REDSTONE ARSENAL, Ala., Oct. 23, 2013 — Raytheon Company (NYSE: RTN) successfully completed an initial round of live-fire testing with a new U.S. Marine Corps Light Armored Vehicle Anti-Tank (LAV-AT) weapon system. The upgraded, highly mobile, anti-armor LAV-AT weapon system is designed to protect reconnaissance and light infantry. Its mission is to defeat threats at long-range, […]
“You can Keep Your Insurance”
Anna Gorman and Julie Appleby at Kaiser Health News report that thousands of Floridians are losing their health coverage because of new regulations rolling out as part of Obamacare. An estimated 14 million people purchase their own coverage because they don’t get it through their jobs. Calls to insurers in several states showed that many […]
VIDEO: Time’s Up for Sebelius
Sebelius on the Obamacare website mess: “It could be smoother, easier to access”
Obamacare Destined to Destabilize Healthcare System
The Washington Post‘s Michael Gerson explains what, from his point of view, is wrong with Obamacare. Obamacare is not primarily an entitlement program. The entitlement component — the exchange subsidies — will involve about 2 percent of Americans during the first year. (Others will be added to Medicaid, which has been around since 1965.) About 20 million […]
Boehner slams ObamaCare after other GOP leaders sidestep it (Video)
Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) on Wednesday criticized the first week of ObamaCare as a system that threatens to fine people for failing to buy health insurance on websites that don’t work. “How can we tax people for not buying a product from a website that doesn’t work?” he asked on the House floor.
The Phony Shutdown Crisis
Mark Steyn lays out just how ridiculous the government shutdown is when its most famous effects are things like shutting down the PandaCam. This week’s “shutdown” of government, for example, suffers (at least for those of us curious to see it reduced to Somali levels) from the awkward fact that the overwhelming majority of the […]
New Solara Drone Has 5 Year Flight Endurance
In Washington D.C., at the AUVSI show, Titan Aerospace unveiled the SOLARA atmospheric satellite, a High Altitude Long Endurance solar atmospheric satellite capable of carrying telecom, reconnaissance, atmospheric sensors and other payloads. It has a 164 ft / 50 m wingspan and thousands of high efficiency solar cells, the SOLARA is capable of staying aloft for […]
Planes Roll Off Assembly Line and into Retirement
A dozen barely used C-27J Spartans have been mothballed at the “boneyard” of American aircraft, Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Tuscon, Arizona. The federal government is now trying to find a use for the planes that no one in the Air Force wanted, and taxpayers shouldn’t have been asked to pay for. Cronyism and pork barreling […]
Here is a Personal Security Travesty
Don’t think for a minute that encryption or private networks keep your communications safe from the prying eyes of the NSA or the FBI. As can be seen in the case of Ladar Levison, your privacy rests solely in the hands of the people with whom you do business. The New York Times reports: While […]
Are Democrats “Winning” the Shutdown?
Andrew Stiles at National Review calls into question whether or not Democrats have the upper hand in the shutdown battle. An anonymous White House aide recently boasted, “It doesn’t really matter to us” how long it lasts, because “we are winning.” But one wonders how long that ruse will last, as the president, whose approval rating […]
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