No true seeker of truth can oppose the fully free marketplace of ideas. For details of the hardheaded practical case, you can do no better than to consult chapter 2 of John Stuart Mill’s On Liberty. If you can’t spare the time to read this short chapter and book, here’s the money quote: “He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.”
Failure Feeding Failure is Not Program Optimization
"A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon, you're talking real money." (attributed to Senator Everett Dirksen, R-Ill) As most folks know, I am incredibly cynical about the US armed forces as an effective fighting platform but the submarine force is one of the few...