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al Qaeda Steps Up Rhetoric, Will Obama Notice?
Yemen is looking like the next Sudan or maybe Afghanistan. Will President Obama do anything? Hundreds of al-Qaeda militants are planning terror attacks from Yemen, the country’s Foreign Minister said today. Abu Bakr al-Qirbi appealed for more hel...
Obama’s Jimmy Carter Style Not Making Friends – Surprised?
Thank you Jimmy Carter! Jimmy Carter made his administration all about “human rights.” He indicated to our ally, the Shah of Iran, that he should treat the radical Islamic followers of Khomeini nicer. He withdrew support from the Shah...
Janet Napolitano Says We’re All Safe, Truth Says Otherwise
As most know by now, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, a Muslim acting under the support of al Qaeda in Yemen, tried to blow himself up on a Northwest Airlines flight over the weekend. The only reason he failed and did not kill everybody aboard the plane ...
Iranians Protest and are Murdered, Nobel Winner Obama is Silent
President Obama is faced with a vexing problem in Iran – the more he says he is willing to talk with them the fewer results he gets from that regime. We know Iran is set on developing nuclear power (though they are sitting on a sea of oil) an...
When You’re Nice to the Bad Guys You Look Like an Ass
President Obama thought he would fight evil with kindness. Although he didn’t seem to think so, any intelligent person could foresee this “strategy” would backfire. From the latest chapter of Obama’s Political Education ...
Iran Says No To U.S. Nuke Deadline
Obama spent the first six months of his time in office simultaneously kissing up to foreign leaders, apologizing for past “bad” American behavior, and saying he would respect the choices of other countries. I guess he was hoping he coul...
Upsetting the OPEC Oil Cart(el)
With the recent end of the Iraqi oil auctions, of which a single U.S. company did not secure anything (blood for oil, anybody?) what we are going to see in the coming decade as Western cash, hardwork, scientific know-how, and profits (yes, those evil...
Annual Corruption Perceptions Index Report via Beers with Demo
Related to a Just Politics..? article regarding “global warming” financial blackmail and Liberal guilt, Dean from Beers with Demo had published an article about the most transparent and least transparent countries in terms of corruption&#...
Taxpayer Aid to the Developing World and Global Warming
Welfare rarely works and only serves to make those who receive it dependent upon the State. But what if that welfare was not from the State to individuals but to other countries? And what if that welfare was several billion dollars per year and w...
That Was Then (This is Now): Obama’s Surge Ideas
How times change when you’re in power, Grasshopper: Like this post? Subscribe to Just Politics..? via RSS or Email and enjoy great articles like this every day or spread the word with one of the share buttons below! Email ...
Obama’s Meaningless Surge in Afghanistan
Since President Bush left power there has been a noticeable drop in American media coverage of bombings, terrorist attacks, murders, and other mayhem going on in Iraq and Afghanistan. The body count has in fact been higher in 2009 than it was in 20...
President Obama’s Disgraceful Nobel Prize Speech
President Obama managed to find 24 hours to get away from the White House in order to swing by Norway and pick up his Nobel Peace Prize. To Obama’s credit, he acknowledged that there were others who had been awarded the prize who had done more ...
Pearl Harbor and 9/11
From the Detroit Free Press: The morning calm was violently shattered by airplanes that rained down death and destruction. In their wake came chaos, flames and the steely resolve of a shocked nation never to forget. Those reminders are just as applic...
Pearl Harbor Remembrance
Today is the 68th anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. We remember all those who died today and the lessons that such an attack teach us for the future. Here is what President Franklin Roosevelt said: Yesterday, Dec. 7, 1941 ̵...
Half a Million Dead Iraqi Children Worth It
What Bill Clinton’s Secretary of State has to say about what his policies in Iraq did to that nation: Like this post? Subscribe to Just Politics..? via RSS or Email and enjoy great articles like this every day or spread the word with one of...
Obama Hedges on His Hedges in Afghanistan
The guy just can’t ever pick a side and stick with it, can he? Check out this hedging of his bets: The US has said that it may rethink its plan to begin withdrawing troops from Afghanistan by July 2011 if conditions on the ground prevent a se...
Obama Wages War in Afghanistan: Exit Strategy Before “Victory”
Obama plays games with national security and lives. In war you’re either in it to win or you will be guaranteed to lose. “Winning” does not always mean crushing the enemy and reducing them to cinders. While the Korean War canno...
Zee German View: Nice Guys Finish Last
The "nice" empty suited president He claims his first name is “Barack” but I’m thinking his real first name is “Patsy.” Killing them with kindness might work at the kitty cat shelter but it doesn’t work on the world stage. ...
Irony of the Day: Iran Seizes Nobel Peace Prize
What a great bunch these people are: Iranian authorities have confiscated Nobel Peace laureate Shirin Ebadi’s medal, the Norwegian government said Thursday, accusing Iran of a shocking first in the history of the prize. Norwegian authorities we...
SNL Parodies Obama’s Visit to China
A well done parody. Unfortunately, too much truth behind this one: Like this post? Subscribe to Just Politics..? via RSS or Email and enjoy great articles like this every day or spread the word with one of the share buttons below! ...
The Different Kinds of Bows
Did you know there are many different kinds of bows? For the enlightenment of all here they are: Archer's Bow Violinist's Bow Ship's Bow Watch's Bow Tie Bow Allen Lock's Bow Key's Bow Rainbow Saddle's Bow Obama's Bow...
U.S. Policy Vacuum in Asia: China Benefits
As President Obama heads to Asia (for which he snubbed the Dali Lama so as not to “offend” our bankers – the Chinese) new challenges await as Obamakare, the “stimulus,” and Cap and Trade have taken up all of his time, le...
Remember Pearl Harbor!
From Dictionary.com: bow –verb (used without object) 1. to bend the knee or body or incline the head, as in reverence, submission, salutation, recognition, or acknowledgment. 2. to yield; submit: to bow to the inevitable. 3. to bend or curve downw...
Hillary Clinton Scrubs Ronald Reagan from History
Please visit a friend of Just Politics..? over at The Patriot Room. A very interesting story about how U.S. representative at the anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall “forgot” to mention Ronald Reagan. An excerpt: “It’s ba...
The 11th Hour of the 11th Day of the 11th Month
Thanks to WWII, the Great War’s end date has been largely forgotten (it is now known as Veteren’s Day in the United States). But in many places around the world, November 11th is still celebrated as Armistice Day, when fighting ended alon...
Why Ignoring “Allahu Akbar” is a Disservice
Unfortunately, zealotry has always been a fact of life. I am not speaking of the original use of “zealotry” which, according to Wikipedia “sought to incite the people of Iudaea Province to rebel against the Roman Empire and expel ...
Obama Negotiates with a Wild Fire
Some wicked satire here: Obama To Enter Diplomatic Talks With Raging Wildfire Like this post? Subscribe to Just Politics..? via RSS or Email and enjoy great articles like this every day or spread the word with one of the share buttons below! ...
How the U.S. Could Be the Next Britain (In a Bad Way)
From the Wall Street Journal (food for thought): The dollar’s sharp drop over the past few weeks has led to considerable anxiety about the status of the United States as the dominant force in the global economy. Closely related to this fear i...
Obama Plays Tetris
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Obama, Like Bill Clinton, Wants China to Get U.S. Missile Technology
Obama imitates Clinton-era policy of selling missile technology to the Chinese. Related posts:Bill Clinton and the “Vast Right Wing Conspiracy” (Again)China Supplies, We DemandMore than all the Tea in ChinaThank Reagan and Bush, not Oba...
