After years of under-funding its state pension programs, Illinois has come up with an idea that can be described as risky at best. Illinois plans to borrow money, and then invest that money, in the hopes of earning more than it must pay back in interest. If you don’t see the danger in using money […]
Archives for February 2018
Christopher Steele and the FBI’s Due Diligence?
Having trouble navigating through the non-stop spin on the 2016 government surveillance abuses? The House Intelligence Committee’s memo reportedly is to be released today. Just in time is the WSJ’s Kimberley Strassel’s non-partisan guide on what to look for and what to ignore. She writes: Rationale. Did the FBI have cause to open a full-blown […]
Engage with China: Cato’s Chris Preble
My friend, and vice president for defense and foreign policy studies at the Cato Institute, Chris Preble warns in The National Interest that despite the increasingly aggressive posture of the Chinese government toward dissenters and foreign companies, engaging with China is still better than isolating the country. Any attempts to cajole or pressure the Chinese […]
My Favorite Stories Leading up to Super Bowl LII
“The four never expected to be reunited later in life, but 20 years later, here they are going for another Super Bowl title,” writes WEEI sports radio network’s Ryan Hannable. They were teammates back in 1998 at John Carroll University and are coaches for the New England Patriots today: director of player personnel Nick Caserio […]
Bitcoin Plunge
The price of bitcoin is plunging as regulators begin to recognize the real threat alternative currencies pose to their fiat currencies and begin to fire back with restrictions. Between new regulatory scrutiny, and the threat of hacking, bitcoin investors are beginning to find better places for their money elsewhere. The neck-snapping volatility of bitcoin prices […]
Buchanan: The Media is Terrified the Deplorables Were Right
With the Trump administration gearing up to release a House Intelligence Committee memo on the FBI’s surveillance practices, Pat Buchanan, writing at The American Conservative, says the media is terrified. The reason they are scared says Pat, is that the memo may confirm that the Deplorables were right, and the media was wrong about efforts […]
DARPA Hands USN Unmanned Sea Hunter for Further Development
DARPA has successfully completed its unmanned, anti-submarine warfare program and has officially handed the Sea Hunter vessel over to the U.S. Navy for further development. The U.S. Navy envisions a new class of unmanned, ocean-going vessels able to monitor thousands of square kilometers of ocean for months at a time. The Sea Hunter would track […]
Your Survival Guy Under Fire!: Part I
“There’s a fire in your yard!” my neighbor said. “There’s a fire in your yard, call 911!” And that’s how Tropical Storm Hermine spun our quiet Labor Day Weekend in Newport, Rhode Island into a full on panic. It happened fast. I wasn’t prepared. And that should not happen, especially as “Your Survival Guy”. It […]
Federal Employees and the Rigged Game
In his SOTU speech, President Trump, advocating civil service reform, would like Congress to “empower every cabinet secretary with the authority to reward good workers and to remove federal employees who undermine the public trust or fail the American people.” According to Inez Feltscher Stepman, a senior contributor to The Federalist, it can take up […]
Disaster Relief: What Happens When the Government Stops Helping?
As I have written before, in Puerto Rico, the conditions today are unimaginable for most Americans. Some residents have been without power for months, and they have been relying heavily on donated food and water coming from FEMA and other organizations to subsist. Now, those Americans are faced with the departure of federal aid. NPR […]
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