Archive | April, 2009
Stephen F. Hayes: Obama’s intelligence chief admits the value of tough interrogations
Published Saturday, April 25, 2009 at 9:34 am
Admiral Dennis Blair, the top intelligence official in the United States, thanks to his nomination by Barack Obama, believes that the coercive interrogation methods outlawed by his boss produced “high-value information” and gave the U.S. government a “deeper understanding of the al Qaeda organization that was attacking this country.” He included those assessments in a [...]
Continue reading...Paul Sheehan: Beware the climate of conformity
Published Saturday, April 25, 2009 at 9:23 am
What I am about to write questions much of what I have written in this space, in numerous columns, over the past five years. Perhaps what I have written can withstand this questioning. Perhaps not. The greater question is, am I – and you – capable of questioning our own orthodoxies and intellectual habits? Let’s [...]
Continue reading...Mark Steyn: Pirate problem joins North Korean missile, Iranian nukes as ‘distractions’ for Obama.
Published Sunday, April 12, 2009 at 3:41 pm
The Reuters headline put it this way: “Pirates Pose Annoying Distraction For Obama.” So many distractions, aren’t there? Only a week ago, the North Korean missile test was an “annoying distraction” from Barack Obama’s call for a world without nuclear weapons and his pledge that America would lead the way in disarming. And only a [...]
Continue reading...Charles Krauthammer: It’s Your Country Too, Mr. President
Published Sunday, April 12, 2009 at 3:22 pm
I’m not against gift-giving in international relations. But it would be nice to see some reciprocity. Obama was in a giving mood throughout Europe. While Gordon Brown was trying to make his American DVDs work and the queen was rocking to her new iPod, the rest of Europe was enjoying a more fulsome Obama gift. [...]
Continue reading...Dennis Prager: America Has a Naive President
Published Tuesday, April 7, 2009 at 11:49 am
“The basic bargain is sound: countries with nuclear weapons will move toward disarmament, countries without nuclear weapons will not acquire them.” — President Barack Obama, Prague, April 6, 2009 As far as nuclear weapons are concerned, the President of the United States wants America to disarm: “Countries with nuclear weapons will move toward disarmament.” It [...]
Continue reading...TED Talks: David Pogue: Cool new things you can do with your mobile phone
Published Sunday, April 5, 2009 at 10:01 am
Phil’s networks
Published Wednesday, April 29, 2009 at 10:15 pm
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