Really Fast Recommended Reading
‘Cause Zen is dead tired.
Top Billing! Bruce Kesler –The Renewed American Revolution: The 9th Amendment
….But constitutional scholars do agree on a basic point: the 9th Amendment was intended to be a guiding construct to interpretation of the rest of the Constitution, although specifics may be either lacking or in contention. After all, the 9th Amendment was considered necessary to be part of our Bill Of Rights without which the Constitution would not have been ratified.
Today, there are new factors requiring more attention to the 9th Amendment: the cumulative and continuing expansion of federal legislation into territories formerly outside its enumerated reserve, the almost unchecked latitude claimed by federal regulatory rules, and technologies’ facilitation of increased central controls and uniformity. The runaway employment of the federal purse and tax to compel obedience is, simply, out of control at the same time that it is evident that the economic security of the nation is imperiled by it.
Kudos to Andrew Exum for bringing rising star scholar-blogfriends Adam Elkus and Dan Trombly aboard Abu Muqawama. A classy gesture by Ex. Wasting little time, Adam is already posting! (C’mon Dan, don’t fall behind):
The Political Economy of Operational Art and Limiting Terminological Escalation
Infinity Journal– (LTC Ron Tira) Yes They Can: The US Can Prevent Iran from Acquiring the A-Bomb
I am going to blog on this one in a day or two – a tightly argued and provocative piece.
Gunpowder&Lead – Gimme Shelter
….Forty years later, Owen West, a Marine reserve major and Bing’s son, has published his own gripping saga of a modern day variant of the Combined Action Platoon – the Military Transition Team (MiTT) – fighting a similarly brutal counterinsurgency in Iraq. The Snake Eaters follows the 3rd Battalion, 3rd Brigade, 1st Division (3/3-1) of the Iraqi Army and their American military advisors – known by their all-too-appropriate radio call sign, Outcast – during the dark days of 2005-07 as they attempt to defeat an insurgency and win the allegiance of Khalidiya, a village halfway between Fallujah and Ramadi. It’s a raw account of a motley crew of reservists called up for duty to fight a war for which they were ill prepared, ill equipped, and ill supported. Through force of bravery and grit, Outcast and their Iraqi brothers-in-arms overcome the enemy and, sometimes, their own chain-of-command.
S. Anthony Iannarino – Driving the Wedge Between Your Dream Client and Your Competitor
Anthony deals with business situations, specifically, making sales. Why am I linking? Because he regularly blogs about business in terms of strategy and tactics, lining up ends, ways and means.
That’s it.