April 22, 2011 – 9:28 am
Just kidding. President Check Your Tire Pressure and get a tune up (FYI, most cars today do not get “tune ups”, but engine cleanings) has a different notion President Barack Obama said on Thursday the U.S. attorney general was assembling a team to root out any fraud and manipulation in the oil markets that might […]
April 21, 2011 – 3:52 pm
Mission creep, anyone? President Obama has approved the use of armed Predator drone aircraft in the skies over Libya, The Associated Press reports, adding that Defense Secretary Robert Gates announced the news at a Pentagon news conference. According to the AP, “Marine Gen. James Cartwright, speaking alongside Gates, said the first Predator mission was scheduled […]
April 20, 2011 – 8:37 pm
Something I have been wondering about all day, after listening to the news reports about people still suffering, their businesses still closed or business vastly reduced, people out of work, on this 1 year anniversary of the BP blowout. Remember this Mr. Obama said the fund would be run by Kenneth Feinberg — the administration’s […]
April 19, 2011 – 7:43 am
Remember when Obama gave a speech about “a looming humanitarian crisis” and that “he refused to let that happen”? And about “America’s leadership” (right after talking about abdicating control to NATO)? How’s that working out? MISURATA, Libya — For the 500,000 residents of this once-prosperous port city, there is nowhere to run. The city is […]
April 6, 2011 – 7:54 pm
This just begs an important question With budget talks between Republicans and Democrats far from resolution, official Washington braced on Tuesday for a replay of the Great Government Shutdowns of 1995 and 1996. For weeks, the Obama administration has been quietly examining the experience of the mid-1990s as a kind of shutdown survival guide. Now […]
April 6, 2011 – 8:40 am
It went so poorly that even Talking Points Memo notices and discusses According to a Pew poll released Tuesday, 57% of Americans don’t think the U.S. has a clear plan in Libya, a seven-point rise since last week, and one that comes after President Obama addressed the country to lay out the nation’s involvement and […]
April 3, 2011 – 9:03 pm
Say, when are we going to intervene in Cote D’Ivoire? Wouldn’t this simply be a humanitarian mission? The UN secretary general has urged Ivory Coast’s internationally-backed president to investigate hundreds of deaths blamed partly on his supporters. Ban Ki-moon said he was “concerned and alarmed” about the reports, from the town of Duekoue, but Alassane […]
April 2, 2011 – 7:45 am
The NY Times call these “deadly protests.” Sounds more like a riot to me Violent protests over the burning of a Koran in Florida flared for a second straight day, with young men rampaging through the streets of this southern capital, flying Taliban flags and wielding sticks. Eight people were killed and 61 injured in […]
March 30, 2011 – 10:57 am
If the Libya “kinetic operations” are going to be over so soon, then why Thousands of Marines from Camp Lejeune, Cherry Point and New River are preparing to head to waters off Libya. Nearly 2,200 Marines and sailors with the 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit are preparing the ships they will be deploying with during their […]
March 30, 2011 – 9:09 am
The Professor In Chief is going to detail his college level thesis on how to fix the energy messes today, and, it will go exactly how you think With gasoline prices rising, oil supplies from the Middle East pinched by political upheaval and growing calls in Congress for expanded domestic oil and gas production, President […]
