The Long-Lead Time Planning For Mandated Failure

    According to President Obama, we have tried his plan in America and it has worked! Don’t say that to employees in either the defense or the coal industry. President Obama’s plans are about to go to work on both on these industries and that apparently implies that a whole lot of jobs won’t be getting created or saved. Changing scale in capital intensive industries requires | Read More »

    Doug Mataconis Repeats Dean Acheson’s Folly

    The self-infatuated Doug Mataconis has lined up in predictable “Conservative” support for Barack Obama’s suggestion that we balance the budget by cutting defense. He offers up three fatuous arguments below. 1.There is no nation on the planet that poses a real threat to the United States in the way that the USSR during the Cold War….That’s not to say that there aren’t threats out there, | Read More »

    The Trend Driving The Coming Trainwreck (The Calculus of Coming Government Financial Meltdown.)

    “You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you.” – Leon Trotsky (HT: Mike Rosen, Denver Post) The Tea Party Movement arose in large extent over the growing concern that American Government was costing more than what our nation could ultimately afford. A lot of blame was placed on ObamaCare and wastrel Congressional majorities populated by the sycophantic, rubber stamp legislators | Read More »

    Defining Country First

    John McCain succeeded far beyond our expectations of the man. He hosted a rousing GOP Convention with the theme “Country First”. While Sarah Palin absolutely dominated the news coverage, John McCain’s message of selfless service did tug the heart strings during the last third of his acceptance speech. “Country First” puts pressure on Senator McCain. It demands that he define that concept in the tangled, | Read More »