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@RepThomasMassie I was there on Sunday. It was obvious to anyone who dared to ask questions that Fauci was a fraud and Trump should have fired him. At a minimum Trump should have quit inviting him to the meetings and press conferences, but he did not. RE: @jannaherbison Has @RepThomasMassie ever heard of the terms “Monday morning quarterbacking” or “hindsight is 20/20”? We all trusted Dr. Fauci back then. What else was the President supposed to do in real time?

This year marks the 50th anniversary of president Richard Nixon’s historic trip to China. This trip is widely recognized as the moment China entered the world stage. There is a common belief among global affairs savants that Nixon made a grave mistake. In reality, however, his logic was sound, and his international policies should still serve as a guiding light. It is undeniable that China is participating in genocide and atrocities on a scale not seen in decades. China is systematically removing and erasing its Uighur population, killing dissidents, and pushing for a monolithic nation that includes Taiwan. Blaming this...

On Tuesday’s broadcast of CNN’s “New Day,” Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman and Senate Majority Whip Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) said Democrats could have done a better job handling the timing of the accusations against Justice Brett Kavanaugh during his nomination to the Supreme Court, but “hindsight is very clear. At that time, we were trying to do the best we could under an extraordinary set of circumstances.”

Hindsight is seeing what was. Prophecy is seeing what shall be. That means Hindsight is right after Prophecy. Since Hindsight is 2020 that means 2019 must be the year of prophecy .

The Police Foundation, a research group based in Washington, D.C., released a detailed report Monday on how Stockton police responded to the July 16, 2014, armed robbery of a Bank of the West branch, where three gunmen took three women hostage and fired at officers from a speeding SUV. The group found that 32 officers unloaded more than 600 rounds during the hour-long rolling gun battle, which spanned three counties, 63 miles of highway and reached speeds of 120 mph. One of the hostages, Misty Holt-Singh, was killed when she was struck by 10 police bullets, authorities said. The two...

A good friend of the blog, The Doktor, posted this on Facebook and I graphicalized it! :-)

If I could choose to have my readers learn one and only one thing from what I write, it would be that America's problems are not the result of blind, much less inevitable, forces, but are the consequences of deliberate political action by motivated individuals and groups. Nowhere is this clearer than in the case of our ongoing immigration crisis. Let's trace the lines of influence in the open-borders conspiracy, a word I use despite its connotations of grassy knollology because in this case it is factually appropriate. Given who has been pushing mass immigration in America and how open...

This health care/tax and the upcoming election is depressing me and I'm longing for another time and place: I'm thinking 1997--I do not want to be a child again, nor do I want to relive other, rather awful, portions of life. Being 38 years old was good, I had a good job, my husband still had 20 years to work, we only had two dogs, there was still hope. See what I mean? Where would you like to go and why? Doesn't have to be personal history, could be history in general.

Thanks to all those who responded to my post The Gulf Wars in Hindsight (see above); I appreciate the dialogue; however, I was really hoping for my own insight and benefit to hear from more soldiers who participated or are still active in the Iraq and Afghan wars; Their feelings and perspectives are the ones I wish to know and think on; any of you out there, please share at length. I understand you are all honorable and follow orders as good soldiers, but I would like to know your thoughts on the war, in retrospect. Thanks to all.

The captain of a Continental 737 that ran off a Denver runway in December 2008 as winds gusted up to 45 knots probably could have kept it on the runway if he had applied enough rudder at the right time, the NTSB said in its final report on the accident on Tuesday. However, the board also said that if the crew had been given better wind information before trying to take off on Runway 34R, they might have delayed departure or requested a different runway. Air traffic controllers provided all the weather data that was required, telling the crew winds...

The Bush campaign has hammered away at John Kerry as an incorrigible flip-flopper, but hasn't said enough about a related Kerry vice: His tendency to be a Monday-morning quarterback who offers up 20/20 hindsight as though it were wisdom and foresight. Consistent with the Democratic party's love for liability law, Kerry is a stereotypical ambulance chaser. He waits for something to go wrong — the war in Iraq, the shortage of flu shots at home, anything — and then leaps forward to criticize and to smugly insinuate that he "would have" done better. "When it comes to Iraq," Kerry declared,...

Over in the alternative universe of the 9-11 Commission hearings watched only by me, Richard Ben-Veniste recently proposed an amazing new standard for investigating Arabs in this country. In the middle of haranguing Condoleezza Rice, Ben-Veniste demanded to know why the suspected 20th hijacker, Zacarias Moussaoui, had not been more aggressively investigated, despite the fact that – I quote – he had "no explanation for the funds in his bank account, and no explanation for why he was in the United States." So let me get this straight: Airport security can't acknowledge that a person is an Arab, but they...

Does the White House acknowledge mistakes? They would be crazy to offer up talking points to the Democrats, but my impression from such contacts as I have is that senior people in the Bush administration regret a short list of tactical errors. One of them is certainly the emphasis they placed on over-specific "WMD" charges before the invasion. But they don't regret having tried to walk their argument through the United Nations, and they remain more charitably disposed to that organization than, for instance, I am. Indeed, they are all ears for the proposals Lakhdar Brahimi, the U.N.'s point man...

National security has been the core of President Bush's appeal to the public since 9/11. So it's no wonder that the attack on the Bush record by Richard Clarke, the counterterrorism adviser to four administrations, has inspired such a furious response. But the issue is too grave to be met by assaults on Clarke's integrity or by his attacks on Bush. It's the evidence that counts. Clarke has two substantive criticisms. First, the new administration was slow to come up with a plan for dealing with the terrorist threat before 9/11. Second, the decision to go to war against Iraq...

(1010 WINS) (New York) -- Former New York city mayor Rudy Giuliani says laying blame for missed clues that could have signaled the 9-11 terror attacks is ``Monday morning quarterbacking.'' Giuliani, who was New York's mayor when terrorists hijacked the planes that crashed into the World Trade Center, said that for any one thing to jump out, you almost have to know what's going to happen in the future. Giuliani is scheduled to testify next month before the government commission investigating the terrorist attacks. Giuliani spoke to The Associated Press in an interview before a public appearance to announce a...

So Clinton couldn't bomb Islamic terrorists but he could bomb Christian Serbs? Tim Russert devoted an hour to interviewing former White House counterterrorism official Richard Clarke.  But some controversial claims that go to the heart of Clinton's so-called "war on terrorism" were unchallenged.  One was Clarke's claim that Clinton didn't bomb al Qaeda camps in Afghanistan because "there were lots of other things going on in the world…"  Clarke claimed that Clinton "had the Middle East peace process close to an agreement.  He was bombing in Serbia.  He was bombing in Iraq.  In retrospect, with 20/20 hindsight, people now understand...

Americans hungry for a mistake-proof party uncompromisingly resolute on national security now have found one -- the pre-9/11 Democrats. Created in hindsight and forged in recrimination, the pre-9/11 Democrats are unwilling to let any obstacle stand in the way of their defense of the American homeland. Who knew contemporary Democrats could so readily combine the toughest aspects of J. Edgar Hoover and Douglas MacArthur?    The pre-9/11 Democrats, as portrayed by their reaction to the work of the 9/11 Commission, are not plagued by niggling civil-liberty concerns. They were willing prior to 9/11 -- or so they imply now -- to...

Don't look now, but the oh-so politically correct New York Times has just endorsed racial profiling as a critical tool in fighting the war on terrorism. In fact, says the Times, if only President Bush had ordered airports to use "threat profiling" to screen out suspected Muslim terrorists after receiving a CIA warning in August 2001 that al Qaeda was preparing to hijack U.S. airplanes, the 9/11 attacks might have been prevented. "After receiving that briefing memo entitled 'Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S.'," says the Times in Monday's lead editorial, Bush should have departed from his vacation...

<p>Think for a moment about a few of the most important decisions you've made in your life.</p> <p>Maybe to accept a job offer. Invest your life savings in a new business. Or, on the personal side, whether to end a relationship, get married, have an abortion.</p>

WASHINGTON -- The month-long series of Congressional intelligence hearings that ended this week produced a detailed and disheartening portrait of the U.S. spy community as it groped its way toward Sept. 11. It also reshaped thinking about the most basic lingering question: could the attacks have been prevented? For months after Sept. 11, the answer, high-level government officials insisted, was no. The new answer is that preventing or disrupting them certainly seems to have been possible. "It really is impossible to say whether the attacks would have been stopped," Eleanor Hill, staff director of the inquiry, said in an interview...