James Clapper (far left) Martin Dempsey (3rd from left) at Defense Intelligence Agency ceremony. Photo: D. Myles Cullen for the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Used under Creative […] More

In the Caspian Basin and beneath the deserts of Iraq, as many as 783 billion barrels of oil are waiting to be pumped. Anyone controlling that much oil stands a […] More

Lost in all the shouting and hypocrisy over James Comey and the FBI’s renewed investigation into Hillary Clinton’s national security-compromising email scandal is a true jaw-dropper of a Wall Street Journal scoop regarding deep internal […] More

This has been the worst week for Hillary Clinton and the best week for the American people. For years, Americans have accepted that Hillary Clinton is simply “too big to jail.” […] More

Screenshot of Vigilant Solutions database. Local government officials have the ability to track individual drivers in the U.S. in real time and take pictures of the occupants of their vehicles, […] More

Remember when Senator Baucus, a Democrat, said Obamacare was going to be a “giant train wreck”? Well… The warning to consumers from Tavenner, the former administration official who headed the […] More

Can you believe it? It cost America over 7 billion dollars to run our elections last year. For $7 billion we got: 1 president, 33 senators and 435 representatives.  For […] More

This post is by Brad Setser and Rachel Ziemba of RGE Monitor A score of recent reports have put the total assets managed by sovereign wealth funds at around $3 […] More