The Internet's vulnerability to attack has been exaggerated. In wartime, combatants often attempt to disrupt their enemies' supply systems, generally by blowing them up. Modern life is made possible by a set of tightly interconnected systems supplying us with electricity, water, natural gas, automobile fuels, sewage treatment, food, finance, telecommunications, and emergency response. All of ... MORERonald Bailey: Cyberwar is Harder Than It Looks
The Internet's vulnerability to attack has been exaggerated. In wartime, combatants often attempt to disrupt their enemies' supply systems, generally by blowing them up. Modern life is made possible by a set of tightly interconnected systems supplying us with electricity, water, natural gas, automobile fuels, sewage treatment, food, finance, telecommunications, and emergency response. All of ... MOREQuick: Someone Take Boehner To Atlas Shrugged
If you happen to be some congressional bureaucrat on the staff of the Speaker of the House and you are reading this, please kidnap your boss and take him to the nearest theatre playing Atlas Shrugged Part 1. Why, you ask? Because in the same week that unelected and unaccountable bureaucrats began their attempt to cost Boeing over a billion dollars and South Carolina a thousand jobs ... MOREThomas Sowell: The Trump Card
The boomlet for Donald Trump as a Republican nominee for President of the United States ought to be a wake-up call for Republican candidates and Republican Party leaders alike. Why has Trump surged ahead of other Republican candidates and potential candidates in the polls? It is not likely that his resurrection of the issue of Barack Obama's birth certificate has aroused all this support. ... MOREJohan Goldberg: Political Cooling On Global Warming
"What the heck went wrong?" That, apparently, is the question roiling the environmental community as it realizes that the fight against climate change has fizzled. As Brad Plumer writes in the New Republic, everything was looking great in 2008 for a sweeping effort to make good on candidate Barack Obama's pledge to start turning back the rising oceans. The Democrats held Congress. ... MOREWalter E Williams: Smugglers Are Heroes
Smugglers are heroes of sorts. The essence of what a smuggler offers is: "Government tyrants want to either prevent or interfere with peaceable voluntary exchange among individuals. I can reduce the impact of that interference." Let's look at smuggling, keeping in mind that not everything illegal is immoral and not everything legal is moral. Leading up to our War of Independence, the British, under the Navigation ... MOREFood Nazis: Two Fries Short Of A Happy Meal
by Ralph R. Reiland. Who would you guess is more likely to sue you, all other things being equal: Monet Parham-Lee or Margie Moore? Maybe I'm wrong, but I think it gets more shaky and volatile around people with exotic first names and hyphenated surnames. It probably has to do with their alienation from the dominant culture, and coming up with names that show they're not ... MOREMark Steyn: The Disappearing Dollar
Congressman Paul Ryan, one of the least insane men in Washington, has a ten-year plan. President Obama, one of the most insane spenders in Washington, has a twelve-year plan. After hearing the president’s plan, Standard & Poor’s downgraded the U.S. sovereign-debt outlook to “negative.” Ah, the fine art of understatement. In 1940, after the fall of France and the evacuation ... MOREVIDEO: Walter E Williams - Balanced Budget Amendment
Spendthrift politicians and runaway spending.
Is a balanced budget amendment the answer? Professor Williams looks at the situation.
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