Unlike the public sector, the private sector is bred for efficiency. Left to its own devices, it will always find the means to provide services faster, cheaper, and more effectively than will governments. – James Jay Carafano, Private Sector, Public Wars I suspect the vast majority of Americans would agree with Mr. Carafano. They probably [...]
Co-authored by Lt. Gen. Norman R. Seip (USAF-RET.) Osama bin Laden is gone, but in the nearly 10 years since his attack on our country, the primary threat to our economic and national security — our dependence on foreign fuel — remains. Rather than embracing rational energy policy to advance innovative solutions to our energy [...]
Today, the same politicians in the House of Representatives who claimed that tax cuts for the wealthy would “pay for themselves” are insisting we take them seriously as they try to balance the budget. Their plan? To end Medicare as we know it, and other gimmicks like cutting basic health care for women. Montanans and [...]
Not long ago there was an article in The New York Times about soldiers looking to have atheist military chaplains in the armed forces. An atheist chaplain? Isn’t that a contradiction in terms? And come to think of it, what does a military chaplain do anyway? “It’s a tremendous opportunity to portray the generosity of [...]
Crossposted with TomDispatch.com Objective reporting on the SEAL team that killed bin Laden was as easy to find as a Prius at a Michele Bachmann rally. The media simply couldn’t help themselves. They couldn’t stop spooning out man-sized helpings of testosterone — the SEALs’ phallic weapons, their frat-house, haze-worthy training, their romance-novel bravado, their sweaty, [...]
In its latest attempt to give the appearance of concern about complaints of religious intolerance, the U.S. Air Force Academy (USAFA) recently conducted a five-day “investigation” that (big surprise) found that there were no problems at all, save for the occasional minor incident that could always be resolved at the lowest level. Heading the investigation [...]
From Rice to Rove, former Bush administration officials were all over the airways this past weekend, touting their regime’s choice of war — strategically, tactically, semantically — as a means of avenging the deaths of almost 3,000 Americans and foreign nationals in the 9/11 attacks. And, incredibly, as a method to locate and bring to [...]
After 10 long years, the national conversation on the war in Afghanistan has changed significantly. And now, the hunt for Osama bin Laden, used for years to justify the war, is over. The official reasons for continuing the war are disappearing each day. The threat of al Qaeda in Afghanistan has significantly weakened. Many people [...]
When we hear about the deficits we hear a lot of scare stories, which most “serious” media just echo and amplify. The prevailing “serious” narrative we hear is that we must cut entitlements — any “serious” budget proposal cuts Medicare and Social Security. Even though they just extended tax cuts for the rich the deficits [...]
Remember all the talk of a peace dividend at the end of the Cold War? Seems like a long time ago, doesn’t it? Since that time, U.S. defense spending has ballooned, nearly doubling since 2001. Now that Osama bin Laden is dead, it will be hard for the war hawks to defend keeping American troops [...]
