The Cato Institute’s Dan Mitchell looks at Nazism, Communism, Socialism and the big-spending interventionist policies of Barack Obama. Is Obama a socialist? If you’re asking whether he’s a big-spending interventionist, the answer is yes. But if you’re asking whether the President believes in government ownership of the means of production (which is the defining issue […]
Archives for December 2014
The Jet Engine of the Future?
In a previous post we outlined a potential low cost entrant into the fighter jet market, the Textron AirLand Scorpion. The jet engine that will power the Scorpion is the Honeywell TFE731-40AR-3S. The lightweight TFE731 will support the Scorpion in a wide range of diverse missions. The aircraft will have intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance and strike […]
“Stupid Is as Stupid Does”
The MIT economist Jonathan Gruber–lovable bumpkin that he is–apologized before Congress for being glib and arrogant, but “his response to substantive questions suggested that he is mainly sorry for getting caught on tape.” Read more from the WSJ here. Maybe it’s easier to get tenure at MIT than we thought. At least that’s our reaction […]
Peak Oil: Who Knows When?
Over 50 years ago M. King Hubbert published his theory which has become known as the Hubbert Curve. Simply put, when you reach peak production of a finite resource, then half of the original reserves have been produced and the remaining half will be produced in a decline pattern that is a mirror image of […]
H.R. 758 “A Russophobic Rant From Congress?”
Pat Buchanan thinks so and writes that H.R.758 is full of falsehoods and steeped in superpower hypocrisy. As Pat notes, ex-Rep. Ron Paul says that House Resolution 758 is so “full of war propaganda that it rivals the rhetoric from the chilliest era of the Cold War. Pat concludes, “Those who produced this provocative resolution […]
“Why the Hell Would He Say That?”
Jonathan Gruber, the MIT economist, an “architect” of Obamacare, and the guy who stepped on so many land mines in his now famous videos, has an upcoming new role. Mr. Gruber is going to Capital Hill on Tuesday as a congressional witness to answer questions about all those things he said, like the “lack of […]
Obamacare Sends Mary Landrieu Packing
The American Conservative’s Rod Dreher explains that the Democrats knew that Landrieu’s goose was cooked. Democrats thus refused to shovel any cash, which could be better used in 2016, into this year’s sinking Landrieu reelection effort. The single cause for Landrieu’s embarrassing beating? The policies of Barack Obama. Obama has really put Democrats on the […]
Tom Cotton, End Negotiations with Iran
Tom Cotton, incoming Republican Senator from Arkansas, is calling for Congress to end negotiations with Iran. Noting this, Daniel Larison, in the American Conservative, writes that Paul Pillar (National Interest) has shown that the U.S. and its allies have gotten “by far the better side of the deal in the Joint Plan of Action.” As […]
Ugliness on the Bayou
NRO’s John Fund describes Mary Landrieu’s bid for reelection as “an ugly, dark campaign that invents facts, stirs up racial animus, and distorts reality.” Sounds like a page out of True Detective. Senator Mary Landrieu comes from a political dynasty in Louisiana — her father was mayor of New Orleans, and her brother is the […]
Mary Landrieu and the Party of Jim Crow
Originally posted October 27, 2014. Would you know what to do if you, with only a knife and your wits, encountered a bear in the woods? Meet Mr. Elbert Guillory, state senator from Louisiana, who would suggest that you get in close, inside the bear’s paws and under its chin. Along with being a […]