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Marines Advertising on Hummers

July 14, 2008 | Our Take | National Security

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

End of a Nuclear Era

July 10, 2008 | Our Take | National Security

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

GAO Finds Funny Fence Numbers at DHS

June 30, 2008 | Our Take | National Security

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... Read More

GAO Sides with Boeing in Tanker Contract Dispute

June 17, 2008 | Our Take | National Security

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

Pouring Concrete on the Border

June 05, 2008 | Our Take | National Security

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

Defense Earmarks

June 04, 2008 | Our Take | Budget & Tax , National Security

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... Read More

The Nine Lives of the C-17

May 08, 2008 | Our Take | National Security

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... Read More

Fencing in the Dark

May 01, 2008 | Our Take | National Security

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

TCS Testimony: Fiscal Implications of Border Security Strategies

April 27, 2008 | Letters & Testimony | National Security

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

More Money, More Problems

April 09, 2008 | Our Take | National Security

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... Read More

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September 13, 2013

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... Read More