High Ground Underground

The Navy Yard Shooter & Kenyan Mall Terrorists Another case (besides Snowden) of a poorly screened contractor -- or military officer like Maj. Hassan & the WikiLeaks leaker-- with clearance he shouldn’t have had.  The Navy Yard shooter (I won’t honor him with a name) reported hearing voices, showed gun violence on multiple occasions with no prosecutions.  Oh, and an Obama supporter -- not a Right wing nut.  Of course several in the liberal media jumped right to the gun issue, even inaccurately reporting he used an AR-15.  No, he used the very weapon that Joe Biden recommended people have at home – a shotgun.  And with that he took the handgun of a security officer.  Of course the Boston bombers were also poorly screened by the FBI after tips from the Russians, etc. – more political correctness run amok? So again, according to them, it’s the gun laws – now they want to take our shotguns?  Why is it never the screening of menta...

Repeating History Obama seems to be doing very well at not learning from history, but repeating it.  Recently at St. Petersburg he said, “I wasn’t elected to get us into war, but to get us out.”  Famous last words eerily close to Woodrow Wilson’s re-election slogan, “he kept us out of war,” just before WW I, where chemical weapons were first used. Then yesterday, grasping the Russian offer, he seemed to follow the notion of Chamberlain’s “Peace in our time” in Munich just before WW II.  It was an odd speech, laying out all the arguments for timely military action (sounding amazingly like George Bush, whom he continues to blame & belittle), then kicking the can down the road (as he’s done w. the debt, Benghazi, IRS, etc.) at least several months to see if Putin’s scheme will work.  Of course -- knowing that Congress wasn’t even close to giving him a go-ahead, to save political face he was anxious for any out.  Even ...