The Air and Space Museum? Seriously?
I’ve been following the Occupy Whatever protests across the country so far with a mix of amusement, sadness, and annoyance. I don’t dismiss these people as meaningless, because they can–and are starting to–cause a lot of damage; but it’s also hard to take a group seriously who condemns corporate greed while simultaneously posting on Facebook [...]
OWS: Some Things You Should Read Before You Buy Into The “Divide and Conquer” MSM Rhetoric
I have been and will continue to be critical of the rush to dismiss the OWS protests as entirely silly / unwashed / redistributionist. It is simple to take one sign or one action and use it to dismiss the entire movement as any of the above. Most so-called “conservatives” are rushing to do [...]
We ARE the Middle!
For years now, much has been done to mis-identify the Tea Party as an extreme, minority faction of the Republican Party; these past months are no exception. Hoping to present us as ill-informed and resentful, our detractors have had some success in their efforts to demand that their followers ignore our facts and concerns. Presenting [...]
A Black Patriot Answers the Shallow Waters of Maxine.
As far as I’m concerned, the Tea Party can go straight to hell. And, and, I intend to help them get there. http://www.breitbart.tv/despicable-maxine-waters-tea-party-attack-media-is-ignoring-tea-party-can-go-to-hell-i-intend-to-help-them-get-there/ ~From Breitbart TV Maxine, allow me to address your recent remarks about the Tea Party during the “Kitchen Table Summit” in Ingleside, California. As an African American Tea Party Patriot, I suggest [...]
Some Thoughts on the Jamie Radtke/RedState Issue
As someone who worked closely with Jamie Radtke for over a year, I have to weigh in on this craziness going on between her and RedState.com. I’m not looking for a fight with limited government conservatives, though. I have my hands full battling the Big-Government progressives. My purpose in this post is simply to say [...]
Pundit: Tea Party Demonization Won’t Work
Jay Cost, a staff writer for the Weekly Standard, has written a well reasoned article that presents an interesting take on the demonization of the Tea Party by Obama and his followers. (See the earlier post here on Tea Party derangement syndrome.) Cost concludes that, in the end, the demonization will not work—it will not [...]
Tea Party Derangement Syndrome
Peter Berkowitz, a senior fellow at Stanford’s Hoover Institution, wrote a perceptive op-ed in the Wall Street Journal about the Tea Party derangement syndrome that’s sweeping the left side of the political spectrum. Titled “The Debt Deal and the Progressive Crack-Up,” the essay examines “the implications of what the democratically negotiated [debt-limit] settlement revealed about [...]
The Value of Freedom
Let’s review: $14.4 trillion in national debt $114 trillion in unfunded liabilities No federal budget passed in over two years TARP Bailouts of massive corporations while average Americans are struggling just to provide for their families ObamaCare (i.e., forcing citizens to purchase a product or service, while calling it “health care reform”) Many thousands of [...]
Fourth Generation Warfare: Life in The Battlespace
Tactics matter. Ineffective tactics must be quickly abandoned for more sophisticated ones as the means to implement them become available. First Generation Warfare (1GW) is characterized by massed troops standing in line formation firing muskets at each other. 2GW emphasized firepower, especially artillery, immobilizing the enemy, simply stated using the French maxim: “Artillery conquers, infantry [...]
