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Posted: 2 Apr 2012 in Politics

Good opportunity for some education on the Constitution. And it’s free.

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“Constitution 101: The Meaning and History of the Constitution” is a free 10-week online course presented by Hillsdale College.

Featuring an expanded format from the “Introduction to the Constitution” lecture series with Hillsdale College President Dr. Larry Arnn, Constitution 101 follows closely the one semester course required of all Hillsdale College undergraduate students. The lessons are archived, so you can start anytime.

In this course, you can:

  • watch lectures from the same Hillsdale faculty who teach on campus;
  • study the same readings taught in the College course;
  • submit questions for weekly Q&A sessions with the faculty;
  • access a course study guide;
  • test your knowledge through weekly quizzes; and
  • upon completion of the course, receive a certificate from Hillsdale College.

You must register in order to participate in Constitution 101. There is no cost to register for this course, but consider a donation to support Hillsdale College efforts to educate millions…

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Posted: 2 Apr 2012 in Politics

Good stuff.

Winners and Losers in the Fiscal 2013 Defense Budget…

Posted: 2 Apr 2012 in Buyers' Remorse, Coast Guard, Comarade Obama, Congress, Democrats, Developments, Economics, Failure, Government, Military, Neo-Marxists, Obama, Politics, SCOAMF, Socialism, US Air Force, US Army, US Marines, US Navy, Veterans
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In case you were wondering, here’s the 2013 defense budget in a nut shell.

Winners and losers in the fiscal 2013 budget

By Barry Rosenberg

Mar 29, 2012

It’s been several weeks since the release of the fiscal 2013 defense budget, and heads are certainly still spinning in the Pentagon: Ground Mobile Radio (GMR) gone, Global Hawk Block 30 gone and the Army’s medium-altitude intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance program, the Enhanced Medium Altitude Reconnaissance and Surveillance System (EMARSS), also gone. There’s blood on the floor in the chief-of-staff/commandant offices at the Army, Air Force, Navy and Marines. Yet there’s still plenty of good news for all, with the funding flow to improve network operations still very much in evidence.

Here are some of the winners and losers at each of the services:

Army: The Warfighter Information Network-Tactical (WIN-T) continues to be the “cornerstone tactical communications system” for the service. Funding in fiscal 2013 is $900 million, and totals $6.1 billion from fiscal 2013 through fiscal 2017. Fiscal 2013 funding is earmarked for the purchase of net-centric warfare IP modems and low-rate initial production quantities to support test activities.

There also is funding for something we’ve been writing a lot about in Defense Systems: the modification of Stryker vehicles to incorporate command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (C4ISR) systems to facilitate mission command-on-the-move.

via Winners and losers in the fiscal 2013 budget — Defense Systems.