With President Fox of Mexico: So, what do you think about bi-national health care? Ten years ago Governor Rick Perry spoke in south Texas at a border summit with Mexico. And what was on his agenda? One of the ideas
The Navys SEALs are looking to buy cameras and transmitters that can be placed on dogs. Here’s the solicitation on a federal website: Solicitation Number:H92244-11-T-0262Notice Type:Modification/AmendmentSynopsis:Added: Aug 25, 2011 12:11 pm Modified: Aug 26, 2011 12:42 pm Track ChangesThis is
Europe’s economic woes? It’s not a result of the welfare state, too much debt (or both.) No, it’s America’s fault. That’s the word from Laurence Parisot, the head of a very influential French organization, MEDEF, whose membership includes French captains
This is a very embarrassing event for the Chinese government: admission by a Chinese General that there are high-ranking spies in their government, and that they have been successful is sharing secrets with Taiwan and others in the West. There
Dick Cheney’s book is coming out and the former Veep has said it will have “heads exploding in Washington.” Colin Powell doesn’t think so. “My head isn’t exploding and I haven’t noticed any other heads exploding in Washington DC. It’s
It’s curious to me that no musical genius or industrialist was even near the top of the list. Politicians and philosophers dominate the choices. Of those listed here, how can you not pick Einstein first? From thelocal.de: Goethe the best?
There is a mad rush by Europeans to see who can line up lucrative contracts in Libya now that Gaddafi has effectively lost power. Two weeks ago a group of German executives boarded a military plane and flew to Libya
Conservatives in Germany are furious as Chancellor Angela Merkel commits the country to bailing out other countries in Europe who have been running up debts and living on borrowed money for years. Is this the beginning of Germany’s Tea….errr…Beer Party
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There are all sorts of opinions on that matter. And regardless of who makes up the Libyan opposition, the most organized groups are most likely to seize power. But here is some of what we know: –the rebel’s council (National
Are we ever going to see drug cartels operating in this country the way they do in Mexico? Insight Crime analyzes organized crime in Latin America and offers this interesting analysis of what lies ahead. (Note: Insight Crime is based
The shootdown of a Chinook helicopter by the Taliban, which killed 30 U.S. troops including 22 Navy SEALs is leading the U.S. Army Special Operations Command to push for faster helicopters. Army Rangers will get a better ride soon “One
Apparently their are “trust and confidence” issues when it comes to allowing robots to be used freely and frequently in the armed services. Some now want to fix that by giving robots a base of their own, so they can
This is not your typical exchange program. Members of the Marine Corps Forces Special Operations Command will soon be embedded with operators from other branches Marine special operators are going to begin spending three-year tours with the Navy SEALs, Green
The Christini dirt bike: not your typical motocross… According to the Kit Up! blog over at military.com, this dirt bike is getting high praise from special operators in Afghanistan. Apparently its blazing fast, rugged, and easy to repair in difficult
“With no end to the Second World War in sight, British spies came up with a plan to lace Adolf Hitler’s food with female sex hormones to curb his aggressive impulses. Agents planned to smuggle doses of oestrogen into his
Adam Lowther, a research professor at the Air Force Research Institute, thinks he knows how we can get the federal budget under control and dramatically cut defense spending–without compromising our security. His solution? Look to the past, namely President Eisenhower’s
A millionaire’s daughter, an organic chef, a law student, are profiles of just some of those arrested. So what do all those arrested have in common? No sense of right or wrong explains it better than the psychobabble about poverty,
Germany’s reliably left-leaning Der Spiegel ran a rather stunning article back in 1961, describing the sense of betrayal that Berliners felt because the West did nothing as the Berlin Wall was being constructed. It’s a reminder of what appeasement looks
Not too many of us… The answer, in short, is not very often. As Foreign Policy points out today, as of 2009 only 6,868 cops in all of England and Wales are even authorized to carry guns. Within London’s Metropolitan
The conservative newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung offers solid advice: Time to get tough? “Certainly talk will once again turn to the high unemployment rate among young people, their social exclusion and lack of opportunity. These are the catch phrases always
There’s an interesting theory circulating out there: the riots in the UK are actually the result of a shortage of illegal drugs. The British police have been so successful at clamping down on the drug trade that drug gangs and
The foreign media (particularly in Europe) has always been supportive of Obama. Along with overheated rhetoric about how he was going to unite America, there was always the underlying tone that by replacing George W. Bush, the adults were now
