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Category Archives: Defense
ROARR’s Guiding Principles (Part VI): Individual Rights Trump Communitarian Impulses
In Part I of this series, I argued a fundamental reason our government is broken is the political selection process favoring ideological warriors over pragmatic problem solvers. I introduced my “Funnel of Futility” theory: as ideology becomes increasingly important in … Continue reading
Posted in Blogging, Business, Clean Energy, Clean Tech, Climate Change, Defense, Education, Energy Security, Finance and Economics, Food Security, Healthcare, International Security, Leadership, Mathematics, Media, Peak Oil, Policy, Politics, Socialism, Taxes, Technology, Writing
Tagged Democrats, Reflections of a Rational Republican, Republicans, ROARR
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ROARR’s Guiding Principles (Part V): …But Government Has a Role in Mitigating Negative Externalities and Market Failures That Unencumbered Capitalism Can Generate
In Part I of this series, I argued a fundamental reason our government is broken is the political selection process favoring ideological warriors over pragmatic problem solvers. I introduced my “Funnel of Futility” theory: as ideology becomes increasingly important in … Continue reading
Posted in Blogging, Business, Clean Energy, Clean Tech, Climate Change, Defense, Education, Energy Security, Finance and Economics, Food Security, Healthcare, International Security, Leadership, Mathematics, Media, Peak Oil, Policy, Politics, Socialism, Taxes, Technology, Writing
Tagged Acid Rain, Cap-and-trade, Democrats, FDA, Reflections of a Rational Republican, Republicans, ROARR, TARP
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ROARR’s Guiding Principles (Part IV): Free Markets Are Preferable to Tightly Controlled Ones…
In Part I of this series, I argued a fundamental reason our government is broken is the political selection process favoring ideological warriors over pragmatic problem solvers. I introduced my “Funnel of Futility” theory: as ideology becomes increasingly important in … Continue reading
Posted in Blogging, Business, Clean Energy, Clean Tech, Climate Change, Defense, Education, Energy Security, Finance and Economics, Food Security, Healthcare, International Security, Leadership, Mathematics, Media, Peak Oil, Policy, Politics, Socialism, Taxes, Technology, Writing
Tagged Democrats, Reflections of a Rational Republican, Republicans, ROARR
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Covert Effort to Destroy Iran’s Nuclear Program Continues: Part II
On December 5th, I catalogued several incidents that occurred during the past two years, indicating that a covert war between the West (including Israel) and Iran was well underway. In recent days, several prominent American defense officials have begun signaling that the conflict … Continue reading
Posted in Defense, Energy Security, Finance and Economics, International Security, Middle East, Nuclear Power, Nuclear proliferation, Policy, Politics, Terrorism, War
Tagged Amir Mirzai Hekmati, Covert War, Fereydoun Abbasi, GCC, General Martin Dempsey, Gulf Cooperation Council, Iran, Iran's nuclear program, Isfahan, Leon Panetta, Majid Shahriari, Nuclear proliferation, Obama Administration, OPEC, UAE, United Arab Emirates
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Iran One Year Away from Assembling Nuclear Device
Tonight 60 Minutes aired an interview with U.S. Secretary of Defense, Leon Panetta. In that interview, the Secretary of Defense made several important and provocative statements. These statements include: The fact that there have been efforts to disrupt the Iranian nuclear program … Continue reading
Kim Jong Il Is Dead
North Korea’s Dear Leader apparently died on Saturday from fatigue during a train ride. His son, Kim Jong Un, will take over as leader of the country. While this development may seem like a positive one, there is likely to … Continue reading
Posted in Defense, Leadership, Nuclear Power, Nuclear proliferation, Policy, War
Tagged Dear Leader, DPRK, Kim Jong Il, Kim Jong Un, korean peninsula, North Korea
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American Stealth Drone Crashes in Iran
It seems Iranian claims that an American drone crashed on its territory are true. Not only was the drone in question an American one, but also it had highly sophisticated stealth technology. According to The New York Times, the drone crashed in Iran … Continue reading
Posted in Defense, Energy Security, Nuclear Power, Nuclear proliferation, Policy, Politics, Technology
Tagged CIA, Iran, RQ-170 Sentinel
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Predict the Future of Computing Technologies
Yesterday, The New York Times published an interesting application that allows readers to predict the future of various computing technologies. Readers can make their own predictions or change where others’ predictions fit into a future timeline. For what it is worth, you can … Continue reading
Posted in Clean Energy, Clean Tech, Defense, Energy Security, Mathematics, Media, Science, Technology, War
Tagged Computing, Technology, The New York Times
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Covert Effort to Destroy Iran’s Nuclear Program Continues
“Everything that [GOP presidential candidate] Mitt Romney said we should be doing–tough sanctions, covert action and pressuring the international community — are all of the things we are actually doing.” — unnamed senior Obama administration official In recent months there … Continue reading
Posted in Defense, Energy Security, Finance and Economics, International Security, Middle East, Nuclear Power, Nuclear proliferation, Policy, Politics, Terrorism, War
Tagged Covert War, David Sanger, Fereydoun Abbasi, Iran, Iran's nuclear program, Isfahan, Majid Shahriari, Nuclear proliferation, Obama Administration
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Islamists on Track to Win Egyptian Election
I predicted earlier this year that the Arab Spring would likely result in further Islamic radicalization of the Arab world. According to The New York Times, the “mainstream” Muslim Brotherhood has captured about forty percent of the Egyptian vote, based … Continue reading
Posted in Defense, Energy Security, International Security, Middle East, Policy, Politics, Predictions
Tagged Arab Spring, Ayman al-Zawahiri, Egypt, Islam, Islamists, Muslim Brotherhood
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Reflections of a Rational Republican 