Originally posted October 10, 2017. Over the weekend we were at our log cabin in New Hampshire. An article on the front page of the local paper, The Conway Daily Sun, caught my interest. It was about hiking safely in the White Mountains. According to the New Hampshire Fish and Game Department, hiker rescues were […]
Archives for May 2018
Thanks to John Bolton, Iran War Now More Likely
At The American Conservative, John Allen Gay writes that there were other options available to President Trump within the confines of the JCPOA (a.k.a. the Iran nuclear deal). Despite those alternatives, at the urging of John Bolton and the neocon crowd, President Trump has exited the JCPOA and consequently made a war with Iran more […]
No, President Trump, Obamacare Is Not Dead
In what could be described as a campaign-rally speech last week in Michigan, President Trump declared Obamacare dead. “Essentially, we are getting rid of Obamacare… . Some people would say, essentially, we have gotten rid of it.” Well not exactly, Mr. President. The Affordable Care Act is still with us, explains Michael Tanner at the […]
The Mormons Cut Ties with the Boy Scouts
With an ever increasing focus on political correctness as opposed to scouting, the Boy Scouts of America organization has pushed away one of its strongest allies, the Mormon church. Brady McCombs of the Associated Press reports: For more than a century, the Boy Scouts of America and the Mormon church formed an ideal pair as […]
The Truth About the Second Amendment
The DL | S1 E1: “The Truth About the Second Amendment”
John Bolton and the Iran Deal Blow Up
Now What? President Trump has pulled out of the Iran deal without offering Americans a detailed plan of how he will replace it. Since the Korean War, American foreign policy has specialized in getting thousands of American troops killed without offering a clear vision of what an end game should look like before entering ground […]
“Promises Made, Promises Kept.”
From John Burtka, Executive Director of The American Conservative: Since his inauguration, President Trump has touted the slogan “Promises Made, Promises Kept.” Earlier this afternoon, the president kept a longstanding promise by announcing his intention to pull the United States out of the Iran nuclear deal. Here at The American Conservative, our writers and editors seek to make sense […]
Is Neil Gorsuch to Blame for the Supreme Court’s Slow Pace?
Ilya Shapiro, The Cato Institute’s senior fellow in constitutional studies, writes that the court’s slow pace in decisions this Spring has less to do with its newest appointed justice, Neil Gorsuch, and more to do with the full slate of complicated decisions sitting before the court. Despite that, Shapiro says the decisions handed down thus […]
U.S. Navy’s New $12.9 Billion Dollar Carrier Has Second Failure
The Gerald. R. Ford, the U.S. Navy’s new state of the art nuclear aircraft carrier suffered what’s being called a “manufacturing defect” during its shakedown period. The defect was part of the carrier’s propulsion system, specifically the “main thrust bearing.” This appears to be the second time such a defect has affected the ship during […]
Iran’s Bomb Program: Terminated in 2003
In The American Conservative, Pat Buchanan says there is an obvious reason Iran is abiding by the JCPOA deal, for the Republic, it is a great deal. Iran terminated its bomb program in 2003, then 2015 negotiated for $100 billion of frozen assets by proving the country wasn’t doing what the U.S. intelligence community knew […]
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