The Ryan Plan vs. the President’s Budget

Via-The Corner


By Veronique de Rugy

Worse Than a Powder Keg

Via-National Review

Our troops should be out of Afghanistan. Yesterday.


By Andrew C. McCarthy

...The situation might be called a “powder keg,” except that is what one says in anticipation of a future explosion. In Afghanistan, the explosions are already happening, their pace and ferocity on the rise...

...In the main, the Afghans are Muslims in the thrall of Wahhabism, the fundamentalist Islam of Saudi Arabia. As such, they cannot be liberated — they have chosen their own tyranny...