The VA is a behemoth example of government failure, yet what is the fix from Washington? Thanks to the McCain-Sanders bill, throw more taxpayer money at it–to the tune of perhaps $50 billion more a year. But the bigger tragedy is that veterans will be no better off than they were before the bill was […]
Archives for June 2014
My Summer Internship
I know my first job wasn’t an internship. I scooped ice cream at my first job. Working for minimum wage and waiting on the public is an education I’ll never forget. It wasn’t until I was at Babson College that I even considered an internship. The idea of working for free never crossed my mind. […]
Meet Kurdistan’s Peshmerga
The well-disciplined peshmerga are Kurdistan’s pro-American army. The peshmerga are now in complete control of Kirkuk giving the Kurds all of Kurdistan in Iraq, including the giant Kirkuk oil fields. Here Peter Galbraith, author of “The End of Iraq,” lays out the whole story. Kurdistan’s military, called the peshmerga, is ideally situated to combat ISIS. The […]
RIP Horace Silver
Blue Note Records jazz legend Horace Silver is gone. NPR profiles Silver here: By his early 20s, he was a good enough pianist to be hired by saxophonist Stan Getz. That was 1950. He moved to the jazz hub of New York City the next year. Soon after, Silver co-founded the Jazz Messengers with drummer […]
Establishment Gunning for Amash
Establishment GOP groups are aiming to reverse the Tea Party tide by ousting Rep. Justin Amash in his Grand Rapids, Michigan primary in August. The Wall Street Journal reports that Amash’s constituents are more than happy with the Congressman, but he is up against powerful interests who don’t like his brand of conservative/libertarian politics. Justin […]
“Don’t Do Stupid Stuff”
Wouldn’t we be in a better place if “Don’t Do Stupid Stuff” had been said by President George W. Bush? Not that President Obama has been right on Iraq/Afghanistan. “It’s true that Obama has never lived up to the cautious foreign policy maxim he’s coined: launching a destructive ‘dumb war’ in Libya, doubling down on […]
War Dog Drumming
John McCain is on the war path. McCain labels Iraq’s hostilities as an existential threat to America. Here Pat Buchanan lays out sound reasoning why McCain is wrong. As the Islamic warriors of ISIS rolled down the road from Mosul, John McCain was an echo of French Premier Paul Reynaud, when word reached Paris that […]
“Relative,” the Low Bar to Beat
“Obamacare is the gift that keeps giving,” writes Michael Tanner of the Cato Institute. Read here from Mr. Tanner the woes plaguing some of the bluest of the blue states. MASSACHUSETTS If any state could get its exchange right, one might think, it would be the home of Romneycare. But despite spending more than $134 […]
Immigration–a Political Football
Ben S. Carson, professor emeritus of neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins University, writes in the Washington Times about the tough issue of immigration reform in light of the mass dumping of thousands of illegal children from south of the border into the United States. We are facing a humanitarian crisis that seems to have been manufactured […]
Veterans Benefits in Advance
All veterans would be winners and could escape the death hold of the politicians and the VA boondoggle. Force Congress to increase military pay to fund competitive, private health insurance for our military. My friends at Cato Institute, Michael Cannon and Christopher Preble, have developed the exact healthcare blueprint our military needs. Here is how […]
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