US News Biden expresses his intent to keep the Jones Act in place. The law prevents foreign ships from picking up and delivering goods between American ports. The law harms the Hawaiian and Puerto Rican economies. [Link] The US sent three warships into the Black Sea....
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News Roundup 1/27/21
by Kyle Anzalone | Jan 27, 2021 | News Roundup
US News Former Secretary of State Pompeo will join the Hudson Institute. [Link] The Senate confirms Antony Blinken to be Secretary of State on a 78-22 vote. [Link] New evidence shows that higher-ranking members of the FBI - including Andrew McCabe - knew that Carter...
News Roundup 1/25/21
by Kyle Anzalone | Jan 25, 2021 | News Roundup
US News 5,000 National Guard soldiers will remain deployed in DC through mid-March to provide security during Trump’s impeachment. [Link] A cop beat a young man who was handcuffed and at the hospital for psychiatric help. [Link] A Washington police officer ran over a...
News Roundup 1/20/21
by Kyle Anzalone | Jan 20, 2021 | News Roundup
US News The US has filed an appeal in UK court in hopes to overturn a judge's decision not to extradite Assange to the US. [Link] In his final day in office, Trump failed to pardon Julian Assange or Edward Snowden. He did pardon Steve Bannon and Lil Wayne. [Link] The...
News Roundup 1/19/21
by Kyle Anzalone | Jan 19, 2021 | News Roundup
US News A top federal prosecutor walks back claims that there were “kill capture teams” at the Capitol on the 6th. [Link] Twitter suspends the account of Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene. [Link] Parler is back online. [Link] Biden proposes a new $1.9 trillion ‘relief...
Trump Brings Troop Levels in Afghanistan to Lowest in 19 Years
by Barbara Boland | Jan 16, 2021 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
The U.S. has reduced the number of U.S troops in Afghanistan to 2,500, the Pentagon announced Friday. President Donald Trump had promised in October to bring all remaining U.S. forces in Afghanistan back home by Christmas. “We should have the small remaining number of...
News Roundup 12/31/20
by Kyle Anzalone | Dec 31, 2020 | News Roundup
US News Two Kentucky police officers were fired over the murder of Breonna Taylor. The two officers who were fired are the officer who killed Taylor and the officer who lied to get the warrant needed for the night raid on Taylor’s apartment. [Link] The Department of...
12/22/20 Mark Perry: Lloyd Austin Isn’t Who You Think He Is
by Scott Horton | Dec 24, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show
Mark Perry talks about General Lloyd Austin, Biden's pick for Secretary of Defense. Austin is a military man through and through, but he isn't your run-of-the-mill war hawk, explains Perry—instead, Austin has shown himself to be a strong advocate for diplomacy and...
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Now They Figure It Out…
Too little and too late and once the smaller companies get Pentagon contracts, they will be destroyed in the Pentagon's Soviet acquisition system. “While the Armament Directorate remains committed to our highly-capable legacy products, we have become convinced that...
Language, Race, and Man
“Man belongs neither to his language nor to his race; he belongs to himself.” --Ernest Renan
The Frigate Follies Get Worse and Worse
Déjà vu, it's happening again. The surface navy failures manifested in the Littoral Combat Ship, the Zumwalt and the USS Ford will soon have another ship to add to that gallery of maritime incompetence that showcases the modern US Navy. I say again, construction...
Democracy and Free Stuff
Democracy: the matching up of people who want free stuff with politicians who promise free stuff. Problem: free stuff as they all imagine it does not exist. However, it does exist in the market, as explained by Frédéric Bastiat in Economic Harmonies, chapter 8,...
They Kept Sending Us Bombs…Anti-War Blog
As I saw the photos of US politician Nikki Haley scribbling on an Israeli shell bound for Rafah, it’s metal splinters and high explosives likely to rip a small child too pieces, it had me thinking. I once saw a clip of a US Air Force man who was asked why they were...
Frigate Failure Follies
I am currently doing a podcast series on what appears to be a droll subject but it is critical to getting big projects right. If you can't articulate and create a rational and effective Concept of Operations, you will fail. Th Navy never disappoints in failure lately....
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