Not that I’m for the privacy-invading measures like the Patriot Act, but it’s not hard to see that when you stop calling terror terror, you look like you’re weak on terror.

Take the case of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, who doesn’t call terror but instead calls them man-caused disasters. “That is perhaps only a nuance, but it demonstrates that we want to move away from the politics of fear toward a policy of being prepared for all risks that can occur,” says Napolitano.

There are some things about conservatism I’m not happy about. No, I’m not saying I’m a stupid moderate – if I ever do that you all have permission to punch me in the face.

(Left: Despite the siren song of pulchritudinous conservatives like Carrie Prejean, I am not 100% conservative.)

“President Obama dreams of a world without weapons…but right in front of us two countries are doing the exact opposite.”
-Nicolas Sarkozy, President of France
It seems odd for a conservative to quote the President of France in matters relating to foreign policy, but that’s the state of the world in September, 2009.
To date, I haven’t written much about Iran, even though I think the current nuclear crisis going on there (yeah, it’s a crisis when someone who wants to wipe out an entire country is close to getting nuclear bombs) is …

Had to link you to this. Byron York points out in the Washington Examiner that liberals seem to have forgotten about their anti-war stance. The bold is mine:
In 2006, DailyKos held its first annual convention, called YearlyKos, in Las Vegas. Amid the slightly discordant surroundings of the Riviera Hotel casino, the webby activists spent hours discussing and planning strategies not only to defeat Republicans but also to pressure Democrats to oppose the war more forcefully. The gathering attracted lots of mainstream press attention; Internet activism was the hot …

Apparently, Iranians like freedom, too.  The stance of America has always been freedom = good, although you wouldn’t know that to hear the President these days.  To say that Obama’s early responses to the Iranian riots have been weak is an understatement.  How bad were they?  Obama himself had to strengthen up his words when the riots escalated over the weekend.  You know you’ve angered a Democratic President when his rhetoric gets amped up!
Makes you wonder how we’re going to handle North Korea.  Put that away, dictator!  Hey!  Put that …

It’s been a while since we’ve heard about Iraq.  And that’s for good reason, as far as the media’s concerned – who wants to hear about how boringly peaceful the country is compared to a few years ago?  Back in November of last year I wrote “5 Reasons We’re Winning the War in Iraq” and now, it seems, would be a better time to say “Mission Accomplished.”
Why?  Because as you’ve probably heard by now, the U.S. is handing the Anbar province over.
On Monday, U.S. commanders formally returned responsibility for keeping …

Iran’s going crazy, which suggests to me that these recent missile tests must have been a success.
Iran test-fired a long-range missile on Wednesday in response to what it says are threats from Israel and the United States, Iranian officials said.
“We want to tell the world that those who conduct their foreign policy by using the language of threat against Iran have to know that our finger is always on the trigger and we have hundreds and even thousands of missiles ready to be fired against predetermined targets,” Gen. …

So America has an addiction to foreign oil. Okay. So what? Politicians talk about the addiction like it’s as bad as killing babies. Global warming concerns aside, what’s so bad about oil that we need to stop buying it?
Here are some of the top complaints people have about oil:
1. We buy oil from the Middle East!
2. We’ll run out of oil soon, and then we’ll be doomed. DOOMED, I say!
3. I can’t handle these prices [as I make this gasoline …

A company called Aqua Sciences, based out of Miami Beach, can now harvest water from atmospheric moisture – essentially getting “water from thin air.”
Interestingly, although Aqua Sciences wasn’t directly funded through military contracting, it will find early uses in hydrating our troops in Iraq – where it will bring water transportation costs from $30 a gallon to $.30 a gallon.
Darpa gave millions to research companies like LexCarb and Sciperio to create a contraption that could capture water in the Mesopotamian desert.
But it was another company, Aqua Sciences, that developed a …

When you win a Medal of Honor, unfortunately, it usually means you’re dead – acts of bravery extreme enough to warrant one of them typically end up with the recipient dying.
Unfortunately, that was the case with Petty Officer Michael A. Monsoor.
Monsoor was part of a sniper security team in Ramadi with three other SEALs and eight Iraqi soldiers, according to a Navy account. An insurgent fighter threw the grenade, which struck Monsoor in the chest before falling in front of him.
Monsoor then threw himself on the grenade, according to a …