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I suspect that most bloggers, and many of those who read blogs, start their morning off with a quick scan of Memeorandum.com. If only to see what everyone else is talking about. I don’t use much of their information during the political season, because so very much of it is transient noise and lightless [...]  I have been generally favorably disposed to Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta. While at CIA, his bureaucracy’s intelligence gathering apparatus drove the military operations which finally put postage paid to Osama bin Laden, not to mention Hellfire warheads on the foreheads of hundreds of mid-level AQ and Taliban seeking refuge in the Pakistani badlands. [...] The Politico is running an article of either breathless naivete or conscious dissimulation: The national debate over gay marriage is threatening to spill over into the military, as activists from both sides of the volatile issue work to influence the Pentagon’s policy toward gay and lesbian service members and their families. Gay activists who [...] It’s been interesting hearing the details of the SEAL’s latest mission in Somalia. And it must have been fun for the White House to share them with us. But not everyone is so pleased, according to an operator who has recently left the service: Adm. William H. McRaven, America’s top special-operations commander, wrote in [...] Returning to a subject we have discussed before, David Brooks takes on the great social divide of our age, as illuminated by Charles Murray: (Murray’s) story starts in 1963. There was a gap between rich and poor then, but it wasn’t that big. A house in an upper-crust suburb cost only twice as much [...] A quick status update to the “most transparent administration” evar meme, in which President Obama’s executive emissaries are alleged to be circumventing Congress, the U.S. Constitution and the EU parliament in order to protect the interests of Hollywood. Today’s USA Today is running an article about a new federal program to help local police departments deal with the “ticking time bomb veteran” chimera. I found elements within it rather irritating: The Justice Department is funding an unusual national training program to help police deal with an increasing number of volatile confrontations involving [...] It scores a little victory, on a Marine Corps base, of all places. “If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.” – George Orwell Writing in the WSJ, Bret Stephens pretty much wraps up my personal view of the GOP field’s readiness for the 2012 national election: Mitch Daniels, Paul Ryan, Chris Christie, Jeb Bush, Haley Barbour. This was the GOP A-Team, the guys who should have showed up to the first debate but didn’t because running for [...] A rare and unanimous SCOTUS decision that takes us one step back from living in an all-intrusive police state: The Supreme Court ruled Monday that police must obtain a warrant before attaching a GPS tracker to a suspect’s vehicle, voting unanimously in one of the first major cases to test constitutional privacy rights in [...] |
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