There Is No GOP ‘Civil War’ Over Iran…

US Core Durable Goods Orders Surge For 11th Straight Month After recent string 'soft' survey data, this morning we get some 'hard' data and it's mixed...ish... Preliminary headline durable goods orders for February fell 1.4% MoM (worse than the -1.2% MoM exp). That is the third monthly decline in a row (the first 3-month decline since Nov 2019) Source: Bloomberg The monthly decline of the headline print largely reflected a decline in orders for aircraft. Boeing said it received fewer orders for its planes in February than a month earlier. On the other hand, core durable...

The Never-Ending Cycle Of Taking Offense... Authored by J.B.Shurk via AmericanThinker.com, Americans should not fear the past... I remember the first time I came across a “trigger warning.”  I was on a university campus in the ‘90s, attending the first lecture of a new history professor.  As I perused her course syllabus, I was impressed with the reading list and organization.  Then I spotted an incongruous “warning” to women and African Americans suggesting that they might find some of the material offensive.  At first, I thought it was an inappropriate joke.  I asked someone about it, and...

FBI Spooked By 15 Stolen Crop-Spraying Drones In New Jersey What has become extraordinarily clear is that nearly every data center, stadium, government building, power plant, substation, and other critical infrastructure site shares one major vulnerability: the lack of a low-cost, early-warning detection layer against one-way attack drones. Additionally, Counter-Unmanned Aircraft Systems (C-UAS) architecture should include a kinetic countermeasure layer designed to defeat threats before impact. Without this layered approach, most critical infrastructure remains highly vulnerable to cheap kamikaze drones. When reports emerge, such as the recent case in New Jersey where...