Thank you to a friend for sending me a piece by Dilbert creator, Scott Adams. I don’t defend the bad apples on either side. I’ll just point out that Trump’s message is about uniting all Americans under one flag. The Clinton message is that some Americans are good people and the other 40% are some […]
Archives for October 2016
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte, an Unstable Anti-American Autocrat
Writing at The American Conservative, Pat Buchanan makes the case for terminating the 1951 Mutual Defense Treaty with Manila. Now that the election is almost over, neocons burrowed in their think tanks are emerging to talk up U.S. confrontations with Syria, Russia, Iran, and China. Restraining America’s War Party may be the first order of […]
Hillary’s Fix for Obamacare a Socialist Death Spiral
What does Hillary Clinton propose to do about the “Obamacare death spiral”? Francis Menton of the Manhattan Contrarian perused Mrs. Clinton’s website to find out what she proposes. Mr. Menton addresses Hillary’s first five “detailed proposals” on how she would shift more and more taxpayer money to “paper over the problem and pretend that this […]
Picatinny Arsenal Working on First Ever Digital Multi-Purpose Hand Grenade
Engineers at Picatinny Arsenal are working on the first new lethal hand grenade in more than 40 years, which is designed to give greater flexibility to the warfighter. The multi-purpose hand grenade design will provide both fragmentation and blast overpressure more effectively and safely than its legacy counterparts. Once fielded, Soldiers will be able to […]
The Case for Not Freaking Out about Russia
Something weird is going on in American politics. (Yes, I know…) Julian Assange, who rose to fame by leaking the bloody and erratic day-to-day secrets of American foreign policy, is now reviled by the Left and enjoys a Strange New Respect on the Right. In both cases, the sentiment is fueled by partisan bias. As […]
Gun Control’s Effect on Violence, Part I
Does gun control reduce violence? No. But if you ask the Hillary supporting Center for American Progress (CAP) they’ll roll out their special report saying that it does. The report, as an aside, has been referenced by The New York Times. That’s a bad start. Robert Verbruggen at The American Conservative, explains how the report references […]
Dangerous Insistence on Developing the Philippines
The Cato Institute’s Doug Bandow calls into question America’s interests in defending the Philippines. The Philippines needs America far more than America needs the Philippines. Manila spends less than 1 percent of its gross domestic product on its military and its best ships are U.S. cast-offs. It doesn’t help defend the United States from anyone. Rather, […]
The Radical Transformation of our Health Care System
The Cato Institute’s Josh Blackman explains the unraveling of Obamacare. In a brief moment of candor, former-president Clinton called the ACA’s collapse “the craziest thing in the world,” and lamented that people who liked their insurance have found their “premiums doubled and their coverage cut in half.” The law wasn’t supposed to implode so quickly. […]
Pirate Party Prepares for Victory in Iceland
You’ll want to pay attention to this weekend’s election in Iceland where “a collection of anarchists, hackers, libertarians and Web geeks”, or the Pirate Party, may soon be king, reports The Washington Post. In a year where Brexit, Edward Snowden, and Donald Trump roll off the tongue, politics as usual is history. Citizens of the […]
Hillary and Donald–the Awfulness of the Whole Thing
Don’t pay much attention to how either Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump say they will deal with foreign policy because it becomes pretty much inoperative in the specifics of any situation that may arise, advises Francis Menton in the Manhattan Contrarian. Focus instead on domestic economic policy. What each of the candidates says on the […]
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