Originally posted May 5, 2014. In the late 1940s, Procter & Gamble, the maker of Crisco oil, helped transform the American Heart Association from a small, underfunded organization into the powerhouse it is today. Americans, on the advice of the AHA, began in 1961 to eat less saturated fat and switch to vegetable oils for […]
Archives for March 2015
Hendrix: More Frigates and Subs
Matthew Fay of the Niskanen Center leads readers into the weekend with a focus on the number of ships in the Navy and what the composition of those ships should be in years to come. All that and more in the Niskanen Center’s weekend defense reading. The Navy took center stage this week as changes […]
ISIS—Wading Ashore in Miami?
How does Washington react to a crisis? By spending and growing big government in the form of the Department of Homeland Security. And then to keep the party going, it scares the wits out of the public with “tales of impending disaster, as if ISIS were about to wade ashore in Miami.” Writing in NRO, […]
ISIS—Not a Terrorist Group
George Mason University Distinguished Professor and Director of the International Security Program Audrey Kurth Cronin writing on Obama’s televised national speech last September where the president claimed that ISIS is “a terrorist organization, pure and simple,” explains: This is a mistake; ISIS hardly fits that description, and indeed, although it uses terrorism as a tactic, […]
Patriots’ Amendola Restructures
From Boston.com: The Patriots and Danny Amendola have reportedly reached an agreement on a restructured deal that will keep Amendola in New England and free up some cap space for other players. According to ESPN’s Adam Schefter, Amendola gave up $2.25 million in salary overt the next three seasons, but can earn the money back […]
VIDEO: American Sniper
Warner Bros: From director Clint Eastwood comes “American Sniper,” starring Bradley Cooper as Chris Kyle, the most lethal sniper in U.S. military history.
ISIS—Containment the Best U.S. Policy
Writing in Foreign Affairs, Audrey Kurth Cronin, Distinguished Professor and Director of the International Security Program at George Mason University and author of How Terror Ends, concludes, “Over time, the successful containment of ISIS might open up better policy options. But for the foreseeable future, containment is the best policy that the United States can […]
The Forgotten Depression
You can get a glimpse into a beautiful economy by looking back to the early 1920s. James Grant, founder of Grant’s Interest Rate Observer, has written a book called The Forgotten Depression. In it he describes how an economic crash in 1921 cured itself mainly because the government did nothing. Sound advice indeed. Listen to […]
The Rise of Alien Warfare
In an article from the National Interest, Dominic Tierney, Foreign Policy Research Institute senior fellow, writes, ‘The rise of alien warfare has crippled America’s capacity at both waging war and making peace.” Dominic Tierney concludes, ”The solution may seem obvious: less war and less nation building. And indeed Washington should set a higher bar before […]
VIDEO: Elon Musk Tweets Video of Tesla Model S vs. Snowmobile on Frozen Lake
Model S in drag race against snowmobile on ice lake in Norway (no tire chains or studs).
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