That “chickensh*t” comment about Bibi? Pure projection. Last week, the Obama White House finally clarified its Middle East policy. It’s détente with Iran and a cold war with Israel. To the administration, Israel isn’t worth the trouble its prime minister causes. As one anonymous Obama official put it to journalist Jeffrey Goldberg, what good is Benjamin Netanyahu if he won’t make peace with the Palestinians? Bibi doesn’t have the nerve
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August 16, 2013
“NSA broke privacy rules thousands of times per year.” [Darleen Click]
… but it’s a phony scandal! Do read the whole article. Much of it confirms what has already been suspected by the revelation of the vast hoovering of American citizen communications. Yet, what comes through here is the cavalier attitude of those connected with NSA towards the data gathered and the equivocations used to deflect concern. The documents, provided earlier this summer to The Washington Post by former NSA contractor
June 15, 2013
All your children are belong to us [Darleen Click]
The triumphal yet shrill bleating from the Left over the FDA’s approval of Plan-B one-step for over-the-counter purchase with no age restriction is as depressing as it is linguistically and morally incoherent. A fine example of such predictable piffle is Cathleen London’s piece Plan B for all girls — science finally trumps politics and emotion This decision allows science to trump politics and emotion. Plan B One step is a
May 14, 2012
Obama Admin to Tombstone, AZ: Suck dirt! [Darleen Click] UPDATED
As a Californian who has watched the Feds turn our Central Valley, one of the nation’s most productive tracts of farmland, into a dustbowl using a bait fish as an excuse, I thought I couldn’t be shocked anymore by the politically-driven depredations out of Washington. I was wrong The City of Tombstone is squaring off against the U.S. Forest Service over water rights in a fight to rescue “The Town
April 26, 2012
Obama Administration: “All your children are belong to us.” [Darleen Click]
First they came for the farm kids The Department of Labor is poised to put the finishing touches on a rule that would apply child-labor laws to children working on family farms, prohibiting them from performing a list of jobs on their own families’ land. Under the rules, children under 18 could no longer work “in the storing, marketing and transporting of farm product raw materials.” “Prohibited places of employment,”
April 18, 2012
The DC Welfare Queens [Darleen Click]
Why should they worry? It’s not like it was their own money The practice of gaming the system in order to bill taxpayers for food at lavish conferences was so widespread within the General Services Administration that it became a “running joke” among certain employees, the GSA inspector general testified Tuesday. Inspector General Brian Miller, who blew the whistle on agency spending with a report on its $820,000 conference in