US News The Mississippi Supreme Court denies a retrial for a man sentenced to 12 years for having a cell phone in jail. The man only had his cell phone because the police didn’t take it as they were booking him, and he asked his jailer to charge his cell phone. [Link]...
Libya
America, We Have To End the Wars Now
by Scott Horton | Apr 2, 2020 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Scott Horton
The Coronavirus Crisis Makes It Clear Can anyone think what our society might have spent six and a half trillion dollars on instead of 20 years of war in the Middle East for nothing? How about the trillion dollars per year we keep spending on the military on top of...
News Roundup 4/2/20
by Kyle Anzalone | Apr 2, 2020 | News Roundup
US News The US will allow the sailors on the USS T Roosevelt to quarantine sick sailors in Guam. The Captain of the aircraft carrier wrote a letter warning about a catastrophic situation on the ship as he was unable to stop the spread of coronavirus. [Link] Trump...
News Roundup 3/25/20
by Kyle Anzalone | Mar 25, 2020 | News Roundup
US News Colorado abolishes the death penalty. The governor also reduced the sentences of the last three remaining death row inmates to life in prison without parole. [Link] A commission examining if the US should include women in the draft or abolish it reached the...
News Roundup 3/20/20
by Kyle Anzalone | Mar 20, 2020 | News Roundup
US News Tulsi Gabbard suspends her presidential campaign as she prepares to deploy with the National Guard. [Link] The top prosecutor in Baltimore will drop most drug charges due to the coronavirus. [Link] A new Bill - EARN IT - will give the president broad...
The Deadly Cocktail of Coronavirus and Sanctions
by Kyle Anzalone | Mar 20, 2020 | Conflicts of Interest
On FPF #467, I discuss the deaths caused by coronavirus and US sanctions in Iran. The country has been one of the hardest hit by the outbreak so far and continues to struggle to import medical supplies due to the US sanctions. North Korean and Venezuela are in a...
News Roundup 3/12/20
by Kyle Anzalone | Mar 12, 2020 | News Roundup
US News Trump issues an order that halts flights from Europe starting on Thursday. Trump issued several other orders to fight the coronavirus. He instructed the Treasury Department to defer tax payments without penalty. He also announced the federal government will...
News Roundup 3/10/20
by Kyle Anzalone | Mar 10, 2020 | Conflicts of Interest
US News After a court ruling, Trump will deploy an additional 160 active-duty troops to the southern border. [Link]Schools are increasingly surveilling students with microphones and facial recognition. [Link]A new body camera for police has live facial recognition...
Blog
The Navy Adrift [Again]: Failure Cascades in the DDG(X)
Another incipient program doomed to failure, cost ballooning, massive incompetence and buyer's remorse. The program should be stopped immediately and every flag officer currently serving fired, the Department of the Navy SES structure gutted and cashiered and blow the...
Memo to DOGE: A Good Start
Memo to DOGE: Fire all 8,222 Federal Senior Executive Service (SES) employees. Rehire if needed as Limited Term appointments only as defined under 5 U.S.C. 3132 (a)(5): limited term appointee means an individual appointed under a nonrenewable appointment for a term of...
Will Mike Waltz’s Ukraine Strategy LEAD TO DISASTER? New Episode of the Kyle Anzalone Show
Ukraine’s Future on the Frontlines: Mike Waltz to Send Ukraine's Youth to Slaughterhouse Will Mike Waltz's Ukraine Strategy LEAD TO DISASTER? In this episode of The Kyle Anzalone Show, Kyle dives into the shocking remarks made by Congressman Mike Waltz, calling for...
Carrier Follies on Parade (Again)
Fact is more hilarious than fiction now. USS Repulse and USS Prince of Wales would be more appropriate names for these missile sponges and future fish apartments. The sinking of Prince of Wales and Repulse by Japanese naval aviation was a naval engagement in World War...
Production Is Spiritual, Not Material
"Production is not an act of creation; it does not bring about something that did not exist before. It is a transformation of given elements through arrangement and combination. The producer is not a creator. Man is creative only in thinking and in the realm of...
NGIA, Please
Employees will start moving into new $1.7B NGA HQ in St. Louis, MO in Fall 2025. In other news, it’s a good thing the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency wasn’t called the National Intelligence-Geospatial Agency... Please. The budget is classified of course but...
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