Monthly Archives: March 2011

Obama Speech Okay But Late

BY RICH GALEN 

Reprinted from mullings.com 

President Obama’s speech on Monday night was, at best, OK. It got tongues wagging about the “Obama Doctrine” which appears to be: “If it won’t drag Iran into the fight we’ll take a look.”

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Understanding Mideast Not Easy

BY TONY BLANKLEY

Reprinted from the Washington Times

In 1427, a ship captain sailing for his Portuguese prince, Henry the Navigator, discovered the Azores Islands. If the question of the significance of this event had been posed at the time to Sultan Murad Khan, the leader of the Ottoman Empire, to Itzcoatl and Nezahualcoyotl, the co-rulers of the Aztecs, or to Rao Kanha, one of the princes of Jodhpur in India – it is unlikely that any of them would have responded that it was an early indication of an historic explosion of cultural energy in Europe that would lead to European exploration and conquest of most of the known world. Nor would they have foreseen a renaissance of European thought that would give rise to scientific, industrial and scholarly dominance of the planet by European culture for at least a half a millennium.

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Lybia, Japan and Other News

BY RICH GALEN

Reprinted from mullings.com

There has been so much going on this week, it’s almost impossible to make sense of it all in just one column.

First of all the is the ongoing non-war in Libya. It is a non-war in which country appears to want to take control.

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Seeing Through Lybian Fog

BY RICH GALEN

Reprinted from mullings.com

 I need someone to explain to me what in the world we are doing bombing convoys in Libya.

On the very first day of the anti-Gaddhafi attacks we launched a reported 110 Tomahawk missiles into Libya at a cost of about $600,000 per. The very first day of President Barack Obama’s very first war cost $66 million not including the cost of fuel, manpower, tax, title and dealer prep.

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War In Lybia: What’s In A Name

By Tony Blankley

Reprinted from The Washington Times

Amidst all the confusion over our new little war in Libya , one thing is clear: Notwithstanding the bravery and professionalism of our troops in naming it Operation Odyssey Dawn, the Pentagon has invoked a haunting specter. The war’s namesake  Homer’s epic poem “The Odyssey”  is the tale of the hero, Odysseus, taking 10 years to get home from the Trojan War  which itself took 10 years to fight.

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Gaddafi Is Winning the Future

BY JOHN FEEHERY

Reprinted from the feehery.theory

President Obama said last week that he was slowly “tightening the noose” around Colonel Gaddafi, the Libyan dictator.

Jay Carney, the White House press secretary, said yesterday, “We have acted with the utmost urgency … together with our international partners to put pressure on Muammar Gaddafi and his regime.”

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Leave the Driving to Boehner

BY JOHN FEEHERY

Reprinted from the feeherytheory.com

House Speaker John Boehner has so far driven Congress in the right direction.  He has negotiated successfully to cut spending and keep the government open.  He allowed for an open process that delivered the largest discretionary spending cuts in the history of the lower body.  He has gotten high marks from just about everybody on how he has risen to the occasion in difficult times.  He has his hands firmly on the steering wheel and he seems to know where he is going.

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Bahrain, A Jewel in the Desert

BY RICH GALEN

Reprinted from mullings.com

Headline:Saudi Troops Enter Bahrain to Help Put Down Unrest

Come with me into the Wayback Machine.

Back in the day, I worked for a company called EDS which had been founded by a guy named Ross Perot. Perot was gone in the mid-90s when I was there and got involved with what I’m about to describe to you.

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Jury Duty Selection Process A Waste

BY FRANK HILL

 Reprinted from telemachus.com

 Make sure you go to the ‘jury selection’ at the local County Courthouse when your name is called and sit through the entire process. (You have to go otherwise or you will be arrested for failure to do your civic duty)
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Japan: Nuclear Power’s Unknowns

BY RICH GALEN

Reprinted from mullings.com

There is an old saying which goes (approximately) “Every patient a surgeon sees, needs surgery.”

In putting together his Cabinet, President-elect Barack Obama chose a nuclear physicist – a Nobel Prize-winning nuclear physicist – to be his Secretary of Energy.

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Boundaries Part of Mideast Conflict

BY RICH GALEN

Reprinted from mullings.com

There is growing discussion over the nature of country borders in the roiling region of Northern Africa and the Middle East .

SIDEBAR

We should just call the region “NAME” to save typing.

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Union Wars in Wisconsin

BY RICH GALEN

Reprinted from mullings.com

The standoff between Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker and the Democrats in the State Senate has been going on for two weeks and may last for weeks or even months longer.

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