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Archives for August 2016

Germans Stockpiling Food and Water—Why?

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The Telegraph reports that Germany plans to tell its citizens to stockpile food and water in case of an attack or catastrophe for the first time since the end of the Cold War. According to details leaked to the German press they include advice to citizens to stockpile enough food for ten days and clean […]

4 Reasons to Like Gary Johnson!

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Syracuse.com tells readers: Johnson, 63, was twice elected governor of New Mexico as a Republican, serving from 1995 to 2003. He boasts that he cut taxes 14 times, balanced the state’s budget and left office with a billion-dollar surplus. The Libertarian Cato Institute gave him a fiscal policy grade of “B” in 2002. Libertarians believe […]

Cato Institute’s Doug Bandow on Defending America

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Doug explains to readers: Alliances should be a means to an end. Their purpose is to increase American security. They aren’t particularly useful where there’s no significant threat to the U.S., Washington can easily deter any significant adversary on its own. Russia’s Vladimir Putin is a nasty fellow, but he has demonstrated no interest in […]

Don’t Voters Deserve More?

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The way it looks now, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, the two most disliked presidential nominees since favorability polls began, are going to be the only participants in the upcoming debates. Even though the petition to include Gary Johnson, the Libertarian Party’s nominee, in the presidential debates has received almost 600,000 online signatures, the Commission […]

U.S. Military Seeking Protection Against Flying IED’s & Attack Drones

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Source: DARPA The rapid evolution of small unmanned air systems (sUAS) technologies is fueling the exponential growth of the commercial drone sector, creating new asymmetric threats for warfighters. sUASs’ size and low cost enable novel concepts of employment that present challenges to current defense systems. These emerging irregular systems and concepts of operations in diverse environments […]

United States: Umpire to the World?

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My friend, Christopher A. Preble, vice president for defense and foreign policy studies at the Cato Institute, explains to readers at nationalinterest.org that “umpires don’t play the game. They don’t swing the bats or throw the balls.” It was never realistic to think that a single country, even one as great and powerful as the […]

Colin Powell Made Me Do It

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Yes, Collin Powell, former U.S. general, did use a private email while he was Secretary of State, but it was at a time when the State Department did not have its own secure server. Now Hillary Clinton’s latest excuse for her notorious use of a private server is that Powell made her do it. According […]