Posted on November 20th, 2009 by Oskar Chomicki
The American political class is perennially obsessed with which party will come to power and what agenda it will implement, but, in some respects, this is a shortsighted view. Ultimately, victories for partisan legislation may pale in significance to constitutional changes. (Here, I use “constitutional” in the sense of the broader political system, the balance [...]
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Posted on November 20th, 2009 by Sheldon Richman
Want to know how the politicians justify forcing us to buy health insurance? I discuss their screwball grounds in this week’s TGIF.
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Posted on November 18th, 2009 by Kelley Vlahos
This should come as no surprise - that nearly a decade of war has left our ranks stretched so thin, that the Army would have few available reserves if a major crisis occurred on another front.
Via Spencer Ackerman at The Washington Independent today:
If President Obama orders an additional 30,000 to 40,000 troops to Afghanistan, he [...]
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Posted on November 17th, 2009 by Philip Giraldi
Time for a rant about professional football. I don’t know how many TAC regulars are football fans, but I suspect there are at least a few. I have been a fan for many years but rarely watch anymore. At one time, football was a real male bonding experience with big brawny guys smacking each other [...]
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Posted on November 16th, 2009 by Kelley Vlahos
The murderous rampage of Army Maj. Nidal Hasan almost two weeks ago at Ft. Hood has inadvertently reopened a nasty wound and I am glad. People are again talking about the mental health of our returning soldiers, but more importantly, talking about the stigma attached to both active duty and veteran military servicemembers who seek [...]
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Posted on November 14th, 2009 by Dennis Dale
From a former jarhead friend now working in Afghanistan as a contractor:
About the only thing you really need to stockpile is patience because it’s a military/government project, where the sad but common saying is “f–k up, move up”. You’d be astounded at the incompetence and how deep and swift it can flow through here sometimes. [...]
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Posted on November 13th, 2009 by Sean Scallon
There have been posts on amconmag.com about the divisions in the major parties, particularly the GOP. There’s an old saying that you can’t tell the players without a program and it’s a good idea to fully understand what the true divisions are with the Republican Party and the larger Right.
The real division roiling the party right now [...]
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Posted on November 4th, 2009 by Sean Scallon
Three cheers for the smug. No doubt Michael Steele and Newt Gingrich had a lot to celebrate last night as not only two company men like Chris Christie and Bob McDonnell were elected to governorships in their respective states, but Doug Hoffman’s loss of Congressional District that was in Republican hands since before the War [...]
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Posted on November 4th, 2009 by Freddy Gray
Today, the White House issued a statement about Iran saying that it “hope[s] greatly that violence will not spread.” Whatever one thinks about Team Obama’s approach to Iran, surely everyone can agree with that statement. Violence is bad, right?
Wrong, says Michael Ledeen, in blog post entitled, absurdly, “more from the appeaser-in-chief”:
Personally, I hope the demonstrations [...]
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Posted on November 4th, 2009 by Freddy Gray
At Hit & Run, Matt Welch points out a classic piece of so-bad-it’s-actually-quite-weird journalism, from that mustachioed hippopotamus of globo-lib twaddle, Thomas L Friedman:
How is it that a president who has taken on so many big issues, with very specific policies — and has even been awarded a Nobel Prize for all the hopes he [...]
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