Archive for May, 2011
The GOP House Intel Chair’s Stunning Display of Insult and Ignorance
I’ve never heard of Rep. Mike Rogers, Republican Chair of the House Intelligence Committee, but I hope the next time I see his name in print it’s because he resigned his position. Obviously, he is not qualified to sit on any committee with the word “intelligence” anywhere in its title or mission. Republican House Intelligence [...]
Clearing the Browser Tabs – Oh Canada Wednesday Edition
For the first time since its founding in 2003, the Conservative Party of Canada now holds the majority of the seats in the Canadian Parliament. Michael Barone has a very good summary of the results and a few thoughts on how Canada voted in the first clearly conservative government I can recall in my lifetime. [...]
Clearing the Browser Tabs – Other Stuff Happened Yesterday Monday Edition
As you may have heard by now, something happened over in Pakistan yesterday that was just the tiniest bit newsworthy — and reports that a certain The Other McCain blogger just might have had a bit of a hand in it can be neither confirmed nor denied. Andrew Malcolm has about the most complete timeline [...]
The Left Celebrates Bin Laden’s Death in Unity and Patriotism and Not A Trace of Political…*snort*
Well, it certainly didn’t take long last night for a number of notable progressives to turn what should have been a moment of unifying national triumph into a left-wing partisan snark-off. I gleaned a few of the more egregious comments from some of the brighter lights of the left-wing commentariat as they posted them on [...]
Osama bin Laden is Now an Ex-Terrorist
The President finally made the announcement at about 11:30 PM, 90 minutes after the White House announced it would do so, and it is official. We have killed the murderous monster Osama bin Laden. According to the President’s statement (video link), we received intelligence last August about bin Laden’s location and worked the intelligence until [...]
Sources: Osama bin Laden is Dead. President: Still Trying to Organize a Press Conference About It
At about 10 PM Eastern, I caught the breaking news on Twitter that the White House had called a 10:30 PM Press conference that would involve major national security news. Speculation (and more than a few jokes) ran rampant for a half hour. I caught tweets that intelligence personnel had been recalled and the military [...]
Clearing the Browser Tabs – Gaia Hates Republicans Sunday Edition
This week, the powerful progressive website Think Progress floated the notion that the hundreds killed by tornadoes in the Southeast deserved it because they elected members of Congress who reject the left’s definition of global warming. So far as I can tell, only conservatives have pushed back against the noxious post (more here and here). [...]
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