Barack Obama now says unemployment will never fall like he promised in 2009.
Afghanistan: Why Prosperity Hinges on Mackinder’s Fulcrum
Taliban fighters from their Haqqani network. (Photo/The Guardian)
“Where we have to deal with these folks is going to be in Afghanistan.” — Barack Obama
Why Growth Matters More Than the Deficit
With the right economic policy America can be robust again, and the United States can continue to lead the world toward greater safety and happiness.
Defending GOP Roots of Individual Freedom to Marry
(Image/The Keith Haring Foundation)
I have never had a feeling politically that did not spring from the sentiments embodied in the Declaration of Independence.
My View of Earth (Day) Through Hubble’s Anniversary
(Photos/NASA)
That unity is conducive to energy will not be disputed. Decision, activity, secrecy, and despatch will generally characterize the proceedings of one man in a much more eminent degree than the proceedings of any greater number; and in proportion as the number is increased, these qualities will be diminished.
Marijuana for Money
Trade War: Obama’s Game of Chicken
International System of Units
- Unit of length (meter) – The meter is the length of the path travelled by light in vacuum during a time interval of 1/299,792,458 of a second.
- Unit of mass (kilogram) – The kilogram is the unit of mass; it is equal to the mass of the international prototype of the kilogram.
- Unit of time (second) – The second is the duration of 9,192,631,770 periods of the radiation corresponding to the transition between the two hyperfine levels of the ground state of the cesium 133 atom.
- Unit of electric current (ampere) – The ampere is that constant current which, if maintained in two straight parallel conductors of infinite length, of negligible circular cross-section, and placed 1 meter apart in vacuum, would produce between these conductors a force equal to 2 x 10-7 newton per meter of length.
- Unit of thermodynamic temperature (kelvin) – The kelvin, unit of thermodynamic temperature, is the fraction 1/273.16 of the thermodynamic temperature of the triple point of water. [K] = [°C] + 273.15.
- Unit of amount of substance (mole) – The mole is the amount of substance of a system which contains as many elementary entities as there are atoms in 0.012 kilogram of carbon 12; its symbol is “mol.”
- Unit of luminous intensity (candela) - The candela is the luminous intensity, in a given direction, of a source that emits monochromatic radiation of frequency 540 x 1012 hertz and that has a radiant intensity in that direction of 1/683 watt per steradian.
- Unit of account (dollar) – ?
3 Essentials for POTUS Spending Discipline
Spending on Medicare and Medicaid alone will eclipse the historical levels of taxation for our posterity – to 18.2 percent of GDP, the 30-year historical tax average, by 2052 (Source/Congressional Budget Office).
Barack Obama’s lack of budget discipline is characteristic of change that rejects individual energy in favor of collective action in the executive.
It’s Time for a US Space Force
Emerging threats in cyberspace highlight the need for American leadership to guarantee conditions most likely to effect greater safety and happiness.
Russia: Great Patriotic Ally
U.S. Army personnel march in a 2010 parade in Russia. (Source/Reuters)
Imagine if Russia joined as 51st of the United States.
Proposition of Policy: Amendment XXVIII to Replace Obamacare
Health Care Turning Point: Why Single Payer Won’t Work
By Roger Battistella
(MIT Press, 165 pages, $21.95)
ObamaCare’s fundamental principle, that the United States Congress has the power to make Americans purchase a specific product, could be the ultimate reason why ObamaCare might be led to the same fate as the Revenue Act of 1861, an income tax bill that was also repealed.
But similar to the failed legislation for imposing an income tax prior to 1913, the first step in reforming the American health care system is in deriving just powers from the consent of the governed through a constitutional amendment.
Hayes of Wisdom
“The strikes have been put down by force,” President Rutherford B. Hayes wrote on August 5, 1877, thinking about the violent uprising that erupted four years after America’s first so-called “Great Depression.”
[PHOTO] Tumblr: Obama Sitting
January 29, 2010 (Photo/The White House)
Book Review: Rhee Education
Radical: Fighting to Put Students First
By Michelle Rhee
(HarperCollins, 286 pages, $27.99)
It’s been said that personnel systems are the lifeblood of a bureaucracy, a point made clear in “Radical: Fighting to Put Students First” by Michelle Rhee, founder of StudentsFirst, a political advocacy organization for education reform.
Teachers are the lifeblood of Rhee’s reform.
