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Posted On: Feb 18, 2010
This ongoing analysis by Taxpayers for Common Sense takes apart the FY2011 budget request agency by agency, summarizing reductions, terminations and increases in issue areas including defense, energy and transportation.
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Posted On: Feb 18, 2010
This op-ed posting argues that the QDR should explicitly link strategic goals with fiscal projections, even if that means amending the law that created it. Disconnecting military planning from fiscal realities is not just bad economics—its bad strategy.
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Posted On: Jan 07, 2010
written by Robert A. LevyRobert A. Levy is chairman of the Cato Institute.Added to cato.org on January 7, 2010This article appeared in the on January 7, 2010. New York Daily NewsFollowing bitter defeats in California, Maine, and New York, the gay and lesbian community has a New Year's victory to celebrate. New Hampshire joins four other states — Connecticut, Iowa, Massachusetts and Vermont — in legalizing gay marriage. And the nation's capital is also onboard. Washington Mayor Adrian Fen...
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Posted On: Jan 07, 2010
Posted by Daniel J. MitchellEven though I’ve been in Washington for almost 25 years, I still get shocked by the deceit and double-talk that characterizes this town. A perfect example can be found in today’s Wall Street Journal, which features a column by Karl Rove attacking President Obama for fiscal incontinence. I’m a big fan of condemning Obama’s big-government schemes, but Rove is the last person in the world who should be complaining about too much wasteful spending. After all, h...
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Posted On: Jan 06, 2010
Posted by Christopher PrebleThat is the question posed at the National Journal’s National Security experts blog.My response:We shouldn’t even be contemplating war in Yemen, but we should also understand that the proposed expansion of security assistance to the government there is likely to pay only meager dividends.Steven Metz gets at the nub of this problem in his two thoughtful posts (here and here). We have an unreliable ally. We have minimal capacity for making them more reliable....
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Posted On: Jan 05, 2010
Afghan civil society peacebuilding efforts are robust: a wide range of individuals and organizations are working to build bridges across social divides, to teach people peaceful ways of addressing conflicts, to promote rule of law and participatory governance, and to create democratic decision-making forums for addressing the root causes of conflicts.During her December 2009 visit to Afghanistan, 3D Director Lisa Schirch filmed 11 videos highlighting these efforts. Watch the videos and read...
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Posted On: Oct 14, 2009
Organizations across the country joined together to send a letter to President Obama thanking him for his leadership on nuclear weapons issues and making recommendations for how the Nuclear Posture Review can best achieve the vision he laid out in his speech from Prague.The Obama administration is working on its Nuclear Posture Review, which will set U.S. nuclear weapons policy for the next 5-10 years. This review is an opportunity to reject outdated Cold War thinking and create a transformat...
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Posted On: Oct 01, 2009
A letter to Mr. Stern from Ambassador Nancy Soderberg, President of the Connect U.S. Fund and former Deputy Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs, which calls on the Obama Administration to break the deadlock and lead in international negotiations, in order to avoid failure in Copenhagen. The letter highlights this objective as a "financially responsible, moral, and national security imperative for the United States." The details of the letter are informed by key members of...
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Posted On: Oct 01, 2009
The Obama administration's Nuclear Posture Review (NPR) is a major, official assessment that will set U.S. nuclear weapons policy for the next 5-10 years and could put us on a path toward eliminating nuclear weapons. However, there is strong opposition to a major shift in policy. According to an article on Secretary of Defense Gates' remarks at an Air Force Association conference recently: "Gates previewed findings of the ongoing Nuclear Posture Review by endorsing the need to sustain an...
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Posted On: Sep 17, 2009
The Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation has launched an on-line resource guide for the 2009-10 national collegiate debate topic consisting of background materials, publications, and relevant organizations on both sides of the issues. (http://www.armscontrolcenter.org/policy/nuclearweapons/arti...
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Posted On: Sep 02, 2009
Two Years to Self Destruct in SudanThis post, by Enough Project Executive Director John Norris, originally appeared in ForeignPolicy.com's blog, "The Argument."Imagine if we had enjoyed the luxury of knowing, two years before it happened, that Yugoslavia would disintegrate in 1991. Or just think if U.S. diplomats had been able to predict years earlier exactly when the Soviet Union was going to collapse. One certainly hopes the United States would have been better positioned to deal with these...
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Posted On: Aug 07, 2009
Peace Action Coalition is compiling a searchable database of Hiroshima or Nagasaki Day events for August 6 and 9.
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Posted On: Aug 05, 2009
Doug Bandow authored an op-ed on the succession question.
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Posted On: Aug 04, 2009
Contact: Michael Stulman, michael.stulman@africaaction.org; 202-546-7961"This letter, endorsed by 18 organizations and 15 independent analyst, urge a new U.S. engagement with Africa. The letter takes much of the rhetoric of President's Obama's Ghana speech and couples it with specific policy prescriptions targeting the U.S. State Department upon the beginning of Secretary Clinton's trip to Africa (August 5-14)..."Source:
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Posted On: Jul 31, 2009
Posted by Jim HarperLet’s fisk a DHS press release! It’s the “Statement by DHS Press Secretary Sara Kuban on Markup of the Pass ID Bill by the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee.” Here goes:On the same day that Secretary Napolitano highlighted the Department’s efforts to combat terrorism and keep our country safe during a speech in New York City,This part is true: Secretary Napolitano was in New York speaking about terrorism.Congress took a major step forward ...
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Posted On: Jul 31, 2009
, Part IPosted by Indur GoklanyLast week Conor Clarke at The Atlantic blog , apparently as part of a running argument with Jim Manzi, raised four substantive issues with my study, "What to Do About Climate Change," that Cato published last year. Mr. Clarke deserves a response, and I apologize for not getting to this sooner. Today, I'll address the first part of his first comment. I'll address the rest of his comments over the next few days.Conor Clarke: (1) Goklany's analysis does not extend...
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Posted On: Jul 31, 2009
One of the frequent tropes of recent years is the notion that the United States is in decline, and America is plunging from being the only great power in the system to a status merely as first among equals. A veritable slew of books have come out in recent years making this argument. You also get this rhetoric when folks are arguing that we need more F-22s than we actually do, or for various other military-industrial-congressional boondoggles that the MIC complex and its supporters don...
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Posted On: Jul 21, 2009
In this Bloggingheads dialog Heather Hurlburt of the National Security Network and Chris Preble of the Cato Institute discuss America's military hegemony, the role of the military in US foreign policy, and the United States' role in the world. Despite different world views they often come to the same practical conclusions.
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Posted On: Jul 21, 2009
For an overview of online fundraising campaigns, check out the recording of "A Beginner's Guide to Online Fundraising & Marketing," a webinar from the Network for Good. Jono Smith gives tips for driving traffic to your site, converting visits into donations, and branching out into other web-based marketing tools. The Network for Good learning center has a library of articles on fundraising and other forms of nonprofit outreach.
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Posted On: Jul 08, 2009
The Daisy Alliance blog is a forum for nonproliferation news and opinion.
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