It was a good opening week for president-elect Donald Trump’s cabinet nominations, writes Peggy Noonan in the WSJ. Secretary of Defense: Gen. James N. Mattis William Cohen, the former Republican senator who became Bill Clinton ’s secretary of defense, introduced and endorsed Gen. James N. Mattis, Donald Trump ’s nominee as defense chief, to the […]
Archives for January 2017
Can Trump Now Undo the Intentional Damage Obama Inflicted?
From former CIA bin Laden unit chief Michael Scheuer: It is time to relax and let the Democrats and their war-loving Neocon, Republican, and Israel-First friends go piss up a rope. They are as mangy a lot of miscreant mongrels as the republic has ever seen, and they will remain so even as their head […]
Watch Out or You’ll Be Stranded in the Cold Alone
Winter is here, and with it comes snow and ice on the roads. Despite the inevitability of poor driving conditions, every year some drivers seem surprised by them and hit the roads unprepared to deal with the consequences. Especially vulnerable are drivers in areas not used to snow and ice, such as the South Eastern […]
Energy Man Tillerson’s Confirmation Might Look Like a No
Daniel Larison, opining at The American Conservative lays out a pretty good case against a Tillerson confirmation for Secretary of State. One of the main assumptions that almost everyone has made about Tillerson’s nomination to be Secretary of State is that he would be inclined to improve relations with Russia. Some of his answers from […]
Can One Man Smash the Business Roadblocks in Teetering Illinois?
With the recent passage of a Right to Work law in Kentucky, Illinois is nearly surrounded by states with such laws. Only Missouri, far away from Chicago, the industrial heart of Illinois, remains a union state. With at least five Right to Work bills working their way through the Missouri legislature and headed toward the […]
The Most Important Person You May Have Never Heard Of: Part I
Originally posted March 11, 2013. Can there be any subject more vital to your personal security, your family’s security, and the security of America itself than our country’s foreign policy? Of course not, so it makes sense that if there is a rational mind out there who can explain to you why, for over two […]
New Pick for State Would Be a Stick-In-The-Eye For American Voters
UPDATE: December 19, 2016 The New York Times has reported that there is opposition within the ranks of GOP Senators to confirming John Bolton’s appointment as deputy secretary of state. The NYT also reports that Rex Tillerson, who has been tapped for the lead role at the State Department, also doesn’t appear keen on having […]
Is Your State Pension Really about to Explode?
Don’t look now, but many of the nation’s states are in deep financial trouble. Pensions around the country have been underfunded, and Ohio is one of the worst offenders. By 2037, there’s only a 25% chance Ohio’s fire fighters and police officers will have their pensions fulfilled by the current system. Economists Erick Elder and […]
Sheltering the GOP in the Health Care Wilderness
Republicans do have a health care plan, despite what the media and Democrats say to the contrary. The problem is that Republicans so far have been unable “to reach consensus on a proposal that is both good policy and politically palatable,” writes Michael Tanner, senior fellow at the Cato Institute. Now, however, Kentucky senator Rand […]
DARPA’s Networks of the Sea Enter Next Stage
DARPA has successfully completed phase 1 of its Tactical Undersea Network Architecture (TUNA) program, a system of temporary sea buoys that will serve as a backup for military communications at sea. DARPA hopes to prove in the final phase that the TUNA Program is capable of maintaining the vital flow of data in the event […]
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