Category Archives: Foreign Policy

Super Brief Post on Egypt

Posted on June 30, 2013 by Lawrence Person

I don’t know what’s really going on in Egypt beyond the largest protests in the history of the world. Your basic protest in the middle east doesn’t mean jack compared to guys with guns. But protests this massive change the … Continue reading →

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LinkSwarm for June 21, 2013

Posted on June 21, 2013 by Lawrence Person

And now the traditional Friday LinkSwarm on Friday! “Detroit is expecting its creditors to take less than 10 cents on the dollar for having been foolish enough to lend money to the collection of misfits, miscreants, and criminals who govern … Continue reading →

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LinkSwarm for June 18, 2013

Posted on June 18, 2013 by Lawrence Person

Too much going on, so here’s a LinkSwarm to start your day: Why the IRS scandal is worse than the others. Snowden: Obama made all NSA abuses worse. Well, making things worse is Obama’s magic touch… The NSA confirms it … Continue reading →

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A Quick LinkSwarm on Syria

Posted on June 17, 2013 by Lawrence Person

So Obama is (maybe) going to be shipping arms to Syrian rebels. I think this is a remarkably bad idea for a number of reasons, none of them that Bashar Assad isn’t a murderous thug who oppresses his own people, … Continue reading →

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Syrian Headlines One Year From Now

Posted on June 14, 2013 by Lawrence Person

New Syrian President Greets American Ambassador “A New Era” Syria Pledges Cooperation in Iraq, Lebanon Israel Claims New Syrian Government Shipping Arms to Hamas Damascus Under Sharia “They beat my wife,” claims distraught shopkeeper Syrian chemical weapons missing? Sunni, Shia … Continue reading →

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Obama Is Not A Crook!

Posted on May 13, 2013 by Lawrence Person

Or so he would have us believe. But the Obama Administration has been acting pretty Nixonian as of late. First there’s how the White House lied about Benghazi, and how the CIA’s original talking points were altered to support the … Continue reading →

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Greece: More Bailouts, More Fake Austerity

Posted on April 17, 2013 by Lawrence Person

While attention was focused on the Boston bombing, Gosnell, and gay marriage, Greece just got another bailout. This is in exchange for further “austerity.” What sort of “austerity” is Greece practicing? The sort that involves

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LinkSwarm for April 12, 2013

Posted on April 12, 2013 by Lawrence Person

Time for another Friday LinkSwarm: Mary Steyn on Margaret Thatcher: “A generation on, the Thatcher era seems more and more like a magnificent but temporary interlude in a great nation’s bizarre, remorseless self-dissolution. She was right and they were wrong, … Continue reading →

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And Even More on Margaret Thatcher

Posted on April 10, 2013 by Lawrence Person

And still more on the late, great Margaret Thatcher: Thatcher was right, and the left was wrong. An appreciation by Paul Johnson. Thatcher didn’t just smash paralyzing, militant trade unions, she also smashed the traditional British class structure. Reagan’s greatest … Continue reading →

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Still More on Margaret Thatcher

Posted on April 8, 2013 by Lawrence Person

A few more Thatcher tidbits: George Will: “The most consequential peacetime prime minister since Disraeli.” The Relationship between Thatcher and William F. Buckley, Jr. How Thatcher won her leadership role in the conservative party. Thatcher may be dead, but Thatcherism … Continue reading →

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