March 25, 2011 – 7:47 am
This comes on the heals of President Clinton giving a brief press conference on the supposed transfer of power to someone within NATO As the White House works to assuage congressional anger over U.S. entry into armed conflict in Libya, four top national security officials will give a classified briefing to lawmakers on the war […]
March 24, 2011 – 7:51 am
Kinda hard to believe that people at the Politico are being somewhat critical of Obama, as the news outlet has typically been one of his best cheerleaders, but, there you have it, though it is a bit more of the “tut-tut” type criticism, along with an attempt to explain what’s inside Obama’s head, since Obama […]
March 22, 2011 – 9:19 am
Whew! I thought this day would never come. The anonymous big wigs who provide us with the sense of the paper have finally figured out their position on Obama’s “war of choice” after much martini related discussion, and we find out that they are “concerned” Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi has long been a thug and a […]
March 18, 2011 – 12:26 pm
The Washington Post attempted to defend National Public Radio, ie, government funded radio Thursday. After a bit of a buildup, here’s their rationale But equally important to us is local news coverage, which has been even more severely weakened by shrunken reporting staffs and ambitions at newspapers and commercial stations in too many cities and […]
March 17, 2011 – 7:36 pm
Following up on the post from earlier today The United Nations Security Council approved a measure on Thursday authorizing “all necessary measures†to protect Libyan civilians from harm at the hands of forces loyal to Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi. The measure allows not only a no-fly zone but effectively any measures short of a ground invasion […]
March 17, 2011 – 10:10 am
This is going to make Obama’s liberal base happy with his adventurous militarism The US is pushing the UN to authorise not just a no-fly zone over Libya, but also the use of air strikes to stop the advance of forces loyal to Muammar Gaddafi. Washington’s ambassador to the UN, Susan Rice, said on Wednesday […]
March 16, 2011 – 9:07 am
As Rush once sang “If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice.” The man-child president has made a choice to dither, excuse me, set a “deliberate pace” White House spokesman Jay Carney said Tuesday that the U.S. is reviewing a variety of options, including a no-fly zone, and that any action […]
March 15, 2011 – 5:59 pm
That’s the question USA Today asks France and Great Britain failed to persuade European allies to back a no-fly zone over Libya, a development that could influence President Obama’s thinking on the subject. Russia and Germany objected to a no-fly zone during meetings of the Group of Eight in Paris, Reuters reports. “Military intervention is […]
March 15, 2011 – 11:45 am
That’s the first question asked around the Internet, including at the UK Telegraph The landscape of parts of Japan looks like the aftermath of World War Two; no industrialised country since then has suffered such a death toll. The one tiny, tiny consolation is the extent to which it shows how humanity can rally round […]
March 14, 2011 – 7:31 pm
Not good news An explosion was heard Tuesday morning at the Japanese nuclear reactor that has been of greatest concern in the wake of the country’s devastating earthquake and tsunami, which damaged the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant. The cause of the explosion at Unit 2 and the conditions at the site weren’t immediately clear, but […]
