Search Results for: Libya
HALF-FULL REPORT 10/21/11
... he was given a plethora of opportunities to safely leave Libya and live out his days in comfortable exile. The choice to end like ... out of his spider hole, and the bloody frenzy of ragtag Libyan rebels pulling Moammar Gaddafi out of his drain pipe. This is ...
HALF-FULL REPORT 09/09/11
Well, it took folks like Fred Barnes and Charles Krauthammer a while, but they've got it. President Zero is now our current POTUS's official nickname. Google the term today (9/09) and you'll get 400,000 hits (earlier this week it was 80,000 ...
HALF-FULL REPORT 08/26/11
If you don't read the TTP Forum, then you may not have heard the announcement of the Obama Administration's that the US Geological Survey has identified the source of the earthquake that shook Washington DC last Tuesday (8/23). The USGS is saying that it ...
HALF-FULL REPORT 08/19/11
Let's start with a trio of quotes. On Monday (8/15) in Decorah, Iowa, President Zero explained why he has been a total economic failure: "We had reversed the recession, avoided a depression, gotten the economy moving again. But over the last ...
HALF-FULL REPORT 08/05/11
... at the NATO Command nearby that is running the war in Libya. Nonetheless, this seems a uniquely appropriate place from which to ...
HALF-FULL REPORT 07/15/11
The current crisis du jour over the debt ceiling makes me think of Errol Flynn (1909-1959). Flynn's best friend was David Niven, with whom he starred in a number of movies. Flynn was the handsomest and most charming man in Hollywood. I ...
RESTORING CONSTITUTIONAL GOVERNMENT
I am a constitutional conservative. So what does that mean? I've earned a couple of law degrees, but defining "constitutional conservatism" shouldn't require a legal scholar. I believe our founders knew what they were doing when they designed ...
NO RETREAT FROM THE RISE OF FREEDOM
... the conduct of President Obama's military leadership in Libya. There is much to question. And it is not wrong for Republicans to ...
OBAMA’S FOREIGN POLICY IS ABOUT TO GET MUCH WORSE
Outgoing US Defense Secretary Robert Gates is worried about the shape of things to come in US foreign policy. In an interview with Newsweek over the weekend, Gates warned: "To tell you the truth, that's one of the many reasons it's time for me to re ...
AN OUTLAW EMPEROR, NOT A PRESIDENT
... they must be withdrawn. The 90 days on Libya ran out last Sunday (6/19). The top lawyers at Justice and Defense told Mr. Obama the War Powers Act applies to Libya, but he ignored them. This is not the first time this ...
WHO WILL WIN THE WAR POWERS SHOOT-OUT?
... Act with regard to the U.S. military intervention in Libya. If Congress doesn't explicitly approve the military action within 90 ...
A PURBLIND PRESIDENT IN THE MIDDLE EAST
... ill-conceived and incoherent policy and mission creep in Libya has now resulted in the administration's diminished willingness to ...
WHY SHOULD NATO EXIST?
The war in Libya has gone poorly since Mr. Obama turned its conduct over to NATO, an ...
A PURE PLATINUM RENDEZVOUS
I just got this email from an attendee at Rendezvous X at the Platinum Hotel in Las Vegas last weekend: "The weekend was really over the top - but it was almost impossible to pick only one favorite speaker. The range of topics was so v ...
THE OBAMA OSAMA BOTCH
The White House has botched the rollout of the greatest success of Barack Hussein Obama's presidency. The screwups began last Sunday (5/01) when we learned U.S. Navy SEALs had killed Osama bin Laden in his million dollar "hideout" in the resort ...
OBAMA KILLS OSAMA
Osama bin Laden is dead. President Barack Obama deserves much of the credit. Most of the credit, of course, belongs to the Navy SEALs who assaulted bin Laden's compound; to the intelligence officers who traced him to that compound, and to the inter ...
THE SUM OF OUR PROBLEMS
So many bad things are happening all at once that it's hard to decide what to worry about most. Inflation. In February, we had the highest monthly increase in the price of food since 1974. In March the price of corn set a record high. T ...
PRESIDENT SCOFFLAW AND KING JAMES II
The Department of Health and Human Services has so far granted more than a thousand waivers to Obamacare. Most have gone to labor unions and to other organizations which support the administration. The law Congress passed contains no language auth ...
SHOULD ONLY VETERANS BE ELIGIBLE FOR PUBLIC OFFICE?
The most fatuous proposal (so far) for ending the war in Libya has come from Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-CA. We should get a warrant for Libyan dictator Muammar Ghadafy from the International Criminal Court, and ...
FOOD CRISIS AND OPPORTUNITY
... true in low-income countries - such as Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, and Yemen, which is why antigovernment revolutions there started with ...
HALF-FULL REPORT 04/01/11
... about fools - and their luck. Zero just might pull Libya off. He'll have David Cameron to thank for it, and MI6, which is ...
REQUEST FOR REMOVAL
... decision to participate in allied military action in Libya. Furthermore, this resolution should also state that removing Muammar ... National Council as the legitimate government in Libya. Read ...
DYNAMITE IN THE HANDS OF A CHILD
... a month of dithering, he chose to intervene militarily in Libya's civil war. "We knew that if we waited even one more day -- ...
EL PRESIDENTE TURISTA
The oddest thing about President Barack Hussein Obama Jr.'s South American trip is that he went on it at all. To leave for a foreign tourist junket immediately after plunging his country into war isn't the sort of thing Americans expect their presid ...
HALF-FULL REPORT 3/25/11
... with the flow. We'll start with a follow-up to Islam in Libya, since everyone's so focused on what Zero is doing there. What's ... get out." Palin sees the purpose of the mission in Libya is for Gaddafi "to end up dead," or the mission is a ...
HALF-FULL REPORT 03/18/11
It's great to be back in the HFR saddle again - yet I'm so grateful to Jack Kelly for doing such a marvelous job in my absence. Thanks, Jack! And we have an additional reason for gratitude to Mr. Kelly this week - for he was able to prevail upon hi ...
A TSUNAMI OF INSANITY
Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. Sitting with friends here, we are stupefied and silent as we watch video news footage such as this of the truly unbelievable destruction of the Japan Tsunami: {youtube}w3AdFjklR50{/youtube} Until I break the silenc ...
HIS ROYAL CLERKSHIP
... but he can't make a decision." "In the case of Libya, Obama has seemed almost Shakespearean in his public musings about ...
HALF-FULL REPORT 03/11/11
The country is falling off a fiscal cliff. The world is on fire, and Zero’s dithering and incompetence is pouring gasoline on it. And I’ve still got the flu. But the hero governor of my home state has won a victory that will reverberate ...
IRAN IS THE PRIME BENEFICIARY OF THE NEW MIDDLE EAST
... supplies due to political unrest or other factors. When Libya's teetering dictator Muammar Ghaddafi decided to shut down Libya's oil exports last month, the oil markets reacted with a sharp increase ...
BLANK SLATE OR EMPTY SUIT
In the prologue to the second of his autobiographies, “The Audacity of Hope,” Barack Obama said: “I serve as a blank screen on which people of vastly different political stripes project their own views.” Being a “blank scr ...
THE WEST’S PROXY WAR AGAINST THE JEWS
It was a stunning moment of moral clarity. As the South Vietnamese refugees clambered onto rickety boats in the South China Sea to escape the victorious Communists, the American Left that orchestrated the US defeat through a sustained campaign of propaga ...
HALF-FULL REPORT 02/25/11
... States is signaling is weakness. The bloodshed mounts in Libya, but Muammar Gadhafi is finished. Out of approximately 50,000 regular ...
THE COUNTRY THAT DOES EXIST
Berbera, Somaliland. I originally called this place the country that doesn't exist, because no other country in the world will diplomatically recognize it as a sovereign nation even though it's been so for 20 years. Nonetheless, this is a real co ...
HYPOCRISY ON DEMOCRACY
... say on behalf of those protesting dictatorial regimes in Libya, Iran and China, and who are being violently suppressed. Liberals have ...
THANKS, JULIAN!
I can't believe how much fun this WikiLeaks hysteria is. All kinds of normally sane people absolutely going berserk-o, publicly demanding the perp involved, an Aussie named Julian Assange, be assassinated or tried for treason and executed. How to r ...
WILL THE WIN ENDURE?
Or will Barack Obama and the Democratic party abandon Iraq prematurely, as the Democrats did South Vietnam? Our soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines have done their job. But Iraq needs energetic American diplomatic and political engagement to fi ...
HALF-FULL REPORT 08/13/10
Of all the headlines in all the news publications on the planet this week, there's one that struck me as the strangest. In today's (8/13) British newspaper The Independent, the headline blares out at you: Why Is The World Unmoved By The Plight ...
THE COMING CHRISTIAN CRUSADE AGAINST ISLAM IN AFRICA
The Islamists have it wrong: Islam isn't the world's fastest-growing religion. By birth numbers and convert tallies, it's Christianity. And Africa's at the forefront -- a fact that's going to body-slam Moslem extremists sooner or later. The bombings t ...
HALF-FULL REPORT 04/02/10
Today is Good Friday, when Christians commemorate the Passion and Crucifixion of Jesus. It should be of solace to the millions doing so in America that there are so many millions more sharing this commemoration with them all over the world. It sho ...