What's Happening in National Security

Marines Advertising on Hummers

Anyone who has a TV knows the military spends tons of money for recruiting prospective troops into the services. Recently, while watching...

End of a Nuclear Era

Nuclear weapons labs and the Senator who loves them closed a chapter yesterday when the Senate cut funding for a controversial program to...

GAO Finds Funny Fence Numbers at DHS

At last, the Department of Homeland Security has given us some idea of what its border fence is going to cost—and it looks like a...

GAO Sides with Boeing in Tanker Contract Dispute

The Hill is reporting that the Government Accountability Office (GAO) has sided with Boeing in a dispute between aerospace giants over a...

Pouring Concrete on the Border

As Congress continues to threaten to withhold funds from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) for failing to provide cost estimates...

Defense Earmarks

What a week! So we are slogging through the defense spending bill. From our counting of the earmark disclosure tables at the end of the...

The Nine Lives of the C-17

Now that the first drafts of the defense spending bills are rolling in, the tea leaves are beginning to curl into place to reveal which...

Fencing in the Dark

Members of Congress are finally waking up to the fact that a billion-dollar behemoth is about to rise from America’s southwestern border....

TCS Testimony: Fiscal Implications of Border Security Strategies

Testimony of Laura Peterson, Senior Policy Analyst for Taxpayers for Common Sense before the House Subcommittee on National Parks,...

More Money, More Problems

Can earmarks be too much of a good thing? Some high-level Defense Department officials think so. TCS commented this week on a recent DoD...

Syria: Excuse 535 To Not Cut the Deficit

Volume XVIII No. 37 Possible action in Syria has become the most recent excuse du jour for Pentagon boosters...