Originally posted February 6, 2015. Pat Buchanan looks at the position Turkey and the Sunni’s should take in defeating ISIS. Critics argue that after making his commitment to “degrade and defeat” the Islamic State, President Obama has provided neither a war strategy nor the military resources to carry it out. And they are right. But […]
Archives for February 2015
My #1 Career Tip
I come from a long history of salesmen in my family. My grandfather owned a successful retail clothing business in New Bedford, MA managing upwards of 50 salesmen at a time. My father was in sales beginning in his teens knocking on doors for Fuller Brush, then Electrolux and later owned a real estate brokerage. […]
VIDEO: Warren vs. Christie in 2016
Tucker Carlson at Cato/Naples
The Daily Caller’s editor and chief was the featured speaker at the Cato Institute’s annual Naples, Florida policy conclave. A packed house of 450 Libertarians listened with great interest as Tucker Carlson explained how the demographics in America had radically shifted since the financial crisis. The striking shift, he believes, will have a significant bearing […]
VIDEO: I Like Guns – Steve Lee
From Wikipedia: Steve Lee is an Australian singer/songwriter, Contract Shooter and Pyrotechnic living in Parkes, New South Wales. In 2009 he released his first single, I Like Guns from his first Album on YouTube. The video quickly topped four-million viewers.
Terminating “Mindless Austerity”
President Obama’s proposed tax increases would, in his own words, put an end to the “mindless austerity” in federal spending. But as Michael Tanner, senior fellow at the Cato Institute, writes, “There has been no austerity, mindless or otherwise.” Running a miserly 300 pages, the recently released General Explanations of the Administration’s Fiscal Year 2016 […]
In Defense of Pete Carroll
Game Theory may shed some light on the startling call made by Seattle’s Pete Carroll in the stunning closing seconds of Seattle’s Super Bowl loss to the New England Patriots. Justin Wolfers of the Peterson Institute for International Economics explains here. Whenever I have taught economics students the idea of playing a mixed strategy, they respond […]
Cato Institute Dan Mitchell’s First Theorem of Government
“Above all else, the public sector is a racket for the enrichment of insiders, cronies, bureaucrats, and interest groups.” Dan adds his First Theorem in historical support of French economist Frederic Bastiat, who wrote, “Government is the great fiction through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.”
America and the Ukraine
Should the U.S. get militarily involved in conflict with Russia over two provinces in southeastern Ukraine? The administration should look to the wisdom of the original Weinberger Powell Doctrine for guidance. The essential elements boil down to five elements. There is not a single one that would get a yes response when applied to today’s crisis […]
Ukraine Disaster Looms
Pat Buchanan writes, “America has never had a vital interest in Crimea or the Donbass worth risking a military clash with Russia. And we do not have the military ability to intervene and drive out the Russian army, unless we are prepared for a larger war and the potential devastation of the Ukraine. What would Eisenhower, […]
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