Drudge is pushing this headline today: Largest-ever federal payroll to hit 2.15 million employees… It goes to a Washington Times story talking about the increasing workforce of the U.S. government – not a bad thing with unemployment where it’s at. But let’s take a look at where these numbers are coming from: Mr. Obama says […]
In an op-ed today, John Kerry takes on the useless embargo we have against Cuba: For nearly 20 years after the fall of Saigon, the Vietnam War took a less bloody but equally hostile form. The United States and Vietnam had no diplomatic relations. Vietnamese assets were frozen. Trade was embargoed. But in 1995 the […]
All the Republican critics of President Obama’s handling of Iran have resorted to the old Gipper offense. Mostly what they are saying is Obama should “do what Reagan did”. Richard Cohen, and I can’t believe I am saying this, sets the record straight on this: Some of Obama’s critics have faulted him for not doing […]
I’m sure the wingnuts will be claiming that after hearing the big news of the day: President Barack Obama is allowing Americans to make unlimited transfers of money and visits to relatives in Cuba and easing other restrictions Monday, ushering in a new era of openness toward the island nation ruled by communists for 50 […]
Cold War cometh: Syria sought to revive its security alliance with Russia today, when President Bashar al-Assad arrived in Moscow to clinch a series of military agreements, raising fears that the new Cold War that has erupted in the Caucasus will spill over into the Middle East. “Our position is that we are ready to […]
John McCain: My friends, we have reached a crisis, the first probably serious crisis internationally since the end of the Cold War. This is an act of aggression. McCain last month: McCAIN: The fact is we had four years of failed policy. We were losing. We were losing the war in Iraq. The consequences of […]
Know world geography: At a press availability today, John McCain expressed concern about relations between Russia and a country that hasn’t existed for quite some time: “I was concerned about a couple of steps that the Russian government took in the last several days. One was reducing the energy supplies to Czechoslovakia. Apparently that is […]
Russia says they could use nuclear weapons: Russia’s military chief of staff said Saturday that Moscow could use nuclear weapons in preventive strikes to protect itself and its allies, the latest aggressive remarks from increasingly assertive Russian authorities. Gen. Yuri Baluyevsky’s comment did not mark a policy shift, military analysts said. Amid disputes with the […]
That is exactly what war monger in chief Bush said today. Let’s look at that logic from our President, and applying it to other countries. Germany – They could let Nazis take back over the country Russia – They could restart the cold war UK – They could try to put us back under their […]
According to Rumsfeld the war on terror will be a long war that could stretch a generation, akin to the cold war. The article, which appears in today’s Washington Post, says what we have been saying all along – the war on terror will be very long. Of course Rumsfeld doesn’t admit to the simple […]