Originally posted July 17, 2015. Justin Logan, director of foreign policy studies at the Cato Institute, tells readers, as 30 nonproliferation experts attested to in a statement in April, “the agreement reduces the likelihood of destabilizing nuclear weapons competition in the Middle East, and strengthens global efforts to prevent proliferation, including the nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty.” …the […]
Archives for April 2018
Iran’s Nuclear Bomb Prospects
Originally posted January 4, 2016. Americans are being misled on Iran’s prospects for developing a nuclear weapon. I recently asked Dr. Christopher Preble, the Cato Institute’s director for defense and foreign policy studies, for a New Year’s assessment of Iran’s nuclear capabilities. Chris advises Americans that: Based on the evidence that has been reported, Iran […]
Central Asia: Russia in Worse Shape than is America
The former head of the CIA’s bin Laden unit, Michael Scheuer, tells readers of his blog, non-intervention.com, that despite America’s reckless actions in the Middle East, which have bled the U.S. of men and treasure, Russia is in even worse shape. With the rise of ISIS cells in Northern Afghanistan, threatening Russia’s soft central-Asian underbelly, […]
The Poetic Outing of Sean Hannity Politically Motivated
The “outrageous outing” of Sean Hannity, Fox News political commentator (often controversial), as attorney Michael Cohen’s third client (President Trump #1) violated longstanding, judicially endorsed standards, writes Andrew McCarthy in NRO. There is no justification for publicizing Mr. Hannity’s name, who himself is not above using flimsy evidence to lambaste political opponents and Trump critics. […]
Blackout: The Lights are Out in Puerto Rico
Hurricane Maria’s devastation is still front and center in Puerto Rico where an island-wide blackout triggered a power line failure in the south yesterday, reports the WSJ. “It is the latest in a string of blackouts that have plagued Puerto Rico in the wake of last year’s hurricanes, which wiped out power to the entire […]
Everyone Has Stopped Talking about Bolton. Now It Gets Dangerous.
If you’d told me I’d live long enough to see John Bolton as U.S. National Security Adviser, I’d be both relieved and unnerved. Relieved because it could only mean that the United States was even more secure than I had thought: so abundantly safe from danger that a person as clownishly wrong as Bolton can […]
FiveThirtyEight: I Guess This Makes Sense to Someone
Did Nate & Co. have any idea what was going on in the last presidential election? Am I the only one that doesn’t like the looks of this head scratcher? Maybe I’m missing something. But the financials? Is this a business? Read on. Benjamin Mullin reports on FiveThirtyEight’s move away from ESPN and to ABC […]
Trump vs. Clinton—5 State Presidential Lawn Sign Shocker
Originally posted September 12, 2016. Most Americans might agree that counting lawn signs supporting presidential contenders is not necessarily reliable in forecasting the outcome of a presidential election. Dick and I just returned from a five-day swing through heavily Democrat New England that produced a shocker in terms of candidate visibility, preference and enthusiasm. We […]
The F-35C is about to Extend its Deadly Reach
The U.S. Navy is reporting that the final developmental test was completed to integrate Raytheon’s Joint Standoff Weapon C (JSOW C-1) with the F-35 carrier variant, the F-35C. The deployment of the JSOW on the F-35C is on schedule for 2019. The F-35C with the JSOW will be able to eliminate the toughest ground targets […]
Meet a Long-Time Friend and Advisor: The Stissing, Mountain Man
You Might be a Mountain Man if… If you live on a mountain and regularly send pictures of nosy black bears sniffing around your front door and casually note in your email: “Had some visitors last night,” then, you might be a mountain man. Meet Tim Jones. He is: “The Stissing Mountain Man.” Tim Jones […]
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