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…
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…
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…
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…
The Price of Admission
The Edward Snowden affair grows curiouser and curiouser by the day, as Alice might say. As of this writing, the man who exposed the crown jewels of NSA’s intelligence-gathering activities…
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…
The Man Who Almost Lost the War
Major General Daniel Sickles. The most famous–some would say notorious–political general of the Civil War, Sickles’s actions on the battlefield contributed to the stunning Union defeat at Chancellorsville, and he almost lost…
The Grounding
While the world media has been focused on yesterday’s crash landing of an Asiana Airlines Boeing 777 at San Francisco International Airport, the following aviation-related announcement caught our eye; from…