From the monthly archives: September 2008
“If the [INKSA] waiver is to be granted, and it appears that it must be in order to ensure safety, redundancy, and continuity, it should include some sort of escape clause for early termination; and it should not be granted until NASA promises that the space shuttle program will not be scrapped…”
The Russians appear to be enjoying lately publicly challenging the [...]
Energy independence is a vital cornerstone of a nation’s economic security. So, when Brazil’s Mines and Energy Minister Edison Lobao said recently that Brazil aspires to build an additional 50 to 60 nuclear power plants in the next fifty years, it should not raise any flags or be cause for concern, right? Possibly.
Non-proliferation is not an [...]
Armando Valladares, former Cuban Political Prisoner and U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Human Rights Commission said it best recently: “Not one nail or plank of wood to the Cuban regime” for hurricane relief efforts.
As we have done in disasters in other regions of the world affecting countries with difficult governments, the U.S. [...]
ARLINGTON, VA – Today, U.S. Senator John McCain delivered the following statement on Venezuela and Ambassador Duddy’s expulsion by the Venezuelan government:
“I am deeply disappointed by the decision of Venezuela’s government to expel U.S. Ambassador Duddy. This diplomatic escalation, which follows Bolivia’s expulsion of the American ambassador there, reminds us anew of [...]
The U.S. Ambassadors to Bolivia and Venezuela have been expelled this week from South America. An act of political immaturity on the part of these two South American countries, we should respond, in kind, and with clarity of purpose. In other words, we should provide exit papers for their Ambassadors in Washington, DC and begin [...]
While currently blinded by political myopia, Hurricane Gustav and Hurricane Ike could very well be the Cuban Communist Party’s undoing. The Communist Party’s rejection of U.S. humanitarian assistance confirms that the regime is not interested in change, but more of the same. Fidel Castro may have been sidelined, but Fidelismo lives on through his brother [...]
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