Author: andrei

Today’s reading assignment actually appeared in Tuesday’s Wall Street Journal. But the column (from Gabriel Schoenfeld of Commentary magazine) remains particularly timely and relevant. He reminds us that the intelligence…

NATO leaders, meeting in Bucharest, Romania, are prepared to endorse the American plan for building a missile defense shield in eastern Europe, according to a senior U.S. official: The final…

It’s no secret that the Democratic Party is openly opposed to missile defense. So, when NATO leaders endorsed a defensive shield for Europe earlier this week, it put the party…

An F-15 escorts a Russian TU-95 Bear H bomber, during an intercept off the Alaskan coast in September 2006 (USAF photo via Air Force Times) Over the past two years,…

The Military Times papers have released their second presidential poll of 2008, and it contains more good news for John McCain. Results of the second survey, conducted between 16-20 October,…

We were encouraged by this headline on the CNN website: “Ballots from U.S. troops risk being discarded.” At last, we thought, a MSM organization was paying attention to one of…

It came from below. A Raytheon artist’s concept of how a small UAV will be launched from an attack sub, extending the range of its sensors (Raytheon illustration via Aviation…

An Israeli website is reporting that Tehran may have tested a nuclear device over the weekend. Israel Insider is basing its claim on the comments of an Iranian nuclear scientist,…

This one will make your blood boil. In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, the government providing temporary housing for thousands of storm victims. Some wound up in those infamous FEMA…

So far, the RNC hasn’t asked for our assessment of yesterday’s electoral defeat. Not that we expect it; from what we hear, the jockeying and back-biting has already begun; more…