Rand Paul advises boots on the ground against ISIS. The senator wants Turkey and Jordan to take a lead position.
Archives for February 2015
Obama’s Free Hand
Do American’s really want to give Barack Obama a free hand in dealing with ISIS? The American Conservative’s Daniel Larison writes, “The administration’s proposed authorization for the ISIS war restricts the use of ground forces, but does not limit the war to Iraq and Syria.” It is hard to miss the absurdity of this entire […]
On the Road Again
Here are the most common jobs in every state from 1978-2014 courtesy of NPR’s Planet Money.
Intellectuals Bringing Nirvana?
Originally posted November 18, 2014. Richard W. Rahn, senior fellow at the Cato Institute, writes, “The longest-running scam is the big lie that more government spending will create jobs and raise wages.” In order to believe this scam, you have to believe that government is more efficient than the private sector. In the wake of […]
“Gee That’s Swell” – Better Call Saul
Sarene Leeds writes in the Wall Street Journal: AMC announced yesterday that the long-awaited debut of the “Breaking Bad” spinoff “Better Call Saul” resulted in the biggest series premiere in cable history, drawing 4.4 million adults in the 18-49 bracket, and 4.0 million in the 25-54 bracket during its Sunday airing. The second episode aired Monday […]
Jeb Bush—Same Con Twice?
Daniel Larison, in the American Conservative, writes “We have the benefit of that experience [George W. Bush’s foreign policy], so there is no excuse for falling for the same con twice.” Larison continues: Choosing someone “heavily involved” in carrying out George W. Bush’s policy in Iraq to be a “top foreign policy aide” is practically […]
GM
You may recall it was former hedge fund manager Harry Wilson who did the Federal government’s dirty work in turning GM into Government Motors. The big winners were the unions. Now he is representing four hedge funds elbowing his way into GM on behalf of shareholders. Really? Wilson said “General Motors Co. needs to be […]
Reject the President’s Defense Budget
Jerry Hendrix, senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security (CNAS), advises, “The nation needs to stop standing still with our current legacy force and begin investing in offsetting, leap ahead technologies like cyber, unmanned combat aerial vehicles, directed energy, electro-magnetics and hypersonics.” Hendrix also writes: If the nation is to sustain its […]
Jeb Bush VS. Rand Paul
How can the GOP broaden its base? I like what David Boaz, Executive Vice President at the Cato Institute, writes comparing Jeb Bush to Rand Paul: Both Jeb Bush and Rand Paul are talking about broadening the appeal of the Republican Party as they move toward presidential candidacies. Both say Republicans must be able to […]
VIDEO: Yardbirds “Stroll On” (Blow Up-1966)
In his autobiography, Rocks: My Life In and Out of Aerosmith, guitarist Joe Perry discusses how seeing the Yardbirds in the movie Blow-Up in 1966 changed his vision of guitar duos. He tells Technology Tell “When I saw The Yardbirds in the movie “Blow-Up”—I talk about it in the book, I didn’t really know it then, but that […]
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