Like me, Byron York remembers the 90s, the Clinton administration, and the Chinese government. But that was different because shut up.
Category Archives: War Commentary
Another Arkancide?
The reach of the Clinton’s is long.
Space Force
That was then, this is now:
Air Force Secretary Heather Wilson asserted on Wednesday that the service is not pushing back on President Trump’s idea to create a Space Force. She offered no new details on how the process of forming a new service might unfold but insisted that this “has to be done the right way.”
I’m old enough to remember when she opposed Space Corps, let alone Space Force.
And are people really talking (again) about a Department of Space? Please, no.
Iran In Iraq
I could never understand why the Bush administration let Iran get away with so much. They were waging war on us (and have been since 1979), and the administration did essentially nothing. And then Obama came along and bent us over for them and didn’t even ask for lube. Thanks, Valerie!
“Right Of Return”
We are finally rejecting it for Palestinians. All it ever was was a right to destroy the state of Israel.
The Strait Of Hormuz
This should not end well for Iran.
If Leftists Treated Immigrants
John McCain
John McCain served his country well in Vietnam. My condolences to his family and friends. I wish that he had never been in politics.
— Rand Simberg (@Rand_Simberg) August 26, 2018
[Update a while later]
Thoughts from Jim Treacher about a “humorous” take on McCain’s death.
Socialism
Well, it certainly resulted in the brutal premature deaths of many tens of millions of people in the last century. But maybe they weren’t doing it quite right. We’ll just have to keep trying until they get it right. For the children.
The Pre-Trump World
Was it normal, or abnormal?
One off the polling practices I find annoying is the “right track, wrong track” question, because it can be very misleading in its implications. It doesn’t provide any information as to what the respondent thinks what “track” we should be on. I have never in my adult life felt that the country was on the “right track,” and if polled I would always say it was wrong. And of course, if I said that whenn Republicans were in power, Democrats would infer that it meant that I wanted them to win, which would be stupid, because what I wanted continually was a more libertarian, constitutional government.
Anyway, I have to confess that, despite my dislike of Trump, I do feel, for the first time, that with all the regulatory rollback, and constitutionalist judicial appointees, we’re at least, finally, on the right track. But we still have along way to go down the rails. My fear is that if the Democrats get back in power, we’ll be off the rails entirely.