blackfive.net - 1/5/2009
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This is an embarrassingly bad pick from P.E. Obama. I saw he served in the Army in the 60's and served on the "Iraq Study Group". That is all the experience he has militarily or in the Intel community. I contend being a daily Blackfive, Long War Journal, Stratfor and Michael Yon reader makes me ...
corner.nationalreview.com - 1/11/2009
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corner.nationalreview.com —
I was cheered this morning by the news
that Cass Sunstein of the University of Chicago is
to be the next head of OIRA, the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs. While not someone a libertarian conservative would necessarily appoint, he is ...
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A Good Pick
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Blackfive: Obama CIA pick- The lurch left begins
Victory Caucus -- All Content —
... Monday, 05 January 2009 I will continue to attempt to give Obama the benefit of the doubt, but picking Leon Panetta to run the CIA is absolutely ludicrous. Since his left wing vetoed John Brennan for the crime of having served while W was... read ...
Monday Miscellany
Op For —
First off-- UJ at B5 beat me to it, but I was planning a period of instruction on artillery munitions. It seems that every other photo from Operation Cast Lead is of long tendrils of white smoke and fire emanating from airbursts. Those, dear readers, are the the M825 155mm felt-wedge projectiles. (Photo lifted from B5, source unknown.)
Second-- Meet the Harriet Miers of the incoming administration. UJ and MMM weigh in. What, there was no one more qualified for this critical post?? In the middle of an intel-intensive long ...
Odds & Ends
Pundit Review —
... makes it seem like BC doesn’t have a clause preventing the interview. Still, I like it. Debating Leon Panetta : Uncle Jimbo says the Panetta pick is a lurch left and rated it an F . Micheal Leeden disagrees, he thinks it’s ...
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