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Isn’t “you’re welcome” what we’re supposed to say to the people we’ve “liberated,” whenever the inevitable results of our magnanimous intervention in their affairs results in a gift from Wonder-Working providence? One such case is Iraq… featuring the fall of Mosul, Iraq (as well as, previously, Fallujah) to Islamist Sunni insurgents called “Islamic State of Iraq and Syria” (“ISIS”). One would think that, perhaps, an American embassy garrison force of some kind– and a hell of a lot of mercenaries security contractors– might be of some assistance… but evidently, the Iraqis are, ahem, on their own, by and large. Presumably,...

Ordinarily, I would think that anything that gets a captured American service-member released, and simultaneously reduces the population of one of the most notorious prisons in the world (yes, you know I mean Guantanamo) by about 3% is a “win-win.” Nonetheless, I can only question this action. I’m troubled that at a place where nearly half the prisoners have been “cleared for transfer” for many years, why arguably the few dudes who might actually be dangerous (mind you, not that they’ve been charged, tried and found guilty or anything so “pre-9-11” as that) (a senior U.S. defense official confirmed Saturday...

It seems in this, the middle of George W. Bush’s fourteenth Barack Obama’s sixth year in office, that fatigue is setting in. Hence, after another seemingly dangerous and expensive diversion so that the President can “support our troops” by showing up in Afghanistan for a much-needed photo op, the (on?) crack Obama Administration advance team outed the CIA’s station chief in Kabul, Afghanistan. The WaPo piece makes clear that the alleged Fourth Estate caught the own goal mistake, and issued a “corrected” list of persons who would be present at a briefing with the President not including the name of...

Evil is alive and well in the form of… could it be… Satan? At least this is what some observers are gleaning from the commentaries of new “moderate darling” Pope Francis. There is a renewed interest in exorcisms, and the new pope (who, of course, might have some level of familiarity with evil himself from a prominent role in Argentina during “dirty wars” and other unpleasant periods there) likes to talk about the Devil… a lot. [Some accuse a Pope who has been a public relations boon to the Church thus far of risking all that goodwill by what they...

I’m just having a hard time remembering what it was. Maybe it was about Americans’ seeming (on a comparative basis) non-concern with issues climate-change, even as said climate-change bites them on the ass. Or at the moment our Supreme Court seems to be enjoying a rebound in popularity… Not quite sure where I was going. Doesn’t matter so much, as no one seems to be reading. Much has happened in the 12 1/2 or so years since this “the talking dog” exercise got going (or the two and a half decades or so since “the world wide web” came on)…...

Utterly hilarious… when the nominal leader of government yuks it up with the nominal leaders of the media… all of whom work for the great big brotherhood of man money and power that a recent Princeton/Northwestern study found result in this nation being… wait for it… an oligarchy and not a democracy. Better late than never, I suppose, that one reaches that state of realization. Yes, boys and girls, the political machinations of “Democrat vs. Republican”… don’t mean much anything: at the end of the day, them what has gets in our system. And so, our nominal leader in a...

It’s been nearly ten years since Jim Henley and I trotted along in the 2004 Marine Corps Marathon, with Jim inventing a “pick me up” cheer whenever either of our energy levels flagged… we would just scream “Meb Keflezighi” at the top of our lungs. And dozens of marathons later (or even on other occasions), I sometimes still do. Maybe it’s not “fair” that the premier American marathoner of our time is technically imported– none other than Eritrean-born Meb Keflezighi, Olympic silver medalist in Athens, winner of the New York City Marathon and now, the first American winner of the...

Hidely-ho, neighbors. Your old pal Satan here. My buddy TD doesn’t usually yield this particular space to anyone… but in this case, well, golly… I kind of made him do it. Anyway, news from our friends around the world… we’ll start with that awesome rip-off I made my servant Josh Radnor do. I haven’t had that much fun since the Seinfeld finale… or Lost! … or Dexter… I just love to spoil series-enders! So sue me… and try to find a lawyer without a conflict there. And my servants over in Malaysia released a transcript of Stealth Flight 370’s contact...

Our friends at Pravda give us their take on the recent plebiscite followed by Russian accession/annexation of the Crimea region. We note the continued hand-wringing by morons incompetents fools the Obama Administration and its NATO allies, who seem hellbent on turning a minor act of consensual consolidation in a region unquestionably in Russia’s sphere of influence (and not ours) into an excuse to either reignite the Cold War, or perhaps, even start a shooting war. Well, this might be thought to be necessary as we consider the geopolitical implications of Ukraine as a world energy choke-point. Still, it is probably...

Once again, re: matters Ukraine, Brother Dmitry explains it all for you. Short answer: expect venality, incompetence and misinformation from your favourite Western governments[tm], and their loyal media lackeys. I think Dmitry is a few days off here and there on some of his dates, but his overall analysis is spot on: the world is rapidly falling apart (environmentally, socially, morally, but most especially, because it’s the one we’ll see first most likely, financially…) having just watched the film Reds myself, where Warren Beatty (as John Reid) asks the musical question “why must the poor have to keep paying to...