The Sincerest Form of Flattery?
A helpful reader emailed me earlier today that some guy was so impressed with this blog that he decided to start his own site* (pdf image file of site – safe) by stealing each and every one of my posts…
Clif Burns
USPS Proposes to Give OFAC Information on Mail to Iran
The United States Postal Service published in today’s Federal Register a notice of a proposed modification to its privacy regulations. One of the modifications relates to customs declarations that postal customers supply to the USPS in connection with exports made…
Obama Extends Syria Emergency, Sanctions
Last Friday President Obama renewed the national emergency with respect to Syria. This action allows the current sanctions against Syria to continue for another year. The previous declaration of emergency was scheduled to expire on Sunday. Current sanctions, among other…
Old Hard Drives Never Die (or Even Fade Away)
According to an article that appeared yesterday in the Daily Mail, a London daily, test launch procedures for Lockheed Martin’s Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD ) ground-to-air missile defense system were found on a hard drive purchased on eBay.…
To Arm or Not to Arm?
Earlier this week Philip Shapiro, the CEO of Liberty Maritime, testified before the Senate subcommittee with oversight over merchant marine infrastructure and argued that Congress should take action to permit merchant ships to arm themselves either by arming their crews…