The United States Strategic National Stockpile of essential medical supplies maintained by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, seems unable to respond to the present COVID-19 crisis. There is much discussion in today’s news about who is responsible for...
On April 4, 2020, my friend Steve Kelly will begin a third year of imprisonment in Georgia’s Glynn County jail. He turned 70 while in prison, and while he has served multiple prison sentences for protesting nuclear weapons, spending two years in a county jail is...
Rodney Howard-Browne, pastor of The River church in Tampa, Florida, strongly believes that God wants his church to continue holding live services for hundreds of parishioners even in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic.Hillsborough County sheriff Chad Chronister and...
Originally appeared at The American Conservative.The backlash to the Navy’s punishment of Capt. Crozier has been intense, and some influential members of Congress are denouncing the decision to relieve him of command:NEW: @RepSpeier, who chairs the House Armed...
In a shocking press conference yesterday, President Trump and his advisors announced that the US military would begin conducting a "counter-narcotics operation" in the eastern Pacific and Caribbean. Perhaps not coincidentally, Trump's Justice Department indicted...
Gil Barndollar and Sam Long do an excellent job of making the case against the noxious U.S.-Saudi relationship:These attacks on individuals, however, paled in comparison to the Kingdom’s military misjudgments. The war in Yemen, pushed by Mohammed bin Salman when he...
Vigilance toward overweening government is no less important during a pandemic. The Cato Institute’s Patrick Eddington discusses some federal efforts to claim emergency powers with Caleb Brown. Listen here or go the Cato Institute page. You can also listen on Apple...
Keep your eye on Pompeo! President Trump is understandably distracted by the coronavirus outbreak in the US but in the "never let a good crisis go to waste" mode, the neocons in his Administration – led by Pompeo – are launching their war plots without the normal...
This is not a question that figures in our Western commentary and analysis, since it is universally assumed that one man, Vladimir Putin, dominates Russian political life for a good reason: his unique ability to tame the contending factions at the center of power in...
Originally appeared at The American Conservative.Jackson Diehl comments on Mike Pompeo’s terrible performance during the coronavirus crisis:Has any secretary of state been worse in an emergency? It’s impossible to think of a more feckless performance since World...
