Power

I love the way Obama uses power, he is not ashamed to use it.

Via Instapundit

HOWARD KURTZ: The Prez, the Press, the Pressure. “In the days before President Obama’s last news conference, as the networks weighed whether to give up a chunk of their precious prime time, Rahm Emanuel went straight to the top. Rather than calling ABC, the White House chief of staff phoned Bob Iger, chief executive of parent company Disney. Instead of contacting NBC, Emanuel went to Jeffrey Immelt, the chief executive of General Electric. He also spoke with Les Moonves, the chief executive of CBS, the company spun off from Viacom. . . Tensions have been building behind the scenes. Some television executives say the Bush administration informally floated possible news conference dates in advance, while Obama officials basically notify the networks of their plans.”

Quotes of the Day

“I have little interest in streamlining government or in making it more efficient, for I mean to reduce its size. I do not undertake to promote welfare, for I propose to extend freedom. My aim is not to pass laws, but to repeal them. It is not to inaugurate new programs, but to cancel old ones that do violence to the Constitution or that have failed their purpose, or that impose on the people an unwarranted financial burden. I will not attempt to discover whether legislation is ``needed'' before I have first determined whether it is constitutionally permissible. And if I should later be attacked for neglecting my constituents "interests,'' I shall reply that I was informed that their main interest is liberty and that in that cause I am doing the very best I can.”
Barry Goldwater

quotes of the day

What is the difference between a Marxist and an anti-Marxist? A Marxist reads the books of Karl Marx. An anti-Marxist understands them. -Ronald Reagan

“One man with courage makes a majority.” - Andrew Jackson

Armed CG Helo's

Here the SF Examiner looks at the new armed MH-65C CG Helicopters.

Link: http://www.sfexaminer.com/local/Coast-Guard-adds-machine-guns-to-helicopters38843302.html

M240B machine gun

• Belt-fed, air-cooled, gas-operated, fully automatic machine guns
• 4-feet long and 27.6 pounds
• Fire 7.62 mm bullets up to 2.5 miles
• Can fire 200 rounds per minute in 10- to 13-second bursts with 2 to 3 seconds between bursts
• A heat shield protects the gunner’s hand from the hot barrel

Finding Strength

If you are not willing to kill those who want to destroy you because you are afraid of committing genocide against them are you not a bit suicidal? Does this not seem to be Israel current position now? Is this current situation just a strategic pause or is it indicative of a more pathological problem with the West?


Here is a kind of echo of Wretchard's idea that if you do not have the will to defend your self your weapons are useless. I found this blog entry by Patrick McGreevy in City Belt.

As the vastly more powerful force, the IDF could have crushed Hezbollah, but only by conducting a genocide on the Shiite people of southern Lebanon who support its resistance. And genocide, on global TV, is the one sin Israel cannot survive.

Hezbollah is a designer resistance force, shaped by repeated Israeli blows against Arabs -- designed not simply to counter its powerful adversaryÂ’s field techniques, but to infiltrate its soul and seek its deepest pain. It finds this pain like a heat-seeking missile finds its warm target because Hezbollah‚Â’s resistance, too, is born of pain. This is the madness we confront.

Do people want to minimize 9-11?

Do some groups want to minimize 9-11 and pretend it did not happen?

Here is a group in Jersey City that seems to be opposed to what I think is a good memorial.

The winning Liberty State Park memorial design.

"Free Hollanders in exile"

Hopefully it's the last time I will see this phrase.

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Go and help this guy.