TEN YEARS HAVE passed since terrorists hijacked airliners and flew them into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. In that period, America has fought wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, carried out hundreds armed drone attacks in Pakistan and Yemen (among other locations), and conducted covert operations around the world, all in the name of what President George W. Bush termed the “Global War on | Read More »
The faux outrage over “torture” during the Bush War on Terror (I refer to it as the “Bush” war because, under Obama, we’re apparently replacing the “Global War on Terror” with the “Multiple-Day Standoff on Man-Caused Disasters”) is no more becoming of the left now than it was two, three, or four years ago. Co-opting the word “torture” to include methods far less offensive than | Read More »
President Obama and defense secretary Gates are still determining whether to end production, 183 planes in, of the F-22 Raptor, the world’s most advanced Air Superiority fighter. The rationale of those who are advocating cutting off the program is as simple as it is misguided: a belief that “the fighter, conceived in the Cold War, is a vastly expensive and over-capable weapon irrelevant to current | Read More »
I’ve been making once-or-twice-weekly appearances on PJTV, a new project of Pajamas Media, since shortly after the RNC convention in September, and wanted to try out a new idea: blogging a bit about the day’s show. If I’m boring you to death, well, click away now — you’ve been warned! The majority of my appearances have been on the “Bloggers’ Whip,” which (usually) features a | Read More »
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