Washington DC (April 10, 2013) – The President’s FY 2014 defense budget request released today is a “placebo, a placeholder with no effect,” according to Travis Sharp, a Non-Resident Fellow at the Center for a New American Security (CNAS). Mr. Sharp notes in his commentary, Placebo: The 2014 Defense Budget and DOD’s Credibility Challenges, that defense spending levels... 

Sedona AZ (February 21, 2010) – Depending on our response, we are either standing at the edge of the mother of all markets or we are staring at the mother of all problems. John Gardner, founder of Common Cause, described these challenges as “a series of opportunities disguised as insolvable problems.”  Three decades of failed energy policy assures us that innovation is the only way out of...