Remember the Building 18 scandal? No? Well refresh your memory here. We’re talking 2007, and the target is Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington. I remember the mouse droppings, belly-up cockroaches, Walter Reed horror story like it was yesterday, and I am not even a U.S. senator like John McCain or Bernie Sanders, the crack […]
The VA’s $151 Billion Tab
That is for this year alone! And the VA now has a case-processing backlog of a staggering 344,000! And just what benefits have been delivered to America by almost a decade and a half of Bush/Obama foreign entanglements? Sadly the outcome has been no different than was the case with Korea and Vietnam. And now […]
American Security Cornerstone?
President Obama, referring to Europe as a cornerstone of U.S. security, wants Congress to authorize a $1 billion slush fund for European security. I doubt Thomas Jefferson would have agreed with the president. Quite simply, we are decades past the time Europe should be funding its own defense. The president is using the catchy phrase […]
Post-War on Terror
Cato Institute Senior Fellow Chris Preble was interviewed by John Amble at warontherocks.com. America’s policy makers should read Chris’s answer to Amble’s question on what the next phase of U.S. counter-terrorism efforts should look like. Amble’s question is in bold, with Preble’s answer below. 3. The administration announced last week that 9,800 American troops will remain in Afghanistan […]
Obama’s Weak Tea
President Obama’s West Point foreign policy speech earned the president few new friends. The effort was largely directionless and lacking in foundation. Given that unpleasant introduction, here is Cato Institute’s Director of Foreign Policy Studies Chris Preble’s abridged take. ‘It was pretty weak tea, but not objectionable. There was more good than bad. I knocked […]
Thomas Picketty Blockbuster
No, not Picketty’s new book, but a Financial Times blockbuster report covering the integrity of Picketty’s data. In general I think little of Picketty’s economics, but if the Times is on track here, an actual junk science foundation will drop the Picketty book into the wastebasket of irrelevance. The New York Times summarizes here: Simple […]
“Our Freeloading Allies”
My friend, Cato Institute’s Chris Preble’s aptly titled post is both shocking and depressing. Americans are being played the sucker by our own government. You may have thought that your government was spending your tax dollars to subsidize the defense of wealthy nations around the world. But I bet you had no idea of the actual […]
Unstoppable: Ralph Nader
Ralph Nader has written a masterpiece on how to dismantle the corporate sate that has engulfed our Federal Republic. Every American, whether liberal, conservative or libertarian, will come away from a thorough reading of Unstoppable with new hope for the future of a Federal Republic form of government. Mr. Nader envisions an emerging left-right alliance […]
Rick Scott for Florida
I have met Governor Scott a couple of times at Cato Institute conclaves. Rick Scott came into office with the goal of helping to bring business to Florida. The governor has absolutely delivered on his promise and in the Florida gubernatorial race is the hands down choice against the insipid, party hopping Charlie Christ. As a […]
Death Penalty Due
My friend and Cato Institute Senior Fellow Dan Mitchell, offers three good reasons why the Department of Agriculture should get the death penalty. And Mitchell suggests that he would not be sorry if the Department of Housing and Urban Development went to the chopping block first. For my money, it is hard to know where […]
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