Friday, December 19, 2014

Worth Reading

Paul Greenberg provides a thoughtful review of the Senate's release of its review of the CIA's Enhanced Interrogation techniques.  It is fair and balanced. http://townhall.com/columnists/paulgreenberg/2014/12/17/when-the-big-news-isnt-news-n1933233/page/full

Eric Ericson makes sense of what Obama has done and continues to do.  Quote: "There is, however, one bit of irony. After a week of liberals bellyaching about the United States “torturing” terrorists, we have kowtowed to the terrorists of North Korea and bailed out the Cuban regime — a regime that jails gays, Christians, and dissidents and engages in physical torture and routine killing of any who dare oppose them."   http://www.redstate.com/2014/12/17/communists-win-the-day-frank-marshall-davis-would-be-proud-of-obama/

The history of government failures at the state and federal levels gets lost when the elites decide the government is better prepared to teach children "what they need to know" better than we do.  http://www.redstate.com/diary/okmaher/2014/12/17/cos-governor-says-cant-educate-children-well/

Yielding free speech to a two-bit dictator.   "Of course, you almost have to wonder why North Korea feels emboldened enough to rattle their sabre in the first place… Well, in the era of Obama we are supposed to “normalize” relations with oppressive (and murderous) Caribbean dictators, relax sanctions on nuclear ambitious anti-Semites, and gift wrap northern Iraq for a band of terrorists who thought Al Qaeda was too warm and cuddly."   http://finance.townhall.com/columnists/michaelschaus/2014/12/18/a-chubby-north-korean-dictator-brings-free-speech-to-a-halt-n1933455/page/full 

A most interesting piece.  Quote: "...international affairs blogger John Schindler, a former Naval War College professor in writing about his sense of political homelessness, with which I [author of the article] can very much identify. About the Democrats, he writes "Schindler is on to something here, something which few have acknowledged. The current trends in America, Wall Street getting richer, everyone else getting poorer, politicians of both parties feeding brazenly at Wall Street’s trough, the party of the Left in full blown attack gear not on inequality, which it has done nothing to address, but picking at and rubbing raw the scabs of identity politics—this can’t keep going on indefinitely without something really bad happening."   http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/abandoned-by-the-left/



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