Half-read stories can save a lot of time. Many politicians are lawyers. Lawyers are often nick-named sharks. Seems sharks use specific hunting strategies similar to serial killers. Seems serial killers have brains wired very much like politicians. And know that … Continue reading →
The arms sales were great, but not enough. (As Peter Pham also noted.) Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. 3.14.242.153
Continue reading →Peter Pham reminds us. Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. 3.14.242.153
Continue reading →Well done, Bush Administration! Arms to Taiwan! The Bush administration on Friday notified Congress of the proposed sale, which includes Patriot missiles, Apache helicopters, submarine-launched Harpoon missiles, Javelin anti-tank missiles and spare parts for F-16 fighter jets. Whew. At last. … Continue reading →
God, this is going to give the Volgi an effing stroke. Gordon Chang here reports and explicates the perfidy, pusillanimity, and vileness of the President and foreign-policy establishment’s going out of their way to screw Taiwan over at the implicit … Continue reading →
If this American expat is right, the Biden pick may have alienated that 0.16% of the U.S. population. (And more seriously, it’s not welcome news to those of us concerned with America’s position in the Pacific.) Parenthetically, when it comes … Continue reading →
Read ’em in full. Melik Kaylan: Having overestimated the power of the Soviet Union in its last years, we have consistently underestimated the ambitions of Russia since. Already, a great deal has been said about the implications of Russia’s invasion … Continue reading →
Over at NRO’s Corner, Punditissimo Jonah Goldberg wonders why the heck Obama’s response is to refer the Ossetian War to the UN Security Council. I’d have thought the answer was obvious: the left’s innate aversion to any sort of positive … Continue reading →
Although I have to note, GorT, that that’s Japanese. The Mandarin equivalent is 鬼子, kuei-tzu*, or 洋鬼子 yang kuei-tzu specifically for Europeans, or less offensively, 老外, lao-wai. *Wade-Giles is the official romanization of the Gormogons. But it’s guĭzi for those … Continue reading →
They’ve got 3,600 hours of Olympics on tap. And, as you say, maybe they’ll bother showing the shooting sports rather than thinking, in some bizarro leap of logic, “If people see shooters using $10,000 target pistols to punch holes in … Continue reading →
