http://www.redstate.com/streiff Fri, 06 Nov 2009 21:32:14 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The murder of thirteen US soldiers and the wounding of thirty others at Fort Hood, Texas, yesterday is an unprecedented even in the history of the US military. It marks the first time in the history of the republic that a commissioned officer in the Armed Forces has turned his ... http://www.redstate.com/streiff/2009/11/06/the-legacy-of-major-nidal-malik-hasan/ [caption id="attachment_353" align="aligncenter" width="460" caption="President Obama and national security team discuss Afghanistan"][/caption] As we've discussed before, President Obama is on the horns of a dilemma. He campaigned on the idea that the "real" war on transnational terrorism is being fought in Afghanistan and has since demonstrated that, true to his roots ... http://www.redstate.com/streiff/2009/10/27/obama-afghanistan-policy-update/ As most of you know, former Vice President Dick Cheney gave a superlative speech a couple of nights ago at the Center for Security Policy, (transcript thoughtfully provided by AE) in which he delivered a blistering critique of the Obama administration’s unconscionable selling out of the new democracies in Eastern ... http://www.redstate.com/streiff/2009/10/23/obamas-foreign-policy-flame-out/ Truly malignant ideas crop up in a democracy with the frequency of toadstools after a summer rain storm. Most of these ideas are dismissed by the great majority of citizens after public debate in one fashion or another. Some of the ideas hang on despite evidence to the contrary (sorry ... http://www.redstate.com/streiff/2009/10/21/the-malignant-nature-of-the-oath-keeper-movement/ I John Brown am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty, land: will never be purged away; but with Blood. I had as I now think: vainly flattered myself that without very much bloodshed; it might be done. Shortly after dusk on October 16, 1859 a party of eighteen ... http://www.redstate.com/streiff/2009/10/16/john-browns-raid/ "I hope to God you understand this race is winnable." Vice President Joe Biden at yesterday's fundraiser for VA gubernatorial candidate Creigh Deeds. Having flogged the nothingburger story of the 20-year-old master's thesis of VA Attorney General Bob McDonnell to bloody rags, the Washington Post does and abrupt volte face today and ... http://www.redstate.com/streiff/2009/10/09/creigh-deeds-becomes-the-baby-daddy-of-failure/ Great. Just what we need. Another top priority. Right now we have the economy, cap and tax, global warming, and socializing health care as front burner issues. Did I forget anything? Oh, yeah, there are a couple of wars being fought, two rogue states about to acquire nukes, and Russia casting ... http://www.redstate.com/streiff/2009/10/07/todays-priority-urban-renewal/ Yesterday there was an anti-war-in-Afghanistan protest outside the White House, even the loonies in the anti-war movement realize the futility of protesting a successful war, but it didn’t make national news. There was a story to be told, it just was not the story the media had an interest in ... http://www.redstate.com/streiff/2009/10/07/the-sham-anti-war-movement/ In the constellation of op-ed writers it is hard to find a fainter star, or dimmer bulb for that matter, than Eugene Robinson. Today, however, he out does himself. In his effort to defend The One from all criticism, he not only criticizes General Stan McChrystal for something he didn’t ... http://www.redstate.com/streiff/2009/10/06/eugene-robinsons-dishonest-attack-on-general-mcchrystal/ While you and I have been lounging around waiting for old folks to die needlessly because we're against Obamacare, Michelle Obama has been doing the hard work on our behalf. She's visiting Copenhagen. In her speech in Copenhagen today, First Lady Michelle Obama said her trip to Denmark, along with the ... http://www.redstate.com/streiff/2009/10/01/michelle-obama-martyr/ The Hill reports that the Senate Finance Committee has authorized participation in Obamacare by illegal aliens. Senate Finance Committee Democrats rejected a proposed a requirement that immigrants prove their identity with photo identification when signing up for federal healthcare programs. Finance Committee ranking member Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) said that current law and ... http://www.redstate.com/streiff/2009/09/30/senate-finance-committe-approves-health-care-for-illegals/ Being a moron should be a disqualification for a wide range of occupations. I think we can all agree that having morons as physicians is a bad thing. But morons are perfectly capable holding down useful employment, take for instance actors, sportscasters, and Keith Olbermann. It would seem that as ... http://www.redstate.com/streiff/2009/09/29/common-sense-outlawed-in-indiana/ If there was ever any doubt that Nancy Pelosi is officially America's Crazy Aunt, that doubt was eradicated today. In her weekly press briefing some sycophantic reporter lobbed the set up question that seems to be part of the White House's "hit back" strategy (to make this less ralph-inducing I'd ... http://www.redstate.com/streiff/2009/09/17/nancy-pelosi-is-bats/ I did a short diary on this subject a few days ago contending that the conundrum facing the Obama Administration in Afghanistan is that it knows it can't lose the war and, yet, it believes winning the war is wrong. My analysis was flawed because I failed to take into consideration ... http://www.redstate.com/streiff/2009/09/16/obamas-retreat-in-afghanistan/ There have been three salient features thus far of the Obama Administration. The first is its secretive nature, elevating to the status of quasi state secrets information that has been readily available in previous Administrations. The second is a Carteresque level of incompetence which spans the gamut from economic to ... http://www.redstate.com/streiff/2009/09/16/obama-and-politics-of-demonization/ If patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel then crying racism must be in the other half of the duplex. Many of us noted back during the '08 primaries and general election that the Obama camp would cry racism at the drop of a hat. He performed poorly in Pennsylvania ... http://www.redstate.com/streiff/2009/09/15/obama-is-opposed-by-racists/ To date President Obama’s Afghanistan strategy has been by the most charitable description a muddle. It is to be expected. To anyone paying attention to his August 2007 speech at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars would have picked up on the fact that his critique for doing well ... http://www.redstate.com/streiff/2009/09/08/the-failure-of-obama%e2%80%99s-afghanistan-strategy/ The latest from self avowed communist revolutionary and all around bon vivant, Obama's "Green Jobs Czar", Van Jones. "You've never seen a Columbine done by a black child. Never. They always say, 'We can't believe it happened here. We can't believe it's these suburban white kids.' It's only them. Now, a ... http://www.redstate.com/streiff/2009/09/04/van-jones-mocks-columbine/ The Administration's mismanagement of the economy continues to take a heavy toll. In August the economy lost 216,000 jobs, roughly equivalent to the population of Reno, NV, just in case Harry Reid is interested. Over 5 million Americans had been out of work for over 6 months. Over 9 million ... http://www.redstate.com/streiff/2009/09/04/the-obama-depression-deepens/ The world of Defense procurement is tough, if you’ve ever served as a program officer inside the Pentagon you know that funding projects is a bloodsport. Services and program officers compete relentlessly for resources and contractors, usually with a wink and a nod from inside the Pentagon, carry on the ... http://www.redstate.com/streiff/2009/09/02/citizens-against-government-waste-and-payola/