PAUL’S DEFENSE BRIEF (PDB) – Or does he have a bigger plan? Trump said that he wants to restart nuclear arms control talks with Russia and China and that, eventually, he hopes all three countries could agree to cut their massive defense budgets in half. Trump in his first term tried and failed to bring China […]
A suspected Russian drone struck the roof of the containment structure around Reactor No. 4 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant (ChNPP) in northern Ukraine last night, igniting a small fire. Reactor No. 4 was the site of the catastrophic 1986 meltdown and explosion, the worst nuclear disaster in history. However, the International Atomic Energy […]
Residents of the Bronx are intensifying their opposition to a planned 2,200-bed, male-only migrant shelter set to open in the South Bronx. Despite strong backing from local political leaders like Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), Bronx residents and critics are voicing their concerns over the impact of the facility on their community. The heated debate reflects […]
A Monument To Bureaucratic Failure: The Retirement Mine That Elon Musk Found
There is no mystery in Boyers, Pennsylvania. The Federal Retirement Records Center, buried deep in an abandoned limestone mine, has been an open secret of dysfunction for decades. Year after year, report after report, audit after audit, the verdict has been unanimous: the facility is outdated, inefficient and wholly incapable of serving America’s retired civil […]