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During a recent discussion on a cable news show about the state of world affairs, I heard a commentator spout the same nauseating drivel I’ve heard hundreds of times since the Vietnam War era. “America doesn’t have an appetite for going to war in [fill in the blank]. Really? I suppose everyone involved in an […]
There are just three weeks on the legislative calendar before November, and Democrats plan to spend all of them fixing the nonexistent “crisis of contraception.” The world is literally falling to pieces, along with the U.S. economy, and liberals think we’re obsessed with social issues? Democratic liberals think the future of the free world hinges […]
The Highway Trust Fund will be out of money in a few months, mainly because Congress insists on spending more than it takes in. To avert this supposed crisis, Republican leaders are proposing to cut Saturday deliveries of mail and use the savings to replenish the trust fund. There’s actually a tiny grain of Constitutional sense behind […]
Could it be that we are witnessing a sea change in the hearts and minds of Americans toward their government? I think so. Apparently, only the most stiff-necked political ideologues and sympathizers remain satisfied with their federal government today. The recent IRS, NSA, and VA scandals, among other low-points for the Obama Administration, are taking their […]
With U.S. foreign policy in the doldrums on every front, President Obama’s handlers decided it was time for action. And, so he jetted to Afghanistan to spend Memorial Day with the troops. The fly-in to Bagram Airfield was only the first “photo op.” Two days later the president convened a Rose Garden press conference to […]
While an unprecedented number of illegal alien minors surge across the border – incentivized by lax enforcement and promises of amnesty – the Obama administration has just announced it is expanding a program that defers the deportation of illegal aliens. In June of 2012, the Obama administration bypassed Congress with an executive action that put into place […]
Is anyone else scared to death about this week’s announcement out of Beijing that China and Russia have agreed to a 30-year natural-gas deal? The agreement means the building of hundreds of miles of pipelines to feed cheap Siberian gas to China. President Xi Jinping of China and President Vladimir Putin of Russia met in […]
The news is shocking: Patients dying on the waiting list for government-provided healthcare. But this is not a report from Canada or the British National Health Service. It’s right here in America, in the health system administered by the Department of Veterans Affairs. The problems first surfaced in Phoenix, where the wait to receive care […]
America’s Air Force is quickly shrinking before the nation’s eyes. Optimistic aircraft-purchase quantities are unlikely to materialize in the near-term, and the service’s upcoming “bow wave” of aircraft buys will come at the worst possible time, in the early 2020’s, when all other federal spending will squeeze defense budgets further and faster. All this in […]
As many long-time readers of American Newzine can attest, it has been quite some time since I published an essay as commentary. The demands of my job as publisher and editor-in-chief keep me from doing what I dearly love: writing. That’s why I took solace in noting this past weekend when I first visited the […]
