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DARPA WATCH: The Pentagon’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is among the most successful and innovative programs the government funds – among the seemingly millions of disastrous federal boondoggles. Time and again it funds research that creates new initiatives that apply to the private sector. The Pentagon’s mad science agency has big plans for next year. Among them: crowd-sourcing military intelligence, creating an “immune system” for DOD networks, and even research that might one day lead to editing a soldier’s DNA; and also fool-proof new prosthetics and hypersonic flight. This is not health care run by the Post Office. Obama probably doesn’t even know that DARPA exists – it isn’t run by Acorn or the SEIU.

By Dennis Mullin

Chilean quake carnage

EDITOR’S CHOICE: The February 27 earthquake in Chile cracked bedrock, unleashed a lethal tsunami and killed over 800 people. At 8.8 on the Richter scale, it was the seventh largest on record. But even more unsettlingly, one NASA Geophysicist believes that massive jolt moved our planet's axis by at least three inches thus shortening the days' time by a 1.26 millionth of a second. A recent Businessweek article by Alex Morales “Chilean Quake Likely Shifted Earth’s Axis, NASA Scientist Says” provides details

The U.S. military has always discriminated. There are a host of malignant behaviors such as illicit drug use or habitual criminality that can render a person ineligible to serve. As my father-in-law learned, there are also benign maladies such as vision impairment or flat feet that can bar an otherwise eligible applicant. Any number of behaviors or conditions with varying degrees of severity can dash one's hope of donning the uniform.So now that Barack Obama is president, what has changed? Is there something about "out and proud" homosexuality, hitherto absent or unseen, that suddenly makes it compatible with military service? Is there something about our military that has, for the first time in history, made it compatible with this particular lifestyle?

By J. Matt Barber

"CHEATER IN THE EURO- FAMILY"/Focus

EDITOR’S CHOICE: Frenchman Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the head of the International Monetary Fund, suggests the organization provide countries with a global reserve currency that would serve as an alternative to the U.S. dollar. China and Russia have called for dumping the dollar – but not for the yuan, ruble or yen -- and have proposed using the IMF’s internal accounting unit special drawing rights, or SDRs. Several decades ago the IMF tried to use a “basket” of currencies to replace the dollar but that didn’t work. Then of course there is the euro, which reports say hedge funds are betting will collapse. It is plagued by the the economies of Portugal, Italy, Ireland, Greece and Spain (PIIGS), all of which have incurred even more debt than Obama. Now Germany is refusing to bail Greece out and Athens isn’t amused. Experts say there is no alternative to the dollar, and at a minimum, the euro could lose as much as a third of its value in the very near future. And – is the U.S. headed inexorably down the Greek road? One Senator thinks so.

US Marine in the Offensive

FOREIGN POLICY: It is important to remember that when President Bush and Gen. Patreaus announced the surge in Iraq, Joe Biden wanted to divide it into three nations; Sunni, Shia and Kurdish. ALL Democrats declared the war lost. Everybody in California and New York wanted immediate withdrawal. Well far from a quagmire, the surge worked and Iraq has a good chance to emerge as a normal country. Now the same situation is going on in Afghanistan – but  this time the President is a liberal so the media barely mentions the latest Obama-declared surge and the current Marine offensive in the south. Well guess what – this surge may be working as well and it will be interesting to see how the liberals will deal with a military victory on their own watch.

By Dennis Mullin

The American Interest Online

POPULIST REVOLT: The msm has declared the Tea Party movement as one comprised of know-nothings, crazy birthers, IRS plane bombers, Christian fundamentalists, flat-earthers and racists -- a morally and intellectually contemptible force of “reactionaries.” Liberals would have you believe that the conservatives and independents in the new cause long for an older, safer and whiter America -- a more orderly place where their old fashioned values were unchallenged, one in which ethnic minorities and gays weren’t in their faces, and in general life looked more like “Ozzie and Harriet.” But closer to the truth, the movement is the latest upsurge of an American populism that has historically sided with the left and the right, but which over again has upended American elites, restructured our society and forced through deep political, cultural and institutional changes that from time to time the country needs -- and which the ruling elites cannot or will not deliver.

Take America Back

REBELLION GROWING: There is a surprising trend emerging across America, which calls itself the Patriot Movement. It is based around the Tea Party assemblies that started last summer, and involves a variety of conservative groups that are reacting against Democratic Party attempts to impose massive new government control over American life. The movement is growing fast, and will play a major role in the November elections -- which it now appears, will decisively end any real or perceived mandate for “enlightenment,” resulting from the Obama election victory. It also involves a new “Contract” that will hold politicians accountable for slowing down the intrusion on citizen liberty.

By Dennis Mullin

Wesley Pruden

EDITOR’S CHOICE: Wesley Pruden writes in the Washington Times that the global warming consensus may be unraveling permanently. That doesn’t mean man-made impacts on the environment can be ignored – but Al Gore’s absurd contention that the “debate is over,” is anything but over.

A Somali Sea Brigand

THE "SCOURGE OF THE SEAS" is as alive and well ….as is political correctness. Twenty-first century pirates off the Somali coast are still playing hell with international shipping and have been since the beginning of the Somali Civil War in 1991,  The pillage forges ahead, unabated.

By Bill Rife

OF PERU, INCAS AND REBELS: I am reading a book that deals with the Sendero Luminoso, or Shining Path guerrilla movement in Peru. This is an excellent mystery novel by Santiago Rongagliolo, about a prosecutor in Ayacucho, the center of the rebellion, entitled, “Red April.” He traces a series of murders which connect to the Shining Path rebel movement, and raises the question of whether or not the Maoist guerrilla group has been truly vanquished as the government claims.

Book Review by Dennis Mullin