Want to play hard ball at the State Department with a force who actually knows what he’s doing and will look out for America’s interests? Donald Trump has shrewdly selected just the seasoned veteran for the job, ExxonMobil Chairman and CEO Rex Tillerson. The WSJ brings readers an excellent Tillerson overview. Rex Tillerson was propelled […]
Archives for December 2016
A Powerful International Negotiator is Latest Choice by Trump
Buchanan: Who is Tillerson?
Pat Buchanan on secretary of state nominee Rex Tillerson: Who is Tillerson? A corporate titan, he has traveled the world, represented Exxon in 60 countries, is on a first-name basis with countless leaders, and is endorsed by Condi Rice and Robert Gates. Dr. Samuel Johnson’s observation — “A man is seldom more innocently occupied than […]
The Possible Upside of Having an Oil Man at State
With the Rex Tillerson nomination for Secretary of State now official, it’s worth reflecting on how much the punditry surrounding the nomination has focused on the US-Russia relationship. This is understandable, given the extent to which Russia has been in the news lately, but there are implications beyond Russia that bear thinking about. So it’s […]
Is This the Best Government Reform Advice Trump Can Get?
Donald Trump’s team would be smart to listen to my friend and Cato Institute director of tax policy studies, Chris Edwards when it comes to ways to privatize and reform government. Here’s the executive summary of a paper Chris has written on how to downsize government the right way. The American economy is sluggish, the […]
Donald Trump and the EPA: Annulling, Reversing, Replacing and Relocating
The Trump administration must send a wide swathe of EPA staffers packing. It’s time to bleed this beast. My Cato-associated friend and TAC publisher Jon Basil Utley’s firebrand exposé will boil your blood. John makes it crystal clear why Donald Trump must hold a firm hand in strangling the ghoulish monster that is the EPA. Here’s John […]
How a Free Market Economy Offers Economic Opportunities
Andy Puzder, chief executive of CKE Restaurants, the parent company of Hardee’s and Carl’s Jr., is Donald Trump’s pick for Labor Secretary. Here’s what Mr. Puzder had to say last February in a speech to the Manhattan Institute’s Adam Smith Society. My grandfather grew up impoverished in the Austro-Hungarian Empire just before World War I where a ruling class of aristocrats still controlled all economic […]
DARPA Envisions An Ender’s Game Controller for Urban Robot Swarms
Urban canyons—with their high vertical structures, tight spaces, and limited lines of sight—constrain military communications, mobility, and tactics in the best of times. These challenges become even more daunting when U.S. forces are in areas they do not control—where they can’t rely on supply chains, infrastructure, and previous knowledge of local conditions and potential threats. […]
Syria and Iraq Pose no Serious Threat to American Security
Former CIA bin Laden unit chief Michael Scheuer explains: For both the individual and the nation, America’s Founders believed, it is necessary to regularly look around and ask why what is being done is being done, this to ensure that genuine interests are being addressed. It is just as important for the national government to […]
Christmas Cheer over Trump’s Cabinet Picks
NRO’s Andrew McCarthy, not always a huge fan of Donald Trump, writes on why he is encouraged by Trump’s cabinet picks. “I don’t like everything Trump has done so far, but I like an awful lot of it. And saying so is only fair.” As far as Trump schmoozing with Al Gore? McCarthy maintains that […]
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