U.S. Audits Gold Bars Stored at Federal Reserve Bank of New York

More serendipity. It turns out I just watched both "Die Hard" and "Die Hard With a Vengeance" last week. And now here...

Apple Preps Launch of New Smaller iPad

At PC World, " Report: Apple Preps iPad Mini to Battle Nexus 7, Kindle Fire ." And at WSJ, " Apple Preps for Smaller Tablet: ...

Uri Friedman's 'American Exceptionalism' Neglects Mention of Frederick Jackson Turner's Frontier Thesis

It's a good essay (and it looks especially good in the glossy format at hard copy of the magazine). See: " 'American Exceptiona...

Don't Miss Dennis Prager's, Still the Best Hope: Why the World Needs American Values to Triumph

Here's another Father's Day suggestion. I finished Still the Best Hope a few days ago and meant to gets some final comments posted....

The DDG-1000 Zumwalt, the U.S. Navy's Next-Generation Destroyer

This is cool. At London's Daily Mail , " Navy's answer to a rising China: $3 billion warship that can sneak up on coastlines un...

The Myth of America's Decline

From Walter Russell Mead, at the Wall Street Journal : The United States isn't in decline, but it is in the midst of a major rebalancing...

Robert Kagan: American Power Preserves Freedom and Prosperity

See Kagan's essay at CNN, " America has made the world freer, safer and wealthier ": We take a lot for granted about the way t...

From the Marines: Toward the Sounds of Chaos

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Obama Slashes Pentagon Budget Amid Growing International Danger

At USA Today , " Obama announces Pentagon budget cuts ": The new military strategy includes $487 billion in cuts over the next dec...

24 Hours on an Aircraft Carrier — USS Carl Vinson

This is so cool, via Theo Spark : The Carl Vinson 's Wikipedia page is here . And at ESPN, " Producer chronicles a typical 24 hours...

Harvard's Stephen Walt: 'The Myth of American Exceptionalism'

At Foreign Policy . I saw this a couple of weeks back and wasn't the least bit surprised, especially since I learned that Walt was a fea...