Large oil deposits found on the Golan Heights add some interesting complexity to Israel’s long-term security situation. If this find can be developed at a reasonable cost, it would allow Israel to be energy self-sufficient….they already have large natural gas fields in the Mediterranean. Of course, the significant down side to this is the real…
Author: CBD
Have We Reached An Inflection Point? Pushing Back Against The Assumptions About Campus Rape
Ashe Schow, who is, astonishingly, that rara avis, a rational and evenhanded journalist, has written a couple of good articles about rape, focusing on the supposed Rape EpidemicTM on college campuses. In the first article, with a stunningly obvious but widely ignored point in the title: Campus sexual assault is rarely black and white, she…
As If Congress Wasn’t Awful Enough…DrewM Points Out Another Failing
DrewM, Ace of Spades’ resident gadfly, is reliably critical of the legislative branch. And for good reason. They have abrogated their responsibilities in the service of short-term political gain…namely being reelected. But today he brought up an excellent point, one that is often overwhelmed by Congress’s more obvious and painful shortcomings. The real question in…
An Unfortunate Incident? Yes. A War Crime? No.
Doctors Without Borders, or the much hipper name Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), has accused the United States of war crimes for the probably inadvertent bombing of their lone hospital in Northern Afghanistan. Obviously all the facts are not available to anyone, including the hyperbolic MSF spokesmen. It is entirely possible that the Taliban were firing…
Hillary Clinton: As Vile In Private As You Would Think
The NY Post has a short article about the recent exposé, The First Family Detail: Secret Service Agents Reveal the Hidden Lives of the Presidents. There is absolutely nothing that surprises me about this vile, entitled, sociopath, who sees other human beings as cogs in the machine that provides for her pleasure and power. What…
The Only Rational Response To Iran’s Supreme Leader Khamenei
He pledged, “there will be no Israel in 25 years.” Israel should state unequivocally, clearly and calmly….”Then there will be no Iran in 25 years and one day.” That the world glosses over this existential threat to Israel — the last hope for the Jewish people — is prima facie evidence of the bitter hatred…
I Understand The Gun Control People. They Are Wrong, But I Get It
The problem with their thinking is that they do not continue to ponder the question, and accept their own emotional response to gun violence: Get Rid Of The Guns! But what I absolutely do not understand is why their gleeful embrace of prohibition carefully ignores America’s rather unimpressive attempts at controlling or prohibiting the possession…
We Have Our Chamberlain…But Who Is Our Hitler?
This isn’t news; Obama has destroyed our standing in the world, particularly in the Middle East, where three millenia of strife has taught us that a power vacuum is always filled rapidly. We have squandered our blood and treasure in that violent cesspit, and have left our only ally in the region to fend for…
A Study In Contrasts: Tim Tebow vs. Michael Sam
Thanks @Eagles and Coach Kelly for giving me the opportunity to play the game I love! Romans 8:28 #Blessed — Tim Tebow (@TimTebow) September 5, 2015 I have always been impressed by Tebow’s affability, and his refusal to play the tit-for-tat game that modern media insists upon. I have no idea whether Tebow is good…
This Anti-Islamic Microaggression Shall Not Stand: “Stampede” Refers To Animals, Not People
The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Chicago Tribune, The Los Angeles Times, and a host of other major newspapers and other media have insulted Islam with their ignorant or intentional use of the word “stampede.” The Oxford English Dictionary’s first definition clearly states that stampede is: A sudden panicked rush of a number…