It seems like the F-35 has been under fire for being too expensive since it was in the planning stages. Recently President Trump specifically targeted the program for a cost reduction, and Lockheed, the jet’s manufacturer credited his personal involvement with accelerating negotiations that led to a 7.3% reduction in cost for the next batch of […]
Archives for February 2017
Does a Massive Military Need a New Spending Increase?
Ben Friedman, a research fellow in defense and homeland security studies at the Cato Institute, thinks the military can do without a major spending increase, and still manage to improve readiness. He writes that the military does in fact have readiness problems, but that they could be solved without increasing overall military spending. A “readiness […]
Ripping Away the Pretense of Media Objectivity
Since Donald Trump’s winning the 2016 presidential election, Washington elites’ and the press corps’ feud with President Trump has dominated the news. During a rally in mid February in Florida, President Trump told supporters, “They have their own agenda. And their agenda is not your agenda,” referring to the national press. But as Jason L. […]
Is Nascar’s Stunning Decline Now Irreversible?
Lot’s to think about in terms of why there has been such a huge decline in Nascar’s ratings as we enter Daytona 500 weekend. Reporters at The Wall Street Journal analyze Nascar’s decline. Nascar threw a bash at Kansas Speedway in October to thank Sprint Corp. for being stock-car racing’s top sponsor for 13 years. More than 800 […]
Deadline: Is there Really a Chance for Tax Reform by August?
The Trump Administration Wants to Lower Corporate Taxes Newly installed Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin has said in an interview with CNBC that he wants to get a “very significant” tax reform bill passed by Congress before the legislature goes to recess in August. Mnuchin told interviewers that his focus is on making “the business tax competitive […]
The Three Greatest Presidents are Easy, Then It’s a Battle
Robert W. Merry writes at The American Conservative that the first three presidents on a list of “the greatest” presidents are easily agreed upon, Abraham Lincoln, George Washington and Franklin Roosevelt consistently rank at the top. Even these three are controversial in their own ways, but among historians, there’s little debate about their place in […]
Optimism for the West from Former Brit Leader
Nigel Farage, “the loquacious, dynamic, bumptious, bibulous, irrepressible” (according to the NYT) former leader of the United Kingdom Independence Party, spoke recently at Hillsdale College on the significance of Brexit and Donald Trump’s winning the 2016 presidential election. Brexit and Trump were not blips. They were not short-term revolts of angry people. They were fundamental changes of direction. When our great-grandchildren […]
Trump’s Great White Wall: Part V
If you want to know who voted Donald Trump into office, then read J.D. Vance’s memoir Hillbilly Elegy. It’s a book about the “real people” of this country whom I refer to as Trump’s Great White Wall. No other group has sacrificed more in blood and treasure for their country and yet no other group […]
New Technology Making the Apache Helicopter Deadlier Than Ever
The U.S. Army is quickly expanding and accelerating the Manned-Unmanned Teaming operations, or MUM-T, which combines the strength of manned and unmanned platforms to increase situational awareness. The MUM-T enables beaming real-time drone video into the cockpits of the Apache Helicopter. Kris Osborn from Scout Warrior writes about the deadly combination of the Apache’s lethal weapons […]
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