OBVIOUS TO A BLIND MAN

I suppose if you live long enough you get to see everything at least twice, and in recent days I've seen replays of two old blunders that I'd hoped I wouldn't have to endure again. The first is the Friend Who Has Gone Too Far, and the second is the Enemy Who Is Really Our Friend.

The first time I saw the Friend Who Has Gone Too Far was in December 1981, a very long quarter-century ago.

Reagan was finishing his first year in office, and the first signs of the fall of the Soviet Empire were bubbling to the (more…)

A WINDOW OF OPPORTUNITY

9/11 happened when Osama bin Laden looked at us, and thought we were ready to be had. We were politically divided, and squabbling over everything. We clearly were not prepared to take casualties in direct combat. The newly elected president seemed unable to make a tough decision.

And so Osama attacked, expecting to deliver a decisive blow to our national will, expecting we would turn tail and run, as we had in Somalia, and expecting he would then be free to concentrate his energies on the defeat of local apostates, the creation of his caliphate, and the organization of Muslim (more…)

PROTECTING YOUR CHILDREN

 
A few of my friends caught their children on websites that I'll describe below. They asked me what to do about it. I did some searching on the Web, and this article is a compilation of what I found out. As you read you'll find it's really fearsome.

The short answer is: Your kids aren't going to stop using MySpace and Facebook, but at least you can give them safety helmets and kneepads.

Every few weeks, David Frey walks into a school cafeteria, pop open his laptop and frightens a roomful of parents. There's nothing particularly scary about Frey (more…)

THE SAME WAR

No one should have any lingering doubts about what's going on in the Middle East. It's war, and it now runs from Gaza into Israel, through Lebanon and thence to Iraq via Syria. There are different instruments, ranging from Hamas in Gaza to Hezbollah in Syria and Lebanon and on to the multifaceted "insurgency" in Iraq. But there is a common prime mover, and that is the Iranian mullahcracy, the revolutionary Islamic fascist state that declared war on us 27 years ago and has yet to be held accountable.

It is very good news that the White House immediately denounced (more…)

HIGH NOON FOR MOONBATS

High noon approaches for the moonbats.  We'll soon know if they'll sit above the salt at the Democratic table, or be exiled to the outer darkness.

High noon is Aug. 8, the date of the Connecticut primary.  The "netroots" gang of left-liberal Web loggers have picked a fight they must win, or suffer a potentially catastrophic loss of face.

In Connecticut's Democratic primary, three-term incumbent Sen. Joseph Lieberman is being opposed by millionaire businessman Ned Lamont in a race in which there is essentially only one issue: Lieberman's support for the war in Iraq.

Sen. Lieberman is leading in the (more…)

IT’S THE TERRORISM, NOT THE NUKES, IN IRAN

This in from al-Reuters:

Iraqi and U.S. troops battled Shi'ite militiamen in a village northeast of Baghdad on Thursday…Iraqi security officials said IRANIAN FIGHTERS HAD BEEN CAPTURED IN THE FIGHTING (emphasis added)…The U.S. military had no immediate comment.

In recent days there have been several stories further documenting the Iranian role in the terror war in Iraq, especially in the south, where Tehran has been working assiduously for several years to create a regional Islamic republic. So the al-Reuters report should not be a surprise.

But it gives us the opportunity to reflect on three serious questions, none of (more…)

A QUICKIE FIX

Folks, I'm sorry but this week has been taken up with legal matters over my late brother's estate.  However, I found an easy solution to the auto restart problem we discussed last week.  It eliminates not only the nagging but disables the automatic reboot altogether.

The solution involves adding a registration key to your windows registry.  I know most of you don't dare play with your registry and I advise against it.  However a knowledgeable programmer has written a problem that does it automatically.  I tried it on all three of my computers.  It worked without any problem.

You can (more…)

SELECTIVE SECRETS

We in journalism are selective about what we think you need to know in the war on terror.

The New York Times thinks you need to know the National Security Agency has been listening in on phone calls from al Qaeda suspects abroad to people in the United States, even though telling you also alerts the terrorists, who, presumably, have sought more secure ways to communicate.

The Washington Post thinks you need to know the CIA has "secret prisons" in Europe, even though telling you reduces the cooperation we receive from foreign governments, for fear we cannot keep their secrets. (more…)