Syracuse.com tells readers: Johnson, 63, was twice elected governor of New Mexico as a Republican, serving from 1995 to 2003. He boasts that he cut taxes 14 times, balanced the state’s budget and left office with a billion-dollar surplus. The Libertarian Cato Institute gave him a fiscal policy grade of “B” in 2002. Libertarians believe […]
Cato Institute’s Doug Bandow on Defending America
Doug explains to readers: Alliances should be a means to an end. Their purpose is to increase American security. They aren’t particularly useful where there’s no significant threat to the U.S., Washington can easily deter any significant adversary on its own. Russia’s Vladimir Putin is a nasty fellow, but he has demonstrated no interest in […]
United States: Umpire to the World?
My friend, Christopher A. Preble, vice president for defense and foreign policy studies at the Cato Institute, explains to readers at nationalinterest.org that “umpires don’t play the game. They don’t swing the bats or throw the balls.” It was never realistic to think that a single country, even one as great and powerful as the […]
Gary Johnson on Education
On The Issues offers insights on presidential candidate Gary Johnson’s views on education. No student loans; they cause higher tuition: Q: How would your plans for education include student loans and grants? JOHNSON: My plans don’t include doing anything when it comes to student loans. The reason for the higher cost in higher education rests […]
The Hillary Clinton, Huma Abedin Connection
Vanity Fair takes an in depth look: Google Abdullah Omar Nasseef, the man who set up the Abedins in Jidda, and a host of right-wing screeds pop up. Though he is a high-ranking insider in the Saudi government and sits on the king’s Shura Council, there are claims that Nasseef once had ties to Osama […]
Michael Scheuer’s Sage Advice to Trump!
Former CIA bin Laden chief offers some overdue strategic advice to Donald Trump: Mr. Trump, you have fallen into a snare placed for you by the Republican establishment people on your team, most of the media, and by Hillary Clinton and her advisers. Mr. Trump, THIS IS REPUBLIC KILLING BULLSHIT!!! Clear, commonsense, patriotic, and non-complex […]
America—All In with Trump
Pat Buchanan, writing at americanconservative.com, tells readers that on the main issues—Americanism and avoiding nation-building abroad—“America is all in with Trump.” Trump believes populism and nationalism are the future of America, and wants to keep saying so. Nor is this stance inconsistent with recapturing the ground lost in the weeks since he was running even […]
Trumps State-of-the-Art Counterterrorism Knowledge
Dr. Cheryl Benard was program director of the Initiative for Middle Eastern Youth and the Alternative Strategies Initiative within the RAND Corporation’s National Security Research Division. Writing at The National Interest, Dr. Benard examines Donald Trump’s recent foreign policy statement. I have worked on the issues central to this speech – immigration, integration, youth radicalization, […]
Washington: “The Savage Stalemate of Trench Warfare”
The American Conservative’s Rob Dreher looks at Yuval Levin’s new book about our “Fractured Republic.” Rob tells his readers: He (Levin) makes a strong, data-driven case that by every measure, America today is a less cohesive nation than it was in the immediate postwar era. We are politically more polarized, economically more unequal; socially atomized, […]
Gary Johnson’s Foreign Policy Big 4!
ON the Issues lays out former New Mexico governor Gary Johnson’s Big 4! We can no longer afford to shell out billions in foreign aid No foreign aid spending unless it protects U.S. interests Flights to Cuba ok; trade promotes friendship Act in US self-interest, but wary of unintended consequences Clearly the majority of Americans […]
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