It's a truism that QDRs are exercises in aspirational futility. Vision and declarations divorced from actual linkage to budget and operational planning. But is the answer really quoting Michael Porter bromides (again, in a Davos-esque flashback)? … [Continue reading]
The Human Element Appears To Have Failed Here, But We’d Hate To Condemn An Entire Program Based On A Single Slip Up
Such a cornucopia of riches this week. Liz Cheney's low budget web ad? When we saw our old friends David Rivkin and Lee Casey (they used to write everything as a threesome) organize conservative lawyers in opposition, we knew 'it's so on.' Adding … [Continue reading]
Dark Dreams Of The Conservative Movement
We're talking with old friends from the Movement's glory days (1970s through Reagan I) to gauge reaction to the Tea Party fringe, RNC irrelevancy and Obama's well-publicized troubles. These are the kind of friends who together at CPAC we watched a … [Continue reading]
Another Inconvenient Truth (Revised)
Ah, what a decade can do. We are battered daily with dire warnings of a 'cyber apocalypse', Chicoms hacking Google and others, government (and more importantly, government contractor) networks pillaged and Kim Kardashian's latest tweet foiled by … [Continue reading]
Do Not Pass Hormuz, Do Not Collect 200 RMB
The littoral closes more rapidly for an enfeebled amphibian. Meanwhile, hard liners move rapidly into ascendancy in Beijing, while the best we have are retreating moderates urging the majority 'don't coun't these guys out yet, we can use them for a … [Continue reading]
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