by Dave Patterson | Dec 22, 2022 | Articles, Good Reads, Military Affairs, Opinion
President Biden dithered signing the FY2023 NDAA (National Defense Authorization Act). Nonetheless, the new bill puts the authorization language in place for spending $847 billion on defense. The top line is $45 billion, or 13%, more than the administration requested....
by Andrew Moran | Dec 18, 2022 | Articles, Economic Affairs News, Opinion
President Joe Biden plans to add three million barrels to the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) after wiping out more than 40% of the nation’s emergency oil supplies. As a result, the country’s stocks now stand at their lowest levels since January 1984, totaling a...
by Graham J Noble | Dec 18, 2022 | Articles, Opinion, Politics
They said he was done, a has-been, a loser who refused to accept defeat. Democrats have said a lot of those kinds of things about former President Donald Trump but it was always amusingly evident that what lies just beneath their bravado was the sheer terror that he...
by Mark Angelides | Dec 17, 2022 | Articles, Opinion, Politics
Passing unremarked this week were two extensions of states of emergency by the President of the United States. On December 12, Joe Biden published notices in the federal register informing Congress that both the National Emergency on Human Rights Abuse and Corruption...
by Dave Patterson | Dec 15, 2022 | Articles, Opinion, Politics
In a move totally out of touch with what is happening in the world, President Joe Biden’s Department of Energy (DOE) provided a $200 million grant to a Texas-based battery technology company that generates most of its revenue in China. The trend in the United States...