On 14 march 2012 Leon Panetta, Secretary of Defense made a surprise visit to Afghanistan to soothe the host nations leaders in the aftermath of a U.S. soldier allegedly shooting unarmed Afghan civilians. He forgot one thing… He works for the people and the soldiers of the United States of America. SCOTT OLSON/GETTY IMAGES U.S. Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta…
Same theme as my posts but more brutally to the point…please read it all. Bravo and well done! Recall the Dunning-Kruger effect. In short, a person’s incompetence inhibits their ability to recognize his or her incompetence. The people who think they are the smartest are the dumbest, essentially, because they are blind to their stupidity.…
Tim Graham at NewsBusters has an account of the liberal NPR dinosaur, Bill Press, claiming that basically everybody except the “progressives” and Democrats are waging a “war on women”. Graham quotes the old windbag as saying: “Boy, this has me really burned up,” he began. “There is a war on women going on. It’s a…
I have written quite a bit about the gap between the real world and the Utopian construction that “progressives” favor. I guess that I have been rooted in the “hard” sciences like engineering and mathematics for far too long to have a appreciation of living in a world where actions and results don’t matter. I…
The Rio Norte Line 