January 24, 2013 - 12:35 am
- ‘Less Lethal’: Good Intentions, Dangerous Results, by Mike McDaniel. These weapons are appropriate in precious few situations.
- Michelle Fields: The National Debt Is Unfair to the Next Generation (Video), by Next Generation. Click to watch video.
- Latin America’s Democracy Test, by Jaime Daremblum. Will the region’s most influential countries stand up for constitutional government in Venezuela? (This article is also available in Spanish here.)
- ‘Madam Secretary, You Let the Consulate Become a Death Trap,’ by Bridget Johnson. Few challenged Clinton, who came to the long-anticipated Benghazi hearings ready to fight — and the White House quickly swiped her talking points.
- Cameron Pledges To Let British Voters Decide on Europe, by Mike McNally. Europe needs Britain rather more than Britain needs Europe.
- The Day Accountability Died, by Bryan Preston. Impressions from a long and pointless day.
- In Israeli Election, the Center Holds, by Jonathan Spyer. The results indicate that a large, sane, pragmatic center is the core presence in Israeli political life.
- Panetta Opening Combat Roles to Women, by Bridget Johnson. McCain: “The fact is that American women are already serving in harm’s way today all over the world.”
- Whose Morality Is It Anyway? By Walter Hudson. Can there be right and wrong without God?
- Justified: The Best Crime Series on TV, by Andrew Klavan. Timothy Olyphant plays out-of-his-time hero Raylan Givens with a pitch-perfect blend of irony and valor.
I have no beefs with the women in combat thing–I have doubts on how many will physically qualify, and standards should be kept (we can go back to the world wars, Korea, and Vietnam to ascertain standards if we wish to prove non-biased standards).
However, I do have a concern with the continual conduct of this administration in hiding planned but unpopular things till after elections–it sets a bad precedent. Basically, it puts focus on the man, and not the issue, and gives the idea that the man is the important thing, not the election, not the ratification of the policies. And that is how you get a Principate. By hiding things and badically asking for a blank check grant of power.
If you don’t bring it up during the campaign, you really shouldn’t do it. Definitely not immediately after the election. It smacks of “rule by divine right” thinking.