Tag: U.S. Politics

A nuclear weapons reduction plan advocated by Hagel evinces a less than serious understanding of both the nature of US deterrence needs, and the geopolitical balance between the United States and Russia.

This is one of those times that I wish the anti-Semites were right, and that there was actually a semi-covert, powerful and well-funded Jewish lobby forcing the US to do its bidding.

The Obama administration has succeeded in making the issue of Hagel all about Israel and Jews.

It will be a long, hard road to traverse, but there is no short cut and it can succeed.

The ability to perceive and make difficult choices is fundamental to the survival of a country.

What Obama means by 'saving' the Middle Class is turning them into welfare clients.

The glorious day of the inglorious man is here. And someone else is paying. Any someone else who isn't him.

Crowd culture expects everyone to follow the leader, to join the meme, to move with the flow, but that is something that crazy people cannot do.

If you believe that people are basically good, then they can be trusted with an AR-15.

Both the Left and the shooters agree that the people you are shooting at should not have guns.

The Left seeks to create a society where everyone is a lab monkey except the experts running the experiments.

The issue isn't really guns. Guns are how we misspell evil.

What is lost in the discussion are the Biblical underpinnings of abortion and how this is not primarily a legal issue but a religious one.

Can American traditionalists quadruple their numbers in 40 years?

A senior member of President Harry Truman's own administration secretly gave American Zionist lobbyists advice in 1946 on how to pressure Truman to support creating a Jewish state.

Barack Obama is not a Communist, a fascist, a Muslim, a Marxist, a Progressive or even a socialist. Obama and those who control much of America’s academia, mass media, and entertainment industry—plus a number of trade unions and hundreds of foundations, think tanks, and front groups—are believers in a new, very American form of leftism.

Politicians take for granted that education is the road to empowerment and equality. Obama has read poems off his teleprompter about the wonders of education as the only means of ensuring "our" children's future. There is nothing revolutionary about that. Every politician takes it for granted that education means empowerment. But does it really?

The interesting question is “why did they change it?” A platform is not a binding document; it is intended as a general statement of a party or candidate’s positions. Its planks are generally written to appeal the broadest possible constituencies. Most voters never read platforms or care about them. Is the change is intended to send a message to the leadership of the Muslim nations that Obama has been courting since his 2009 speech in Cairo that he is taking concrete steps to weaken the bond between the U.S. and Israel?

When all the bubbles of rhetoric pop, there are still the hard unpleasant realities to deal with.