defense spending

Waste! Fraud! Abuse! (Maybe Not)

By Dan Nexon

In defense spending

On March 12, 2026

Photo by Burst @ Pexels A friend of mine with long experience in the federal bureaucracy asked me if I would post what follows. I obviously agreed. I don't know anything about a purported watchdog group calling itself "Open the Books," but is recent Substack...

defense spending , The War On (Some Classes of People Who Use Some) Drugs

Where and To Whom The Government’s Money is Going

By admin

On October 10, 2007

..it's not the war in Iraq (well, it is going there. That's just not what this post is about).The federal government yesterday picked five companies to whom it will award.

Canada , defense spending , northern barbarians

Canada: Immune to Defense Prestige?

By Robert Farley

On August 21, 2007

David Axe has a good post on Canada's defense posture. Noting that the Canadian military has been remarkably effective in Afghanistan, he takes a look at how Canada is spending.

Japanese Defense

By Robert Farley

In china , defense spending , japan

On July 23, 2007

There's a good article in the NYT today about Japan's increasingly aggressive defense posture. In addition to slight increases in defense spending, the deployment of assets farther away from Japan, and the purchase of new weapon systems, the Japanese Self-Defense Force is carrying out more...

counter-insurgency , defense spending , max boot

Stabbing Blindly

By Robert Farley

On February 28, 2007

Max Boot blunders into an interesting point. In denouncing our allies for being insufficiently militaristic, he manages to ask an interesting question. Here's the dreck:Britain is hardly alone in its.

defense spending , united states military

Kurtz, Part II: More Guns, Who Cares about Butter!

By Robert Farley

On May 16, 2005

Frank McCloud: "I know what you want, Rocco." Johnny Rocco: "Yeah? What do I want?" McCloud: "You want more." Rocco: "Yeah, that's right. I want more." - Key LargoIn order.

T2 Trumpsters are "marks". Prime to be fleeced by a professional con man. And nobody...nobody likes to admit they were conned. The 30% of hard core Trump lovers would lose their life savings...
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Derelict Back in June the unilaterally amended everyone's purchase agreement to say that the phones may never appear. This AFTER having taken the $100 deposits on the non-existent phones. Back in the...
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Chris I'd say that all is kind of covered by "law evasion", I was trying to be very general Are laws against slavery and murder for hire unjust tyrannical shackles upon the Free Market™?...
Ain’t that America · July 4, 2026
Bruce Leroy Did you even read the piece he's citing? Its very much not about giving up
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Rollo Tomassi Have you ever tried to eat a bowl of spaghetti on a moving Vespa?
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