Archive for April 6th, 2009

Apr 06 2009

The Obama Defense Budget Makes A Lot Of Sense – Updated

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The outline of the new DoD budget priorities by the Obama administration is very, very good. The knee-jerk far right will find some marginal issues to moan about – because every large federal plan has marginal issues someone will moan about. But the fact is there is a lot of good stuff in this plan. […]

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Apr 06 2009

When Politicians Play Scientist

Al Gore, the doomsayer of Global Warming, has nothing on the Mayor of L’Aquila who decided he knew more than a certain scientist. A scientist who predicted a deadly earthquake was imminent. A scientist who was outside the ‘consensus’ bubble of other scientists feeding from the government’s trough. The Mayor knew more, and at least 100 […]

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Apr 06 2009

Stop The Presses: The Old News Media Is Going Extinct – Updated

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Updates at End Sometimes it takes years to see your predictions come true. Working for the federal government on large projects I am sort of used to that characteristic of things, but does take patience to actually have to wait years to see the dominoes slowly fall, one by one. Back in May of 2005, […]

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