The problem last night with Bill Clinton’s speech in which he tried to “humanize” his wife, was that the more Bill talked, “the weirder it was that he didn’t address the elephant(s) in the room, “ writes Jonah Goldberg in NRO. I’m not saying there weren’t effective bits. But my God that speech was boring […]
Archives for July 2016
The Most Advanced Fighter Helmet in The World – Price Tag $400,000
Source: Lockheed Martin The F-35’s Helmet Mounted Display Systems provide pilots with unprecedented situational awareness. All the information pilots need to complete their missions – airspeed, heading, altitude, targeting information and warnings – is projected on the helmet’s visor, rather than on a traditional Heads-up Display. This approach greatly reduces the pilot’s workload and increases […]
Death for America’s Small Towns
Originally posted January 24, 2014. Sounds dramatic and scary, I know, but Debbie and I witness this riding our Harleys around the country, especially in liberal New York and New England. We are aware of two culprits: one, the Internet; and two, political fair trade delusions. The bought-and-paid-for politicians in Washington apparently believe that passing […]
Feeling the “Bern”
With temps in Philadelphia in the mid-to-high 90s this week during the Democratic National Convention, police are expecting “much larger and potentially more turbulent demonstrations.” One burning issue the police will not be able to monitor, however, is the heat rising from hopping mad Bernie supporters who feel their candidate has been cheated out of […]
Your Newport Summer Getaway, Part I
Debbie and I live in Newport, R.I. part of the year, not far from where Debbie grew up off the Cliff Walk and close to the best hotel/restaurant in Rhode Island, The Chanler at Cliff Walk. Our close second choice is Castle Hill Inn, with its rolling lawn overlooking the East Passage and Narragansett Bay. […]
States and Cities Struggle under Pension Weight
Timothy Martin writes at the Wall Street Journal that public pensions in the United States are about to record their lowest long-term returns ever. I’ve warned about the threat to pension funds posed by low interest rates time, and time, and time, and time again. Now the chickens are coming home to roost, and public […]
Trump’s NATO Heresy
Donald Trump got into some trouble last week when he told the New York Times’ David Sanger and Maggie Haberman that when it came to NATO allies who might come under attack but had not pulled their own weight in the alliance, “I would be absolutely prepared to tell those countries, ‘Congratulations, you will be […]
What Now For NATO?
Cato Institute senior fellow Ted Galen Carpenter writes in National Interest (Online): Erdogan’s victory over an extraordinarily inept coup plot did not signal a victory for a truly democratic Turkey. Instead, his government has used the incident to purge not only the military, but the judiciary and the educationalsystem of thousands of opponents. The extent and speed of […]
Jay Nordlinger’s Take on Terrorists
The American Conservative’s Andrew Bacevich tells Americans that “the West today finds itself caught in a paradox of its own making.” The murderous attack earlier this month in Nice, France, prompted Jay Nordlinger, senior editor at the ostensibly conservative National Review, to propose a new approach to dealing with terrorism. His strategy is simplicity itself: […]
NATO Terminal?
Could a Donald Trump presidency be the last nail in NATO’s coffin? “NATO is an alliance showing multiple signs of a terminal condition,” writes Ted Galen Carpenter, senior fellow at the Cato Institute. Trump “would be almost certain to demand major reforms, and it is not out of the realm of possibility that he would […]
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