Don’t Call It a Comeback: Interventionism Was Hiding in Plain Sight
A spate of stories in today’s news offers a convincing answer to those asking how a war-weary nation–as we are told we are, again and again–is suddenly on the verge of multifront military intervention....
View ArticleDefense Policy on Autopilot
President Obama has just sent 3,000 troops to Liberia to fight Ebola and 1,500–and counting–to Iraq to fight ISIS and hundreds, possibly thousands, more to Eastern Europe to deter Russia. Earlier he...
View ArticleEbola Is 1918 Flu, Not AIDS
Thomas Frieden, the director of the Centers for Disease Control, likened the rapid spread of Ebola to the AIDS epidemic of the 1980s. While the spread of AIDS scared society—largely because so much...
View ArticleDid the NIH Just Accidentally Blame Itself for Ebola in U.S.?
The speed of political social media is such that extraordinarily silly and dishonest claims are subject to an efficient round of public shaming almost immediately. That is currently taking place with...
View ArticleMishandling of Ebola Virus Further Erodes Trust in Government
These things are always hard to know in real time, but my guess is that the way the Obama administration and the CDC have mishandled the outbreak of Ebola in America will do substantial long-term...
View ArticleEbola, Politics, and Life’s Unfairness
Polls are telling us that Americans think their government is incompetent and that President Obama has lost their confidence. That’s the upshot of the new Politico poll that shows Obama is now regarded...
View ArticleThe President Is Madder than Hell. Again.
A few days ago the New York Times published an article saying this: Beneath the calming reassurance that President Obama has repeatedly offered during the Ebola crisis, there is a deepening...
View ArticleDemocrat Midterm Woes May Impact 2016
With just over a week left before the midterm elections, most of the battleground states that will decide control of the Senate are still in play. That is allowing Democrats to believe that just the...
View ArticleLeadership Vacuums and Ebola Quarantines
Governors Chris Christie and Andrew Cuomo have taken quite a beating in the last couple of days from both the White House and the liberal mainstream media. The governors of New Jersey and New York...
View ArticleBetter Safe than Sorry
Now, I’m no epidemiologist, but I am the mother of three grown children, so I know a little something about people catching viruses from other people. And call me crazy, but I have to sympathize with...
View ArticlePolitiFact’s Ebola Distortions
On October 19 on Fox News Sunday, with the debate over the U.S. response to the spread of Ebola in full swing, George Will quoted a University of Minnesota Center for Infectious Disease Research and...
View Article2014’s Big Winners: Putin and ISIS
It tells you something about the increasing irrelevance of news magazines that I entirely missed the fact that Time had designated “Ebola fighters” as their “Person of the Year”. A feel good choice,...
View ArticleNewt’s Wrong: The NIH Needs Reform, Not a Blank Check
If you want to see various weird ways the government wastes your money in the name of science–and engage in the nanny state version of gallows humor–you can search the term “NIH” at the Washington Free...
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