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Ignoring Threats Invites Aggression and Raises the Death Toll

September 26, 2018December 13, 2012

by Don

Without warning, Japan attacked the United States at Pearl Harbor seventy-one years ago. Because of this sneak attack, President Roosevelt said that December 7, 1941 would be remembered as a “day of infamy”.

December 7^th revealed our naivety and our lack of preparedness that unnecessarily caused many tens of thousands of American war deaths. Despite years of war in Europe and Asia, our country’s leaders refused to accept the fact that war was imminent and failed to counter the modern weapons, tactics, and skills that would be used to kill Americans.

Failing to face reality, the United States entered WWII surprised and unprepared, just like we entered WWI, Korea, and the war on terror. People died unnecessarily because we extended “peace dividends” too long.

As the culture turns: What is cool? (Hint: It ain’t liberals and modern liberalism….)

September 26, 2018June 21, 2012

On the left, thinks he's cool. On the right, is cool....

This from Roger Simon at PJ Media, who collars those who still think modern liberalism (aka statism) is cool. It’s not, and hasn’t been for some time. Everyone with the proverbial IQ above room temperature has come to the same conclusion. While that’s interesting, what is far more interesting is the political cohort that Simon fingers as today’s cool….

So go on. Guess. Can’t? Okay. In retrospect, it’s a head-slapper. Why? Because “cool” today is just about as opposite as you can get from modern statist liberalism, aka “yesterday’s cool.” After all, today’s cool people are all…

Has Obama lost touch with reality?

September 26, 2018April 5, 2012

by Don

Has President Obama lost touch with reality? Even for a consummate liar, President Obama’s statement that Obamacare (Affordable Care Act) was “passed by a strong majority of a democratically elected Congress” is stunning.

Obamacare was so unpopular that deals (the Louisiana Purchase, the Cornhusker Kickback, etc) were required to get enough Democrat senator support for passage.