Show of Force
As we noted in a previous post, North Korea has been busy of late, ratcheting up tensions on the Korean Peninsula. First came Pyongyang’s latest nuclear tests; followed by the…
Closer to the Brink
Spent most of the past week traveling on business, but between planes, driving and appointments, I kept watching developments on the Korean Peninsula. Simply stated, tensions in the region are…
Black Eye
The Arc Light Memorial at Andersen AFB, Guam honors all B-52 crew members who died in Southeast Asia, including those killed in Operation Linebacker II, carried out from 18-29 December…
National Security Fraud?
Over at National Review online, Andrew McCarthy has an superb piece on a bit of fraud being perpetuated on the American people by the Obama Administration. And no, he’s not talking about…
Paging Congressman Issa
On the way home in my car this afternoon, Sean Hannity took a call from a military member who claims to have been the sensor operator for the Predator drone…
Risk Avoidance
Call it “Spook’s Razor:” Opportunities for timely blogging decrease in proportion to the demands of one’s “real job,” and that decline usually coincides with significant, even earth-shattering events. Put another…
Dickey's Folly?
It may go down as one of the worst media decisions since Wall Street rejected David Sarnoff’s appeal for investing in radio back in the 1920s. As one of the…
Whereabouts Unknown
Remember the closing sequence of Animal House? Just before the final credits rolled, we learned that Hoover became a public defender in Baltimore; Otter established an OB-GYN practice in Beverly…
Your Federal Betters
It’s been quite a month for Lois Lerner. In the span of just a few weeks, she’s gone from being a faceless–but powerful–federal bureaucrat, to the eye of a political…
Mr. Snowden's "Helpers"
Today’s reading assignment, from Edward Jay Epstein, writing in The Wall Street Journal. He expounds on points we made in a previous post, examining the “assistance” given to Edward Snowden…