiocyThe Education Wonks
An attorney pursues a repugnant defense in a case of severe child abuse.
9. How the Democrats Will Attack McCain... and Fail MiserablyBig Lizards
McCain's campaign will be a referedum on his character. Specific policies are secondary. This piece has some interesting parallels to my own submission this week.
10. ComplexDone With Mirrors
DWM goes to where Eisenhower's granddaughter didn't in the full examination of President Eisenhower's prescient warnings of the dangers to our society from currents he observed.
11. Of Israel, the Palestinians and the United StatesSoccer Dad
Soccer Dad gives a thoughtful examination of U.S. policy towards Israel and the Palestinians and wonders, without much hope, that the next President can correct its course.
12. Mandate Me, BabyRight Wing Nut House
Socialism firmly took hold in Britain under Clement Attley in 1945, and Britain has been in its grip since. Will 2009 be they year America finally succumbs to this scourge.
Non-council links:
1. Tim Rutten Lies About Cheney's CPAC SpeechPatterico's Pontifications
2. Obama's Politics of Collective RedemptionAmerican Thinker
3. Not Ready For Prime TimeCaptain's Quarters
4. The Red King and Equality Before the LawBrits at their Best
5. Seven Reasons To Support The GOP's NomineeHugh Hewitt
6. Fear-Mongering FearFalling Panda
7. The White House Wants a $1.4 Billion Stimulus/National Security Package... for MexicoMichelle Malkin
8. Mexico and the Merida Initiative Continued; Update: Audio AddedMichelle Malkin (2)
9. Are We At War? And What Is the Political Consequence of That For Conservatives In This Election?BeldarBlog
10. The Final Mission, Part IIMichael J. Totten
11. The Obama Che Flag FlapAce of Spades HQ
12. Obama, Exxon Mobil, Economics and PopulismThe QandO Blog
13. Preemptive ColdeningClassical Values
14. Dodgey Column: Is There a Cure of Obamaitis?Dodgeblogium
Thursday, January 3, 2008
The Huckster & Obama Take Iowa
With 65% of the precincts reporting, Fox News has called Iowa for the Mike Huckabee with 31% of the caucus vote. Romney, who spent a large part of his budget for advertisements in Iowa, is well behind Huckabee in a second place at 23%. Thompson and McCain are in a near tie in third place at about 13% each.
On the Democratic side, its appearing that Obama has taken Iowa with 37%. Clinton and Edwards stand tied at 31%.
I do not see a Huckabee nomination in the cards. Our President's most important job will be foreign policy and, in that arena, Huckabee seems, to put it charitably, naive. Further, his personal ethics are very much in doubt after the incredibly transparent trick of a few days ago, holding a press conference to show attack ads that he then said he would not show. If he ever tried such sophmoric tricks as President, he would absolutely be eaten alive, and rightly so.
Huckabee's defining characteristic among Iowa voters seems to have been that Huckabee is a Christian conservative. Outside the realm of identity politics, Huckabee has nothing of substance to offer.
As to what this means for the Democrats, the aura of inevitabiity has been shattered for Hillary. For far too long, Hillary refused to answer any questions of substance and tried to straddle the fence on all issues, with the apex of these acts comining during a debate when, in answer to a question about NY Gov. Spitzer's driver's licenses for illegals, she made statements that contradicted themselves. She has been too clever by half. Whether she can overcome the storm of losing Iowa is now very much an open question.
In one way at least, I welcome Obama's victory in a largely white, rural state. Perhaps now we can start to bury the race card as a viable part of American politics.
Update: Arianna Huffington is ecstatic.
Update: With 98% of the caucusus reporting, it appears Edwards has taken scond place, with 30%. Clinton is in third place with 29%.
Update: Joe Biden has dropped out of the race.
Update: Ron Paul came in with 10% of the vote.
Wednesday, December 12, 2007
The Nominations Are Up
The nominations are now posted for the Watcher's Counsel. Not surprisingly, many of Council and Non-Council posts this week deal with the NIE on Iran, each looking at the issues presented by that document from a different perspective. All make interesting reading.
If you would like to take submit a post for consideration by the Council, please visit the Watcher and take advantage of his offer of link whorage.
The Council Nominees for this week are:
1. Wolf Howling - A Deeply Flawed NIE Changes Nothing and Everything
This is my tome on the issues rasised and the damage done by this NIE.
2. The Glittering Eye - What the NIE on Iran's Nuclear Development Weapons Doesn't Say
This is a very good post that argues that the NIE, by omission as much as by what is stated therein, still leads to the conclusion that Iran has, can and may attempt to build a nuclear arsenal. As such, the justification for imposing sanctions remains strong. I concur, though I think that the key countries that must come on board for significant sanctions are the EU nations, and within that group, Germany. I do not think we will ever get the type of effective sanctions we need out of the Security Council. My fear is that Germany's Angela Merkel, whose country has stubbornly resisted forgoing its significant trade with Iran to impose meaningful sanctions, will not have the power to force a sanctions regime through after the release of our NIE. I truly hope that I am wrong.
3. The Colossus of Rhody - U.S. "Stingy" On Foreign Aid
There are lies, there are damned lies, and there are statistics provided by Kofi Anon that Time Magazine reports at face value. I am not sure how long it took Rhody to pull apart this bit of anti-U.S. propaganda, but it is an excellent piece of work on his part, not to mention quite entertaining.
4. Done With Mirrors - How Kennedy Said It
DWM finds Mitt Romney's speech on religion to be pandering and, in comparison to JFK's similar speech, more than a bit wanting as respects a presidential hopeful. To be honest, Romney's religion means nothing to me, nor do I care for him as a candidate wholly irrespective of his religion, so I tuned out his speech. None the less, DWM's analysis is quite thoughtful and interesting. And after reading Kennedy's speech, I concur with DWM's conclusion.
5. The Education Wonks - Babies Having Babies: Now a Generational Problem
This is a particularly troubling tale of teen pregnancies with no responsible father being repeated along the lines of the linear family tree. I agree, our urban culture is a mess. I would be interested to know whether TEW feels that there is anything to be done that might break the viscious cycle.
6. Soccer Dad - Making NIE
Soccer Dad lifts the NIE's knickers to look at the "new information" that led to this NIE's surprising conclusion. It is a very good post, but it raises a troubling issue that I did not see before. The concerns of Israel and the U.S. with Iran are, for all practical purposes, coextensive. Why was this NIE released without any coordination or exchange of foreign intelligence? Information is the liguna franca of the intelligence business. I find it absolutely mystifying that our intel agencies would not be exchanging information on Iran's nuclear capabilities with Israel - or Britain, for that matter, who were equally caught unawares by this NIE. I understand we might want to hide sources, but this points to a truly systemic problem in our national intelligence cycle.
7. Bookworm Room - Explaining American Jews' Love for Israel and America
This is a fascinating philosophical post about an issue that, to me, is simple to answer. BW asks how a person can be a "loyal American" and support Israel. Some very distinguished guests at a speech she attended answered from their perspective as Jewish Americans. Do read this one and visit BW's site to leave your own answer.
8. Joshuapundit - Pearl Harbor... And 9/11
This is an exceptional post comparing and contrasting the America of December 8, 1941 and its response to attack by an existential threat with the America of 9-11 and our own, less effective response to a similar threat.
9. Rhymes With Right - Another Sign: Islam Is a Human Rights Violation
RWR is inflamed by the story of a young British Muslim woman who chose to convert to Christianity. Her family, led by her father, a Deobandi cleric, is trying to hunt her down and kill her for being an apostate. RWR makes a similar point to one I constantly make, that this violence is systemic to the orthodox interpretations of Salafi / Deobandi Islam and Khomeinist Shiaism. I would not go so far as to label the entirety of Islam a human rights violation. But having said that, Islam needs to go through its period of Enlightenment, and non-Muslims should do all that we can to help those reformists who seek to do precisely that. Balanced against that grass roots effort is billions in Saudi petrodollars being spent at every level of society and government to prevent any evolution of their medieval version of Islam.
10. Right Wing Nuthouse - Release of Iran NIE a Remarkable Testament to American Exceptionalism Rick takes a nuanced position with which, in the spirit of Hillary Clinton, I choose to both agree and disagree. As a threshold matter, I believe Democracy can only function on full and complete information, and thus I fully concur with Rick's premise that we are always better off with more transparency in government. But I think that the release of this NIE shows only as much about the strength of our democracy as surviving a sucking chest wound shows an individual's strength. The fact that the NIE was released as is - with numerous inconsistencies, policy advocacy, and what appears a deliberate intent to minimize the threat posed by Iran - points to a glaring weakness in our democracy more pronounced than the strength of "American Exceptionalism." Or perhaps I am looking at the glass half empty and leaking fast on this one. I am not arguing in any way that our leadership should be afforded the right to twist intelligence. In fact, I still think LBJ should have been impeached over the Gulf of Tonkin incident. That said, when and how to release information such as this needs to be a considered judgment by our leadership, not a reaction to toxic partisan politics.
11. Big Lizards - Hoodwinkers and Their Codependents: In Search of Intelligent Intelligence on Iran Dafydd has more than a few very reasonable concerns about the credibility of the evidence underlying the NIE. It is an excellent post that takes the issue further to our overreliance on signals intelligence and insufficient reliance on HUMINT. Our problem in that regard is systemic. We are still suffering from the Church Commission almost 40 years ago that devestated our intelligence agencies and, in its wake, left us with an overlawyered, highly risk averse spy agency. Indeed, it has only gotten worse with time and, in this toxic political climate, it is not going to change without far stronger leadership than we have at this point. Which is one of the reasons, as I wrote above in describing Soccer Dad's post, that it is inexplicable why we are not pooling our intelligence resources on Iran with other friendly nations - i.e., Israel and Britain come to mind. There are no secrets. We have sent our fully classified NIE to Israel for their review. That such was not done before now is just a travesty.
12. Cheat Seeking Missles - Burying a Hate Crime
CSM is very troubled by the apparent bias in the media against Christians that he finds fully evident in the recent stories about the killer, Matthew Murray. This is a systemic problem with a largely secular and left leaning MSM that shows more than a bit of disdain for Christianity yet a respect for other religions. I for one am still waiting for the NYT to show the cartoon images of Mohammed following their publication of Piss-Christ. That or for their stock value to drop below a dollar a share. Actually, the latter would be preferable.
12 1/2. Cheat Seeking Missles - Our Crumbling Civilization: Penn State Edition
By sleight of e-mail, Cheat Seeking Missles gets a second nomination this week. Or at least he will get one here. This post is about two Penn State students who mocked the victims of the Va. State massacre. CSM questions the judgment and intelligence of these students, and opines that such idiocy can only find a home in academia.
The Non-Council nominees for the week are:
Men of Valor: Part IVMichael Yon
Iran NIE and a PredictionMiddle East Strategy at Harvard
2007: Now, With Fewer Menorah Vandalizations, But More Anti-SemitismYourish.com
What Happens After the SurgePajamas Media
The Price of Pork RefusalCaptain's Quarters
Deadly Bombing in ParisSnapped Shot
William Katz: New National Intelligence EstimatePower Line
What Iran's "Victory" MeansShrinkWrapped
Exclusive IPT Investigation Uncovers HLF Jury Room BullyingThe Investigative Project on Terrorism
In Politics Values Matter, Not TheologyTownhall.com
The Key Question About the NIE's Key JudgmentAmerican Thinker
The Huckster's Foreign Policy: Live By The Golden RuleAce of Spades HQ
Repetition, Repetition, and RepetitionEternity Road
Ineffective and Pointless -- But Very CostlyKlein Verzet
(and a half nomination to:)NBC Reverses Position on Freedoms Watch AdWake Up America
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