Opinion: How do I even begin this column?
It starts with a major American city electing a lesbian as its mayor. The city then goes on to ram through a “transgender rights” ordinance giving certain desperately messed-up men the “right” to use women’s rest rooms. By now we have already entered the Twilight Zone, but it gets worse.
When Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko spoke to a joint session of Congress last month, he thanked the United States for its assistance in confronting Russian aggression, and indeed, our country, along with our NATO allies, has done much. But Poroshenko asked us for more. “Blankets, night-vision goggles are important,” he said, “but one cannot win the war with blankets.”
We believe now is the time to add defensive military aid, including weapons, to our support of Ukraine.
ANALYSIS/OPINION: President Obama’s most recent speech at the United Nations was filled with his usual soaring rhetoric of global collectivism and the importance of “international norms.” But the president also displayed a shocking naivete about global affairs, religion, Islam — a Pollyannaish interpretation on the state of the world and America’s role in it according to Joseph Curl of The Washington Times.
Curl writes: Although Mr. Obama won a Nobel Peace Prize just eight months into office, the president made his annual trip to the ineffectual world council to deliver a call to war. “Ladies and gentlemen, we come together at a crossroads between war and peace, between disorder and integration, between fear and hope.”
Analysis: According to Politico, Rand Paul talked foreign policy. Rick Santorum decried flagging family values. Michele Bachmann called for war on radical Islam and Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas captivated the crowd, but video of Rep. Jim Bridenstine and Glenn Beck is also gaining traction.
“The Values Voter conference offered an early glimpse of what’s sure to be a spirited battle for the allegiance of Christian conservatives in 2016.” Politico said.
President Barack Obama saluted a pair of United States Marines on Tuesday while holding a styrofoam cup in his saluting hand, a breach of military regulations that won’t win him fans among veterans and servicemen. The video was released on the White House Instagram page by the Obama Administration – clueless again.
Obama’s quasi-saluting gesture is an embarrassment and not just because his environmentally taboo drink-ware clashed with the green-policy speech he was on his way to deliver at a UN Climate Summit.
Saluting military personnel is something presidents are expected to do since they’re at the top of the Pentagon’s chain of command. It’s customary for a commander-in-chief to salute uniformed servicemen and women who salute him first as a sign of respect.