Since August of last year, I have consistently voiced my disappointment that the US Navy is looking to build more Arleigh Burke destroyers. Let me say a few things about this real quick. First, I think ADM Roughead deserves a ton of credit for truncating the DDG-1000, building more is fiscally impossible towards reaching a larger fleet, and even though I think building a 4th one might be necessary...

But what's not open for debate, after tonight, is the sheer futility of trying to build a coalition from the center out. Because the center won't stand still for any candidate. - Dan McLaughlin, as pointed out by commenter Andrew X....

A couple’s plans to build a £700,000 solar powered home in the Cotswolds have been left in ruins after developers built new houses which blocked out their sunlight. You can build green housing or you can build dense housing: but you cannot build both. Indeed, one of the few ways to get a release from the standard

MANY people might love to demolish the Scottish Parliament and build something else in its place.

Building Societies have always been one of my favourite historical institutions. The were started by a combination of solid working class folk and radical lawyers or Churchmen, chipping in six pence a week to build a fund that would enable them to buy land and build their own homes, and as property owners they would also get the vote. The State encouraged these self help societies with legislation...

The Recent debates here about Peter Tatchell’s politics seem to have, at times, generated more heat than light. Given that this discussion has taken place on an open Internet forum, then obviously there is the usual amount of innocent exaggeration, factual error and misattributing of quotations and opinions, which doesn’t help to clarify genuine

As has been known to happen, an interesting back and forth took place in the comments this evening in a previous discussion topic that caught my attention, and I feel it necessary to comment in a new post. It began with this comment by phrank47: My problem with LCS has always been we are building a ship before we have the weapons that will go on it. Not just a little but years before. We are build...

Our Internet is a place that we, as individuals, have built for ourselves. It is a place where anybody can, with a little bit of money, build their own house and hang whatever curtains they like. It is a place where knowledge, art and music (rightly or wrongly) can be freely shared across the globe,

Che Guevara argued that to build socialism it is necessary first to build socialist consciousness. In England the building of New Labour consciousness has gone on apace, beginning in the university and intellectual world and working steadily on through schools, through media and, once in power, through investment in the client base and the Third Sector of quangos, 'charities', and research centres...

Building Societies have always been one of my favourite historical institutions. The were started by a combination of solid working class folk and radical lawyers or Churchmen, chipping in six pence a week to build a fund that would enable them to buy land and build their own homes, and as property owners they would also get the vote. The State encouraged these self help societies with legislation...