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  by Lance Thompson The cost of China’s widespread and long-standing cyber espionage campaign on American interests was addressed in an article in the 27 January Wall Street Journal.  Former Director of National Security Mike McConnell, former Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff, and former Deputy Secretary of Defense William Lynn cited the October 2011 report to Congress by the National Counterespionage Executive.  The report estimated that “catastrophic impact of cyber... Read Full Story

  by Lance Thompson Reaction to the President’s State of the Union speech has been as predictable as the speech itself, split along the usual partisan lines.  But Obama’s next one, to be given after the 2012 election, figures to be a game-changer, and here’s an exclusive early look at what it will include: Good evening.  And a special welcome to the many outgoing Democrat congressmen and senators.  I know you blame me for the staggering losses our party suffered in the last election... Read Full Story

by Lance Thompson Communist China is building a naval aviation program around its new aircraft carrier and cranking out new submarines at the rate of two per year.  Iran threatens to close the Strait of Hormuz, forbids American ships from returning to the Persian Gulf, and is building an ICBM base in Venezuela.  Waves of bombings mark the withdrawal of US troops from Iraq.  North Korea and Iran are on the verge of fielding nuclear weapons and the missiles to deliver them.  In... Read Full Story

by Lance Thompson The Magnificent Seven , now considered a classic Western, wasn't a hit when it was released in 1960. Based on Kurosawa's  The Seven Samurai , this allegorical tale was transplanted to the southern border of the American frontier and populated with a stellar cast of manly actors--Yul Brynner, Steve McQueen, Charles Bronson, James Coburn, Robert Vaughn and Eli Wallach as the leader of the predatory bandit band that terrorizes a small Mexican village. In view of Hollywood’s... Read Full Story

by Lance Thompson In his upcoming book "Ten Letters," Eli Saslow, a reporter for the  Washington Post , informs readers that President Obama has staffers select ten out of the hundreds of letters he gets each day to provide a representative sampling of American public opinion. Saslow states that sometimes Obama feels "powerless" to help ordinary Americans, and on occasion has been known to respond in person and enclose a check to the correspondent, or make a phone call to fix a problem... Read Full Story

by Lance Thompson The Occupy movement widened significantly today with the formation of "Occupy Busch Stadium," an ad-hoc group dedicated to redistributing the wealth, opportunity and rewards of professional sports. Exploiting the attention paid to the World Series, the OBS has demanded fairness from Major League Baseball. Highest on their agenda is income redistribution for baseball players everywhere. Statistics show that the top one hundredth of one percent of people who have ever... Read Full Story

by Lance Thompson President Obama has recently been imploring wealthy Americans to "pay their fair share of taxes." Wealthy Americans already pay 70, 80 or 90 percent of the total tax revenue (depending on how one defines "wealthy"), and the least wealthy half of the population pays no tax at all. Thus, the equitable solution is not to increase the already sizable burden on the wealthy, but rather to bring the poor onto the tax rolls. We needn’t stigmatize those who currently pay taxes as... Read Full Story

by Lance Thompson Media commentator and best-selling author Laura Ingraham, whom I admire, respect and ordinarily agree with, spoke with a Sarah Palin supporter on her Thursday radio show. Ingraham cooled the caller's enthusiasm by making the point that a Palin candidacy is what the left hopes for above all else, since Palin would presumably alienate the independents who are abandoning Obama in droves. This reasoning is faulty and self-defeating. First, no one knows who can or will win... Read Full Story

  by Lance Thompson The debt ceiling tug of war is unlikely to be satisfactorily resolved. The reason is that Republicans and Democrats have divergent views of the private economy, and that difference will always prevent compromise. Both parties understand that the private economy is the source of all wealth. Republicans take this position openly; Democrats will never admit it in public. Democrats justify massive government spending by calling it "stimulus," "job creation," or "investment... Read Full Story

  by Lance Thompson "You never want a serious crisis to go to waste," is the philosophy of ex-Obama chief of staff and White House arm twister Rahm Emanuel. During the reign of Obama, this tactic has been used repeatedly to justify government overspending, overreaching, and overtaxing. Liberals are masters of applying this approach. They create a crisis, postpone any attempt to address it until the last minute, and then introduce emergency legislation contrived in secret and passed in... Read Full Story