I generally agree with the critics of President Obama's "egg-timer strategy" in drawing down troops in Afghanistan:
The only thing that should inform the decision are conditions on the ground: The capacity of the Taliban to wage war and the capabilities of the Afghan national security forces to wage war right back at them.
Is it getting easier to fake cultural literacy?
How about a little old-fashioned battle of the sexes?
So what should we talk about today? The president's foreigh policy?
President Obama is proud of ending America's foreign wars, but there is a growing chorus of criticism of a foreign policy that to some looks vapid and weak.
Or how about his domestic agenda?
Oh, thank God; I was soooo worried about this: Having kids probably won't destroy the planet.
Several friends and academic colleagues vocally opt not to have kids in order to “save the planet.” To them, population numbers are a simple input and output equation in which more people create more problems. Thankfully, it takes more than math to understand the mechanisms that shift the balance of life on Earth.
When the Chipotle chain announced its intended gun ban by saying the sight of law-abiding citizens carrying guns caused customers "anxiety and discomfort," Breitbart News reacted with this:
We've all heard about prison inmates getting things a lot of law-abiding Americans can't afford, such as a college education. This little nugget is especially galling:
Al Qaeda detainees get better medical treatment than our veterans.
Say what?
Two days after defeating tea party challenger Matt Bevin, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell announced that he would no longer stand with Rand.
Ayn Rand, that is.
The Republican Party was the big winner in Tuesday's primaries, because safe establishment candidates beat out those tea party extremists, which means the GOP has a great shot at retaking the Senate in November. That's the gist of most of the analyses I've read anyway. This one from NBC's Chuck Todd is typical:
Holy cow. Is it possible someone in the Obama administration is actually going to held accountable for something?
Uh-oh. In defending his plan to use Medicaid dollars to expand the Healthy Indiana Plan, Mike Pence has a "George W. Bush problem":
Remember the main reason given for the proposed amendment to the Indiana constitution banning gay marriage? It was that it would bebetter than the state's a;ready-existing law banning same because a judge could come along and invalidate the law. A constitutional ban would be more permanent.
Well, tell that to the good citizens of Oregon:
If you go to Brighton, Mich., better watch your !@#$% mouth:
OK, class, your new word of the day is "eventize":
NEW YORK (AP) -- One day into the annual week where television's biggest networks reveal their future programming plans and it was clear what the buzzword was going to be: Eventize.
OK, this whole "Oooh, look at us, we're so proud to be open-minded" stuff has officially gotten completely out of hand:
NEW YORK (CBSMiami/AP) — After 40-years of the slogan “Have It Your Way,” Burger King is scrapping it in favor of the more personal “Be Your Way.”
More goofy antics from the loveable Sgt. Schultz administration:
What an awful, awful thing to tell graduating seniors:
NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) -- Secretary of State John Kerry urged Yale University graduates on Sunday to keep faith in government's ability to break gridlock, even as many problems remain unsolved.
Oh, my God, we're all going to die!
NEW YORK (AP) -- Health officials reported Saturday what appears to be the first time that a mysterious Middle East virus has spread from one person to another in the United States.
