Review: Liberty Defined–50 Essential Issues That Affect Our Freedom

Ron Paul Six Stars for Ron Paul’s Consistent Constitution–50 one liners, May 10, 2011 I have read and reviewed earlier books by Ron Paul, such as The Revolution: A Manifesto and A Foreign Policy of Freedom: Peace, Commerce, and Honest Friendship. This book moves into a higher class (only 10% of the books I read …

Secrecy News: ODNI Tools for Data Fusion & Analysis

ODNI DESCRIBES EMERGING TOOLS FOR DATA FUSION, ANALYSIS Several intelligence community initiatives to develop improved tools for data search, analysis and fusion were described in the latest report to Congress (pdf) from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence on data mining. A new program called DataSphere is intended “to aid in the discovery …

YouTube: Steele to Scowcroft at WW Center

Watch YouTube 1:53 comment Phi Beta Iota: As we contemplate the all too real likelihood that Leon Panetta lied to the President of the United States of America on behalf of the military-industrial complex, the urgency of effecting a Strategic Analytic Model capable of creating and assuring truth–creating public intelligence in the public interest–has never …

Arturo Valenzuela Quits–US Ignoring South

The head of the U.S. State Department’s Latin American and Caribbean will resign this summer. Arturo Valenzuela announced he will leave his post of Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs to return to Georgetown University, where he taught before his appointment by Barack Obama in 2009. The United States currently doesn’t have ambassadors …

Defense and the Deficit–Busting the Defense Bubble, Ending Defense Entitlement

Last Saturday’s issue of Barron’s ran a cover story on the deficit and their own take on how to address it.  In contrast to the recent recommendations from President Obama and the House Republicans, defense was actually “on the table,” not “at” it.  In the absence of any adult thinking on the deficit since the …