By Alan Caruba ~ Bret Stephens, a columnist for The Wall Street Journal, had a commentary, “The Other Bluffer”, in which he discussed President Obama’s and Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu’s statements, respectively, on Syria and Iran; the former regarding a “red line” concerning the use of poison gas and the latter being Iran’s intention to make […]
By Alan Caruba ~ A protocol to the Geneva Convention outlaws the use of gas in warfare. This did not stop Iraq’s Saddam Hussein from using it during his eight-year war with Iran. In one infamous incident Saddam ordered the use of poison gas against Kurdish guerrillas and civilians in the border town of Halabja, […]
By Alan Caruba ~ Wouldn’t it be ironic if President Obama—who has shown that his every instinct is to pull back from any war or military conflict—ends up being a “war President” thanks to Kim Jong-un, the demented little dictator of North Korea? I was about four months’ shy of becoming a bona fide teenager […]
By Alan Caruba ~ On March 5 the following were headlines and links on The Drudge Report and, when you put them together they add up to the greatest potential for World War III that the world has seen in a while. # WAR DRUMS: KERRY WARNS IRAN ON BRINK… # ‘Challenging moment with great […]
By Ray Walser ~ The government of Venezuela has announced that Hugo Chavez died this afternoon. His death was not unexpected. What is unexpected is what occurred earlier today. Vice President Nicolas Maduro—Chavez’s heir apparent—informed a televised audience that Chavez was the victim of an attack by his enemies. “We have not a single doubt […]
This sounds very much like our problem in the USA. Do all Liberal-Socialists take the same courses on how to rob us taxpayers? —ed By Andrew Bolt ~ Julia Gillard at the Press Club yesterday claimed revenue was down and more “savings” – actually tax hikes – were needed: Conventional economic forecasts are also being […]
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By James Phillips ~ Egypt has been rocked once again by a political crisis triggered by President Mohamed Morsi’s relentless efforts to secure dictatorial power. Hundreds of protesters from liberal and secular opposition groups demonstrated in Cairo’s Tahrir Square, the birthplace of Egypt’s stunted “Arab Spring” revolt. One barometer of the coming test of strength […]
By Dr. Laina Farhat-Holzman ~ Russia before the Communist Revolution in 1917 had conflicting cultural characteristics: a relatively small educated class and aristocracy undergoing a European-style renaissance; and the vast peasant and village population, dirt-poor, superstitious, and ignorant. Geography plays a role in shaping a culture. Russia’s vast size and wide-open plains left it vulnerable […]
The Patriot Post ~ “Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time, who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done, if we are always doing.” –Thomas Jefferson The dust had barely settled from Tuesday’s election before attention turned, as it should, to […]
By Alan Caruba ~ My foremost memory of Fidel Castro dates to 1961 during the Cuban Missile Crisis when, as a young soldier, the Second Infantry Division at Fort Benning, Georgia was put on full readiness in the event the U.S. had to invade Cuba. I was informed that I would remain in the Army […]
THE PATRIOT POST ~ Subject: A Critical Notice About Today’s Edition Patriots, Today, instead of the column over my “Mark Alexander” byline, you’ll receive a message with this subject line: “That’s the Obama I voted for!“ The message will be from “Karen” with the e-mail address ColoradoU02@gmail.com. Her name and address have been altered, but […]
By Alan Caruba ~ Jamie Maslin is a British travel writer, but when he told friends that he intended to hitch-hike the Silk Road route of Marco Polo, one that would take him through Iran, they warned him against it, fearing he would be arrested as a spy and likely killed. Instead, he ended up […]
By Alan Caruba ~ “State TV said President Assad’s brother-in-law, Assef Shawkat, and Gen Dawoud Rajha, the defence minister were victims of a blast during a high level security meeting. The Interior minister was also injured. Gen Shawkat was the deputy defense minister and was among the most feared figures in Assad’s inner circle. He […]
By Burt Prelutsky ~ As you may have noticed, France elected a new president named Francois Hollande. I’m delighted. It’s rare that a country and its president so richly deserve one another. France, after all, is a nation that sat by while its Muslim population set its cities afire because sharia law wasn’t yet on […]
By Mike Brownfield ~ Last weekend, the people of France took a sharp turn to the left, and the rest of Europe may be on the brink of rebuking its recent tack toward fiscal responsibility. With Sunday’s election of French Socialist leader Francois Hollande, France has leapt backward toward the policies that have helped sink […]
By Mark Alexander Confusing Individual Responsibility With Statist Tyranny “I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion of the means. I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it. In my youth […]
By Alan Caruba ~ As someone who vividly recalls the Iranian “students” who took our diplomats hostage in 1979 and the 444 days it took to get them back, the repeat of this by the Muslim Brotherhood in Cairo, putting 19 pro-democracy, non-government organization (NGO) Americans on trial on trumped up charges has an ugly […]
By Alan Caruba ~ A bit of Syrian history will prove useful as the world looks on while Syrians are slaughtered in the thousands to ensure that Bashar al-Assad, the son of the late Hafez al-Assad remains that nation’s dictator. Hafez came to power in a bloodless military coup in 1970. A year later he […]
By Cynthia E Ayers Iran’s clerical leaders consider their country to be in a state of war with the United States—in fact, this has been the case since the 1979 Islamic Revolution. Needless to say, the U.S. has never officially acknowledged being “at war” with Iran—and has certainly never prosecuted regional operations in such a […]
The Patriot Post Chronicle The Foundation “Remember, that Time is Money.” –Benjamin Franklin Editorial Exegesis “On Monday, the Postal Service said it will shut almost half its mail processing centers and largely eliminate next-day delivery for first-class mail. That’s on top of a 1-cent postage stamp hike that goes into effect next month. It’s all […]
By Yoram Ettinger The assumption that tougher sanctions could deny Iran nuclear capabilities, pacify Iran’s nuclear program and produce a regime change in Tehran all defy reality. These assumptions, and the suppositions that Mutually Assured Deterrence would enable the free world to coexist with a nuclear Iran and that the cost of a military pre-emption […]
By Alan Caruba Norman Thomas, a U.S. Socialist Party candidate for president, once famously said, “The American people will never knowingly adopt Socialism. But, under the name of ‘liberalism’, they will adopt every fragment of the Socialist program, until one day America will be a socialist nation, without knowing how it happened.” Thomas ran for […]
By Alan Caruba If one has been in the habit of reading history then the events of the past and of the present inform each other. For this reason, it occurred to me that the world is once again having a nervous breakdown. It’s not just about money, though surely the nations of Europe along with the […]
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May 3, 2013 by papundits
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