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 […]
Top 10 Political Books #1: The Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States of America
We’re counting down the top 10 political books. These books should be required reading for all. Number 1: The Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States of America, by Roger Pilon Amazon: To encourage people everywhere to better understand and appreciate the principles of government that are set forth in America’s founding documents, the […]
Top 10 Political Books #2: The Federalist Papers
We’re counting down the top 10 political books. These books should be required reading for all. Number 2: The Federalist Papers, by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay Amazon: A series of eighty-five essays written by Alexander The classic defense of the American system of government. A series of essays written by the founding fathers Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, […]
Don’t Forget to Turn the Lights Off Before You Leave
Visitors of the Bureau of Economic Analysis homepage today were puzzled to find that before staffers had gone home for the government shutdown, they actually shut down the BEA web site. Below is a picture of what you will find if you visit the site with Internet Explorer. Google Chrome returns a message that reads […]
Top 10 Political Books #3: Common Sense
We’re counting down the top 10 political books. These books should be required reading for all. Number 3: Common Sense, Thomas Paine Amazon: The most incendiary and popular pamphlet of the entire revolutionary era”. COMMON SENSE is a pamphlet written by Thomas Paine. It was first published anonymously on January 10, 1776, at the beginning of […]
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