Category Archives: War Commentary

Media Criticism, Political Commentary, War Commentary

The Democrats’ Islamaphobiaphobia

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Neo-neocon wonders what Hillary really meant:

…in Hillary’s “ISIS uses Trump to recruit” claim, isn’t Clinton really saying that all it takes to turn a significant number of Muslims into murderous barbaric ISIS recruits is the idea that a US presidential candidate might want to bar them from visiting or immigrating to this country? Isn’t that a powerful condemnation of the religion and its adherents—by Hillary? Are they so ready to kill that just a few words indicating they’re not allowed to come here would be enough to ignite them and inspire a lot of people to join the ranks of the murderous terrorists of ISIS?

Seems awfully Islamophobic to me, not to mention bigoted. And furthermore, does that mean she’s saying that we have to make nice to them and welcome them into this country, or more of them will want to kill us?

As I’ve often said, the Left’s unwillingness to grant moral agency to Muslims, saying that they have no self control and everything they do is a reaction to us, is profoundly racist.

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Related: Muslim women say to stop wearing the hijab in solidarity with us. The Left has a profound cognitive dissonance in talking about an imaginary Republican “war on women” while ignoring a very real Muslim one.

Law, Media Criticism, Political Commentary, Social Commentary, Technology and Society, War Commentary

Democrats

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Thoughts from Bob Zimmerman on their increasing disconnect from reality on guns.

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Related: The Democrats’ compassion gap on terrorism.

They reserve their compassion for the enemy.

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Here’s an example. Yes, the Obama administration nixed a probe into the California jihadis.

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And this: Whistleblower says Obama more concerned with rights of Islamists than with protecting the American people. That’s pretty obvious.

Business, Political Commentary, Space, Technology and Society, War Commentary

NASA’s Budget

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The omnibus bill provides a boost, and full funding of Commercial Crew, for the first time ever. It also allows NASA to apply Soyuz payments for 2018 flights to the program, to get it flying in 2017 (I still think they could fly next year if they were serious about it). Loren Grush has more. Unfortunately, it also increases the SLS budget.

On the milspace side, it also lifts the restriction on the RD-180, which McCain is going nuts about on the floor right now, according to Twitter. He’s lambasting Shelby and Durbin by name.

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The worst part of the NASA budget is that it overfunds SLS at the expense of (as usual) technology.

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Here‘s the McCain story. Nutty.

Media Criticism, Political Commentary, Social Commentary, War Commentary

Cruz Versus Trump

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The National Journal seems to be afraid of Cruz. But this betrays the usual ignorance of the Left about what constitutes conservatism:

Cruz isn’t merely a toned-down version of Trump. He’s just as conservative and just as volatile, though probably a little less erratic. The thing is, Cruz isn’t merely a toned-down ver­sion of Trump. And this makes him all the more dan­ger­ous, from a pro­gress­ive point of view.

As Jonah (and others, and I) have said, here’s nothing conservative about Trump. He’s a populist, willing to say whatever he thinks people want to hear. He must also be immensely frustrated that Cruz continues to refuse to take his bait. The debate tomorrow night should be interesting.

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Here’s a perfect example. Trump willing to “look into preventing people on the No Fly List from having guns.” Constitution and due process? We don’t need no stinkin’ Constitution and due process.

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Annoying the media–OK, make that making their heads explode–is the only reason I can think of to vote for Trump, but it’s not a sufficient one for me.