Cato Institute Fellow Ted Galen Carpenter offers readers a cogent analysis. It would seem that NATO partisans are the ones who don’t appreciate the role of change in international affairs. To them, preserving the alliance, not maximizing America’s security and well-being, is the highest priority. We should not accept such static thinking. Sixty-seven years is […]
Archives for March 2016
Niman Ranch Sells to Perdue Farms
Originally posted October 20, 2015. Would it surprise you that a number of stalwarts in the organic food industry are now owned by big conventional food companies? Stonyfield (yogurt) is now owned by Group Danone, Earthbound Farms is owned by Whitewave, Applegate Farms is owned by Hormel, Honest Tea is part of Coca-Cola, and Cascadian […]
The Real POP in Investment Returns, Part II
You knew this was coming. Back in February 2010 I wrote to you about Putnam Investments’ full-page colored ad in the WSJ touting their new Absolute Return Funds. I viewed it as a money gathering scheme that would lag the market. Turns out I was right, as noted in this week’s follow-up in the WSJ. […]
Ballistic Missile Submarine – SSBN
Source: Navy Ohio Replacement (SSBN[X]) Ballistic Missile Submarine Program: Background and Issues for Congress Since the 1960s, strategic deterrence has been the SSBN’s sole mission, providing the United States with its most survivable and enduring nuclear strike capability. The U.S. Navy operates three kinds of submarines—nuclear-powered attack submarines (SSNs), nuclear-powered cruise missile submarines (SSGNs), and […]
Donald Trump “I Am America First”
Pat Buchanan rolls out Donald Trump’s “I Am America First” battle cry that has gripped Americans across the political spectrum. Mr. Buchanan tells readers: Trump is challenging the mindset of a foreign policy elite whose thinking is frozen in a world that disappeared around 1991. He is suggesting a new foreign policy where the United […]
Get Your Gun and Your Training Now, Part V
Shot-down at the counter! “I got turned down. I need a license to carry card. Joke,” texted my brother-in-law Jason to me a couple of weeks ago. Welcome to Massachusetts. Jason is from Montana, where you can pretty much buy a gallon of milk along with your ammo no questions asked. He knew I was looking […]
Patriot Air and Missile Defense System
Raytheon’s Global Patriot™ Solutions is a missile defense system consisting of radars, command-and-control technology and multiple types of interceptors, all working together to detect, identify and defeat tactical ballistic missiles, cruise missiles, drones, advanced aircraft and other threats. Patriot is the foundation of integrated air and missile defense for 13 nations.
Changing GOP Foreign Policy, Part II – The Donor Class
Last week we looked at the best that could be hoped for as concerns right-of-center think tanks on foreign policy. Today we’ll look at one of the biggest obstacles to a sensible GOP foreign policy: the GOP donor class. It’s important at the outset to dispel a myth about super-wealthy GOP donors and foreign policy: […]
What I Have Learned from Dick Young
You’ve got mail. It’s always nice to get a gem of an email from a client. E.J. If there is anything I have learned from Dick Young, the most important thing is that it is all about compounding. Please note the attached advertisement from Taylor Cadillac which posted in the latest issue of the Self-Starter, […]
Brookings Reveals the Obvious about Radical Islamists
In what can only be described as completely predictable, the Brookings Institute has done a study that has found that young, unemployed Muslim men living in cities in French speaking countries are more likely to radicalize than others. Admittedly, the tidbit about Francophone Muslims radicalizing at a higher rate than those in countries speaking other languages […]
- 1
- 2
- 3
- …
- 9
- Next Page »