Six times the Obama administration should have done it.
But then they wouldn’t have been “scandal free.”
Category Archives: War Commentary
Cargo Rockets
Military cargo rockets.
Glad to see this kind of thinking going on.
Tommy Robinson
He’s free, for now, but it’s sad to see the degree to which even some conservatives in England have fallen.
Brennan And Clapper
Yes, pull their clearances; they’re dangerous, partisan hacks.
I will note, though, that there’s been a lot of confusion on this issue. One does not need to work for the federal government to have a clearance, and one doesn’t intrinsically give it up when one leaves government service. When someone leaves the employ of a contractor to go work for a different one, their clearance goes with them, and often when someone leaves government service, they retain their clearance so they can work on classified projects in the private sector, or as a consultant. But those two clowns have abused their privileges, both in office and out. I think they should not only lose their clearances, but be in jail.
Russian Jamming
They’re testing their latest weaponry on us in Syria:
“All of a sudden your communications won’t work, or you can’t call for fire, or you can’t warn of incoming fires because your radars have been jammed and they can’t detect anything,” said Laurie Moe Buckhout, a retired Army colonel who specializes in electronic warfare.
“[It] can be far more deadly than kinetics simply because it can negate one’s ability to defend one’s self,” she said.
But we’re also learning from it. Great story from Lara Seligman.
Britain
Is it lost? Bruce Bawer thinks so. I fear he’s right.
I would add that, in refusing to recognize the root cause, and saying that the rape gangs are “Asians,” they (including Nigel Farage) are in fact being racist. That’s right, they’d rather be accused of racism than of criticizing a religion. And I’m sure it has nothing to do with the fact that the adherents to that particular religion react violently when it is criticized.
[Sunday-afternoon update]
It’s not just Britain: Lying about Amsterdam. I agree. As someone whose sister lives in a village a few kilometers east of the city, I’ve never noticed any problems like this in the city center.
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Web Sites
…without web servers. I wonder about the data security of being so deeply embedded in the cloud.
Trump’s Press Conference
Both Spengler and Roger Simon think he got it right with Putin.
[Wednesday afternoon update]
More thoughts from Roger Kimball.
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The Democrats’ (Un)Civil War
It’s the left against the far left. Of course, I always find this sort of thing amusing/infuriating:
A group of moderate Democratic lawmakers sounded the alarm Thursday over the party’s shift to the left, saying the embrace of ultra-liberal policies could endanger their efforts to capture Congress in the November midterm elections and the White House in 2020.
There is nothing “liberal” about them at all, let alone “ultra-liberal.”
[Update a few minutes later]
This seems related somehow: Hillary says that Brett Kavanaugh will bring back slavery. Gee, that’s not hyperbolic and demagogic at all.
So Hillary thinks that Kavanaugh wants to bring back slavery? Is she saying he's a closet Democrat?
— Rand Simberg (@Rand_Simberg) July 13, 2018
U.S. Space Guard
After all these years of advocating for it, I’m happy with how much traction the concept is finally getting.