Boots, sneakers, wing-tips – whatever CIA operatives and advance soldiers/trainers wear, they are in country and holding their first ever CIA “Boots on the Ground” spring shoe sale in Libya. Seriously folks, did we really think that the rebels called in the hits for the missiles from ships and ordinance from aircraft? One wonders when… [Read more…]
March 30, 2011
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Holding President Obama back from rushing ahead to arm the rebels in Libya is the idea that for the more complicated weapons, training is needed. We agonize over having boots on the ground. Well On My Watch has already posted an article about the fact that there are already US boots on the ground: Islamabad—The… [Read more…]
March 29, 2011
IN MEMORIAM – “AN OFFICER AND A GENTLEMAN” Joseph Glatney, the SUNY student and ROTC cadet who died in a car crash in a town near mine last Wednesday had been one of my student boarders. From last January through this past August, I had the joy of knowing him. In all his business with school… [Read more…]
March 29, 2011
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Free trade often comes at a high price. The one between India and the EU that had been slated to be signed in April is one such example. It has citizens of India who rely on inexpensive generic drugs produced by small firms such as generic drugs for HIV patients. These would in effect be… [Read more…]
March 28, 2011
Here is how just a few out of control people can grab maximum attention – a single photograph is all it takes . One wonders if there are photographers/journalists sympathetic to their cause among the press corps surrounding and weaving through such events. The actions of these more violent protesters at times appear carefully staged… [Read more…]
March 26, 2011
With a royal wedding 4 weeks away, British citizens erupted into a flurry of violence in London today that presages the promised civil disruption planned the actual day of the nuptials. The Daily Mail summed up today’s violence in London succintly: Hooded anarchists attack London landmarks linked to luxury and wealth Welcome to the first… [Read more…]
March 26, 2011
We just don’t know how to avoid World War III. We are so good at alienating whole regions on the globe and at selling arms to whoever wants them that somewhere out there we will round a corner and come up against someone we used to consider a friend pointing one of our guns at… [Read more…]
March 25, 2011
Let’s begin with the big O. Today – over a week into the Libya “intervention,” he is going to speak to Congress – wait for it – by phone. Yes, a teleconference is all he can manage. Perhaps the teleprompter is in the shop for repairs. My theory – is that this is as close… [Read more…]
March 25, 2011
Why is George Soros investing in land in great quantities abroad? For the same reason countries such as China and India are purchasing farmlands outside their boarders. China purchased 100,000 hectares in Zimbabwe, part of a series of investments that have led to more than a million Chinese farmers in Africa. [The American] It is… [Read more…]
March 24, 2011
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Ok all of you countries who want to weaken the west by breaking up NATO and other organizations and treaties between them. Obama is here to help. The President’s sojourn in South America has netted these multiple headlines in the Daily Mail: Who’s in charge? Germans pull forces out of NATO as Libyan coalition falls… [Read more…]
March 24, 2011
The US government is not only running out of money, it is fast running out of terms to affix to military operations it undertakes in other countries that most would call “war.” Found this on LRC blog. The blog is run by Llewellyn Harrison Rockwell, Jr. (born July 1, 1944, Boston), widely known as Lew… [Read more…]
March 24, 2011
Several weeks ago SamHenry posted Al Qaeda Establishes Emirate in Libya. There were conflicting reports of the veracity of this story [see On My Watch here]. However, there is growing evidence of the presence of their forces [see post here on Lorinov's Blog suggested by Freedom whose blog is here]. Lorinov cites an article in the… [Read more…]
March 23, 2011
We thought we had a president who stood by his words – words that fell easily and smoothly from his lips as he gave us beautiful prose yet singularly uninspiring. Now the man who begins most speeches with “Let me be clear…” has yet to face the American People with his policy concerning a not… [Read more…]
March 23, 2011
How many glamorous women die and are eulogized in the Daily Racing Form? Few. But Dame Elizabeth Taylor began her film career on a horse and suffered a fall from him that would give her severe back pain for the rest of her life. She stared in National Velvet in 1944 at the age of… [Read more…]
March 22, 2011
[At] Chancellorsville, after all plans had been made, all orders given, he looked out at his troops and said, “The Virginia Military Insitute will be heard from today. “Stonewall” Jackson. Improbable as this may seem, recently the Muslim Brotherhood was active in a program at VMA (Virginia Military Institute): ___________________________________________ Muslim Brotherhood’s Weeklong Celebration… [Read more…]
March 30, 2011
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