NoKo: Pressing Buttons
Kim Jong-Il is apparently not content with good old-fashioned saber rattling, and instead wants to push the envelope (or the button, as it were) a little further: North Korea may fire a long-range...
View ArticleWell “Duh”!
I guess this just wasn’t considered true until the boys at al Qaeda said it was true, huh? If it were in a position to do so, Al Qaeda would use Pakistan’s nuclear weapons in its fight against the...
View ArticleQuestions and Observations #2
For new readers the title is that for which the shortened “QandO” stands. This is the second in a series of questions and observations. In the “you can’t make this up” department, China will block the...
View ArticleObama Immediately Slams Honduras
But not Iran. Hmmm. And even saying anything about Iran could be considered “meddling” in the internal affairs of another country, per the Obama administration, but apparently working actively within...
View ArticleSix months and counting: Team Obama looks pretty pitiful at this point
I have not posted much lately. Busy. Very busy. I don’t see how McQ does it. He’s a machine. But I have been paying attention, and I must say Obama is as amusing during his first six months as I had...
View ArticleNoKo, Bill Clinton And The Hostages
I think the WSJ has the best take on the freeing of the kidnapped journalist situation to this point: We don’t begrudge the congratulations Bill Clinton deserves for saving the two journalists from...
View ArticleNorth Korea’s Repeating Pattern
I find it interesting to see what the foreign press has to say about things we do. It gives a different perspective than one you’re likely to see in the highly partisan atmosphere in this country....
View ArticleWeird Story Of The Day
If this is true, this is a guy that we most likely should encourage to stay in NoKo: Saturday’s report by the conservative Dong-A Ilbo daily could not be confirmed independently. Dong-A Ilbo, quoting...
View ArticleOur politically correct Orwellian national security
First they eliminated the fight against global terrorism and reduced it to collection of “overseas contingency operations”. Terror events are now called “man-made disasters”. We’re no longer confronted...
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Korea heats up
South Korea has determined it’s ship, the Cheonan, was torpedoed by a North Korean submarine. 46 South Korean sailors died. In most people’s minds, that was an overt act of war. Yesterday, NoKo...
View ArticleHas the world fallen out of love with Obama?
Mort Zuckerman, editor-in-chief of US News and World report writes a blistering piece that certainly seems to indicate that’s the case. Zuckerman says the world sees Obama as “incompetent and amateur”...
View ArticleFidel Castro – Socialism doesn’t work
We could have told him that 50 years ago: Fidel Castro told a visiting American journalist that Cuba’s communist economic model doesn’t work, a rare comment on domestic affairs from a man who has...
View ArticleHas North Korean succession been settled?
The answer to that question is “probably.” That’s a step up from “possibly.” But in the Hermit Kingdom, nothing is really ever certain. The recent late night announcement by Kim Jong-Il of the...
View ArticleNork’s being Norks? Or worse?
Doubtless you’ve seen the headlines about North Korea’s shelling of a South Korean island near the coast of North Korea, killing two South Korean Marines. The usual claims have been made, denunciations...
View ArticleMissile defense: a necessary cost?
Discussing the START treaty that right now is being considered by the Senate, the Heritage Foundation’s Conn Carroll reminds us and the Senators considering the treaty of some objective reality:...
View ArticleHope and change on the rocks?
And no, that’s not a new bar drink. It seems to be the unstated conclusion of a NY Times poll that measures the mood of the American people. Granted, they’ll poll anything these days, and certainly...
View ArticleHamas calls Greek stop of US blockade runner “inhumane”– Israel on “Specially...
In the world of overwrought spin and propaganda we find a premiere example of the genre from Hamas: The Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas on Friday denounced Greece after its coastguard intercepted a...
View ArticleThe Kim is dead, long live the Kim … or not
Kim Jong Il, dictatorial ruler of the hermit kingdom of North Korea, has assumed room temperature. A tearful announcer on the NK news service announced it last night. The 69 year old ruler will be...
View ArticleSure would hate to be a rocket scientist in NoKo right now
My guess is the population of rocket scientists (at least North Korean’s version of them) may be a bit smaller today. For the new North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un, his government’s failure to put a...
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North Korean threats continue to escalate
Apparently Marshall Poppin Fresh is still mouthing off about war. Now his state run media has issued a warning to “foreigners” in South Korea: North Korea issued its latest dispatch of ominous rhetoric...
View ArticleThe significance of NoKo’s “satellite” launch
Yes, yes, I know, I’m making some assumptions. Assumption A) Noko was actually able to launch a “satellite”. Assumption B) they’ve actually built a real nuclear device that works and downsized it...
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