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Secretary Gates Gets Weak and Timid on Piracy

Jimmie | December 15, 2008 | Comments (0)

The first thing about this article that caught my eye was the dateline. I defy anyone who is between 35-50 years old to read that word and not immediately think of Sesame Street. The rest of the article is no bag of laughs, though. Secretary Gates’ admission is, I think, a real stunner. I know [...]

The War on Terror Began Where, Again?

Jimmie | December 1, 2008 | Comments (1)

There was a paragraph in P-E Obama’s remarks today that caught my attention. It shows, in just a couple sentences, that when it comes to foreign policy, he’s pretty darned clueless. As I said throughout the campaign, I will be giving Secretary Gates and our military a new mission as soon as I take office: [...]

Will Obama Rehabilitate Bush?

Jimmie | November 29, 2008 | Comments (0)

Victor Davis Hanson takes a look at P-E Obama’s early staffing picks and concludes that the Obama administration may well improve President Bush’s reputation. I think we are slowly (and things of course could change) beginning in retrospect to look back at the outline of one of most profound bait-and-switch campaigns in our political history, [...]

It’s Not Climate Change that’s Killing Africa. It’s the UN.

Jimmie | July 7, 2008 | Comments (0)

While nearly the entire continent of Africa is dying of famine, disease, lack of potable water, and genocide, the UN has decided it knows what’s really causing all of that. Global Warming. U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, who attended Monday’s talks, said the drive to reach eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) set by the U.N. General [...]