Liberty
Splitting up Homeland Security funding
Editors at National Review Online ponder funding for the federal Department of Homeland Security. And to think, Congress was just about to look competent. For the first time in decades,…
United States Coast Guard
security and rescue military service branch for U.S. waters
Liberty
Military sees recruiting surge
Editors at National Review Online assess good news for the American military. As recently as 2022, the United States Army shipped off to basic training only two-thirds of the new…
Liberty
Probing Public Concern Over Mysterious Drone Sightings
Jim Geraghty of National Review Online explores reaction to multiple unexplained drone sightings on the East Coast. I suspect a major reason that many people are concerned about these drone…
Liberty
Labeling Buttigieg a Partisan Hack
Dominic Pino of National Review Online critiques the U.S. transportation secretary. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg had some thoughts on the Baltimore bridge collapse. … … “Today this is happening…
Research Brief
Energy
Offshore Wind Turbines Severely Interfere with Marine Vessel Radar and Endanger Mariners
In 2022 a major report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine warned that enormous wind turbines severely affect the marine vessel radar (MVR) used for navigating waterways…
Research Brief
Energy
Offshore Wind Projects Off Brunswick County Beaches Also Imperil Military Training and Operations
Wind projects off Brunswick County beaches would also interfere with military training and operations, including airspace used daily by the 169th Fighter Wing out of South Carolina. The Wilmington East…
Liberty
Buttigieg’s Personal Travel Faces Official DOT Review
Ari Blaff writes for National Review Online about another piece of bad news for the U.S. transportation secretary. The Department of Transportation (DOT) announced on Monday afternoon that it will…
Law & Public Safety
Meanwhile on the Outer Banks…
Per the Virginian Pilot, this happened earlier this week: An abandoned makeshift boat that may have carried Cuban refugees washed ashore in Avon Tuesday afternoon. The boat made of metal…
Liberty
Who doesn’t need guns? A lot of government agencies
Adam Adrzejewski and Thomas Smith of Open the Books examine the militarization of federal agencies that have little apparent relationship to law enforcement. Sixty-seven non-military federal agencies spent $1.48 billion…
Elections & Public Integrity
National Review column labels Trump ‘global bully’
Ian Tuttle of National Review Online examines Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump’s record on the international stage. Donald Trump is not content to bully the residents of just one continent,…
Elections & Public Integrity
Dispatches from the trail, October 28, 2015
• Burying the lede, the Democratic firm Public Policy Polling shouts, “Hillary’s Back!” while also noting that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton still loses to most Republicans in their…
Liberty
What’s going on with Homeland Security funding?
Congress has until the end of this week to take action to prevent a funding lapse and partial shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), which would affect the…