Category: The World At Large
President Obama’s Foreign Policy: In the Rear with the Gear
Both Mollie Hemingway and Paula Gardner noticed something very curious about a description of President Obama’s leadership style in a recent New Yorker article. Obama’s reluctance to articulate a grand synthesis “has alienated both realists and idealists,” Lizza writes. However, he “may be moving toward something resembling a doctrine.” One of Obama’s advisers describes his [...]
What European Christians Have Learned from Islam
Over the past few years, we’ve seen several incidents where violent Muslim protests over relatively minor slights earned big government and corporate concessions. Death threats over a few cartoons of Mohammed caused media outlets all over the world to censor themselves in ways that they would never have done otherwise. Muslims have murdered people because [...]
After the President’s Libya Speech, I Still Have Questions
Last night, President Obama did his best impression of an embarrassed schoolboy handing in a two-week late term paper he hastily finished the night before and told us what he thinks we’re doing in Libya and why Operation Air Quotes is the right thing. You can read the speech here and determine for yourself if [...]
The Most Impressive Tsunami Video I’ve Ever Seen (Or, How the Sea Ate a Town in 6 Minutes)
This is, hands down, the most breathtaking video of the tsunami in Japan I’ve seen. When you watch it, pay attention to two things: 1) the geography of the area at the beginning of the video and how the implacable force of the sea changes it in less than 6 minutes, and 2) the utter [...]
An Exit Strategy That’s Not an Exit Strategy for A War That’s Not A War
Sunday, I wrote a post titled “To Heck With an Exit Strategy, Can the President Tell Us His Entry Strategy for Libya?”. When I wrote that, I thought surely President would have such a strategy for whatever the heck it is he’s doing in Libya, considering the Democratic Party’s obsession with the phrase “exit strategy” [...]
Why Does the President Want Us to Buy More Oil From A Crazy Man?
I used to love the Weekly World News. I never minded handing over a couple bucks to learn where Bat Boy had landed to fight the Islamists or the latest “Dick Cheney is a Robot” story. Nearly every page entertained me and, since I’m already a fan of weird fiction, I could imagine a story [...]
So, Are We Talking “ZOMG MELTDOWN!” or What?
Like many of you, I’ve been watching the breathless news coverage of the potentially-catastrophic situation at Japan’s Fukijima Daiich nuclear plant. Like many of you, I watched the video of the explosion there and thought “Wow…that can’t be good”. But how “not good” is the situation there? Well, there we wade into incredibly murky waters. [...]
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