Will Gary Johnson Debate? Will Gary Johnson make it to the debate stage? He needs 15% in the polls to make it. The Commission on Presidential Debates has told venues hosting debates to prepare for three podiums on stage. Johnson is within striking distance of participating in the debates.
Judging U.S Alliances
The National Interest explains how U.S. alliances should be judged: The United States stands at the center of a far flung global alliance system, which commits it to defend the security of countries rich and poor, great and small, liberal and illiberal. The principal U.S. formal alliances are the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, the U.S.-Japan […]
A Third Podium for Debates
Politico reports that venues scheduled to host the presidential debates are preparing for the possibility of three participants. The directive comes from producers working for the Commission on Presidential Debates and it’s meant, they say, to force the university hosts to be prepared and not as a reflection of the state of the race. But […]
The First and Second Amendments at Risk
From Thomas Sowell in National Review: The strongest argument — indeed, the only argument — for voting for Trump is Hillary Clinton. For both candidates, the danger is not simply that we might have one bad administration to live through. The far greater danger is that either of them can create an irretrievable catastrophe. With […]
Hackers Build First Ever Autonomous System to Find & Patch Software Vulnerabilities
It currently takes security specialists on average 312 days to discover software vulnerabilities. It can take weeks, months, and sometimes years for these vulnerabilities to be fixed across all exposed systems. That leaves plenty of time for malware, ransom-ware, and other malicious software to exploit these vulnerabilities and maximize damage. The Cyber Grand Challenge was designed to […]
Gary Johnson: Open Minded Good Guy
Many Americans will find a lot to like in the refreshing approach of a really good man who indeed cares about the fortunes of all Americans. Newsweek.com provides a candid look about what a proven conservative governor in a liberal state has to offer America. The Johnson approach is indeed a refreshing and invigorating approach […]
Money, Think Tanks, and Who’s Working for Whom?
Based on the reception to another New York Times piece about how money and power pass through Washington think tanks, everybody wants to believe that he’s losing the argument because of the other guy’s Evil, Nefarious Money. That might be true, but any particular big contribution or purported pay-for-play scheme doesn’t prove it. First of […]
Johnson/Weld Graded by Cato
Gary Johnson and Bill Weld received good grades from Cato when they were governors. Cato report cards are here. The best governors get an “A” and the worst get an “F.” The reports covering Johnson and Weld were written by Steve Moore and various coauthors. Here are Johnson’s grades, with a few notes from the […]
We cannot Become a Giant Gated Community?
Pat Buchanan, writing at americanconservative.com, deals with the views of Richard Haass and the neocon-centric Council on Foreign Relations. “Isolationists must not prevail in this new debate over foreign policy,” warns Richard Haass, president of the Council on Foreign Relations. To make his case against the “Isolationist Temptation,” Haass creates a caricature, a cartoon, of […]
Purge the Interventionists and Warmongers
Michael Scheuer spent his career at the CIA developing plans to make America safer. Dr. Scheuer, former chief of the CIA’s bin Laden unit, offers this plan for Donald Trump. The bottom line, at least for me, is that with the republic apparently in its economic death throes, Mr. Trump’s America First orientation – if […]