Tacit tolerance of sexual assault severely damages the morale and resilience of individual service members. It also threatens more than individuals: It undermines readiness and mobilization capacity and, ultimately, our national security...
...[N]ot dealing now with at least part of the entitlement spending problem is definitely bad policy and it might wind up creating major political problems for whichever party wins the presidency in 2012...
In the last two years, we have a heard a constant litany of “decline,” as in America is over as it once was...It really is a state of mind — the choice not to brush off opportunistic rust from hard steel after a very brief rain...
Yesterday, President Obama released a new report on America’s Great Outdoors initiative—yet another White House proposal to expand the size and scope of government...
by Liam Julianvia Flypaper (Fordham Education Blog)
Thursday, February 17, 2011
Texans ought to take a look at Fordham’s recent assessment of their state’s history standards, which, according to the “State of State U.S. History Standards 2011,” “inculcate biblical principles, patriotic values, and American Exceptionalism...”
Constant chatter about the declining value of the U.S. dollar combined with talk of diversification into euros, Japanese yen, Aussie dollars, Canadian dollars, Swiss francs, and Chinese yuan suggest that it might be fun to look at the amount of currency in circulation in these countries...
by Charles Blahousvia e21, Economic Policies for the 21st Century
Wednesday, February 16, 2011
Few have been discussing the fact that last year’s health care law will increase gross federal debt and thus accelerate the speed at which we will approach the statutory debt limit in the future...
