Archive for 2017

U.S. SECRETLY DEPLOYING STRATEGIC ASSETS TO KOREA TO MAXIMIZE FEAR IN THE NORTH: Anyone who is surprised didn’t read this. Strategic patience is over.

VERY MUCH RELATED: Good chance this is an action photo of one of the B1-Bs mentioned in the Daily Caller article. Note the South Korean escorts. Yes, yet another cool bomber photo, this one taken March 21, 2017. Of course the B1-B’s flight was not really a secret. The photo is confirmation that the flight occurred.

WINNING: Trump Signs Four Bills Rolling Back Obama-Era Regulations.

The president canceled the “Fair Pay and Safe Workplaces” rule, which blacklists companies from receiving federal contracts if have violated labor rules in the past, the “Planning 2.0” rule, which dealt with how to use 245 million acres of federal land and was opposed by the energy industry, and two regulations under the “Every Student Succeeds Act,” which Trump said removes “an additional layer of bureaucracy to encourage freedom in our schools.”

As he signed the orders, Trump said there was “a lot more coming” and he would “remove every job killing regulation we can find.”

Faster, please.

THIS IS WHY I AVOID USING GPS WHENEVER POSSIBLE: Study: Navigation Systems May Dull Our Brains.

On the other hand, when driving in LA I like being dynamically routed around the traffic.

A NEW MILITARY HISTORY PHOTO SERIES: This time StrategyPage’s webmaster has collected photos of WW2 military aircraft. There are also some from the 1920s and 1930s. He’s been posting them for several days. So far the planes are all bombers. Here’s one from last week: B-26 Marauders supporting the invasion of Normandy. I passed on the suggestion made by several Instapundit readers that he cover another WW2 battle.

FREEDOM CAUCUS FOUNDER: Bad Process at Core of Healthcare Bill Failure.

“They rolled it out after it was hidden away. When they rolled it out, they said it’s a binary choice, take it or leave it. Normally when you have hearings on a piece of legislation that impacts this much of our overall economy, you would bring in some witnesses and hear from some witnesses about what’s going to happen if this legislation actually becomes law,” Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) told MSNBC this morning.

“We had none of that. We went straight to mark-up. No amendments could be offered in the Energy and Commerce Committee, the Ways and Means Committee, the Budget Committee,” he added. “And finally they took a manager’s amendment at the last hour to try to get people to vote for it.”

Meanwhile, the actual repeal legislation continues to languish in committee.