Writing in The American Conservative, Daniel Larison outlines Barack Obama’s shocking wars-without-end foreign policy disgrace. Earlier this week, I said that Obama’s legacy was war without end. I said that because I think that will be his most enduring foreign policy legacy, and because it is the part of his record that receives relatively little […]
Archives for January 2017
US Military Could Soon Fire 155 MM Electromagnetic Pulse Rounds
A new report from SBIR on Munition-Delivered Non-Kinetic Effects explains that the Department of Defense wants to “develop and demonstrate an innovative, cost-effective, munitions-based electronics systems that can deliver non-destructive, non-kinetic RF effects against a wide range of electronics, critical infrastructure, and computer-based systems”. The initial design will fit in a 155mm projectile which means […]
How to Fix Our Health Care and Cut Taxes
Originally posted November 30, 2016. Bill Clinton famously lamented during Hillary’s campaign that sick enrollees are seeing “their premiums doubled and their coverage cut in half.” Even proponents of Obamacare admit that it is in a death spiral. But as Michael F. Cannon, director of health policy studies at the Cato Institute, writes in NRO, […]
Could Donald Trump be the New Ronald Reagan?
Writing at the The American Conservative, Pat Buchanan explains to Americans the common denominator between Donald Trump and Ronald Reagan. Since World War II, the two men who have most terrified this city by winning the presidency are Ronald Reagan and Donald Trump. And they have much in common. Both came out of the popular culture, […]
Repealing ObamaCare Will Mean More and Better Choices
Repeal of President Obama’s Affordable Care Act is not going to happen overnight, writes Michael Tanner of the Cato Institute. Changes will be small and incremental. So what’s in store for American consumers, patients, doctors, hospitals, insurers, businesses and taxpayers? Mr. Tanner explains: 1. More choices for buying insurance “You may have to pay more […]
The Swiss Way: Cutting America Free of Executive Pretense
Originally posted November 14th, 2016 “The enviable Swiss have such a wonderfully limited and distributed federal system that many of them could not tell you who the president is on any given day,” writes Kevin Williamson in NRO. As does Dick Young here. The United States has never really been quite that free of executive pretense, […]
Update on National Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act
Here’s the latest on the National Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act courtesy of The Truth About Guns.com: Representative Richard Hudson (R-NC), the primary sponsor of the National Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act that was introduced last week into the House, has clarified that the Act should apply to state firearms licenses issued to non-residents. In an statement to the Free Beacon this week, […]
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Is Swiss Innovation a Perfect Fit for China?
The leaders of Switzerland and China have been spending a lot of time together. And the countries have a history of warm relations. In fact hardly a month passes without a Chinese delegation visiting Switzerland reports swissinfo.ch. Switzerland is one of the freest countries in the world, and a hub of innovation. In many ways […]
These People Don’t Even Know Who Their President Is
In America, other than coma patients and Appalachian hermits, pretty much everyone knows who the president is. That’s a function of how much power the president has come to wield, and of what a central position the office holds symbolically. But there is a country where many people don’t even know who their president is […]
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