Jeffrey A. Setaro

Political & Cultural Commentary from a Constitutional Conservative.

International Affairs

U.S. Charges Five Chinese Army Officers With Hacking

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From the Wall Street Journal: The Justice Department indicted five Chinese military officers, alleging they hacked U.S. companies’ computers to steal trade secrets, a major escalation in the fight between the two superpowers over economic espionage. The indictment, unsealed Monday, marks the first time the U.S. government has publicly accused employees of a foreign power […]

Video: ‘I Don’t Want a Politician Leading This Nation, I Want a President’

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Commander Kirk Lippold, USN (Retired) the former commander of the USS Cole (DDG-67) joined Neil Cavuto on Your World earlier today and offered some sharp criticism of President Barack Obama’s and his handling of the Iranian nuclear threat: Watch the latest video at video.insider.foxnews.com “One time a year, the president has an opportunity to gather […]

Breaking: US Officials Knew Libya Attack Was Terrorism Within 24 Hours

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Fox News this morning is confirming an earlier report from Eli Lake that US officials knew within 24 hours of the September 11th attack on the United States consulate in Benghazi, Libya that led to the death of ambassador Chris Steven was terrorism: U.S. intelligence officials knew within 24 hours of the assault on the […]

Bumps in the Road

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“But I was pretty certain and continue to be pretty certain that there are going to be bumps in the road because, you know, in a lot of these places the one organizing principle has been Islam.” — President Obama in an interview with “60 Minutes.” When I originally posted this editorial cartoon by the […]

Ron Paul: Killing Of Anwar Al-Awlaki An Impeachable Offense, a Step Toward “Tyranny”…

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I want to like Ron Paul, he makes a lot sense when he talks about monetary policy and the need for greater transparency and oversight of the Federal Reserve, but he loses me when he starts talking about foreign policy and says things like this: Ron Paul said Monday that President Barack Obama’s targeted killing […]

Allen West: Ron Paul ‘Not the Kind of Guy You Need to Be Sitting at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave’

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I’m going to get hate mail for posting this, but what hell. Ron Paul, makes a lot of sense when he talks about monetary policy, or the need for greater transparency at the Federal Reserve, but Allen West is right… His foreign policy ideas are dangerously isolationist, and frankly, naive. And for that reason I […]

Obama Administration to Britain: Drop Dead

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I’ll say this much for the Obama Administration: They’re consistent. From the get go they’ve made it clear that longstanding American allies can expected to be taken for granted, insulted and, if convenient, dumped in favor of appeasement. Consequently this administrations decision to not support Britain, our closest ally, in its latest dispute with Argentina […]

Weekend Briefing – Saturday, October 10, 2009

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I’m going to be tied up with family all weekend but here’s a collection of must read links: CBO: Budget deficit hit record $1.4T in 2009 – Associated Press Proposals to create jobs add up to second stimulus – Associated Press A Nobel for Obama – New York Sun Barack Obama’s peace prize starts a […]

Obama to Accept Nobel Prize as ‘Call to Action’… DNC Says Republicans Siding with Terrorists

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This day just keeps getting more and more surreal… First it was the news that Pres. Obama had won the Nobel Peace Prize, next was the news he’ll accept the award as a ‘Call to Action’: Saying he was “surprised and deeply humbled” by the decision of the Nobel Committee to award him the 2009 […]

Barack Obama Wins Nobel Peace Prize… For What?

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I’m going to start off by saying Congratulations Mr. President… Although I’m not really sure what you’ve done to warrant such a prestigious award as the Nobel Peace Prize: President Barack Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for giving the world “hope for a better future” and striving for nuclear disarmament, in a […]

Rio Gets the Games, Chicago Eliminated in the First Round

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From the Wall Street Journal: Rio De Janeiro will host 2016 Olympics, the International Olympic Committe announced, bringing the Olympic Games to South America for the first time and besting a Chicago bid that was strongly backed by President Obama. Rio won in the third round, after Chicago was eliminated in the first round and […]

Michael Yon: Don’t Kid Yourselves; we’re in Serious Trouble in Afghanistan

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Michael Yon has spent more time in Iraq and Afghanistan than any other journalist. His dispatches from the front lines are required reading for anyone who wants to know what’s happening at the pointy end of the war on terror so when  he say we’re in serious trouble you should pay attention: The Greatest Afghanistan […]

Video: French President Thinks “Obama Is Very Naive and Egotistical”

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I’m generally suspicious of anonymous sources but given French President Nicolas Sarkozy’s public remarks I’m inclined to take Pittsburgh Post-Gazette columnist Jack Kell at his word here: From the Telegraph: Nicolas Sarkozy, the French president, came close to mocking his American counterpart for the good intentions, which Mr Obama had heralded as an “historic” step […]