Expending On Energy Policy

Irwin Stelzer has a good look the wrong questions being asked about energy policy, questions at the heart of a surprisingly ludicrous Bill O'Reilly piece published entering Memorial Day weekend. The only realworld solutions that exist are massive increases in drilling and greater investment in nuclear power.

Bob Ryan Out-Shanks Shaughnessy

The Dan Shaughnessy Blog does a great job dissecting the absurdities of Dan Shaughnessy writing, and when appropriate they also include deserving writers like Tony Massaroti and his ludicrous attack on the Patriots and their fanbase in the wake of Matt Walsh's testimony to the NFL.

But now Boston Globe writer Bob Ryan outdoes Shaughnessy (and Ron Borges) with a bitter and illogical attack on Bill Belichick It is worth some comment.

Ryan seems incensed that Belichick "still hasn't fessed up." Fessed up to what? Like so many others, Ryan refuses to understand exactly what Belichick did in Spygate. In casting that Belichick "was engaged in practices he knew were against the rules," Ryan ignores the facts about Goodell's malicious ignorance of the rulebook. Belichick was not engaged in activity he knew was against the rules - a fact Roger Goodell inadvertantly acknowledged with his comment that other teams wanted to tape, not doing so only because they felt it would be to no advantage.

Ryan also is outraged because the Patriots are "the most despised franchise" in pro sports. All that does is reflect poorly on the haters, who are as short on facts and long on vitriol as Ryan is.

Ryan is also ignorant on Watergate, to which he draws constant comparison. Watergate was not about an illegal break-in (in which nothing was stolen and no resistance to police offered) but about Democratic hate-mongering using the break-in as an excuse to persecute Richard Nixon for the crime of accomplishing more than they did, spelled out best in the book Bad News: The Foreign Policy Of The New York Times.

Ryan needs to reexamine himself here and while he's at it he can check Jeffrey Standen's examination of the Belichick-Goodell brouhaha.

History Lesson For Obama

Barack Obama's stupidity was on display again with his idiotic remarks about John F. Kennedy's 1961 summit with Soviet dictator Nikita Khrushchev. He showed how his grasp of the real world is zero by whining about "this whole notion of not talking to people." That talking to the enemy only enables the enemy is totally lost on Obama and the larger Democratic Party and is why the US has suffered internationally as it has over the years. Summit meetings are always a dead end with the enemy - only victory over the enemy works.

Stop Talking And Start Drilling

The way to combat high oil prices is to start drilling for more oil. The problem remains the intransigence of the Democratic Party that has fought against new drilling efforts for nearly three decades.

We Have Met The Enemy

And he is the American Left. It shows in persistence in the "We make more enemies than we kill" myth and it shows in the fact the terrorist group Hamas has officially endoresed Barack Obama, and Obama is incensed that someone bothers to point this fact out.

Enemy Losses

That there is a gross double standard in MSM coverage of American wars shows in this look at enemy losses at Sadr City - losses far higher than Allied losses.

UPDATE: This look at the Allies' continuing offensive against Sadr City puts comparison of losses into perspective.