SEPTEMBER 15, 2011 ‘Geriatric’ U.S. Arsenal Needs Expensive Face-Lift By NATHAN HODGE When Lt. David A. Deptula II, an Air Force pilot, climbed into his fighter plane at Kadena Air Force Base in Japan in 2008, it wasn’t the first time a pilot named David Deptula had been at the controls. Lt. Deptula’s father flew
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Crony capitalism lurked in the shadows of this solar-panel bust By David A. Keene- The Washington Times Tuesday, September 6, 2011 Illustration by William Brown Last week, the Obama administration’s Department of Energy announced it is extending an $852 million loan guarantee to something called the Genesis Solar Project in California. Genesis, according to Energy
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SEPTEMBER 7, 2011 Al Gore won’t hear it, but heavenly bodies might be driving long-term weather trends. By ANNE JOLIS In April 1990, Al Gore published an open letter in the New York Times “To Skeptics on Global Warming” in which he compared them to medieval flat-Earthers. He soon became vice president and his conviction
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August 27, 2011 By Jed Babbin Jed Babbin served as a deputy undersecretary of defense under George H.W. Bush. EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE:It is in these areas – cyberwar and anti-satellite weapons, among others — that American economic weakness may be having the greatest effect. As one source told me, the Pentagon is enormously concerned
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AUGUST 24, 2011 Two advanced Su-27 fighters recently chased an American reconnaissance plane over the Taiwan Strait. By MICHAEL AUSLIN China watchers have been fixated on the maiden voyage of Beijing’s first aircraft carrier this month. However, U.S. and Asian defense planners should take care not to ignore another aspect of China’s growing military might.
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WASHINGTON POST By George F. Will, Published: August 17 LONDON During the Second World War, a future prime minister, Harold Macmillan, said America is “the new Roman empire and we Britons, like the Greeks of old, must teach them how to make it go.” How goes the tutoring of Rome by Athens? We are in the
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AUGUST 16, 2011 Ruby Red Tape A case study in the costs of regulation, from Opal to Oregon. The abstraction known as “regulation” is often invoked as a reason businesses aren’t growing or hiring fast enough, and with good reason. Anyone wondering what that means in practice should consult the epic saga of the Ruby
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AUGUST 18, 2011 By RUSSELL GOLD Exxon Mobil Corp. is fighting with the U.S. government to keep control of one of its biggest oil discoveries ever, in a showdown where billions of dollars hang in the balance for both sides. The massive Gulf of Mexico discovery contains an estimated one billion barrels of recoverable oil,
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