Citizens, rest easy. Your leaders are protecting you. And they are doing it through diplomacy, not force of arms. That’s right, we’ve now reached a maritime search-and-seize accord with Mongolia, in case a rogue actor within the Mongolian merchant marine… Continue Reading
I find Vice President Al Gore’s winning of the Nobel Peace Prize, for his work publicizing global warming and related environmental problems, to not sit well with me. I’m not alone in this. I have two problems with the award.… Continue Reading
As it turns out, the U.S. and Britain almost went to war in the 1850’s. A few young hotheads in uniform, making undisciplined choices nearly brought the U.S. and Britain to war in the 1850’s, and cool heads were in… Continue Reading
North Korea agreed today, in exchange for a total of one million tons of fuel oil, to shut down its main nuclear reactor, account for the rest of its nuclear program, and permit IAEA inspectors to enter and verify their… Continue Reading
How much does it really matter if the next President is Hillary Clinton, Rudy Giuliani, or someone else? Realistically, the following things are going to happen no matter who sits in the Oval Office: We’re still going to have troops… Continue Reading
But some laughably bad ones, at that. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad spoke today at Columbia University in New York, having previously been denied permission to go to Ground Zero and lay a wreath there, ostensibly to pay respect to the… Continue Reading
What if we were able to send the bright men and women at MoveOn.org back in time to 1942? I bet we’d have seen an ad a lot like this in the New York Times. E-e-e-e-ediots!
In a move that earned him a standing ovation from his own countrymen and which seems cynically calculated to polarize opinion in the United States, Mexican President Felipe Calderón proclaimed in his state of the nation address: Mexico does not… Continue Reading
The balance of power in today’s multipolar world just got a little bit more complicated. The aircraft in question may be helicopters but could, in theory, be Harriers or similar kinds of VTOL aircraft. At the end of this article,… Continue Reading
Hysterical neolib calls for a military coup. As much as the author denies it, what he advocates would be a military overthrow of the civilian government. As bad an idea as you might think the Iraq war was, or still… Continue Reading