The “hate words” from the left change regularly. Islamophobe, homophobe, racist, nazi, you name it. They seem to change regularly because none of them stick to those they wish to denigrate.
The latest is white nationalism.
Some of the reasons why the names have to change is because they get so overused that they become parodies of what they are trying to accomplish. Although Nazi sounded like a bad thing in the beginning, when everything and everyone you disagreed with became a Nazi, it became meaningless.
Sort of like racist. The vast majority of people aren’t racist. The left even went so far in defending the racist mantra that they came up with a new philosophy that said that the very fact that you don’t recognize that you are a racist makes you a racist.
Sometimes, you have to agree that some things are always bad. When the left can claim that communism isn’t bad and merely a function of white nationalism, we’re in trouble.
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You’ll probably never see me support the actions of Senator Diane Feinstein again, but on this issue she is right.
We’ve been reporting on the actions of our government to do something about section 702 of the FISA act for some time now. I really wonder how many people have actually taken the time to contact their representatives.
Take a look at her efforts to end the backdoor warrants and ask your folks why they won’t support her on this.
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I’m certainly not one of those folks that believes that “there ought to be a law” is the answer to all of the problems in the world. Certainly we have too many laws.
With that said, technological advances seem to have taken the legal system by surprise. It’s been decades since our “electronic” revolution has emerged. Yet, laws and the legal system have not kept up.
I don’t agree with all of the author’s recommendations, but certainly our lawmakers need to address these abuses. It tells you a lot about our political class that they have ignored an issue that affects almost all Americans. …
In light of the Texas shootings, we’ve now learned that the shooter should have been unable to legally purchase the rifle that he used to kill innocent people.
We’ve all seen the Secretary of the Air Force having to explain how they screwed up.
We’ll NEVER fix any problems in America as long as we attack the agencies in charge of the screw up.
Someone failed at their job. Some department head didn’t insure that the person responsible for the action didn’t do it.
We need to hold people responsible, not agencies. I want to know who (exactly who, by name) was responsible. Who (by name) was the supervisor who was in charge of the person.
I want them identified by name, punished, or fired and possibly charged with a criminal act.
No more letting evil hide behind a large unaccountable government agency
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The “war” in Syria has roots in our invasion of Iraq. We created millions of refugees who went to Syria. As happens all over the world where lots of refugees settle in a foreign country, it did not go well for Syria. Their attempts to crack down on problems led to the civil unrest.
Saudi Arabia saw this as an opportunity to overthrow Assad, and supported forces with money and aid to start a civil war in Syria. The US at the behest of the Saudis (and eventually Israel) created ISIS and supported the efforts to topple Assad.
Of course it didn’t work out the way we planned. Russia came to Syria in support of a long term ally and Assad remains in power.
President Trump directed the CIA to stop supporting the Syrian rebels.
It appears that our CIA and military are willingly ignoring the Commander in Chief and still supporting the rebels.…
Sources across the Middle East are reeling with the resignation of Lebanon’s Prime Minister Hariri. Harari’s resignation, ordered by Saudi Arabia and, by our estimation Israel as well, signals a new phase of wars as the “ISIS experiment” draws to a close.
Hariri claimed Iran and Hezbollah were planning to assassinate him. From the UK Guardian:
“We are living in a climate similar to the atmosphere that prevailed before the assassination of [his father, the late prime minister] martyr Rafik Hariri. I have sensed what is being plotted covertly to target my life,” he said in a televised speech on Saturday.
Hariri said Iran was “losing in its interference in the affairs of the Arab world”, and that Lebanon would “rise as it had done in the past” and “cut off the hands that wickedly extend into it”.…
I really don’t understand our pre-occupation with North Korea, other than to support the Neo Con/Lib folks in the military industrial complex.
The countries that border North Korea (China, Russia and South Korea) certainly aren’t as obsessed as we are, and they live right next door. Does North Korea “want” to be able to hurt the US? Probably. Can they? Certainly not.
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What’s really going on in Saudi Arabia right now? To the average American who knows nothing about foreign affairs (and doesn’t really care), what’s going on right now, goes back to strategies used over and over again for decades in coordination with the US.
We’ve “used” the Saudis to manipulate the price of oil in attempt to “influence” foreign policy. It worked for decades. In 2014 it was tried one more time to punish Russia. It failed miserably for the Saudis, to the point where in the past few years they’ve had to dip into their reserves just to exist.
They’ve had to fight off foreign invasions from the north. They invaded Yemen and are losing. They lost in their efforts in Syria. They hate the idea that Iran could become the influential player in the region. And they are going broke.
Right now they are fighting for the future of their country.…
A long and detailed analysis of what is going on in Saudi Arabia. It looks like the Prince is either a genius or a fool.
The round-up of Saudi Princes which took place on 5th November 2017 is simply the latest in a succession of purges initiated by Saudi Arabia’s de facto ruler, Deputy Crown Prince Muhammed bin Salman, as he tries to consolidate his position by getting his hands on all of Saudi Arabia’s levers of power.
As is often the case in purges of this kind, a large number of people have been rounded up on ‘corruption charges’ (the standard pretext used to conceal power struggles of this sort) in order to conceal the identity of the true target of the purge.…
At the end of the day, it appeared that Saudi is politically less stable than Lebanon, something that has hardly ever been the case in modern history, let alone at a time when one would assume it is Lebanon that is about to be plunged into new chaos, not the formerly predictable Wahhabi regime.
This is a very good analysis of both the Saudi Arabia and Lebanon actions in the past few days. As is all too often the case in the Middle East, the US has its fingerprints all over it.
The authors present some possible outcomes.
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