Source: DARPA httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8ZbtZqH6Io The Nano Air Vehicle (NAV) program is developing an extremely small, ultra lightweight air vehicle system (less than 15 centimeters and less than 20 grams) with the potential to perform indoor and outdoor military missions. NAV is exploring novel, flapping wing and other configurations to provide warfighters with unprecedented capability during urban […]
Archives for June 2011
Obama the Avoider
The editors of The Wall Street Journal recently wrote, “The towering ambitions of Mr. Obama’s first two years have suddenly gone into abeyance in his third, apparently to be deferred until years five through eight. The White House is more or less conceding that it doesn’t have a chance of winning a second term unless […]
Helping Obama Win in 2012
Big Labor lawyer Thomas Geoghegan rants against Boeing in his Wall Street Journal op-ed “Boeing’s Threat to American Enterprise,” calling the new 787 Dreamliner assembly line in South Carolina “a dead bang violation of the National Labor Relations Act”—specifically, section 7 of the Wagner Act, passed in 1935, which states that all workers can engage […]
Operation Fast and Furious Under Fire
The fight over Operation Fast and Furious (a.k.a. Project Gunrunner) is getting uglier. The Washington Post published an article this week that claimed “Rep. Darrell Issa (Calif.), who has repeatedly called for top Justice Department officials to be held accountable for the now-defunct operation, was given highly specific information about it at an April 2010 […]
Supreme Decision: Wal-Mart
Monday’s Supreme Court decision on the discrimination suit against Wal-Mart was a takedown of the overzealous trial lawyers looking to profit from a case that had not shown that it should be tried as a class action suit. The case hinged on whether or not the women claiming discrimination could be counted as a class. […]
Rep. John Fleming on Medicare Reform
Congressman John Fleming on why Medicare needs reform.
Unmasking the Pension Advisory Group
You may want to watch what’s going on in the Rhode Island pension battle. According to a 2011 Pew Center report on the states, the pension deficit between what states have promised and what they have saved, or the unfunded liability, is $660 billion. According to Pew’s 2010 report, 16 states were in good shape […]
For The First Time in My Life
It is a tragedy that until 2011 Americans have not had the slightest chance to return to the federal republic form of government espoused by our Founders. Peter S. Onuf, writing in The Origins Of The Federal Republic, explains, “There was little disagreement in theory about what Congress should do. John Adam’s prescription was typical. […]
Gunrunner Controversy Heats Up
Congressman Darrell Issa, Chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, has been pressing forward with his investigation into the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives’ (ATF’s) Operation Fast and Furious, also known as Project Gunrunner. Operation Fast and Furious allowed Mexican drug cartels to buy firearms through so-called “straw purchasers.” The […]
The Most Important Think Tank You’ve Never Heard Of
A think tank that recently ranked states in order of personal and economic freedom named New Hampshire the freest state in America. The least free are New York (50), New Jersey (49), California (48), Hawaii (47), Massachusetts (46), and Rhode Island (45). Rounding out New England are Connecticut (38), Maine (33), and Vermont (30), which […]
