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The U.S. Is Being Diplomatically Outmaneuvered by China

Published on December 4, 2022 By sirrahc

It’s not just China’s huge armies we have to be concerned about, or their technological know-how. To put it bluntly, we are losing the diplomacy game to Communist China. But, we don’t have to. I have posted before about the threat China poses not just to American dominance but to freedom and prosperity around the […]

Unreasonable and Non-Centrist Infrastructure Compromise

Published on August 15, 2021 By sirrahc

The battle over infrastructure bills and what actually, fairly constitutes “infrastructure” continues. I wrote about this back in April when the $2.25 trillion bill was in play. The current $1.1 trillion federal infrastructure bill is being sold as a reasonable, centrist compromise. Yeah… right! (sarc) Here are a few quotes from an opinion-piece by Kay […]

Bot Wars

Published on March 18, 2018 By sirrahc

“China’s cyber-spies have been hacking countries left and right. They were blamed for the enormous data breach at the US Office of Personnel Management that compromised the data of more than 21 million people.” — Samuel Bocetta, CFIF We’ve all heard of “cyberwarfare”. It gets mentioned in the news along with “cybersecurity” and various attempts […]

Thanks for the Big Mac, Uncle Sam

Published on May 5, 2010 By sirrahc

Guess what? I got my tax refund from the IRS today! $45!!!! Woohooooo!! I’m treatin’ myself to a Big Mac Value Meal! Of course, most people who get a paycheck and have to buy stuff have taxes at least at the back of their mind all the time. They hit us from all sides. And, […]