Businesses have long known that cyber security is best achieved by hiring the hackers themselves. The same is true for the federal government, as described in the news story “How a teen hacker sentenced to 45-years in prison became a…
Author: Brad Ford
Off-the-Grid Survivalists Now Mainstream on Left and Right
Randomly stop for a minute next time you’re watching a local television news show. See how much of the broadcast is devoted to doomsday topics. Every night the new norm is reinforced again and again relating to homelessness, hunger,…
Ia Drang Valley 1965 and the Importance of Military Intelligence
Donald Trump will find that bringing manufacturing jobs back home will be easier than conducting foreign wars. Cheap goods from low-wage countries have been a godsend to the American consumer, but this cornucopia will crash when prices here reflect our worker demands for high…
Electoral College Needed If Voters Aren’t Really Free
Citizen voters in 18th-century America seem mythical and idealized by today’s standards. The country was small, cities were few, and towns were very rural. God-fearing farm families were the norm. Electing political representatives back then was perhaps…
Pence Must Have Foreseen Hamilton Ambush
Mike Pence’s sometimes role as a conservative “babe in the woods” successfully diversified the GOP toward national victory. His quiet, nice guy foil was just what candidate Trump needed to soften his attacks on the impregnable barrier of political correctness. …
GOP Has Finally Found Its Big Tent
Republicans had few defenses against the race and gender cards deployed by the Democratic Party. Defeat followed defeat until Donald Trump focused on groups of disenfranchised voters who had all but been written off. Rural people and rust belt workers…
America Needs Fewer Lawyers in Politics
“Year upon year we do nothing to govern our elite litigators, and the result at length is that they have decided to govern us,” writes Walter K. Olson in The Rule of Lawyers: How the New Litigation Elite Threatens America’s Rule…
Democratic Party Shame. Where Will the Buck Stop?
“Where the buck really stops!” by Dean Muehlberg Are Hilary Clinton and her associates as sleazy as human beings can be? Is the Pope Catholic? Do bears crap in the woods? I think honest cockroaches would even…
Trump Leads GOP. Will Paul Ryan Announce Breakaway Third Party?
The vibrancy of American politics is everywhere apparent in the 2016 presidential election. Republicans went to the polls in each state. There were lots of candidates to choose from. When all the campaign dust settled, however, it was Donald Trump…
$934 Billion Needed to Fix US Electric Grid
Americans have become now people, committed to short-term thinking and lifestyles, content with current comforts and routines. Most allow a few liberal media to tell them what opinions they should have. Living in a welfare state never felt better. …