Yearly Archives: 2025

Compound Interest: Harnessing the Awesome Power While Slashing Risk and Opening Vast New Horizons

UPDATE 12.26.2025: This will be my course of action—or better yet, inaction—in 2026. Originally posted August 23, 2022. Back in 1964, I began a lifelong mission...

How Many Bureaucrats Are Essential

What is essential? Some might say, not the governing body that, as of today, allows the government’s debt held by the public this month to surpass $30 trillion. Total debt, not counting the much larger entitlement promises made by politicians into the indefinite future, is headed toward $38 trillion. Next, suggests the WSJ, try also to compute the much larger entitlement promises politicians pledge into the indefinite future.

USS Defiant: America’s Next-Generation Super-Battleship

The Trump administration has announced plans for the largest US surface combatant since World War II: the Trump-class battleship, beginning with two ships and...

China’s Arsenal Ship: Militarizing the World’s Largest Commercial Fleet

China, which owns the world’s largest commercial ship fleet and dominates global shipbuilding output, appears to have unveiled another provocative military concept this Christmas:...

US Air Force Selects PhantomStrike for Autonomous VISTA Aircraft

Raytheon (RTX) has received a US Air Force contract to equip the autonomous X-62A VISTA test aircraft with its PhantomStrike® radar. The compact, air-cooled...

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Happy Easter!

Happy Easter from Dick and Debbie in the Florida...

Former Prince Andrew Is First Epstein Associate Arrested

Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, formerly Prince Andrew, has been arrested in...

Elizabeth Warren’s Affordability

Originally posted January 15, 2026. A Fatal Conceit Why is affording...

RIP Rabbi Dov Fischer

In The American Spectator, Melissa Mackenzie eulogizes her friend...