New Newsweek Cover: ‘Why Are Obama’s Critics So Dumb?’
Archives for January 2012
Mobile Landing Platform (MLP)
The U.S. Navy’s new floating base for amphibious operations, the Mobile Landing Platform (MLP), operates as a transfer point between large supply ships and small landing crafts. Source: General Dynamics The MLP designed by General Dynamics NASSCO is a new class of auxiliary ship for the Navy. Once delivered to the fleet, these ships will join the three Maritime Prepositioning […]
Barack Obama, Legal Scholar, Defies the Constitution
President Obama has crossed the line by making recess appointments while Congress is not actually in recess. Congress was in pro forma sessions when the president appointed Richard Cordray to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau directorship and appointed three members to the NLRB. Contrary to the smoke and mirrors being set up by the liberal […]
Greg Furman on the Global Luxury Market
Want to know where the world is heading? Give this clip a good listen.–Dick
States Where You’re Stuck Paying the Bill
For some states, the recession has been in the rearview mirror for a long time now. That’s certainly the case in North Dakota, where the unemployment rate is the lowest in the country at 3.4%. Oil and gas from the Bakken formation help, but as I’ve written, North Dakota ranks third in associate-degree-and-above educational attainment […]
Ron Paul’s Amazing Run
South Carolina State Senator Tom Davis has announced he is supporting Dr. Paul. U.S. Senator Jim DeMint from South Carolina now mentions embracing Libertarian concepts. The political winds in the U.S. have shifted. Voters are fed up with both major parties and realize that the best interests of American citizens have not been well represented […]
And He Went
Congressmen Ron Paul has never shied away from his responsibilities to his country. His opponents paint him as soft on national defense. He’s not. Paul wants a strong national defense, but not a national offense. He summed up his position well in his speech after the New Hampshire primary:
Increasing Real Estate Costs
Romney Unstoppable? David Boaz Gives You the Answer
Cato Institute’s David Boaz gives you the answer.
Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD)
Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) is a key element of the Ballistic Missile Defense System (BMDS). THAAD will provide rapidly deployable ground-based missile defense components that deepen, extend and complement the BMDS to any Combatant Commander to defeat ballistic missiles of all types and ranges while in all phases of flight.