United Nations
Unholy Trio: Gun Control, the UN and Obama
Copyright 2012 Susan Stamper Brown
Welcome to President Obama’s second term, America — that special place where ridiculousness replaces raison d’être, and presidents give us things like gun control a’ la United Nations. Read the rest of this entry »
Voter ID Laws Protect Electoral Process
© Copyright 2012 Susan Stamper Brown.
In an attempt to alleviate rampant voter fraud discovered in previous elections, the state of Texas passed a new voter ID law in 2011, which the U.S. Justice Department (DOJ) brazenly blocked March 12, 2012 because it claims the law would disenfranchise minority voters. Read the rest of this entry »
Environmental Justice: Coming to a Law Near You
Copyright 2011 Susan Stamper Brown
The United Nations’ (UN) current plan to discuss a treaty proposal granting more rights to “mother earth” than humans is nothing more than an elaborate attempt to re-market the climate change program in a neatly wrapped package called “environmental justice.” Read the rest of this entry »
New Gitmo Policy is Executive Branch Temper Tantrum
©2011 Susan Stamper Brown
Americans may be less safe today because the Obama administration made the decision to circumvent the Constitutional treaty ratification process by mandating that his administration would begin compliance with Article 75 of Additional Protocol I (API) to the 1949 Geneva Conventions “out of a sense of moral obligation.” Read the rest of this entry »
Who’s on First?
“We should never begin an operation without knowing how we stand down. We did a no-fly zone over Iraq for 12 years and it did nothing to get rid of Saddam. So why do we think it will get rid of Qaddafi?” Retired General Joseph W. Ralston
After six days of arguing over “Who’s on first,” the allies tentatively reached an agreement to turn the no-fly operation over to NATO. The allies were split on both the goal and the exit strategy of the Libya mission and quarreled over the scope and size NATO’s responsibilities versus responsibilities the national militaries would keep.
This is what happens when the leader of the free world fails to lead.
Obama’s Lap-doggish Libyan Foreign Policy
Copyright 2011 Susan Stamper Brown
Dogs are interesting creatures. This morning while on a walk, one of my dogs broke away from our pack and into the yard of a dog obviously defending her boundaries. After a momentary altercation, tuck-tailed, my dog willingly rejoined our pack – ego broken but a bit wiser – because he not only learned his place, he discovered that sometimes a dog’s bark is just as big as his bite. Read the rest of this entry »