Category: Iran Middle East
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We’re no Peggy Noonan but …
Blaska rewrites the President’s address. Hey Mr. Know-It-All (that beloved Rocky & Bullwinkle savant), why did the President’s address to the nation last night leave us colder than yesterday’s oatmeal? Maybe because we remember Ronald Reagan and how he could salve the nation’s soul in times of trouble. We heard FDR’s recorded fireside chats and…
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War! What is it good for?
How about Peace in the Middle East? Say it, say it, say it again! We defer matters above our pay grade to columnist Bret Stephens, token conservative at the New York Times, who neatly expresses this registered voter’s opinion. “Everyone is joyful; it is one of the best days of probably 95 percent of Iranians’…
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CNN obliterates its credibility
Who says? Sources say! Has a single word ever been sliced, diced, and parsed more obsessively than Donald Trump’s announcement that Iran’s nuclear weapons program has been “obliterated”? The hated Trump had struck the most decisive blow against nuclear proliferation in history — and against a predator nation. Made Democrats look feckless. The precision bombing…
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Stones of steel — bringing the hammer down at midnight!
FA&FO! Donald Trump met the moment! Not that the world awaits the seat-of-the-pants reaction of a retiree blogging from Madison WI but here goes just the same: What a contrast is Donald Trump from dithering old Sleepy Joe! The previous occupant cut and ran from Afghanistan with local allies hanging in desperation onto the landing…
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Will it be a split-screen kind of convention?
for the party of chaos in Chicago this week? It was 10 years ago that the first black President berated America for its institutionalized racism while the magic of television split his screen with the “mostly peaceful” civil rights demonstrators looting orange Stoli and fire bombing hair styling salons in Ferguson MO. Nothing says Equal Rights…