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HOLIDAY of the DAY (for those looking for a reason to stay home today) This is the 64th anniversary of the changing of William “Wild Bill” Donavan’s wartime Office of Strategic Services (OSS) to the Central Intelligence Group, forerunner of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).

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… and We are Here to Help You

The horrendously political “Stimulus Bill” has done us a left-handed favor (pun intended), if we are only smart enough to actually examine what Congress has done to us in the name of “saving” us. People who know me have heard me...

Published 04-28-2009 13:03 by Eagle Watch

Filed under: politics, economics, government, Congress
Memo from the Twilight Zone

NASCAR dropped by central Alabama last weekend to stage two points races at Talladega Superspeedway, a high-banked tri-oval where 700hp cars run wide-open for 500 miles. It’s an orgy of 8,000rpm engines screaming inside garishly painted rolling...

Published 04-27-2009 21:43 by Eagle Watch

Filed under: PETA, the hysterical Left
the Middle Kingdom

Two Senior Colonels in Mainland China’s (PRC’s) Air Force (PLAAF) wrote a Chinese reaction to their observations of Desert Storm [1] . It is a stunning revelation of Chinese shock at the overwhelming effectiveness of American military capacity. Baghdad...

Published 04-24-2009 8:03 by Eagle Watch

Filed under: geopolitics, China, military
Self Hypnosis

Barack Obama is enthralled with the power of his own rhetoric to point of narcissism, but why not – he rose to the presidency of the United States while being entirely unblemished by accomplishments (that one is on us, the voters). He took a bath...

Published 04-21-2009 10:37 by Eagle Watch

Filed under: Obama, Israel, geopolitics, Iran, Ortega, Russia, Turkey, Chavez, DPRK
the Obama Triangle

The Washington-Jerusalem-Tehran balance of wills is a zero-sum game of epochal importance that, so far, President Obama sees only through his parochial “I am not George Bush” lens. The Sunday Times of London reports that “The Israeli military is preparing...

Published 04-20-2009 8:23 by Eagle Watch

Filed under: Obama, Israel, geopolitics, history, Iran
Troubling Patterns at DHS

Since the appointment of Arizona Governor Janet Napolitano as head of the Department of Homeland Security, there has been a troubling reshaping of the agency and its apparent mission. Der Spiegel quoted Ms Napolitano’s famous rebranding of “terrorism”...

Published 04-18-2009 10:35 by Eagle Watch

Filed under: politics, Obama, government, DHS
Act II, Scene 2

We’re about to get everybody’s idea of how best to cure modern piracy, from “nuke Somalia” to “the pirates are just misunderstood”, to some variation in between. There are some things to keep in mind. According to the...

Published 04-13-2009 16:21 by Eagle Watch

Filed under: politics, government, piracy, Somalia
CONGRATULATIONS!!!

We got Captain Phillips back … three good pirates and one in custody!

Published 04-12-2009 14:00 by Eagle Watch
Since He Mentioned It …

“Being the only nation to have used nuclear weapons,” Obama told his French audience, “we should lead in their elimination.” This is the standard Neoliberal-guilt line – we invented them, we used them, and we should undo this horrible thing...

Published 04-11-2009 7:08 by Eagle Watch

Filed under: Obama, geopolitics, World War II, history
Act II, Scene 1

History may not repeat, to paraphrase Mark Twain, but it rhymes. By late 1793, the Barbary pirates had captured a dozen American ships, goods stripped and everyone enslaved. American merchants needed an armed American presence to sail near...

Published 04-10-2009 5:26 by Eagle Watch

Filed under: geopolitics

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… and We are Here to Help You

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the Middle Kingdom

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Act II, Scene 2

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Since He Mentioned It …

Act II, Scene 1