Source: DARPA In an era of declining budgets and adversaries’ evolving capabilities, quick, affordable and routine access to space is increasingly critical for both national and economic security. Current satellite launch systems, however, require scheduling years in advance for an extremely limited inventory of available slots. Moreover, launches often cost hundreds of millions of dollars […]
Archives for April 2016
What Is Libertarian Politics About?
In Washington, there is a lot of pretense about who does politics and who does not. Frequently, politics is seen as icky–Ted Cruz! Hillary Clinton! Eww!–whereas lawyers, judges, think tankers, civil servants, journalists and an array of other trades see themselves as doing something other than politics. Being a policy wonk, or even an ideologue, […]
Silver at 10-month High
With interest rates negative around the world Silver jumps to a 10 month high. Silver prices jumped to their highest levels in 10 months during trading in Asia. The price of silver rose 3 per cent to $16.73 a troy ounce, the highest level since June. It is now trading down at $16.63, writes Henry Sanderson. […]
Our Enemies Do Not Fear Us
Military historian and best-selling author Bing West offers readers a concise look at how America plans and fights wars. Bing concludes that we are performing poorly and offers several policy lessons that may be learned. On balance, he writes, the results in Iraq or Afghanistan were not worth the costs in American casualties, money, and […]
Tax Hypocrisy, Bernie Style
Bernie Sanders—the man whose popularity rests on his decrying high earners who are allowed to pay lower effective tax rates than blue-collar works—just released his tax forms this weekend. Mr. Sanders, the Vermont socialist, just saved himself thousands of dollars using legal deductions that he would ban under his own tax plan. As NRO’s Jim […]
Trump Right about NATO
The Hill’s Bernie Quigley is on the money regarding NATO and Trumps view on NATO: Is anyone at all in the professional realm with him on this? Possibly Dwight Eisenhower would have been, who might be considered the greatest general since Julius Caesar. In 1951, he became the supreme commander of NATO, the intergovernmental military […]
A Brown Shirt Witch Hunt
In the high-stakes politics of climate change, science seldom fares well, writes Holman W. Jenkins in the WSJ. “… it’s bizarre to watch green campaigners attack anybody who questions the thinly based science that keeps down our best carbon-free energy choice.” From the editors at NRO on the fraud case involving Exxon: On March 29, […]
Is Iraq Ready to Blow?
W. Patrick Lang, former U.S Military Intelligence officer, explains to readers: The post colonial construct called “Iraq” had been held together since its creation by force and coercion while it festered or fermented (take your pick) in its progress of evolving towards something like internal coherence. We destroyed that and believed that the artificialities of […]
Emergency Gun: The First 24 Hours
“As I get older, I find that my demands for weapons have started to change. Earlier in life, I would only ask a single job of a single weapon (deer gun, home protection, etc.). Today, I want a more versatile weapon; one that can do multiple things well,” writes Robert McCartney at Loadout Room. McCartney is […]
Put America First
Pat Buchanan correctly advises Americans that we should put our country first and stay out of other people’s wars. Since the Iran nuclear treaty was signed, 98 percent of Iran’s enriched uranium has been shipped out of the country; no more 20 percent enriched uranium is being produced; the Arak reactor that could have produced […]
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