John R. Guardiano
As Philip Klein notes here at The American Spectator, the Senate today fell three votes short of repealing “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.” This is a crushing defeat for the media and the gay lobby, both of which have implemented a…
Jed Babbin makes a great point in his column today about the Obama administration’s failure to adequately defend the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” law. And, in so doing, he underscores what may well be this administration’s dereliction of constitutional duty. “Gates,”…
One of the most glaring omissions in the Pentagon’s new “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” survey is whether U.S. military personnel believe a change in policy is necessary, desirable or advantageous. That is, should we repeal “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”? The…
Senate Armed Services Committee hearings this week on “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” had an air of unrealism about them. That’s because, in response to media and activist pressure, Congress and the Pentagon have deliberately framed the issue in wholly surreal…
Of course. My condo board sent out a notice today for a “holiday fund,” while wishing everyone a “joyous holiday season.” Heaven forbid they should say “Christmas.” That’s now forbidden and taboo. Christmas, after all, is just another “holiday” —…
Over at The Corner, Jonah Goldberg decries the way I have framed the debate on the Right over airline safety screening by the Transportation Security Administration (TSA). In a post here at AmSpec, I described a split on the Right…
The controversy surrounding the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) and its use of porno scanners, pat-downs and feel-ups has split the conservative movement into two camps. It’s the authority-loving cons versus the liberty-loving cons. I’m firmly in the latter camp, along…
Thirty minutes before we board an aircraft, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), God bless ’em, goes through a big and elaborate Kabuki dance. And just as people on the dance floor sometimes get a little carried away and go too…
North Korea’s latest act of war underscores the need for a much bigger and modernized U.S. Army and Marine Corps. This to occupy and rebuild North Korea when it implodes, as inevitably it will. This is not some farfetched notion….
I love Sarah Palin. I was cheering her when John McCain selected her as his vice presidential nominee. She was just a far more interesting and compelling candidate than any of the stuffed shirt alternatives who were then being pushed…
