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Ron Paul: Killing Of Anwar Al-Awlaki An Impeachable Offense, a Step Toward “Tyranny”…

October 3, 2011 By Leave a Comment

I want to like Ron Paul, he makes a lot sense when he talks about monetary policy and the need for greater transparency and oversight of the Federal Reserve, but he loses me when he starts talking about foreign policy and says things like this: Ron Paul said Monday that President Barack Obama’s targeted killing [...]

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Allen West: Ron Paul ‘Not the Kind of Guy You Need to Be Sitting at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave’

August 14, 2011 By 1 Comment

I’m going to get hate mail for posting this, but what hell. Ron Paul, makes a lot of sense when talks about monetary policy, or the need for great transparency at the Federal Reserve, but Allen West right, his foreign policy ideas are dangerously isolationist, and frankly, naive. And for that reason I can’t support [...]

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Video: The Reasoning Behind the Maritime Blockade on Gaza

June 27, 2011 By Leave a Comment

More here and here. Related Gaza-bound vessel really a ship of fools – Ruth Dudley Edwards, Irish Independent    

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Obama Administration to Britain: Drop Dead

February 25, 2010 By Leave a Comment

I’ll say this much for the Obama Administration: They’re consistent. From the get go they’ve made it clear that longstanding American allies can expected to be taken for granted, insulted and, if convenient, dumped in favor of appeasement. Consequently this administrations decision to not support Britain, our closest ally, in its latest dispute with Argentina [...]

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Weekend Briefing – Saturday, October 10, 2009

October 10, 2009 By Leave a Comment

I’m going to be tied up with family all weekend but here’s a collection of must read links: CBO: Budget deficit hit record $1.4T in 2009 – Associated Press Proposals to create jobs add up to second stimulus – Associated Press A Nobel for Obama – New York Sun Barack Obama’s peace prize starts a [...]

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Obama to Accept Nobel Prize as ‘Call to Action’… DNC Says Republicans Siding with Terrorists

October 9, 2009 By Leave a Comment

This day just keeps getting more and more surreal… First it was the news that Pres. Obama had won the Nobel Peace Prize, next was the news he’ll accept the award as a ‘Call to Action’: Saying he was “surprised and deeply humbled” by the decision of the Nobel Committee to award him the 2009 [...]

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Barack Obama Wins Nobel Peace Prize… For What?

October 9, 2009 By 1 Comment

I’m going to start off by saying Congratulations Mr. President… Although I’m not really sure what you’ve done to warrant such a prestigious award as the Nobel Peace Prize: President Barack Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for giving the world “hope for a better future” and striving for nuclear disarmament, in a [...]

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Rio Gets the Games, Chicago Eliminated in the First Round

October 2, 2009 By Leave a Comment

From the Wall Street Journal: Rio De Janeiro will host 2016 Olympics, the International Olympic Committe announced, bringing the Olympic Games to South America for the first time and besting a Chicago bid that was strongly backed by President Obama. Rio won in the third round, after Chicago was eliminated in the first round and [...]

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Michael Yon: Don’t Kid Yourselves; we’re in Serious Trouble in Afghanistan

October 1, 2009 By Leave a Comment

Michael Yon has spent more time in Iraq and Afghanistan than any other journalist. His dispatches from the front lines are required reading for anyone who wants to know what’s happening at the pointy end of the war on terror so when  he say we’re in serious trouble you should pay attention: The Greatest Afghanistan [...]

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Video: French President Thinks “Obama Is Very Naive and Egotistical”

September 30, 2009 By Leave a Comment

I’m generally suspicious of anonymous sources but given French President Nicolas Sarkozy’s public remarks I’m inclined to take Pittsburgh Post-Gazette columnist Jack Kell at his word here: From the Telegraph: Nicolas Sarkozy, the French president, came close to mocking his American counterpart for the good intentions, which Mr Obama had heralded as an “historic” step [...]

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