The Cato Institute’s Dan Mitchell writes that Alejandro Andrade, the former treasury minister of socialist Venezuela, was discovered to have $11.2 billion in his name. And it’s not just Mr. Andrade: The daughter of Hugo Chavez, the former president who once declared “being rich is bad,” may be the wealthiest woman in Venezuela, according to […]
National Defense Panel (NDP) War Hawks
Niskanen Center’s Matt Fay unmasks the National Defense Panel (NDP). Matt explains that while the NDP “has a veneer of bipartisanship, it is stacked with hawks from both parties—including its supporting staff.” From the Army War College’s Christopher Bolan: “[A]ll of these members reflect the elite intellectual consensus that American interests can only be served […]
Defenseless in America, Part I
Today’s presidential candidates, in large measure, are trotting out the old failed and forlorn message of the original Defense Planning Guidance (DPG) drafted by Paul Wolfowitz, Scooter Libby, and Zalmay Khalilzad back in late 1992. This document, as described in The Strategist, “spelled out how the United States should behave if it wanted to dominate […]
Catching up with Dion
Talking with Marc Myers from The Wall Street Journal, Dion Dimucci reveals how his parents’ fighting saved his life. My father, Pasquale, was like Tarzan, except we lived in the Bronx. He never had a real job, but he could walk a block on his hands and climb trees effortlessly. When he and my mom […]
CRASH!
Early last June here’s how I led off a special three-part Intelligence Report series to subscribers: “In recent issues my goal has been to work especially hard at providing you intelligence that will keep you safe and dividend-centric during what I consider the inevitable coming meltdown.” Meltdown? Absolutely baked in to the cake as I […]
“The War Party” Wants More
Niskanen Center’s Matt Fay tells readers “As we write in our piece today, this entails More Troops. More ships. And ultimately more spending.” Matt continues, “Our military’s challenges right now have less to do with how much it spends, but how it spends. The Pentagon remains the only federal entity that has not passed a financial audit. Meanwhile, the […]
Pass the Iran Nuclear Deal
Here former National Security Advisor Brent Scowcroft urges Congress to support the Iran nuclear deal. Scowcroft writes in the Washington Post’s Sunday edition, “If the United States could have handed Iran a “take it or leave it” agreement, the terms doubtless would have been more onerous on Iran. But negotiated agreements, the only ones that […]
Men with Guns
Cato Institute’s Dan Mitchell writes here about Bernie Sanders and about Europe being a roll model for the United States. Is greed and the lust for money what’s wrong with the United States? Bernie Sanders, Vermont’s pseudo-socialist senator, thinks that America can learn from Europe. He’s right. But he’s also wrong. That’s because he thinks […]
The Purpose of American Power
The National Interest asked 25 world experts what the purpose of American power is. Leslie H. Gelb, president emeritus of the Council on Foreign Relations, responds here: Extremists on the left and right have always had their say, but there was usually enough strength in the center to put together viable policies at critical junctures. […]
“Refugees, Asylum Seekers and Illegal Immigrants”
Pat Buchanan writes that the issue of who we allow into “our home” is “the issue of the 21st century and certainly has become the issue of 2016.” Pat tells readers that illegals are not just America’s #1 problem, but Europe’s as well. “Refugees, asylum seekers and illegal immigrants are not going to stop coming […]
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