Submitted by Mike Krieger via Liberty Blitzkrieg blog,
Adam Andrzejewski, CEO of OpenTheBooks.com, has just written an eye-opening piece over at Forbes detailing indefensible, yet entirely legal, conflicts of interest in Oregon.
Here are a few excerpts from his piece, Oregon Gov. Kate Brown And AG Ellen Rosenblum Blaze The Oregon Trail Of Political Patronage:
The latest Trump foreign policy keeps getting stranger by the minute. Overnight, as the three liberal-leaning US newspaper launched another attack on Trump, alleging that officials linked to the president, most notably Tim Manafort, engaged Russian intel officials in the not too distant past, the Russian government dismissed allegations that the country’s intelligence officials were in repeated contact with Donald Trump’s team ahead of the US election.
Submitted by John Whitehead via The Rutherford Institute,
“Our current and past strategies can no longer hold. We are facing environments that the masters of war never foresaw. We are facing a threat that requires us to redefine doctrine and the force in radically new and different ways. The future army will confront a highly sophisticated urban-centric threat that will require that urban operations become the core requirement for the future land-force. The threat is clear. Our direction remains to be defined. The future is urban.”
Submitted by Tho Bishop via The Mises Institute,
Largely overlooked last week in the wake of President Donald Trump’s court battle was another controversial judicial ruling.
On Thursday the US Court of Claims rewarding Moda Health, an Oregon-based health insurer, $214 million for losses it took participating in the high risk insurance pools established under the Affordable Care Act. The dispute came after Republicans eliminated funding for tax payer subsidies to those firms that lost money writing insurance for high risk individuals.
A couple of years ago, in the midst of its bankruptcy proceedings, we posted a series of stunning pictures illustrating the "Death And Decay Of Detroit." Once a beacon of America's manufacturing prowess, a series of time lapsed pictures revealed how, in just a few years following the 'great recession' of 2008, the once vibrant metropolis became the poster child for urban decay.